Save Australia. Cut the US ties that strangle us

September 22, 2025

If we accept “there are no easy prescriptions for an Australian strategy for survival independently in a singularly uncertain world”, aren’t we better off if surrounded by friends, or at least countries which respect us?

By removing US shackles which disempower us, we would reclaim our sovereignty, regain respect from our Pacific neighbours and stop being the country where the US fights its war against China, with the Pacific keeping the US itself safe.

Ordinarily, these would be the only reasons we need to grow up and take adult responsibility for our own country. But now, the US has become a dictatorship, with plenty of like-minded lunatics to take Trump’s place in the future.

If our local handyman, GP or school principal became Trump-like, we’d have nothing to do with them. So why do we accept that our ADF and by extension all Australians are now, deliberately, placed at the mercy of a madman?

For the foreseeable future there will always be a “major power” bigger than Australia. I’d rather it be one whose strength is trade not guns. To those who cite China’s human rights record I say “Pot. Kettle. Black.”

It’s beyond time to turn swords into ploughshares.