Pacta sunt servanda
Well said, Saul. In our Australian bewilderment we shouldn’t deny the benefit of the “US connection”. But our obsequious “leaders”, from our US ambassador, the foreign minister, (who both should have absented themselves from the inauguration of the felon-in-chief by making an appointment to meet Michelle Obama on that notorious occasion), prime minister and deputy prime minister following in that path, we have publicly failed miserably to assert our national interest and self-respect.
Instead of meekly submitting the first payment of our ongoing impoverishment to the bogus nuke-submarine deal, they should have instead redirected funds to the Cambodian de-mining effort that had to be suspended and do so by openly joining the Tongan PM in dissent by affirming that we do so from our side of the ANZUS alliance. We keep our promises or try to — pacts sunt servanda — even when we are now undermined and reconfigured internationally by the White House felon’s announcements (Panama, Mexico, Canada and now Ukraine) that tell the world that from now on the US contribution to international relations will be the theatre of MAGA real estate deals.
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