Australia Should Cut all Security Ties to the US

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They have a history of overpromising and under-delivering

Let’s look at some history…

Colombia
Just after the turn into the 20th century, the US had a security agreement with Colombia.

What did the US do when it was needed?

Helped annex Panama from Colombia to secure a cheaper deal on the Panama Canal.

Outcome? Colombia screwed over by the US

France
France begged the US to help stop the German invasion of WWII.

America stayed schtum. |

Outcome: France quickly fell.

Vietnam
Hon Chi Minh contacted the US several times both before and after WWII to get help obtaining independence from French Colonial rule. America stayed schtum again and Minh was left with no option but to turn to the Soviets for help. We all know how that ended up for all parties.

The Hungarian Uprising (from my book)
The uprising began on October 23, 1956 when a student demonstration quickly turned into a full-scale revolt across the country as militias formed to battle the State Security apparatus. The Soviet puppet regime fell, but on November 4, Soviet tanks rolled in taking the country back after 6 days when expected US intervention failed to materialize. Shades of the Bay of Pigs in four and half years’ time.
In 1958 the CIA reported that, “This breath-taking and undreamed-of state of affairs not only caught many Hungarians off-guard, it also caught us off-guard, for which we can hardly be blamed since we had no inside information, little outside information, and could not read the Russians’ minds.“
“Undreamed of“? To get to the truth of the matter, we need to go back to June, 1953 and a NSC report authored by the Psychological Strategy Board titled, Interim United States Objectives and Actions to Exploit the Unrest in the Satellite States, but officially known as Document Number 74: NSC 158.
Point 2a of that report states, “In East Germany and other satellite areas, where feasible, covertly stimulate acts and attitudes of resistance short of mass rebellion aimed at putting pressure on Communist authority for specific reforms, discrediting such authority and provoking open Soviet intervention.”
So whilst the mass rebellion itself may not have been intended, and therefore came as a surprise, elsewhere in the report, it is also noted that the nourishment of resistance in Satellite countries should be done “without compromising its spontaneous nature“. In any case, the ultimate objective was achieved; to wit, “provoking open Soviet intervention.”
The purpose of such provocation can only be interpreted one of two ways: either it was meant to provide pretext for armed conflict with the Soviets or, it was meant to further demonize the Soviets in the minds of the West causing a yielding of more power and resources to US and allied intelligence services – a kind of ultimate Protection Racket. The former interpretation seems unlikely – even under the policy of “Rollback”, given the grave risk of nuclear war. In fact, the 1958 report goes some way to supporting the latter intention by claiming that “…If we [the CIA] were in no position to act efficiently … the military is, was, and always will be even worse off…” Other “objectives and actions” to be carried out included intensifying defection programs aimed at satellite police, leaders and military personnel (especially pilots) and Soviet military personnel and; stimulation of free world governmental, religious, and trade union activities capable of psychological effect behind the Iron Curtain. This would include trade union denunciation of Soviet repression, and demand for basic economic and labor conditions (which happened in Poland a few months prior to the Hungarian revolt, and acted as a catalyst for students in Budapest to reform banned unions leading to the initial march); the launching of black radio intruder operations to encourage defection; the encouragement of elimination of key puppet officials and; stimulating a Soviet officer conspiracy to establish “honorable peace with the West”.
NSC 143/2
The June, 1953 NSC report also contained the recommendation that NSC 143/2 be implemented. First put on the table during the Truman administration, Eisenhower embraced the idea of a Cold War army made up of stateless and displaced persons. Thus was born the Volunteer Freedom Corps (VFC) ultimately housed within the framework of operations REDSOX & REDCAP and based in Germany and Austria under US command.
The failure of the VFC in Hungary was a major cause of Eisenhower’s Cold War epiphany. He began distancing himself from the Hawks. Abandoned the policy of Rollback. Cut all VFC activity. Gravitated toward the possibility of (relatively) peaceful co-existence amid a barely noticeable psywar for hearts and minds. What Eisenhower did not know is that the VFC was designed only to provoke the Soviet Union.
And the Sputnik program was just around the corner. It would push the Hawks and Eisenhower further apart, as respective positions hardened.

Outcome? Hungary screwed over – CIA rewarded

Cuba Post-revolution, Castro visited the US. It was an act meant to affirm the two countries as allies. The US backed off over implemetation of European style social democracy starting to be implemented, forcing Castro to turn to the Soviets to get the country back on it’s feet.

Result: Travel bans to Cuba, and attempts to assassinate Castro.

Bay of Pigs Planes promised by one administration to aid the invasion, but not provided by the incoming administration

Result: Invasion failed miserably and Castro remained in power

The Trump Era
These are just some of the historical examples. But is Trump making all past adminsitrations look like rank amateurs when it comes to screwing over foes and allies alike?

According to my fellow Nocacastrian, Matt Bevan – who is an actual investigative reporter and analyst – unlike the poseurs and pretenders who inhabit JFK research, the answer is an unequivocal “yes”. So much so, that he believes we should cut security ties to the US and throw our lot in with the French. And he makes the case with typical dry wit.

In addition to what history and Moran tells us, let’s look at how the US under Trump is treating the only ally it has that followed it into every stinking war it started.

He has imposed a 10% tariff across the board , with a 50% tariff on steel and aluminium – despite the Australian – US free trade agreement and despite a huge trade surpluss in favor of the US. The reasoning? Australia won’t buy US meat because (a) we produce more than we need for ourselves, (b) US meat, much like the evidence against Oswald, has no “chain of custody” – or put another way, a lot of it is of unknown origin, and ( c ) our meat is far superior in quality and safety standards.

Since the ICE epidemic at airports, a number of legally travelling Australians have been detained in prisons and then returned to Australia, despite never having commited any crimes or misdemeanors, despite arriving with all necessray papers and despite having legitimate reason for arriving.

Here is just one example. It is fucking disgusting.

Australia should immediately get out of the AUKUS scam run by the US and the Brits for subs we will never get, but will pay for anyway. We should also get out of every other fucking security arrangement with the US, and remove all their bases which just make us targets. We should then look to security arrangements with Canada, New Zealand, France and perhaps, with the EU itself.

Viva La France!