November 17, 2021:
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- 60 Minutes Australia has
churned out yet another
fearmongering war propaganda piece on China,
this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up
military spending that it goes so far as to run
a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian
weapons manufacturer disguised as news
reporting.
This round of psychological conformity-making
features Australian former major general Jim “The
Butcher of Fallujah” Molan saying that in three
to ten years a war will be fought against China over
Taiwan and that Australians are going to have to
fight in that war to prevent a future Chinese
invasion of the land down under. He argues Australia
will need to greatly increase its military spending
in order to accomplish this, because it can’t be
certain the United States will protect it from
Chinese aggression.
“The next war is not going to be 10 or 20 years away. It’s going to be in the next three to 10 years.”
Former major general @JimMolan fears the nuclear submarines Australia will acquire through the AUKUS pact will come far too late to protect us. #60Minspic.twitter.com/B490dpIKiW
Decrying what he calls “panda huggers” (meaning
people who aren’t China hawks), Molan claims that
“the Chinese Communist Party’s aim is to be dominant
in this region and perhaps dominant in the world.”
Asked when war might break out, he claims “Given the
power that they have in their military they could
act any time from now on, and that’s what frightens
me more than anything.”
“The next war is not going to be ten
or twenty years away, it’s going to be in the next
three to ten years,” Molan asserts. “My estimate is
that in a serious fight the Australian Defense Force
only has enough missiles for days. This is not going
to be resolved in days. And of course we’re not big
enough. We should expand the defense force
significantly… We should fund defense now based on
our assessment of the national security strategy
which is based on the war that we want to win.”
“In short do you think Australia needs
to prepare for war tomorrow?” the interviewer asks
Molan.
“Absolutely,” he replies.
Molan makes the ridiculous argument that if
Australia does not to commit to defending Taiwan
from the mainland then it won’t be long before they
can expect a Chinese invasion at home, as though
there’s any line that could be drawn between the
resolution to a decades-old Chinese civil war and
China deciding to invade a random continent full of
white foreigners thousands of miles away.
“Suppose we said okay Taiwan you’re on
your own up there and the Chinese snapped it up, and
the Chinese started looking around the world and
they might snap up other liberal democracies like
Australia,” Molan argues. “And we might then turn to
America and say America well could you give us a bit
of a hand here? And the Americans might say what we
said to Taiwan. Where do you draw the line? This
situation that is developing now is an existential
threat to Australia as a liberal democracy.”
It’s early days yet, but increasingly, cheap autonomous drones are being viewed as a key to modern warfare – particularly for nations like Australia. #60Minspic.twitter.com/bX72zEbvTn
Incredibly, the 60 Minutes segment then plunges
into several minutes of blatant advertising for
Australian defense technology company Defendtex
which
manufactures weaponized drones designed to be
used in clusters, saying such systems could handily
be used to defeat China militarily in a
cost-effective manner.
The segment also promotes bare-faced lies which
have become commonplace in anti-China propaganda,
repeating the
false claim that Chinese fighter planes have
been “breaching Taiwanese airspace” and repeating a
mistranslation of comments by Xi Jinping which it
used in a previous anti-China segment made to
sound more aggressive than they actually were.
This segment follows a
cartoonishly
hysterical fear porn piece on China put out by
the same program this past September which featured
Australian Strategic Policy Institute ghouls
insisting that Australians must be prepared to
fight and die in defense of Taiwan and that a
Chinese invasion of Australia is a
very real threat. That 60 Minutes segment was
preceded by an
equally crazy one in May which branded New
Zealand “New Xi-Land” for refusing to perfectly
align with US dictates on one small foreign policy
issue.
Brian Berletic & Carl Zha and I got together for a late call last night and we did a screening/reaction video on 60 Minuites Australia's new war with China special. Here is an excerpt.
To be perfectly clear, there is no evidence of
any kind that China will ever have any interest in
an unprovoked attack on Australia, much less an
invasion, and attempts to tie that imaginary
nonsense threat to Beijing’s interest in an island
right off its coast which calls itself the Republic
of China are absurd.
As we’ve discussed previously, anyone who’d
support entering into a war against China over
Taiwan is
a crazy idiot. In the unfortunate event that
tensions between Beijing and Taipei cannot be
resolved peacefully in the future there is no
justification whatsoever for the US and its allies
to enter into a world war between nuclear powers to
determine who governs Taiwan. The cost-to-benefit
ratio in a conflict which would easily kill tens of
millions and could lead to the deaths of
billions if it goes nuclear makes such a war
very, very, very far from
being worth entering into, especially since there’s
no actual evidence that Beijing has any interest in
attacking nations it doesn’t see as Chinese
territory.
There’s so much propaganda going toward
generating China hysteria in westerners generally
and Australians in particular, and it’s been
depressingly successful toward that end. Watching
these mass-scale psyops take control of people’s
minds one after another has been like watching a
zombie outbreak in real time; people’s critical
thinking faculties just fall out their ears and then
all of a sudden they’re all about cranking up
military spending and sending other people’s kids
off to die defending US interests in some island.
Please don’t become a zombie. Keep your brain.
Stay conscious.
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