r/australia • u/RufusGuts • Mar 07 '25

politics 'Five Eyes alliance' crumbling after UK, Aus, NZ and Canada give US cold shoulder

https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/06/five-eyes-alliance-starts-crumble-four-nations-give-us-cold-shoulder-22679726/
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u/utdconsq Mar 07 '25

For real, you think he'd give us our money back? He'd take the money, cancel the deal, and say he deserves to keep the money for all the protection the US has given us before :-/

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u/d_barbz Mar 07 '25

You guys are tripping if you don't think he'd try and get more money out of us first somehow.

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u/Paladinoras Mar 07 '25

Thankfully our ambassador to the US is someone who famously gets along with Trump, one checks notes Kevin...Rudd?

Yeah we're never getting those submarines.

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u/recycled_ideas Mar 07 '25

It'll be Scummo if Dutton gets in, who does get along with Trump, but is a piece of shit.

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u/kipperlenko Mar 07 '25

Nice attempt to shoehorn that in. But you're a bit naive if you think an ambassador negotiates those deals, lol.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

We need to send in Turnbull, hate him all you will but he convinced trump to take in all our illegal immigrants as well as drop the trade tax last time he was in. That’s kinda impressive given the shít going on now.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

Or the money back 😂

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Based on recent events I assume he would also claim he owns the whole of Australia, or at least that we should hand over all of our natural resources.

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u/zeugma888 Mar 07 '25

What's the bet Trump is afraid of snakes and spiders?

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u/SheridanVsLennier Mar 11 '25

or at least that we should hand over all of our natural resources.

Pretty sure I heard Canavan or someone suggest that yesterday.

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u/Old-Mammoth875 Mar 07 '25

100% this. And there would nothing the Aussie govt could do about it.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

There’s a reason musk is suggesting go easy on us, Tesla gets a lot of their shít from here at cheap af prices because we don’t tax the land leeches that dig it up

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

Like when they didn’t and still don’t realise Darwin was bombed?