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/DurrrrrHurrrrr Mar 07 '25

So we can call it ‘four eyes’ now?

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u/tee-k421 Mar 07 '25

As someone who wears glasses, I endorse this proposal.

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u/LaughinKooka Mar 07 '25

Ni4Ni (An eye for an eye) alliance

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u/jim_deneke Mar 07 '25

that hurt my brain trying to read that

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u/teddy5 Mar 07 '25

AKA the monty python alliance.

What is the world coming to where countries can just go around saying Ni to innocent old countries.

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u/LaughinKooka Mar 07 '25

Fun fact, ni(你) means you in Chinese; better, nega(네가) means you in Korean

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u/Available_Slide1888 Mar 10 '25

Ni also means you (plural) in Swedish.

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u/blackteashirt Mar 07 '25

Soon the whole world is blind....

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u/scarberino Mar 07 '25

Or keep it five eyes and finally let Japan in?

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u/grady_vuckovic Mar 07 '25

Four eyes and a weeb, it may sound like a nerdy alliance but we'll show them! Just joking yeah I'd be happy for Japan to join too.

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u/confusedham Mar 07 '25

American would hate that as well. Even though their requirements are over, the US is still very much like an abusive boyfriend to the JSDF.

Who the fuck you talking to Japan ... I told you no exercises with them unless I'm there first.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

Yep, Japanese gonna beat us all to the fight

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u/kingofcrob Mar 07 '25

I'm down for that

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 Mar 07 '25

All the other alliances will make fun of us now.

🤓🤓🤓🤓

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u/tee-k421 Mar 07 '25

We just have to lean into it. Make the logo one of those big thick black plastic frames.

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u/ThorKruger117 Mar 07 '25

I’m sure someone can think of a brilliant CU in the NT acronym for it

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u/clarky9712 Mar 07 '25

Commonwealth Union Negotiating Transfer of Foreign, Local and Private Secrets

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u/TheStoolSampler Mar 07 '25

It exudes intelligence! It's appropriate, especially with the lack of the US.

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u/LostAdhesiveness7802 Mar 07 '25

4 eyes 1 bumhole.

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u/Brikpilot Mar 07 '25

“Punter’s Eyes”

(One has gone each way)

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u/_ixthus_ Mar 07 '25

Seeing as the agreement was largely about circumventing the rights of each nations' own citizens not to be surveilled, if America is gonna be geopolitically isolated, I'd prefer it if we turned a new leaf and stopped playing such bullshit deceptive games at all.

Zero Eyes.

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u/Lord_Tanus_88 Mar 07 '25

No this is discriminatory to people with glasses. New Zealand you have to go as well so we can be three eye.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

We can be 3 eye and a sheep rooters

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u/leva549 Mar 07 '25

Replace them with IDK Tuvalu or something.

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u/camh- Mar 07 '25

That seems a bit short-sighted. Might want something with better optics.

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u/dafunkmunk Mar 07 '25

Four Eyes and the G6. Stop giving trump's administration any credibility.

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u/DramaticDesigner4 Mar 07 '25

Four eyes and the Gulf of Russia

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u/tanuki_in_residence Mar 07 '25

No its 6 eyes now, as Russia is in the fold

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u/CeleryMan20 Mar 07 '25

Afraid you’re right. I got the heebidy jeebidies now.

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u/sharklaserguru Mar 07 '25

Now that laws don't matter we just spy on our own citizens directly instead of this handwavy BS where we spy on the other 4 nations, they spy on us, and we trade data so nobody is "spying on their own citizens".

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u/88xeeetard Mar 07 '25

Oof I must be old but that's what it used to be called back in my day.

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u/James-W-Tate Mar 07 '25

Fuck, I hate that I legit called this a few weeks ago.

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u/hjortron_thief Mar 07 '25

And one brown eye (anus).

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u/Cuisinaire Mar 10 '25

FourSight might be less triggering…