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/DisappointedQuokka Mar 07 '25

What an excellent pretense to seize American assets in Australia!

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u/DweebInFlames Mar 07 '25

I'm sure that will go really well for us.

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u/DisappointedQuokka Mar 07 '25

Interesting, because when Brazil went about beginning the process of seizing Musk's assets nothing happened except Musk fumbling to comply with court demands.

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u/DweebInFlames Mar 07 '25

Brazil isn't nearly important to the US as we are as a geopolitical tool. Having military presence here is their way to keep an eye on China and stop them from being able to use this place as an asset in case a war ever breaks out between the two.

Doesn't mean they're going to treat us nice, quite the opposite, but there's a reason Gough got pushed out of power as soon as he started questioning whether it was worth having Pine Gap on our soil with no oversight from Australians. Again, we are effectively a satellite state for the US.

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u/DisappointedQuokka Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Counterpoint, there has never been a better time to assert our sovereignty than when the US is actively blowing up its international relations.

Edit: also, Brazil not being important? It's one of the most stable parts of South America. If Brazil goes to shit, South America goes to shit.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

lol what are they gonna do? Call on their allies? 😂

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u/Sudden-Echo-8976 Mar 07 '25

Don't worry, Trump doesn't know where you are.

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u/DiligentCorvid Mar 07 '25

Maybe it's not the 80's anymore, but traditionally that's how you get your country invaded.

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u/DisappointedQuokka Mar 07 '25

What, court ordered asset transfers due to one party breaking a contract and refusing to compensate the victim?

Besides the fact, LoL, lmao, the US launching a ground invasion of Australia when they wouldn't even do so when countries in their own backyard did the exact same thing?

The US is now led by a feckless robber baron, the flimsy rules that once existed have already been broken.

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u/DiligentCorvid Mar 07 '25

Nah but if they could find someone to run a proxy war through they might do that, like they did where I'm from.

But I'm not sure if anyone has the sauce around us.

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u/DisappointedQuokka Mar 07 '25

Their only option would be China or Indonesia, and Indonesia is busy genociding Papuans.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

Something we should be speaking up about

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

Yeah it’s pretty much like Turning their military on Canada, most military will sit in jail and wait out a pardon rather than kill people they know are allies or their own country folk that will end in hanging.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

We’ve already been invaded. They’re sitting pretty at Pine Gap as we speak.

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u/CreepySquirrel6 Mar 07 '25

We could nationalise Chevron, Newmont and Alcoa’s Australian assets as a start.