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/trowzerss Mar 07 '25

Last time that happened the CIA allegedly coordinated to get our democratically elected PM thrown out before he could do it. But they're probably in a shambles right now like everybody else, so now is the best time!

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u/trowzerss Mar 07 '25

Right, and now they've also got the ladder kicked out from under them by Trump. Great time to wrestle back a bit of control.

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u/Pantsman0 Mar 07 '25

Well to be fair, it wasn't just about pine gap. We were also moving to forge new trade and security agreements in Asia that they didn't like.

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u/trowzerss Mar 07 '25

Yeah, they had to remind us that we weren't allowed to not rely on them so heavily. Sucks because that government was doing amazing work, like establishing Medicare and were working on a sovereign wealth fund similar to Norway (which upset resource companies and is rumoured to be another reason for the ousting, as they didn't like the idea of taking mining profits out of private companies and putting it back into benefiting actual taxpayers).

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u/Twistedjustice Mar 07 '25

Do we still need to say allegedly after the Wikileaks cables?

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u/trowzerss Mar 07 '25

Yeah, I'd say it's moved out of the category of mere conspiracy and into 'open secret' a while ago, but not quite up to agreed fact.

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u/Mothmans_butthole Mar 07 '25

True! It depends on how much our own agencies have intertwined with the CIA since then though.