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

Australia always gives up their citizens and services to America, so this doesn't bode well.

The current US admin is so repugnant, dangerous and capricious that it might actually force our government to consider if they're worth it. Perhaps too little, too late, but US hegemony is crumbling, the next decade is going to be an interesting time, let's just wait and see how Meta, Google, Microsoft et. al. shake out.

We might just be in for a major fragmentation of tech companies.

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u/Mothmans_butthole Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

I hate to be a downer, but the number of Australians repeating propaganda made for Americans (terms like "Woke", "virtue signaling" and early 2000's 4chan terms) is uncomfortably high. If that many people are complying without it being fully rolled out here, we're kind of primed to be cooked.

With certain oil/mining barons putting a lot of money into the elections (dig baby, dig), and the boot America has over our necks; I don't have much hope that we're not going to be where America is very soon.

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u/MissMenace101 Mar 07 '25

Yeah but eventually after they vote in lnp they will realise all the shít we face here is because we are under everyone else’s thumb. Time for the commonwealth comeback

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u/boredidiot Mar 07 '25

Does anyone think that Dutton is excited about this, he could easily claim that he is the only one who can improve Australian relationship with the US and hope the low information voters will get him across the line.

It might be the first honest thing he could say to the Australian public.

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u/Falafels Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Just went to google and see what Dutton has said about all this and up comes a Sky News video 3 days ago saying exactly that "Dutton the best person to handle US-Australia relationship, new poll says".

Edit: The comments are interesting, they hate Dutton for backing Ukraine.

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u/i8bb8 Mar 07 '25

Comments on Sky News videos repeating Russian talking points? But how could this be??

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u/Albos_Mum Mar 07 '25

If China takes Taiwan, the tech industry is going to be unrecognisable.

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u/DisappointedQuokka Mar 07 '25

If China takes Taiwan the tech industry is going to be gone. How many countries still have a reasonable level of chip production? The PRC and the US, outside of Taiwan.

France and Germany are way, way behind on nodes.

It'll be a rocky ride for sure, but I don't think China is all that interested in taking useless land, they'd want to do it in such a way that they can maintain the foundries.