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20/08/24
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Originally posted by squidd4:
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Yes, invasion is highly unlikely now. Imagine though, a mix of the top and any other listed future circumstances; - Australia & the US relationship drifts apart as we did not help share the burden in the Pacific - Future Australian Government heavily increases taxes on resource export industries (IO, coal, natural gas) - Future Australian Government bans foreign ownership in certain industries - Future Australian Government nationalizes certain industries - Future food & water shortages, or other system shocks The the equation begins to change The Chinese aren't building nuclear powered subs & aircraft carriers so they can just float around in the South China Sea I'm sure most invaded nations have, at some point, said "yeah but we trade with them so it should be all sweet" Truth is, we don't know what will happen in the future. Best bet is to make ourselves indispensable to the US and use their security umbrella Cheers!
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"Truth is, we don't know what will happen in the future." . .... interesting set of hypotheticals squidd..... we might easily play some war games based on such scenarios, but how probable are these? not really very likely for a moderate country like Aus.