The pond knew at the moment the pond heard the blather about arks, or is it arcs, or is it awks, or is it orcs, that it would send the bromancer into a frenzy, and so it came to pass ...
Most profoundly disappointing. Simply unreal. Anything more worthless than a spiv talking airily of billions of dollars ...
Okay, okay, the pond threw in "spiv" as a bonus, but only because at that point the reptiles decided to throw in a snap of the actual spiv ...
The pond kept that disturbing image small, and down below the pond only included a screen cap of the click bait video that the reptiles threw in at the end because the pond understands the reptile desire to keep things simply unreal ...
Not serious about security? Really!?
Look how serious he looks in that reptile click bait video, and look how seriously the serious Rowe takes his seriousness ... seriously, with more seriosity here ...
Showing how seriously the reptiles took the spiv, they trotted out that serial forelock tugger and eternal wanker, nattering "Ned" ...
There you go. That's how quickly you can move from most profoundly disappointing. Simply unreal. Anything more worthless than a spiv talking airily of billions of dollars ...
Just a hop and a skp and a jump, and you're in la la land with the forelock tugger and lickspittle fellow traveller, blathering about realistic and steadfast, and not politics but strategy ...
Truly it's as if "Ned" expected his readers to have come down in the last shower, though we've had weeks of showers ...
What's more telling is that "Ned's" heart really wasn't in it ... he could only summon up another gobbet, and the lack of volume in the verbiage was telling...
Sure there was blather about logical steps and smart and restrained and all the rest of it, but "Ned" usually likes to bore readers into submission with a tedious exegesis that means there's a "Ned" Everest to climb ...
This was a pitiful effort, not even reaching base camp...
Note that poor old "Ned" said it was all about strategy and nothing
to do with politics, and yet at the very end the hapless old codger
couldn't help himself ... and blathered about proven choices ...
The pond couldn't but help remember those Rowe portraits of the choices
...
Sublime stuff, and so to the lizard Oz editorialist, with a good groaning with Dame Groan sent off to a late arvo slot ...
Read that to the pond again ...
"With an election in less than three months, and the first of the nuclear-powered submarines unlikely to be in the water until, 2040, a cynic might claim that the reptiles are full of bullshit, much like the shameless spiv himself."
Perhaps the pond has been reading too much bromancer of late, but really a few subs stored in the never never in Port Kembla, Newcastle, or the currently flooded Brisbane area is just so much electioneering horseshit, and if we wanted to get serious about security, some alternative strategies need to be considered ...
Meanwhile, back to reptile la la land for a few concluding remarks ... celebrating the mutton Dutton, offering up nonsense that even the ark of the covenant man couldn't confirm ...
No doubt about it, if dictator Xi decided to have a go, you wouldn't rely on this mob, but at least you could join the infallible Pope in having a laugh at the folly ...
The pond was torn ,,, was Newsfront the movie?
Or was Wag the Dog more the go?
Aaand ... scene ...
So, from to-daze Mr Ed: "In 2007, Mr Putin told the Munich Security Conference he was determined to see Moscow regain control over Ukraine. Yet when he overran Crimea in 2014, the Obama administration did little to deter his ambition to regain Ukraine." Well, given that Obama didn't come into the presidency until Jan 2009 and that by 2014 the McConnell Senate and the Ryan House together had one simple objective: stop Obama from achieving anything; then what exactly could Obama have done ?
ReplyDeletePerhaps Mr Ed could explain to us in detail exactly what Obama could have done ?
"Jones, where Smith had had had had, had had had; had had had had the teacher's approval."
ReplyDeleteDissenting opinion ?
So, the Bro is really flogging his hobby horse now: "The speech to the Lowy Institute involved some brave and soundly based rhetoric..." Then why did you say it "is one of the most profoundly disappointing prime ministerial speeches in modern times" ? Is it because "...in defence terms it was equal parts fantasy and misrepresentation."
ReplyDeleteBut BG, butt; ScottyfromMarketing is always "equal parts fantasy and misrepresentation." And that's exactly why you said: "his words on our national defence are simply unreal". Bur what I'd really like you to say, some fine day oh Bomancer, is just exactly what "our national defence" comprises.
Do you think we're going to send a bunch of Aussie soldiers to China to "defend" us there ? Or that China is going to send about 100,000 PLA soldiers to invade Australia ? Or maybe the Malaysians or the Indonesians or the Philippines or even maybe Thailand or Myanmar are going to invade Australia ? Maybe Russia ?
Any or all of the above ? How many ships of what size would it take to get 100,000 PLA soldiers 'over here' ? Not that it really matters because we have nothing to hit them with, even when they sail into Sydney harbour. Besides, they'd lob a "tactical nuke" or two into Canberra while on the way, wouldn't they. Not that that would do us any real harm.
So when do we reckon even the mighty Bromancer will be able to tell us just exactly what is meant by "our national defence" and when will we need to be able to do it.
Assenting opinion ?
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I reckon the Bromancer’s headline today should have read: AUKUS - Australian U-boats Kiboshed Under Scomo. So to cheer the poor bastard up I’ve written him a little skirmish fantasy to satisfy his bellicose urges.
ReplyDeleteIt’s All Unreal
“It’s all unreal!” cried Sheridan
His aspect most forlorn
As he opined from his command
One fateful Tuesday morn
The hapless hack did fume and spout
As steam belched from his ears
Lamenting how he’ll be without
His nuclear subs for years
So just to show his deep dislike
Of Putin and Xinping
He launched a massive missile strike
On Moscow and Beijing
Heh, right on, Kez. Missiles by the thousands because neither of them has an 'Iron dome'. Neither do we and neither do ships at sea.
DeleteCheers, GB. How about this middle distance future news flash…
DeletePort Kembla, Tuesday March 8th 2052
Defence Minister McCafferty-Abdullah-Wang today unveiled the Sheridan missile, Aukustralia’s first nuclear long range ICBM.
The weapon will be deployed by the atom-powered submarine HMUSS Scojomo.
The missile was named for a long-time supporter of a greatly increased Aukustralian weapons stockpile, Greg Sheridan, (Admiral Sheridan as he liked to be called in his later years).
Sheridan was a keen proponent of a wholly Aukustralian built nuclear arsenal in case of future attacks by aliens, be they of this world or otherwise.
Due to a 10 quadrillion dollar budget deficit the Sheridan missile, of which there is only one, has a warhead comprised of spent Lucas Height fuel rods and assorted x-ray machine filaments.
HMUSS Scojomo does run on atoms but is not technically nuclear, as the atoms which fuel the sub’s internal combustion engines are compounded hydrogen and carbon in the form of diesolene.
Those aliens could get to be real nuisances, couldn't they. :-)
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