In which the bromancer gets closer to his war with China by Xmas ...

 

Oh there's feistiness everywhere today on the lizard Oz.

The Duttinator was in top form ...he'll show King Donald what for ... he's ready to trumple in the jungle, he knows how to rope-a-dope...

He'd take him in a heartbeat. He'd show the Canucks that you didn't need to elbow up, you'd just need a bloody good coathanger aimed at that flabby, always flapping, mush.

The fighting spirt seemed to infect the rest of the lizard Oz.

The pond will admit that this morning it hadn't taken Jennings of the fifth form seriously ...but then the bromancer chipped in, showing there was a sea-change in the air...

As everyone or anyone who visits the pond knows, the pond is a huge fan of the bromancer, and trusts that he will be able to conduct his war with China by Xmas ...

He was blindly on the offensive ...

Albanese needs a sea-change on his blindly defensive attitude, Every time the Chinese navy engages in aggressive military actions near the Australian coast, the Prime Minister absolves them of doing something untoward.

It was only a three minute read, or so the reptiles said, but full of trust, or at least hope, that the Cantaloupe Caligula would do the right thing, once the Reichsmarschall des GroßAustralisch Reiches bromancer made his stand and bunged on a do with the fiendish Orientals, blithely sailing around, unaware of the threat that he posed to their wayward ways...

Chinese ship Tan Suo Yi Hao is currently sailing off Australia's southern coast. Picture: China's Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, This article contains features which are only available in the web version, Take me there

We're here, and the dear leader was in teaching mode ...

It’s time to give Anthony Albanese a basic geography lesson.
Every time the Chinese navy engages in aggressive military actions near the Australian coast, the Prime Minister absolves them of any hint they might be doing something untoward by saying Australia sometimes has ships in the South China Sea.

Um, yes, Australia sometimes does make a point of wandering about the South China Sea.

But that's right and proper, that's gunboat diplomacy conducted by the forces of good, colonialists reaffirming their imperialist legacy, while what the perfidious Chinese are doing gets right up the bromancer's nose ...

When you're a valiant warrior and have shifted from the dry sherry into quaffing a hard port while reclining in the leather chair in your local club, you're not ready to tolerate any excuses from the quislings or the rats in the ranks...

This week, in reaction to Chinese spy ship Tan Suo Yi Hao undertaking operations in Australia’s exclusive economic zone, Albanese remarked inter alia that Australia sometimes “has vessels in the South China Sea”.
On February 22, in response to a Chinese navy flotilla conducting live-fire exercises slap bang in the middle of the aviation route between Australia and New Zealand, which forced 49 aircraft to divert from their normal course, and doing this without adequate notice, the Prime Minister offered the same what-about-us excuse.
He said: “Given Australia has a presence in the South China Sea, its location is hinted at there by the title of the sea …”

(At this point there was a large gap in the text, suggesting that tragically the pond had missed out on key information. Perhaps a map showing that the South China Sea was really the Gulf of America.

Or perhaps a graph, perhaps providing a comparison of the armed forces available to China and Australia, vital evidence that showed that the bromancer could thrash the wayward horde with one arm tied behind proverbial back).

The bromancer was in a state of agitation, hardly surprising given that he's always agitated...

Has he missed the entire regional strategic debate for the past 30 years? His staff should tell him Australia does not recognise Chinese sovereignty over the South China Sea. Most of the South China Sea is nowhere near China. That’s what the argument and Beijing’s famous nine dash lines have been about for 30 years.
An Australian navy ship in the South China Sea is not analogous to a Chinese vessel off the coast of Australia.
Sovereignty is not hinted at by the name of the body of water. Otherwise Australia would be offending Indian sovereignty every time it sailed into Perth, which is, after all, on the shores of the ­Indian Ocean.

Indeed, indeed, and never mind Ships 'foxtrot' in the South China Sea

HMA Ships Hobart and Stalwart are in the Philippines after completing a trilateral transit of the South China Sea.
The Royal Australian Navy ships sailed in a task group with United States Ship Milius and Japanese Ship Kirisame.
Hobart Navigating Officer Lieutenant Dean Gilbert said the transit was constructive.
“It was another great opportunity while deployed on Regional Presence Deployment 22-4 to engage with key partners and enhance our interoperability in the Indo-Pacific,” Lieutenant Gilbert said.
“I have enjoyed facing these challenges and developing the bridge team into an effective and highly functioning component of Hobart to ensure the safe execution of the navigation plan.”
During the transit, task group personnel conducted activities designed to increase interoperability and communications between the three partners and promote an open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific.

No comparison, all that talk of interoperability and keeping an open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific is mere idle, indolent chat. Just jolly japing amongst interoperable chums ...

No match for the wretched, deviant Chinese ...

The Chinese live-fire exercise in February was certainly too close to aviation routes. The Chinese spy ship has surely undertaken maritime research in Australia’s EEZ. It should have applied for permission from Australia six months in advance.
If the Chinese vessel wasn’t undertaking maritime research, what was it doing south of the Australian mainland? That’s not a direct route to anywhere else.
It was almost certainly identifying Australia’s submarine ­cables, the location of some of which is not publicly available.
No doubt it was tracking the best routes and relevant features for Chinese military submarines as well.

It was time for a pause for an AV distraction, with the bromancer rampant on the safe seas of Sky Noise,

The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan has described a Chinese government research vessel being spotted off Australia’s south coast as “very disturbing”. “I think this is very disturbing for Australia – these military vessels are interrupting Trans-Tasman flights, they’re circumnavigating Australia,” he told Sky News Australia. “They are seeing what is the best place for their submarines to sail if they want to come and attack Australia, they’re looking at our submarine cables which they can cut in the event of hostilities.” Mr Sheridan claims the Albanese government has been “all at sea” in its response to this.

The bromancer mounted a final attack on the salient, bringing in close allies, in much the same way that the US will no doubt help us when the bro decides to bung on a do with the Chinese.

Get the Duttinator into office, and after he's boxed King Donald's ears, he can box dictator Xi's as well ...

Albanese has become increasingly loose, undisciplined and imprecise in the way he talks about defence and national security. The key feature of the way he talks is vagueness and a failure to be across obvious detail – such as the status of the South China Sea, or confusion over whether it’s the Australian Defence Force or the Australian Border Force monitoring the Chinese spy ship.
On the ABC’s Insiders on Sunday, David Speers asked him whether Australia’s current defence budget, at 2 per cent of GDP, was adequate to defend Australia.
“Absolutely,” he replied, then blustered to make effective ­follow-up questions impossible.
Public attention has focused on the Trump administration suggesting Australia should devote 3 per cent of GDP to defence.
In fact, almost everyone the Albanese government has nominated to make authoritative recommendations to guide Aus­tralian defence policy has come to the same conclusion. Their views have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
When he won government, Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles commissioned Angus Houston, former chief of the ADF, along with former politician Stephen Smith, to conduct the Defence Strategic Review.
Late last year, Houston called for the defence budget to go to 3 per cent of GDP because the threats have worsened, and to prevent the money needed for AUKUS nuclear subs cannibalising the rest of the defence budget.
The chief author of the DSR, Peter Dean, from the US Studies Centre at Sydney University, recently made the same call.
Former defence minister Kim Beazley, who Albanese always supported in Labor leadership contests and wanted as Australia’s prime minister, similarly called on the Albanese government to go to 3 per cent of GDP.
So has Dennis Richardson, former head of the Defence Department and tapped by the Albanese government to conduct an inquiry into the Australian Submarine Agency.
Here’s the direct contradiction for Albanese. He told us explicitly and implicitly that Houston, Dean and the others are authoritative sources of defence policy advice. They’ve all concluded we must spend 3 per cent of GDP to acquire critically necessary military capability.
Without any explanation of why they’re all wrong, Albanese blithely ignores their unanimous view. If he won’t listen to them on defence, he could at least get a briefing from one of them on the South China Sea.

Splendid stuff. 

And if Albo won't get a detailed briefing from the reptiles' very own Reichsmarschall des GroßAustralisch Reiches, then he'll keep on getting stick from the bromancer, which it has to be said, is a bit easier than giving dictator Xi some stick, or a stiff arm ... or perhaps getting help from King Donald, who has his own country to destroy.

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What joy. 

The mutton Dutton going to war with King Donald and the bromancer going to war with China by Xmas, and King Donald going to war with the mug punters who gave him the powers of an unchecked monarch ...

Glorious times ... please bromancer, may we have another ...