By Spirit of Eureka – National
Ever since it’s signing in 1951, the ANZUS Treaty has been portrayed as a security guarantee that commits the US to come to the aid of Australia should it be attacked militarily. The reality is in fact that there is no concrete provision for this in the treaty. Nonetheless the treaty has been used as a stick by the US to gain access to the decision-making apparatus of the Australian defence and security organisations. It is a bit like how a virus opportunistically uses a chink in your body’s immune system to gain access to your entire body.
From those beginnings the US now has virtual control over the defence, security and foreign affairs decisions which Australia makes, ensuring that they are in the US’s favour. These decisions have been taken out of our hands and we are locked in to whatever acts of war the US initiates.
In fact the control of the US in Australia extends to its economic, political and cultural life. In a word, Australia has lost its national sovereignty and independence to the US. We are in effect the 51st state.
There are many who postulate that a key reason for things getting to this point is that Australia feels the need for a protector. Not wishing to risk losing its protector, Australia thus rolls over and willingly acquiesces to whatever the US requires of it. There are even those who put forward that Australia initiated some of the agreements that put it under the control of the US. For example, that Scott Morrison came up with the idea of AUKUS.
The truth of the matter is that the United States was pushing for Australia to buy the Virginia class nuclear subs when the Abbott was considering a replacement for the Collins subs in 2013. The Washington post in 2022 revealed that two retired US admirals and 3 former US Navy civilian leaders were “playing critical but secretive roles as paid advisers to the government of Australia during its negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain.”
To attribute Australia’s domination by the US primarily to its need for a protector is not helpful because it takes attention away from the reality that the US has achieved these concessions from Australia by coercion. This is the modus operandi which the US employs the world over. Coercion need not be overt. This is important because it informs us of the tactics which are required to regain sovereignty and independence for Australia.
Foreign Interference
There has been a lot of talk about protecting Australia from foreign interference. New laws and agencies have been set up over the past decade purportedly for this purpose. We are browbeaten on a daily basis by the media about the level of foreign interference that is supposedly taking place.
All of this is predominantly aimed towards China to condition the population to believe that the major threat to Australia’s security is coming from China. Certainly, any government and its agencies have an obligation to protect their country from foreign interference and infiltration. If China is exercising foreign influence it should be called out. But so should other countries engaging in such activity.
What has become obvious is that the major culprit engaging in foreign interference (or even worse, foreign control) is the US. The government and its agencies instead of applying measures to curtail the interference in the affairs of our country by the US are facilitating it. There are no measures being taken to provide security for Australia against the US. It has been allowed in through the front door! This is treasonous behaviour on the part of government ministers and the defence and security agencies.
The US has infiltrated Australia’s defence, security and foreign affairs organisations to the point that they have their people embedded high up in these organisations, influencing decisions on military spending, sitting on defence review panels and determining the criteria for the type of persons employed by these organisations.
As a result of the 2023 AUSMIN talks, the Australia Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) merged in 2024 with the US Defence Intelligence Agency to form the Combined Intelligence Centre. This means that American military analysts are now embedded into the Canberra headquarters of the Australian DIO.
In this way the infiltration is complete.
A Dangerous Situation
Consequently, decisions are being made that favour the needs of the US rather than those of Australia. Defence spending is geared towards equipment to serve future US initiated wars instead of equipment which will make Australia defence-ready and self-protecting. Spending $368B (plus) on 8 nuclear-powered submarines – which we may or may not have delivery of – does not provide defence protection for Australia. It sets Australia back decades in developing a true and comprehensive self-defence capability.
Although there is no military threat to Australia at the moment (except to the extent of making ourselves a target of attack by our subservience to US military plans in a self-fulfilling prophecy), it would be foolish not to embark on a path of achieving a self-defence capability which serves the needs of Australia. It must be based on armed neutrality where the Australian military is used only in defence of Australian territory and certainly not as part of an alliance with the US or any other block in offensive conflicts against other countries.
This is not to suggest that any future conflicts should rely only on military actions. The first port of call must be diplomacy, channels of leverage, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence. We can do this on our own without having a military alliance with the US or any other country.
However, this does require Australia to exercise its independence and sovereignty. This is not possible at the moment because of the stranglehold which the US has on us.
The basis of military equipment purchases in recent time has been “interoperability” with US military hardware.
Currently it has been taken to a qualitatively higher level. Now the principal of “interchangeability” has become entrenched. That is, not only must Australian and US military hardware be interoperable, but the military itself is to be interchangeable. This means that the Australian military is effectively an adjunct to the US armed forces.
In a US initiated war it would be inconceivable that Australia would have any choice but to participate in such a war (with Australia itself becoming a military target). Especially when viewed in conjunction with the fact that an Australian prime minister can make a unilateral decision to go to war without any debate in parliament or even worse, no say from the Australian people.
We have gone from having very good security in comparison to some other countries to digging ourselves into a hole where our security has all but evaporated. This is indeed a dangerous situation which must be undone.
Restore Australia’s Independence and Sovereignty
It is clear that an alliance with the US is not in the interests of Australia and that it resembles more of a takeover. The current military agreements indicate that the US is preparing Australia to go to war with China on its behalf. When its acts of military aggression fail, the records show that the United States abandons its “friends/allies”. We need to get our country back, otherwise we do not really have a country as things stand at the moment. We need to be able to make decisions which are in the interest of the Australian people.
End the US alliance – replace it with a standard diplomatic relationship, just like we have with other countries. One based on mutual respect and non-interference.
End AUKUS – its true purpose it to give the US military access to Australian territory as a forward base in US wars of aggression.
End the FPA (Force Posture Agreement) – quietly signed in 2014, it allows access to any part of Australian territory to US forces (mutually agreed), and where Australia would not have a right to question the operations being carried out.
Close Pine Gap – spying and military communications station directly involved in directing US wars, including the genocide against the Palestinian people.
No Foreign Military Bases
Shut down ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) – a pro-US mouthpiece for US interests under the guise of an independent think-tank.
Invest in Publicly-owned Australian Manufacturing – make products to meet the everyday needs of people, instead of trying to be a centre for the production of offence-orientated destructive weapons benefitting the US military-industrial complex. Any defence industries must be solely for developing a defence capability for Australia.
Non-Alignment – become part of the growing non-aligned movement. Diplomacy over military solutions to disputes. No alignment with military blocks.
Establish an armed neutrality policy
Develop an Alternative Self-Defence Policy
Support Self-Determination for First Peoples – No dodgy co-opting of First Peoples’ into permitting military use of their land and leasing arrangements to the military industrial complex.
