Other questions include whether science organisation receives funding from China and whether it is a climate or ‘environmental justice’ project
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Confidence that America told allies that they could brick military equipment if they don’t comply: near 100%
Losers. Morons. Bullies.
Threaten to kick them out of Pine Gap
Man, it’s insane that you let a hostile, overtly evil foreign power openly operate a spy network in your nation.
australia doesn’t really have a lot of choices: we have a population the size of texas in an area almost the size of the whole US… there’s just no hope of protecting that without help
our only bargaining chips are: space, location, and the huge amount of natural resources
America would probably launch a land invasion of Australia before they ever let Pine Gap go. Previous attempts were met with harsh penalties from the US.
Tell them to fuck off, the funding we will source elsewhere. Will be painful but I would prefer short term pain then Australia being bullied into unwanted ideologies.
