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The United States Election Does Not Change Crucial Australian Foreign Policy Decisions

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By James O’Neill*

The extraordinary amount of cover in the Australian mainstream media of the results of the United States election is quite unparalleled and in any other political event.

The bias of the media is readily apparent: they expect a Democratic party victory and no alternative is given much space. The result is not in fact as clear-cut as they would like us to believe. Certainly, on the claimed results Joe Biden has a convincing lead, and the local media happily endorse that, referring in unfailing deprecatory terms to Trump’s refusal to concede defeat.

Some other observers do not see such a clear-cut result. They point to a number of anomalies in key states where an apparent Trump lead in the polls literally vanished overnight. The reason was attributed to those doing the counting as “discovering” – at 3 am and 4 am, tens of thousands of votes that had somehow been missed. By an amazing coincidence, nearly all of those votes turned out to be for Biden.

Such a result is theoretically possible, but it is so unlikely that the chances of actually being the case, in five or six States which recounted similar experiences, but one can safely say that the results have been rigged. Trump has announced his intention to take his challenge to their electoral veracity all the way to the Supreme Court. Whether they will agree to hear his case, and if they do will they declare Trump the winner is at this point simply unknown.

Electoral shenanigans are not, of course, a rare or even recent event. The 2000 election between George W Bush and Al Gore had a controversy over who won Florida. The Supreme Court refused to intervene and Bush was declared the winner, a result somewhat surprisingly accepted by Gore.

The controversy this year, however, is not likely to be lightly considered by either party and we can expect a bitter fight all the way to 20 January 2021 when the winner is due to be sworn in for the next four-year term.

The big question for Australia is: does it matter? It is possible to ascertain some differences in domestic policy but those are largely irrelevant to most Australians. The key issues for this country will be in United States foreign policy and hear the differences are much harder to ascertain.

The key issue will be the relationship of the United States to both Russia and China. Trump has certainly blown hot and cold on both countries, largely ignoring the advice given to him by Henry Kissinger at the start of his presidency in 2017 to develop a good relationship with Russia at China’s expense.

Kissinger saw a division between Russia and China as being in the United States’ interest. Trump largely ignored that advice, referring to wage quasi-war, i.e., of the non-shooting variety, against both countries.

The United States could not expect to win an actual hot war against either country, let alone both, so the warfare has been waged by a variety of other means. In Russia’s case, the attack has had a number of key elements. The first has been to allege “Russian interference” in the United States electoral system. That there was never a shred of convincing evidence to support this claim did not stop its endless repetition. The Australian media has been only too happy to repeat this fiction.

A second line of attack has been to accuse Russia of endless misdeeds, both internally and among its European neighbours. The endless distortion about the factual situation in Ukraine from Russia’s alleged “annexation” of Crimea to the shooting down of MH 17 over Ukraine are but two examples of this endless economic and political warfare. The latest has been the alleged Russian poisoning of Alexi Navalny, a story so full of holes and improbable assumptions one might have thought that western leaders would be too embarrassed to repeat it. Apparently not.

The American led attacks on Russia have multiple aims. Economic self-interest is not the least of these, with the open assertions of Russian misdeeds designed to encourage the Europeans to cancel the nearly completed Nord Stream 2 project and buy the significantly more expensive American alternative instead.

Similar tactics can be seen in the economic and political warfare being waged by the United States on China. These include, but are not limited to, the ongoing campaign to disrupt Hong Kong’s return to China after 170 years of British domination. That the residents of Hong Kong never even had the vote during this long period of United Kingdom control is carefully left out of the discussion. Instead, Hong Kong was ruled by London.

China’s alleged ill-treatment of the Uighur population is another mode of attack. That persons in this part of western China that are being detained are Muslims recently returning from fighting on behalf of the United States in its multi-faceted Middle Eastern campaigns, particularly in Iraq and Syria, is never mentioned in the Western media.

The Chinese also see ever-increasing contact between the United States and the province of Taiwan, including most recently an agreement between the US and Taiwan for the latter to buy billions of dollars of weapons from the former. It is difficult to perceive a Biden administration following a different pattern from that of the Trump administration.

The Australian government is not going to find a Biden administration to assist in altering its deteriorating relationship with China. Biden has already indicated that he will not be any friendlier towards China than has been the case under Trump. Australia can expect a continuation of the process of squeezing its economic and other ties to China. That this is a direct consequence of its adherence to the United States foreign policy towards China is irrefutable.

The Australian government has seemingly forgotten the old adage: as you sew, so shall you reap.

Nothing in the foreign policy statement of either Prime Minister Scott Morrison or Labor leader Anthony Albanese suggests that the result of the United States election will lead to any significant change in Australian foreign policy. The deterioration of the relationship with China is only one such trend that is unlikely to change, much to Australia’s damage.

The same is true of virtually all areas of Australian foreign policy. The recent belated revelations about the conduct of Australian troops in Afghanistan are symptomatic of a broader problem. The stories of Australian atrocities are not new to those of us who have followed this particular misadventure. What has been notably lacking from all the media accounts arising out of the latest revelations is that there has not been a single question raised about the obvious point: what are Australian troops doing in a foreign country 18 years after they first invaded on the basis of a colossal lie?

To return to the original questions posed above of the implications of a change of leadership in the United States next January. The short answer is that there will not be significant changes. Australia will continue to act as the United States’ junior partner; ventures in foreign wars will continue; and China will slowly but surely push Australia into being the poor man of Asia.

It is not too late to make a fundamental change in foreign policy. It would be unwise to count on it happening.

*Geopolitical analyst.  He may be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com

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  1. “These include, but are not limited to, the ongoing campaign to disrupt Hong Kong’s return to China after 170 years of British domination. That the residents of Hong Kong never even had the vote during this long period of United Kingdom control is carefully left out of the discussion. Instead, Hong Kong was ruled by London.”

    As far as I am aware, Australia was ruled by London. Also King George ruled the American colones.

    What is your point, James? Should the people of Hongers not have a choice?

    I can recall when Australia’s reputation as a Middle Power — and as a gift to humanity — was based (accurately or otherwise) on her stance re the rights of small nations. She (Oz) seemed to shine in this regard (circa 1950s to 1980s).

    Memories….

    • Memories? Sorry? there was the small matter of Australian troops sent to Vietnam as a “gift to humanity” to defend the rights of the Vietnamese small nation against the USA 1965-1971. For the sake of the US trade balance with Japan, Vietnam being Japan’s natural market into which to sell goods.

      With 500 Australian war dead plus ca. 2m dead Viets, , no, wait, did I get something wrong….

      • Duns, the memories are memories of how Oz was viewed (say, by delegates at the UN), not analysis ex post facto of terrible things. I think the shine wore off after the East Timor sea decision. Theoretically, it could have worn off in 1963 re West Papua but few knew about that. Hell, that is one forgotten tragedy.

        Why do I associate Kissinger with Timor? Next week Gumshoe might be able to present an article on him.

        • Ex post facto??. The policy of the ALP under Arthur Calwell was against and your “was viewed” describes at best the US lackey scribblers of the media in US vassal states e.g. Aust, UK, all of the EU at the time.Compare the current scribbling of the Anglo newspapers on Yemen.

          Which delegates to the UN, given the US voting record in the GA in line with the USA? The ones in the non-aligned pact or those in the orbit of the USSR?

    • Memories,
      I thought honkers was leased to the English and that 99 year lease had expired. Hope the Chinese honour their leases in Australia.
      Pre lease honkers looks a lot like a James Clevell novel from back in the day when I would read and the mainland could also be seen. California smog Inc has been working double time since I was amazed at how bad the accuracy of the spittoon uses were.
      Shogun had a favourite English pastime of horse racing. Did you know that Australian horses that don’t win the city races sometimes travel to Hong Kong to race small venue’s, but never return. Yum(KFC owners).
      As a guy out of Brisbane called Lee sung, we are all in this together(not you those national leaders and the Klaus Slob types).

  3. Surprising that Mr O Neill uses merely the harmless word “shenanigans” for the corrupt US voting system.

    The point is that voting using voting machines programmed with software with no audit trail allows tampering.

    There is an illuminating interview with, (not to mention a book on computerised fraud by voting machine by,) Jon Simon in 2014,

    https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/gunsbutter313-20141111-voting-machines.

    Then there was the convenient airplane crash of IT expert Michael Connell in regard to Ohio election fraud,

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/

    NB: I recall a satirical video made for the 2004 Kerry-Bush election on Youtube in which a voter tries to vote for Kerry but gets directed to Bush on the touch screen. So the subject is not new or unknown.

        • from CBS

          Beginning as a political campaign worker and congressional staffer, Connell became a key Republican media consultant who developed Internet strategies for the 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney campaigns. He was founder and CEO of Cleveland-based New Media Communications, which built Web sites for President Bush and former presidential nominee John McCain, according to the company’s Web site. He was also chief IT consultant for Karl Rove.
          Connell’s ties to the Bush family extend back to working on campaigns for George H.W. Bush and former Fla. Governor Jeb Bush, for whom he built the campaign site jeb.org. In 1999 he told the Cleveland magazine Inside Business, “I’m loyal to my network, I’m loyal to my friends, and I’m loyal to the Bush family.”

          ???

  4. James,
    From my jobless trade view, nation states do not exist. They are just formalities for sporting events, their future threatened by viruses and robots. Our pencils at the polling booths have dictated policy here unopposed. Crown kabal slavemasons have this place stiched up. With the staged fall of Euro communism, in the nineties, many goons and snoops from those regimes came here and were rewarded handsomely for their experience in gulag control. The most recent elections, we had plainclothes CCP ushers directing us to ballot boxes for recycling. Here, what is presented on the surface is a netflix holly mk-ultra distraction. The reality in Melbourne Sydney and all global cities under occupation is a melting pot of multi coloured people competing for crumbs.
    The divide has never been more obvious, the amount of Bentley suv’s on the streetscape unprecedentant in Oz history. The international crime syndicates rule with cyber. All selections like nations are flag waving parades, circuses for slaves.

  5. 1973: The year your family went bankrupt, changed their name and moved to another country

    The year was 1973: It was the the year that the US ceased its decade-long offensive in Vietnam. The year of the (alleged) final moon landing. The US dollar devalued by 10% in a single day. The Watergate Scandal was top news. OPEC doubled the price of crude oil, leading to a large fuel crisis. Queen Elizabeth II of England visited Australia’s capital city on a special mission of great importance, and signed a new secret Act into force inside Parliament House (more on that later).

    It was the year when your family went bankrupt, changed their name and moved to another country; the exact thing which many would do if they owed and could not pay.

    We don’t blame them. We don’t judge them. We just want them to tell the truth about what occurred in 1973, and tell you the truth about how it affects you now.

    1973 was also the year your money died.

    https://fyrst.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/the-year-your-family-went-bankrupt-changed-their-name-and-moved-to-another-country/

    http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/1973-The-Birth-of-Corporate-Australia_printer.shtml

      • Thanks for that info Terry, I’ll spread it around.

        “This is straight up nothing short of economic terrorism and it’s being done by the government.

        We have government by force, not by consent.

        • What a brutal government the U.S. government is –

          President Assad Speech to the Int’l Conference on Refugees Return

          Damascus is hosting the International Conference on the Return of the Syrian Refugees with the participation of a number of countries in person or through video conference.

          The camp led by the United States of America, the usual hypocrites for humanity, boycotting the conference and preventing the return of the Syrian refugees.

          President Bashar Al Assad addressed the attendees of the International Conference on the Return of the Syrian Refugees that started today with the following speech: ……

          ………..Spreading terrorism was the easiest way, and it started by establishing the Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq in the year 2006 under the patronage of the US which during the war on Syria joined other terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Jabhat al-Nusra, and others, and they destroyed the infrastructure and killed the innocent people, in addition to paralyzing the public services intimidating the Syrians and forcing them to leave their homeland…………….

          https://www.syrianews.cc/president-assad-speech-to-the-intl-conference-on-refugees-return/

      • T.V. I’m old enough to recall her visit to Australia in 1954 and see her in Canberra which then was a very neat and tidy place.

        I wonder what the pollies got up to?

        Royal Powers Act 1953

        https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2008C00329

        This Act may be cited as the Royal Powers Act 1953. 2 Exercise of statutory powers by the Queen (1) At any time when the Queen is personally present in Australia, any power under an Act exercisable by the Governor-General may be exercised by the Queen.

        Did “The Australia Act” nullify?

        • Criss X, I had always imagined you to be around about my age, more or less.

          Your posts, whilst evidently displaying years of accumulated wisdom, had a youthful perspective about them.

          • TV, I was 10 years old when the queen visited in ’54. People are surprised when I tell them my age. Just recently some young people mentioned that I am old but look and talk like a younger person.Even my bald patch is regenerating – slowly.

          • Good on you Criss X.

            Speaking the truth and enlightening the masses (not least of all through Gumshoe where you’ve expanded my horizons no end), has generated a lot of positive karma for you.

    • If I’ve understood correcty, all debts will be ‘forgiven’ at the price of owning nothing and being beholden to the state for whatever pittance ‘they’ deem necessary for one to live on, and with complete exposure as to where you go, what you do, and with whom you associate…
      Can anyone tell me what’s ahead for those of us who have paid off our debts and who have ‘set aside’ funds etc for our future?
      Bank bail-ins to steal any ‘nest egg’ ?
      the ‘State’ to decide who is expendable & when?
      this reminds me of “Trust British paints?….Sure can” with our own beloved Rolf….

      • Start prepping. Buy land that has a natural water supply. You cannot eat electronic digits. As well they disappear when the electricity is turned off.

        G20 Governments All Agreed to Cyprus-Style Theft Of Bank Deposits … In 2010

        That’s something else to thank our recently-deposed PM Julia Gillard for doing, without our knowledge or permission.

        https://barnabyisright.com/2013/07/10/australia-plans-cyprus-style-bail-in-of-banks-in-2013-14-budget/

        • Henry Ford said, “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

          “There is no such thing in law as a Bank deposit. All money placed with a Bank is a loan to the Bank”.

          Prof. Werner brilliantly explains how the banking system and financial sector really work.

      • Famanda, it’s all dependent on getting a cashless society operative.

        Once that’s come to pass, expect negative interest rates and eventually bail-ins as you’ve hinted at.

        Also, once your discretionary income and savings are all expressed digitally as bits and bytes, expect those that protest against forced vaccinations, implanted chips, speak out against the ruling class or just express dissatisfaction on Facebook or Twitter posts (as well as private emails / electronic exchanges with friends), to have their bank balances depleted with penalties – if not frozen entirely and confiscated by the state for the bigger ‘offences’.

        Pay be cash, like I do, for as many transactions as is practical fellow Gumshoer’s, to prevent this from happening.

        Also, take Terry Shulze’s advice and build up a stash of silver coins to trade for food – in case the powers that be freeze your bank account for alleged ‘subversive activities. (ie: coins with ACTUAL silver content – not silver coloured like in your pocket change).

        As I speak, silver is just over AUD $ 1 per gram.

        The approximate silver content of the following Australian coins is as follows :

        1966 Round 50c = 10g
        Post 1945 Florin, Shilling, Sixpence = 5.6g, 2.8g, 1.4g respectively.

        Pre-1946 Aust silver coins (which are sterling silver), have 85% more silver content than Post WWII.

        Start hoarding them readers – you’ll be glad you did when the silver prices explodes in the coming years as many are expecting.

  9. Referencing the 2000 election, James O’Neill writes that ‘ the result was somewhat surprisingly accepted by Gore’.

    Really ? Surprising ?

    The Shadowy Bankers that control the entirety of the western financial system pulled Al Gore aside and told him that a Bush 43 victory was pre-planned by them and that the schedule was not negotiable (9/11 was pre-scripted years in advance and certain neo-cons soon to be part of the Bush 43 administration, notably Dick Cheney, were well versed in the role they were about to play in that False Flag on behalf of Israel).

    As compensation, this cabal told Gore they would make it worth his while if he didn’t challenge the result by making him the Global Warming Tsar and fabulously rich (all of which came to pass).
    Is it really surprising then, that Al Gore readily accepted the magnanimity of the Usury Bankers ?

    James O’Neill goes on to write ‘The controversy this year, however, is not likely to be lightly considered by either party and we can expect a bitter fight all the way to 20 January 2021’.

    Hmmm, I wouldn’t be so sure.

    I expect that same Usury cartel of bankers to approach Trump (assuming they haven’t already done so), and tell him he’s allowed to pursue the theatre of the ‘bitter fight’ for a little while longer to appease his followers but to concede defeat well before the inauguration timeline – my guess is before Christmas.

  10. As proof that Trump will do very nicely after stepping down and not contesting the outcome of the 2020 election, comes this article titled ‘Donald Trump ‘could be offered TV deals and book offers worth up to $137 million’ :

    https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-election-2020-donald-trump-could-millions-after-presidency-from-media-deals/7c380fa3-9757-4858-b2e5-b6756622b7a8

    Of course, the amount above will be a mere first installment.

    I fully expect that Trump’s total remuneration for ‘Services rendered to the Apartheid Israeli state’ during his tenure will be a ten figure amount.

    Nice work for a few years of reading from a script.

    • Tony, that was me just off stage (watch from 0:40 – 1:50), with the wind generator turned up to max, trying to embarrass Her Maj by trying to get her skirt to fly up over her head.

  13. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just published (October 2020) a so-called White Paper, entitled “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda – in a Post-Covid World”.

    This 31-page document reads like a blueprint on how to “execute” – because an execution (or implementation) would be – “Covid-19 – The Great Reset” (July 2020), by Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO (since the foundation of the WEF in 1974) and his associate Thierry Malleret.

    They call “Resetting the Future” a White Paper, meaning it’s not quite a final version. It is a draft of sorts, a trial balloon, to measure people’s reactions. It reads indeed like an executioner’s tale. Many people may not read it – have no awareness of its existence. If they did, they would go up in arms and fight this latest totalitarian blueprint, offered to the world by the WEF.

    It promises a horrifying future to some 80%-plus of the (surviving) population. George Orwell’s “1984” reads like a benign fantasy, as compared to what the WEF has in mind for humanity.

    The time frame is ten years – by 2030 – the UN agenda 2021 – 2030 should be implemented.

    Planned business measures in response to COVID-19: ……………..

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-economic-forum-step-two-resetting-future-work-agenda-after-great-reset/5729175

  14. Australia has been a ‘client state’ for decades and will be so in the near future until the final Communist takeover of Australia. It has not been a genuine national sovereignty country as often touted.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/9kushs/an_academic_has_warned_australia_is_at_risk_of/
    An academic has warned Australia is at risk of becoming a “client state” of the People’s Republic of China and has called for a proper and respectful debate in Tasmania about the nature of its relationship to the country.

    It has been in sedition and treason for decades with impunity from the evil Freemason politicians, judges, the bureaucracy and the prostitute corporate-government entity propaganda apparatus tool.

    https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/363046
    https://www.worldcat.org/title/australia-a-client-state/oclc/9322834
    https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0802/article_704.shtml
    https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137469342
    https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/04/27/australia-must-not-be-a-client-state-of-the-united-states/

    Australia is now a police state as well
    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=australi+is+apolice+state&atb=v234-1&ia=web

    • Cops can now cancel your driving licence basically if they don’t like you, this must be a response to the mental driver of Flinders / Swanston St and the guy who crashed his truck into 4 cops on the Eastern Freeway. Truck drivers will be more carefully vetted before they are allowed jobs. Some of them liked to run over cyclists too. It’s very uncomfortable trying to get the balance between freedom and lockstep. So many are comfortable with lockstep. Small-time criminals exploit freedoms. Mental problems probably get worse under lockstep.

  15. On topic here, as Jimmy Dore confirms that the U.S election outcome will not change anything (watch from 1:15 – 8:30) :

    Stephen Colbert fans in particular should watch this as Jimmy exposes Colbert for what he is.

    Note also how Jimmy Dore, himself far to the left of centre, absolutely TEARS into Obama’s Presidency.

    Yes readers, that’s what I call OBJECTIVE journalism.

    If you’ve committed criminal acts, Jimmy will rip shreds off you – no matter which side of the political divide you’re on.

    Can any of you honestly say that Sean Hannity, Amazing Polly or Zio Dave of the X22 Mis-Report does the same when referencing the Republicans ?

    I rest my case.

  16. Finally, the song that will hopefully sweep across the U.S as the gullible wake up.

    This is the song that sums up the 2020 election, for those who are awake to the reality (listen from 2:45 – 3:15 and feel free to break out some dance moves if you get the urge):

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