• Roadkill 🇦🇺 @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    61% of Australians don’t realise that our Navy will have no meaningful impact.

    Would be better of banning exports of coal and iron ore to China, but that would hurt the megga proffits of our mining magnates and we can’t have that.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe not on their own, but even in a support roll they can free up US, Japanese and Korean assets. And its often better to keep supply chains open so you have something to cut off later if needed. The whole goal here is to prevent or delay conflict by making a potential attack too costly to risk.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Always wonder where they get these stats from. Nobody asked me what I think about the navy, china or taiwan

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    1 year ago

    There’s that magic number between 35-40% again. Special people, those folks… same percentage of Americans who approve of Trump too.

    Glad the majority of Australians have a backbone.