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    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      I suspect that out of the vassal states, Canada and Australia might actually be best positioned to resist the imperial demands. The fear mongering of an imminent invasion by Russia is used to whip up panic in Europe, meanwhile China serves the same purpose for occupied Korea, and Japan. However, there’s no real credible threat to Canada or Australia. Nobody genuinely believes that there’s going to be some military invasion happening. Meanwhile, the US acting belligerently creates public anger and harms business interests. In absence of an imminent threat, the extractive relations are starting to driving a wedge with the US.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        17 minutes ago

        Canada might have trouble being so close the US, and despite being in a great position geographically, Australia’s media is nonstop banging the drums of war and constantly accusing China of secretly planning to invade Australia, they are used as a boogeyman here the same way they are in Korea and Japan and Singapore. I’m sure our ruling class knows there’s no military invasion happening, but a lot of them just want to bugger off to the US once all the copper has been stripped from our walls.

        Thankfully the blind hate for China isn’t as bad now as it was a few years ago, the US is shooting themselves in the foot, it’s more a question of whether Australia will choose to be independent or fuck ourselves over (or just fuck over the working class) and at the moment I’m honestly not sure which way things will end up.