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US Plans To Open Naval Base In Australia Risking More 'Inflamed Tensions' With China
With Russia allegedly moving its military presence deeper into NATO territory in Europe (with a Cyrpiot base), Bloomberg reports that in response to the regions' growing strategic importance, the US plans to open naval base in Australia (risking further "inflamed tensions" with China) in the midst of a “pivot-to-Asia” that will see 60% of its naval forces deployed in the region by 2020. The latest move, Admiral Greenert confirms, "we’re doing a study together with the Australia Defence Force to see what might be feasible for naval cooperation in and around Australia, which might include basing ships," as the Indian Ocean and South China Seas are becoming "geostrategic hot spots."
The U.S. is in talks with Australia about “basing” Navy vessels in its main South Pacific ally, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert said, a move that would risk inflaming tensions with China.
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U.S. is in the midst of a “pivot-to-Asia” that will see 60 percent of its naval forces deployed in the region by 2020, a response to its growing strategic importance. It’s a policy China claims is an attempt to contain its own military expansion into the South China Sea and Indian Ocean.
“Increasingly the Indian Ocean is becoming a geostrategic hot spot,” said Rosita Dellios, an associate professor of international relations at Bond University on Australia’s Gold Coast. “Africa, India, the Gulf states all share the Indian Ocean and Australia is an important player.”
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While Australia has no formal U.S. naval bases, it has agreed to host as many as 2,500 Marines in the northern city of Darwin and the two countries regularly hold joint military drills.
“This would not be a radical departure in alliance policy which is seeing an increased tempo of access to Australia by U.S. marines and will see more visits from the U.S. air force in the years to come,” said Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at Australian National University, where the speech took place.
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All hail The Nobel Peace Prize winner...
The potential bolstering of forces in Australia and plans to expand Exercise Malabar to a permanent quadrilateral exercise reflects the Obama administration's 2012 Pivot to East Asia regional strategy, whose key areas of actions include "strengthening bilateral security alliances” and "forging a broad-based military presence.”
We can only imagine how China will feel about this...
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Well, there goes the neighborhood.
When all else fails, warmonger. How did we allow these idiots to present America in this light...
"Fuck the EU" in action!
On the Beach 1959
All the gold is headed to Asia.
So goes the Navy.
Pirates of Perth?
Pirates of The Perth
Pirates of The Outback
Pirates of the Great Barrier Reef
Pirates of the Crocs
Pirates of the Sharks
Pirates Down Under
In one of those amazing coincidences, the government of South Australia just announced it is having an inquiry into setting up a nuclear power industry in the state.
Nuclear ships need nuclear fuel, and South Australia already has one of the world's largest uranium mines at Olympic Dam.
Japan is good at building nuclear power plants. Where are your fault lines? Hopefully close to your largest city.
Good point, so stick the bloody base in PERTH....as far from Port Douglas as possible
Once Australia has been fully assimilated into The Union, they will have to adopt a common "open door" immigration policy, but they can't have our Latinos!
Allahu Akhbar!
Let's get this war started already....Obama's been talking a lot....let's blow up twitter (pun intended) #bombsnotwords
"Russia allegedly moving its military presence deeper into NATO". By what, going into Ukraine. Geezzzz. Ukraine was and still is Russian if you look at the people.
Most of them speak Russian. Im glad Zero said "allegedly".
Lets just duck the lawsuits and move the troops from Guam.
'On The Beach'
Great movie. Coming faster than anyone thinks.
LOL I've just been listening to that song by Chris Rea on YT, haven't heard it in years!
When all else fails, warmonger.
Sounds like Putins strategy.
Russia has how many military bases around the world? US has how many? Who is warmonger?
Could be that noone wants Russia to be their defender. Wonder why that is.
If Putin did one thing it is to remind his neighbours in Europe WHY they joined Nato.
Russia is not the USSR. Putin is an Orthodox Christian, not a Jewish Communist.
Some people are just slow.
don't confuse a 'lack of success' as russia not TRYING to win.
russia has been a 'warmonger' as long as America could be described as one. Or do nuclear missile equipped bombers not count?
Get back to being an MPNet fag Keyboard General.
I am sure you are trying to be clever, but I dont even know what the heck you are talking about.
I'll take a shot, you >70 IQ Military Police Net faggot General.
Whatever.
No, keep talking. We're graphing your responses and have thus far noted a data cluster in a region we call "shit-stain".
You're graphing your underwear? Is the situation in Russia that dire?
Guys, check this out, his responses fall exactly on the trend line.
It's very interesting that as soon as one starts to criticize Russia you are bombarded with such trollish nonsense.
do not feed this weak ass troll
Will that be in your report?
Ironlead serves a purpose, but Ignatius, you're hilarious! I'm still laughing!
U r an ass clown of a troll. I have read only 2 or 3 threads today and I see u on them saying bad Russia,evil Putin and good old USA.. Zero Hedge member for 2 weeks. Langley scum for 1 or 2 years. Get you head out of your ass Langley!! U r losing the PSYOPS mind fuck War. More and more people are taking there heads out of your ASS day by day.. Fuck you and your Zionist-controlled media.. Go pump that Kool-Aid somewhere else..
>>>Go pump that Kool-Aid somewhere else..
I suggest National Review. He'll be a hit, though still ludicrously dumb.
oceania has always been at war with eastasia
How about the Chinese stirring the pot in Hawai'i and arming the local mokes?
'Hawaiian Independence Movement Attracts Chinese Interest
Restoration of kingdom could end U.S. military presence' "China has suggested arming Hawaii’s independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and recently threatened to challenge American sovereignty by making legal claims to the Pacific islands as its territory.Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists who want to restore the islands’ constitutional monarchy, ousted in a U.S.-backed coup over a century ago, has raised concerns that military facilities on the strategic central Pacific archipelago are threatened at a time when the Obama administration is engaged in a major shift toward Asia as part of its military and diplomatic rebalance.
Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon consultant and author of the recent book 100 Year Marathon, said Chinese military hawks, known as “ying pai,” told him they are ready to provide arms to Hawaiian independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan."
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hawaiian-independence-movement-a...
And off we go! Although I hope it doesn't kill Spam sales.
Wait. Ying pai? I thought we were feng gwai lo. I need some musubi.
Coincidence Obola bought a house there?
fitting...
Won't work. We'd just rename the Hawaiians Indians and stick them on Reservations in the Aleutian Islands.
seems prudent and logical....not
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Sydney would make a great spot for the base.
You don't want to make the mistake of having too many targets to protect when the nuclear missiles are launched... #pivottoinsanity
Ooh - might have an effect on the local Housing Prices . . . Can't be having that now, can we!!
http://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/inside-australias-most-exclusive-street-wolseley-road-point-piper/story-fncq3era-1227162699615
"Housing Bubble", anyone ? ? ?
The U.S. won't have any money to build any new naval bases in Australia or anywhere else.
The unsuspecting Aussies will pay for the privilege to have these rapers and murderers in the backyard.
courtesy of the fed and moar debt...
I was wondering when we would repel Japanese expansionism. Last time we had a base there was when Tojo was running the show.
Ironically, the headquarters of the 7th Fleet was Qingdao, China after the war, then moving to Subic Bay, Philippines after the Chinese kicked them out and then to Yokosuka, Japan after the Filipinos kicked them out. One wonders if the Japanese aren't about ready to kick them out also.
I would ask why the US government would leave so many US personnel in southern Japan when the Fukusima fallout there is destroying them and their children?
The Japanese forcing their own people back to Fukushima is internal genocide, but the US leaving their troops there to have their DNA melt? Bastards.
You may want to check up on the history a bit.
Don't forget that it was formed in Brisbane, AUS, in 1943 - making it a Full Circle.
Don't know when/why the Flt HQ moved from PHI to JPN (somewhere in the 50s/60s is my SWAG - figure Korean War and rebuilding of JPN being up to snuff - Olympics in Tokyo 19ys after being leveled and burnt to the ground); but the USNAVY was still in PHI until the late 80's when they were asked to leave. IIRC (from my experience in JPN) The Ships of the Line (Combatant) Homeported in the PHI were always broken - couldn't match the producitivity of a JPN Shipyard (well, not many can); and we'd take over their assignments since our ships were more capable.
BTW, the JPNese are ready to reassess - the "Colony / Vassal State" treatment (no matter how the USA likes to call it a friendship, every fracking Trade/Defense Negotiation has the JPN Participants Pissed-Off'd often). The Peaceniks in the Diet are too delusional, cowardly and brainwashed with the "Peace Articles" of the Constitution (thanks to MacArthur and his Team_GHQ) to make a move towards a strong, Sovereign Defense Profile; and the MIC_USA and the Puzzle Palace Potentates (Pentagon Brass) want to stick their fingers in everything Defense-related that JPN engages in (e.g., their recent Fighter R&D Programs).
Nothing wrong with a Mutual Defense Treaty. The People are waking up to the BS spun up by the Villifying Scam Artists who themselves rely upon JPN's economy.
Ex-Premier Malcolm Fraser wrote an excellent article on Australia's dangeraous ally: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-australias-dangerous-ally-11858
why? Did the printers break?
they're just down for a week. They are installing an overdrive gear
To save the world I wanted to know how low they would go if I wanted to buy C0Ngress, but then they stooped lower than I was willing to pay.
Fligh MH370 was hacked remotely and diverted to Sergio Garcia to caputure harddrives carried by Iranian Spies tefore reaching mainland China -the two "asylum seekers" and the continuing cover up will include planting debris in the south Indian Ocean... enter Naval base in Australia
Nice Oblama Golf tie in
Diego Garcia. Sergio Garcia is an overrated Spanish golfer.
So where'd ya read that? Infowars?
Let me try...sounds like fun:
Fligh MH370 was hacked by space aliens and diverted to Diego Sangria to caputure secret decoder rings carried by Lichtensteinian Spies before reaching mainland Kracksmokastan -the two "asylum inmates" and the continuing cover up will include spreading wild ass stories all over the internet that the gullible will believe... enter Naval base in Australia
Here's an idea... next time you have a thought keep it to yourself. The world will be a better place without all the nonsense you spew.
And I don't mean that in a bad way...
bangalore douchebag, your mommy is calling you to come out of the basement now and stop playing with the computer
Sergio Garcia always was an island onto himself.
Maxine Waters will be by shortly to warm of the tipping hazard.
I think you mean Diego Garcia, unless they flew the plane to the golfer...
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!
Is Australia a sovereign state?
According to some yanks, Australians aren't real people.
Looking at that braindead reptil-face Tony Abbott one even understands why.
The same metric can applied universally to the leadership in every country, as well as the banking sector.
Hey Tony, how did that shirt-fronting go ?
Hmmm. I haven't heard that one before. Actually, Aussies are pretty widely loved here.
I used to party with some aussie guys. Dudes are wild, they know how to have a good time
I mean no disrespect, but if you were partying with Aussie dudes, you were doing it all wrong. You should've been partying with Aussie women instead.
Really fun to drink with!
About as much as Arkansas...
Is Ukraine?
I'm in Canberra, Australia's capital city that many around the world has no idea even exists. Not surprising.
Crikey!!
Oy! The dingoe ate my baby! Must be time for a Fosters!
Fond memories of that commercial where Paul Hogan covers his glass whilst wine tasters in the background spit out the bilge.
Ozzies drink XXXX, you piker! Fosters is piss.
Fuck off cunt.
Fucken Aussies drink fucken VB or Tooheys New, ya fuckin cunt. If we wanna have a fucken good time, we'll drink a fucken Crownie, or even an Extra Dry.
Cunt.
No drama, just a bit o' piss.
I understand that - I figured the over the top Australian Bogan style speech would have given that away...
Cunt. :)
We eat at Outback often...good steaks...prices are good... The blooming onions will make you shit your pants.
Isn't your capital that weird wing-looking building?
You're thinking of the Sydney Opera House.
I had a girlfriend from there once. If the Aussies have any sense at all, they'll put that US Naval base in the most forelorn, inhospitable stretch of northern beachhead possible.
Where is that Mandy Drury chick from? I like a throw with her
Bureaucracy heaven, Mate. Park illegally for a microsecond, and they'll have you . . . . .
YET - "no problem" if you're driving something swish, and so have "connections".
Just what we need another military base, why didn't I think of that..just shoot me.
Its the only Export we have.
You forgot Porn. Killing and fapping - how does that sound for an activity profile of an US soldier?
Careful what you wish for especially if you comment on this site.
9mm or Japanese plutonium. What a fucking choice at this point, eh? I think I'll take up smoking.
Basing ships <> building naval base
Get with the program ZH
Why can't you just fuck off and mind your own business? Or even better, actually do something to maintain the security of the United States?
It's time to fire the miliary and replace it with a network of militias.
In the mind of a schizophrenic psychopath that has no leverage, "collateral" or long term business partners and prospects left!
Only voices... And a gun.
Which he's prepared to use on anyone that doesn't do what he says!!!
when all you've got is a hammer-every problem becomes a nail
when all you've got is a hammer-every problem becomes a nail
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Insert nailgun joke here --? ?--.
Insert nailgun joke here --? ?--.
"." ; -)
I noticed that Tyler is still claiming there is a new base planned in Cyprus. Less than 24hrs after Russia and Cyprus released the news about a Russian base something happened that made both of them do a 180. How it can be that easy to force Putin to back off is confusing.
Now Russia and Cyprus are saying they were just "misunderstood" and never intended to announce having Russia create a base in Cyprus.
I would suggest the Tyler group check this information, perhaps I read the news stories the next morning incorrectly. However, if I am correct it took less than 24 hrs to force Putin to back away.
Reading Zerohedge is like reading Pravda.
Only with Pravda they are upfront that it is just pro-russian nonsense.
Typical US citizenish rationalization.
Try reading Military Times they will agree with Zerohedge 80% of the time.
Or Veterans Today.
Or chicken guts.......
Another big campaign from the Hasbara trolls.
Hey stupids, have you noticed it doesn't work here, yet? Go back to MSNBC where there's people as stupid as you that you can influence.
After looking at this rather obnoxious class warfare comment:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-10/truth-behind-greek-negotiations...
I think IronLead should tell us all why the Jews being "rich as fuck" is such a problem, and what he thinks should be done about that problem of "rich as fuck" Jews. Or IronLead should be forever branded the Hasbararat and bigot that he/she/it is...
Why don't you give us your solution?
I'll put this in the HollyHoax language you might be more comfortable with- Assumption is the mother of all Fuckups.
If a Jew comes to me crying about the Holohoax I smack him over the head with Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf and Carlo Mattogno.
But then, I've read that one quarter of russian billionaire buddies of Putin are Jews. And have you seen Putin at the recent Auschwitz event talking to his Jew buddies?
Who are you trying to impress?
I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm just isolating exactly which dung heap the untermensch crawled out of. You should really go back to the trailer park, regardless of whether you naturally hail from there, or the SPLC pays you to hang out there.
You, on the other hand, are not going to impress a relative of the only member of Kappa Beta Phi who was actually born in a Nazi concentration camp, with a bunch of 2nd rate neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers. Not gonna happen... that actually does require both subtlety and intellectual rigor.
Back in the "good old days" the fresh meat that didn't actually read and familiarize themselves with Fight Club before posting was thrown back pretty quickly, in your case I'm not sure reading will overcome the deficiency in your case. Regardless I am sure you will find someone else to blame when your current account get nuked...
I see, born in a concentration camp. Must have been one of those legendary death camps that even babies survived.
Just because I implied you had no subtlety or intellectual rigor, doesn't mean you had to go and prove me right.
The systematic killing of millions of combatants in war is criminal, the systematic killing of millions of non-combatants is also criminal. Freedom of speech shouldn't be a crime, but if you desire to spout insanely misguided bullshit you might want to check out stormfront.org or federalreserve.gov- they're both far more welcoming homes to fascists who aren't particularly concerned with any version of reality other than their own, or such quaint notions as reason or evidence, and abhor compassion for others with regards to the "costs" of implementing their ideas of reality.
Counter intuitively, you could check out worldjewishcongress.org. They can also be a bunch of fascists who aren't particularly concerned with any version of reality other than their own and have no compassion for others with regards to the "costs" of implementing their ideas of reality, particularly if there is the opportunity to get their hands on someone else's lawfully owned land, gold or art on the cheap. Your attitude towards the Swiss would fit right in over there.
Somehow 1,000 military bases just never seemed like enough.
For details, read 'The Sorrows of Empire', by Chalmers Johnson:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sorrows-Empire-Militarism-Republic/dp/0805077979
"...it has agreed to host as many as 2,500 Marines in the northern city of Darwin..."
Marines stationed in Darwin...go figure! Well that town is done for! Skeptical? Take a spin through Jacksonville, NC.
Not done for....just impregnated.
...with retards.
Not all of Marines are retards. Some of us preferred the term "Infantryman" or "Grunt" to "self-propelled sandbag" or "high velocity projectile interceptor".
I will wager that at some point, somebody will try to fuck a saltwater croc though.
Made me laugh. +1
For those of you who haven't been to Canberra. At the middle of the Russell Offices (Australia's version of the Pentagon) there is an obelisk with an American Eagle up the top. That told everything I needed to know about who sets the tune.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russell_Offices.JPG
Australia had more than one chance to distance itself from the Imperial West. But noooo! Gotta follow it down the drain.
Talk about manifest destiny.
Down arrow from some Duntroon boy, I suppose.
The Penis of Osiris:
http://www.christian-restoration.com/fmasonry/obelisks.htm
Even have a big one outside the Vatican, and, of course, Washington's Monument in DC. There is a significant worldwide fascination with Osiris' penis. An occult fascination.
Freaked out when I saw a drone on the Russell Offices front lawn last year.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/a-drone-is-parked-outside-defence-but-dont-freak-out-20140326-35i2g.html
That will stop all those Australian terrorists...
Piss off, go park your war machines elsewhere, you're not welcome here! Australia was populated by thieves and rapists, not genocidal imperialists...oh wait
I'd just like to point out the flipside of this argument: The convicts on the ships weren't actually willing to be deported from their countries of birth to take a three to six month trip on a disease-ridden ship, and left to die on a desert island, which, for all intents and purposes, was what the British wanted to happen.
So it wasn't just the inhabitants of the island at the time who had a pretty shit deal.
I was merely implying that we have a historical moral compus here which set the bar fairly low and the US military still can't make the cut.
Do not let them in! they never leave!
Oh, but they do leave. Once the place is destroyed.
Remeber Saigon? Look at Yemen (happening as we speak).
Iraq had been a US friend, and so had Libya, just before . . .
Sounds like another cold war. Pretty soon we will be hearing about Star Wars weapons.
Like a 'Space Fence'? Probably cheap chainlink, at $1,000,000 a link:
'Obama Wants More Money for Military Spy Satellites, Lasers, Space Fence'http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/02/obama-wants-more-money-mili...
Cowards base in south Australia. Where will it be?
My son is mumbling that it's all fun and games until someone's space junk links get jacked ... and then the other team pours scalding oil over the side of the space wall onto all the toy boat battering rams these boys think they are going to threaten the Chinese with. And, at this juncture it'll be like popping blind one finned fish in a barrel. Do our best and brightest actually believe the Chinese are just going to stand around and wait to be pivoted? He who controls the high ground wins. Jeeze! I wish that boy would find another hobby.
More proof of when old business associates get together around the meeting table to discuss your unstable mental health problems!...
Poor "Sam"...
His better days unfortunately are behind him and it's our opinion that he really needs to be placed in an environment where he can't harm himself or most importantly anyone else in the neighborhood!
The FINAL THROWS of a SUNKEN EMPIRE.
Knob head Aussie PM is as popular as a carbuncle on a whore's cunt and is dragging the sheep into an abyss with him.
It's ALL over for him and the EU PUPPETS. You're HISTORY.
Australia is 2700 miles as the crow flies from China. What next? Is our naval base in San Diego too close to Chinatown?
It is not only the Chinese that might have a problem with it.
Australian academic Hugh White : " the alliance will only survive as long as the US role in Asia serves our interests, and that is something we can not longer take for granted " ( 2010 ) I do not know whether he is opposed to the base. I am pretty sure however that there is debate about it in Australia. Australia is being torn by its economic reliance on China and its security alliance with the US.
Hugh White is a Zionist. When he says our interests, he means Israel's.
And what is Israel 's interest in this regard according to you ?
Israel knows the US is toast, so they are hedging their bets. Being quintessentially parasites, they need a host to attach themselves to.
Darwin to Hong Kong = 2700 miles
Darwin to Honolulu = 5400 miles
Darwin to San Diego = 8000 miles
Your point is?
Makes one wonder if there is any hope for the survival of the human race.
No, no there isn't. Fukushima+23 of the same at the end of their lifespan in the US=Over.
Your are paddling your bullshit in every thread, off tipic tripe. Keep living in fear of something that will always be 20 years into the feature and see what good comes out of it. Don't be a tool (despite clear signs to the contrary) and quit living in fear. Fukushima meltdown is a lie just like their 9 on the richter scale quake.
Why is anybody afraid of the United States, anyway? With the eception of expelling some Cuban construction workers from Grenada, hasn't the military pretty much been handed its ass just about everywhere in the last 50 years? Serious question.
A lot of US SpecOps died in Grenada from shitty intel, and very good Cuban fighters.
Grenada was a SpecOps disaster. Fuck Military Intelligence. Worthless shit.
"Why is anybody afraid of the United States, anyway?"
I'll take a stab: Fear of laying down at night in a bed of depleted uranium?