>>509212281>ww3 declared>get off workFuck yea
>>509212468We trade with China on very favourable terms.
If the US embargoes China, they will use force against Australia to halt sea trade. First by seizing Chinese ships and scuttling them in the Strait, but then by seizing Australian ports if not disabling them. Look what the UK did all allied French ports in ww2.
America is a fucking imminent national security threat, they just bombed Iran without declaring war or seeking congressional approval. It's just that the threat they pose to Australia isn't attacking us.
They would use Australia as a base to wage an illegal war in Asia which would get us attacked, divert all our trade to the US, notably wheat, cotton, rare earth, strategic resources. They would use Melbourne to get Atlantic goods to Panama. A long, long route but uncontested, if they couldn't use the red sea and had blocked malaca themselves the Tasman Strait is how they resupply their forces if there's a war in the pacific.
Pine gap and Darwin possibly get nuked by China, casualties mostly Indians and alcoholic aboriginals.
But if we suffer no more damage in ww3 than we did in ww2, huge win for Australia. Avoid getting shelled, avoid mass rape, avoid famine, avoid fire bombing, we lose a couple of hundred thousand young men, then spend 100 years lording over Asia.
You will hear the US referred to as a strategic ally. We want to be on the winning team.