https://johnmenadue.com/keating-was-wrong-australia-is-already-the-51st-state-of-the-us/

John Lander will speak at the upcoming IPAN Conference in Perth

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Paul Keating is wrong when he says that Anthony Albanese risked making Australia the 51st State of the United States of America. Not so! Australia is already the 51st State of America, in all but name.

Historically, countries generally have surrendered after losing a war. Australia has not only surrendered without a fight, but is paying billions of dollars for the privilege of handing over its independence to the US.

The relinquishing of Australian sovereignty to the US began with the signing of the ANZUS Treaty. It was at first almost imperceptible, with the US gradually establishing a strong economic, financial and media/entertainment foothold, leading to the Americanization of Australian society.

This was accompanied by an ever-increasing grip on the body politic, through the “Five Eyes” intelligence arrangement, the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, the dominant presence of US armaments manufacturers and CIA influence on the board of ASPI, the regular AUSMIN dialogue, the Australia/US Leadership Dialogue, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, the United States Studies Centre and many other influence operations that the US conducts in Australia.

Australian sovereignty, never very robust, was reduced to artificial life-support, when Prime Minister John Howard used the alliance with the US as justification for joining the illegal and disastrous destruction of Iraq, despite the highest level of popular protest since the Vietnam war.

It was placed in its coffin with the Gillard Government’s enthusiastic agreement to US Force Posture Initiatives in Australia as part of the US “Pivot to Asia”.