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honestly australia is kinda between a rock and a hard place … we have to ride the line between US and china because we’re hugely strategic to china with all our raw resources, with little to no ability to actually defend ourselves because we have such a huge land mass and tiny population (we’re about the size of the US in land mass with a population slightly smaller than texas: imagine if texas alone had to defend the entire US)
we aren’t europe: if we piss off the US we don’t have the money or population to pivot
… also the US has been involved with overturning our elected government twice
that said, we’ve been getting much closer to recognising palestinian recently