>>45037
>peace and stability and that facilitates trade which facilitates wealth.
I gave you examples showing that economics and agency in the provinces is subject to the goals of the center. This platitude about "peace, stability, and trade" is neither here nor there. Japan sacrificed part of its booming tech and auto industry to not spite the USG (or its industrial lobbyists); Russia was a darling when Yeltsin was stripping his own country bare and whoring it to Atlanticist jewish oligarchs, and suddenly became Mordor when Putin stopped (or just arrested) the bloodletting; Turkey has already been put on notice for daring to buy russian military equipment; Poland is drawing flak for daring to pass a law that restricts foreign ownership of its national media (the biggest one is owned by CNN/Discovery) and another law that jews claim offends their eternal holy victim status (this is relevant here because jews have dominated US foreign policy since Lyndon Johnson); Hungary has been targeted for not prostrating themselves in front of the altar of multiculturalism, homosexuality and other depravities; and I need not detail the treatment of poorer domains further removed from the center like Libya, Syria, Venezuela, etc.
Also lol you are naive if you don't realize that war is huge business for the US (or rather the imperial "elites", which is approx. the same if oligarchy is the imperial system of government), and the threat of war the ultimate backing of her magical floating currency
>China is our biggest trading partner and we were more than willing to accommodate
So as you say Australia was then willing to accommodate for Chinese interests, obviously not for selfless reasons but because the more integrated economic relationship was beneficial. Iow, because that meant also furthering Australia's interests. However, evidently Australia was not willing (or daring) enough to put its interests ahead of those of the US. The province follows the center, again at its own expense
>Conflict in one of the busiest areas of shipping in the world benefits few, and not France.
I can believe this. After all, isn't China also something like the EU's 2nd most important trade partner? Another reason for the AUKUS allies not to provoke a war, assuming they care for the economic development of their European partners