so australia has been holding middle-eastern refuge seekers in an offshore detention facility ala guantanamo bay except our detainees are enjoying better conditions apparently?
I don't get it. I thought australia was more enlightened/progressive than us. This smacks of islamophobia and racism. Ask their aboriginal population about that or the "abos" as our gapped-tooth outback types like mongo refer to them as in the privacy of their dinner table conversations of course.
So Australia has been holding middle-eastern refuge seekers in an offshore detention facility ala guantanamo bay except our detainees are enjoying better conditions apparently?
I don't get it. I thought Australia was more enlightened/progressive than us. This smacks of islamophobia and racism. Ask their aboriginal population about that or the "abos" as our gapped-tooth outback types like mongo refer to them as in the privacy of their dinner table conversations of course.
Hey, hey, hey! Watch your mouth fella. It's not like they've been living in tents for 3 years. Clearly Australia had their plan worked out. Find some schmuck to take them and put them on their dole.
https://www.hrw.org/asia/nauru
Oh boy. So your petulant child has a temper tantrum and you're bragging about it?
This is a done deal. drumpf's EO on immigration even contained an exception clause specifically addressing this agreement. Your blubbering baby is backed into a corner and he doesn't like it so now he's having a hissy fit.
Turnbull put up with it because he's a politician and an adult. We don't need the USA, we have plenty of other allies. The US on the other hand, should focus on hanging onto whatever friends it's got, because that moron is doing his best to get rid of all of them. Australian defense and foreign policy advisers are preparing for any eventuality, including a freeze on the USA alliance, because nobody knows what the idiot is going to do. But they have said that the alliance will endure, it just has to survive 4 years of drumpf, if he lasts that long.
There's 2 ways this can play out:
1 - drumpf backs out of the deal, showing Australia and the world what the word of the USA is worth under this inept government.
2 - drumpf honors the commitment, in which case this is just another example of your inbecile in chief crying because he didn't get his way. In his defense, it was stated that he was very tired and grumpy, and it was just his worst phone call all day, you guys!
The US embassy here says the deal will go ahead, even drumpf's minister of truth says the deal will go ahead after he gave him a juice box and put him down for a nap.
If anything, drumpf is Turnbull's bitch in this case. He's just making a lot of noise and stomping his feet about it because he thinks that will make him look like the alpha. It works on people who aren't very smart (several examples of those in this thread), but those of us with 3 digit IQs, and real world leaders, are doing what we always do when it's drumpf, and shaking our heads in disgust, at yet another example of drumpf proving to the world that he's just a whiny little bitch with the emotional control of a prepubescent girl.
A flood? A flood? Bwahahaha.Tweet from drumpf - "Thank you to Prime Minister of Australia for telling the truth about our very civil conversation that FAKE NEWS media lied about. Very nice!"
The story was leaked by drumpf's own people! The orange idiot had a hissy fit, and now every grown up in the room is looking at him with hands on hips saying "you apologize for being rude to that nice man!" because Australia has been the USAs staunchest ally for the last century. A flood of representatives from both sides of the aisle came forth to apologize for your failure in chief this week.
The deal stands, drumpf is the bitch.
Who's kissing whose ass? You're an idiot BC, just like your idiot president.
Just read through the transcript. Trump is an idiot for not telling Turnbull to fuck off.
What other countries will learn from this : America is not to be trusted. You may have a deal with them, it could be canceled as soon as another president takes office.
Deal with america with extreme precaution and make sure they keep their part of the bargain before the end of the president's mandate. Or make sure the next president won't be able to cancel the deal.
Obama abandons missile defence shield in Europe
Barack Obama has abandoned the controversial Pentagon plan to build a missile defence system in Europe that had long soured relations with Russia.
In one of the sharpest breaks yet with the policies of the Bush administration, Obama said the new approach would offer "stronger, swifter and smarter" defence for the US and its allies. He said it would focus on the threat posed by Iran's short- and medium-range missiles, rather than its intercontinental nuclear capabilities.
Alexandr Vondra, a former Czech deputy prime minister and ambassador to Washington intimately involved in the negotiations with the Americans, said he was surprised. "This is a U-turn in US policy," he said. "But first we expect the US to honour its commitments. If they don't they may have problems generating support for Afghanistan and on other things."