It's Time for a Massive U.S. Navy Base in Australia

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  1. Bowerbird

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    But I get the impression if push came to shove we would ally

    Not a firm ally but more “enemy of my enemy” kind of thing
     
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    Just off hand World War Two. Kind of a big deal you know.
     
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    You better believe it!
     
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    Yes it was, but we were merely collateral beneficiaries to your programme after Pearl Harbour. We will never know what the US reaction would have been if it was Sydney, and not Pearl Harbour.
     
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    So build infrastructure, the USA was once wilderness.
     
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    Infrastructure does not make it rain.
     
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    Interesting question.
     
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    I hear immigrating there, is very difficult. It's habitable, just need to develop it.
     
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    The deserts of the USA are, somewhat, settled.
     
  10. Bowerbird

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    Not really

    You lent us a couple of useless bloody generals used us as for rec leave gave some reluctant help with Papua but mainly you were fighting your own war with the Japanese - we were just a convenient little nation that with minimal help gave you a major strategic base
     
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    So are the deserts of Australia but you, outside of Death Valley have nothing like our vast dry outback

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    An American or any white guy will get in far more easily than a Muslim from Iraq for example.
     
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    Unless they do want to live “in the outback” my rural town has 57 different nationalities living here
     
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    I am both but bet I could not get in, I was a bad, young man, not sure I can even get a passport.
     
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    Reckon you'd get a US Passport. Whether you get the Visa to Australia might be harder if you were a 'bad, young man.'
     
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    Yep! We has standards we does! :p

    After all we found that Trump was too corrupt to get a casino licence isn Sydney!
     
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    I can just stowaway on a ship :)
     
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    But you seem to think illegal immigration to the USA is fine? Been in no trouble in 14 years.

    Here in the USA, our standards are called "racist and zenophobic".
     
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  19. Bowerbird

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    Where have I supported that?
     
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    Here is the plan.

    Somehow, you get here, and when you do, you claim to be a refugee from the corruption of the White House. Might work!
     
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    That's why I said it "seems". Do you not support illegal immigration into the USA? Do you oppose the wall?
     
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    Nahh, that'd be a lie and I like my gun.
     
  23. Bowerbird

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    I oppose a massive waste of time and money no matter when and where and the wall is exactly that. You would be better with some tech equipment such as cameras and drones. Dear Gods! For the price you could afford a satellite firing lasers!

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    :p :p :p

    Thing is and serious now - I did the research and there is no way you can build a wall without ceding the Rio Grande.

    You have two alternatives

    A) make it unattractive to come and that means clamping down on people hiring illegals, which includes the Trump organisation or
    B) make it more attractive to stay at home
     
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    Walls work, ask China and see the Mansions of the likes of Pelosi, etc. They also enjoy armed protection. yep, guns and walls do work. I agree, the employers need punishment. And it must be nice to be surrounded by a natural wall, called the Ocean.
     
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  25. Bowerbird

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    Walls can’t be built in the middle of a major river or over mountains or.........

    Prosecute the employers

    Make them pay back pay if found hiring illegals cheaper (protects jobs for Americans) close the loopholes that have them overstaying tourist visas, and we have the technology to track that. Make it unattractive for employers to employ cheap labour

    Meanwhile you look at aiding the countries they came from so it is more attractive to stay home
     
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