{"id":1545800,"date":"2025-07-08T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1545800"},"modified":"2025-07-08T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:25:00","slug":"australias-latest-temporary-military-deployment-to-europe-is-connected-to-containing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/australias-latest-temporary-military-deployment-to-europe-is-connected-to-containing-china\/1545800\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s Latest Temporary Military Deployment To Europe Is Connected To Containing China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s Latest Temporary Military Deployment To Europe Is Connected To Containing China<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Australia\u00a0agreed<\/a>\u00a0during last month\u2019s NATO Summit to deploy an E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft and up to 100 troops to Europe till November at the bloc and Poland\u2019s request in support of Ukraine.<\/strong> This will be carried out under \u201cOperation Kudu<\/a>\u201d, which \u201cis the Australian Defence Force commitment to the training of Armed Forces of Ukraine personnel in the United Kingdom.\u201d It follows a\u00a0prior such deployment<\/a>\u00a0to Ramstein Air Base so the latest one isn\u2019t really all that newsworthy.<\/p>\n

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That doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s insignificant, however, since it\u2019s important for observers to understand why Australia is continuing to militarily involve itself in a conflict on the opposite side of the planet. The reason is that Australia is doing so as a quid pro quo for Anglo-American support in containing China through\u00a0AUKUS<\/a><\/strong>. Regardless of whether one agrees with it, the Australia government nowadays considers China to be an adversary \u2013 largely due to Anglo-American influence \u2013 and formulates policy accordingly.<\/p>\n

Sending arms to Ukraine<\/a>, training its troops in the UK, and once again carrying out a temporary military deployment to Europe isn\u2019t just a way to pay back its AUKUS allies, but also a means for obtaining experience in the event that China gets involved in a regional conflict. Whether it\u2019s against Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan, and\/or the US, Australia expects to involve itself in a similar way as with Russia-Ukraine via the aforesaid means of arms shipments, training, and early warning and control missions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moreover, by showing solidarity with NATO in its proxy war on Russia through Ukraine as explained above, Australia hopes that the bloc\u2019s European members will repay the favor if it involves itself in a future AUKUS+ (AUKUS, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines) proxy war on China. Even though they\u2019d probably do this at their\u00a0American \u201cdaddy\u2019s\u201d behest<\/a>, albeit as a quid pro quo for \u201cdefending Europe from Russia\u201d in this case (as they sincerely but wrongly believe), it\u2019s a suitable pretext for the public.<\/p>\n

The larger goal is to craft the perception of a \u201cGlobal West\u201d that stretches across the Atlantic and Pacific to encompass both halves of Eurasia, thus enabling the US to \u201cLead From Behind<\/a>\u201d in containing China in the future and maybe once again Russia too depending on events.<\/strong> Australia\u2019s role is therefore to serve as an example of an Asia-Pacific country contributing to the European front of the US\u2019 present containment campaign against Russia to justify European countries contributing to a future Asian front against China.<\/p>\n

That being the case, Australia\u2019s latest temporary military deployment to Europe actually advances a much grander strategic goal than most observers might have realized. In and of itself, Australia\u2019s contribution to NATO\u2019s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine is minimal and has no influence over the course of events, but it helps lay the ground for what might come next after that conflict finally ends. If Trump\u2019s \u201ctotal reset<\/a>\u201d with China fails, then the US-led \u201cGlobal West\u201d might more aggressively contain it.<\/p>\n

To that end, the precedent of Australia\u2019s continued military involvement in the Ukrainian Conflict can be spun as the pretext for NATO\u2019s European members involving themselves in a future AUKUS+ proxy war on China, which can be sold to the public as \u201cpaying back the favor out of solidarity\u201d. The emerging \u201cGlobal West\u201d concept therefore isn\u2019t just a \u201ccollection of democracies\u201d like it\u2019s been portrayed by some, but a collection of US military partners that can be relied upon for helping to contain its Eurasian rivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 07\/07\/2025 – 23:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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