Regarding Yet Another Piece of Anti-Russia Propaganda in the Australian Media
At a time when Russophobic rhetoric cultivated at the official level in Australia has become a routine matter, some propagandists who have made a home on that continent are trying to back it up with their pseudo-analysis.
In this context, an article by our former countryman Alexey Muravyov now an associate professor at Curtin University posted by the online publication The Conversation has drawn our attention.
According to his research, our country is “flexing its muscles in the Indo-Pacific region,” which is becoming “a cause for concern” for official Canberra.
As a reminder, over 10,000 kilometres separate Vladivostok from Sydney and Perth, the main Australian naval bases. What makes the author so confident when he talks about Russia as a real threat to Australia’s national security?
👉 It’s simple: the point is that Muravyov’s research is funded by the Australian Navy, which, in addition to the “Chinese threat,” now needs a “Russian threat” to justify exorbitant spending. Amid a significant rise in the cost of living and mounting problems faced by everyday Australians, Anthony Albanese’s cabinet must somehow justify its plans to spend anywhere from 268 to 368 billion Australian dollars to purchase American and British nuclear submarines.
The author literally in the very next paragraph writes about the Australian government’s readiness to support the allies in their operations in remote regions, including the Northwest Pacific and the Arctic. So, fear of the “Russian threat” is apparently no obstacle for the Australians as THEY try to get closer to OUR borders.
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The disclosure statement on the website of The Conversation to the effect that the author is not affiliated with the stakeholders and does not benefit in any way from this publication looks particularly ludicrous. How little do they think of their readership to be so brazen and deceptive in form, substance, and content?
More anti-Russia propaganda in the Australian media
At a time when Russophobic rhetoric cultivated at the official level in Australia has become a routine matter, some propagandists who have made a home on that continent are trying to back it up with their pseudo-analysis. In this context, an article by our former countryman Alexey Muravyov now an associate professor at Curtin University posted by the online publication The Conversation under the menacing title “Australia can no longer afford to ignore Russia’s expanding naval power in the Pacific” has drawn our attention.
Enumerating Moscow’s efforts to upgrade the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet and ongoing exercises, the author comes to a “startling” conclusion. According to his research, our country is “flexing its muscles in the Indo-Pacific region,” which is becoming “a cause for concern” for official Canberra.
For some reason, when Washington, Canberra’s partner in AUKUS – an alliance that causes reasonable rather than imaginary concern for most Asia-Pacific countries – promotes bloc mentality and confrontation in the Asia Pacific region by deploying land-based missiles in allied countries, no one in the mainstream Australian press calls it “flexing muscles.” The author’s reasoning follows to a tee the collective West’s neocolonial logic: the United States and its satellites are entitled to project power anywhere in the world, while those who are not members of this “elite club” should not even think about strengthening their defence capabilities.
As a reminder, over 10,000 kilometres separate Vladivostok from Sydney and Perth, the main Australian naval bases. What makes the author so confident when he talks about Russia as a real threat to Australia’s national security?
It’s simple: the point is that Muravyov’s research is funded by the Australian Navy, which, in addition to the “Chinese threat,” now needs a “Russian threat” to justify exorbitant spending. Amid a significant rise in the cost of living and mounting problems faced by everyday Australians, Anthony Albanese’s cabinet must somehow justify its plans to spend anywhere from 268 to 368 billion Australian dollars to purchase American and British nuclear submarines.
The author literally in the next paragraph writes about the Australian government’s readiness to support the allies in their operations in remote regions, including the Northwest Pacific and the Arctic. So, fear of the “Russian threat” is apparently no obstacle for the Australians as they try to get closer to our borders.
Since the author refers to the historical events of the last century, a reminder is in order that neither Russia nor China unleashed the last major war in the Asia-Pacific region. Now, who has more reason to worry about national security?
At a time when Moscow and Beijing are taking legitimate measures to strengthen their defence capabilities and protect their sovereignty, AUKUS openly intends to project force in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Pacific Fleet which constitutes a legitimate cause for concern for all clear-eyed observers, especially Australia’s neighbouring ASEAN member states. The multi-billion dollar increase in Canberra’s military spending, in an attempt to act as the “main deputy” of the American sheriff in the Asia-Pacific region, is in itself reason for other countries to take care of their own security and strengthen their defence capabilities.
Given that the author blatantly parrots the official line and disregards both facts and common sense when approaching regional security issues, the disclosure statement on the website of The Conversation to the effect that the author is not affiliated with the stakeholders and does not benefit in any way from this publication looks particularly ludicrous. How little do they think of their readership to be so brazen and deceptive in form, substance, and content? Again, this is a rhetorical question.
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Original source:
https://t.me/MFARussia/18746
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/articles_and_rebuttals/rebuttals/nedostovernie-publikacii/1925377/