Now that it is May, the annual April US war-games on the border with North Korea have finished, and the nuclear bomb-packing US stealth bombers have moved away, and so the North Koreans have put their ICBMs away (and they do have them, and have had them for years, and everyone knows), so the level of risk for a big war has gone down again, as it does, every year in May. Every year.

The next spike re 'total war' will be when the US sells more offensive weapons to Taiwan as it does annually. Then China will become cranky again.

The predictability of the US' annual destabilisations of North Asia, and in the South China Sea, is yawningly obvious.

The purpose: Destabilisation to maintain US influence, where otherwise there is no need for US presence at all; and to totally stop the resolution of all issues at the local level... to stop agreements, to stop unity in Asia, to stop compromise and reason, to stop peace from being assured.

Why? Because it's good for American business, the world's biggest Arms dealers; and that's all. That is the morality of it. To divide, so as to create markets for weapons that otherwise would not be necessary at all.

What does Australia do? We kowtow to this US vision of omnipotence as policeman, and give over sovereign Australian land and logistics to the American military, so they can keep destabilising our major trading partners, and our real friends.

Asia will work out what is best for Asia as time goes by. Australia is in the area, but we are not Asia at all. Why? Because we have no interest or investment  in peace at all, but rather the opposite. Asia knows this.