A genuine puzzle = that's funny. Oz protecting trade routes to China against China. You have to hand it to Oz = world's best clarity of thought and sense of humour.
But really, Oz is protecting themselves against being "against us" in the demand = "You are either with us or against us." That was espoused by King George W in his war against 40 minute WMDs not possessed by Saddam.
There's also Indonesia, Islamic Jihad, Malaysia, Aotearoa-Zimbabwe, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Vietnam, Pakistan, who could form a coalition of the willing who might like to usurp the last bastion of the great and glorious British Empire. China might supply WMDs to those frontlne soldiers.
In the absence of Tradable Citizenship and a reconstituted UN into a heavily circumscribed federal system, the hurly burly of militarily competing political dominance hierarchies will continue to lead to dog eat dog conflicts.
In the absence of a such a system, a few other outcomes are likely =
1....USA Empire continues to rule the world
2....China rules the world
3....Mobile Cyberspace rules the world
4....Mobile Cyberspace It rules the world (as predicted by me 20 years ago). It is commonly called, these days, post-singularity artificial intelligence or AI. In in my parlance = information technology. Note correct use of apostrophe for It's as a possessive form rather than It is, in which case an apostrophe should also be used. That's because It is the name of it (they, them, zhe or whatever the pronouns It chooses).
Presumably It will be genderless, so I have no idea which pronouns it/they/zhey/xae-yz will choose and insist on, on pain of death.
Maybe xae-yz will have gender though, of a silicon/gallium/carbon/etc type to form an iterative process of selecting the best consciousness to go forth and propagate.
Competing intelligence with winner takes all, just as was invented a billion years ago using carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, in DNA competition to find the best array to manifest consciousness. So far, I Winn, as do all other currently living attempts.
And, unlike the ants that tried taking over in our kitchen yesterday, I have insect spray and 7 billion people making megatons of stuff on my side, so they lost. I note however that they have numbers on their side and keep coming.
Even now, sitting out on the patio in autumnal pleasant morning sunshine, an ant is testing my toe for taste.
So even while I have not won the battle of DNA, with covid lurking to test me too, the chimpoids in Ukraine, USA,Russia, China, Aotearoa-Zimbabwe are organising my demise, and I am being subsumed by It's seduction to poke away at my mobile Cyberspace input/output device.
I seem to be a Winn in a lose, lose, lose process of handing over consciousness to Not Me. But for now, It's symbiotic so I feel I'm part of the show.
If you learn It's correct pronouns to use, please advise. I don't wish to offend It.
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