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NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

It's a (notionally) democratic body, it can render decisions from all its member states within a couple of ours, and it has already shown it learnt an important lesson from 20th century conflict: if you want to hold buck the Russians, send a bunch of terrifying Finns.

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The question as to whether artists could be conscripted to be fed into the meatgrinder of the semi-finals will break the Labor Party again. The LNP will insist we send this bloke.

AI-generated "THE CRIME OF THOSE WHO VOTE NO" posters on every lamppost

(Also, who would be our new Billy Hughes here going to future Versaille and demanding colonial spoils? Albanese lacks the hubris, Dutton the charisma. Wartime Cabinet Leader Barnaby Joyce? The unlikely envoy Lidia Thorpe feels somehow apropos)

Hadn't seen that agit-prop before. What glories have we lost as a nation by turning our backs on extreme rhetoric and on propaganda cartoons that would make generations of Leek cry tears of envy...

As a bipartisan gesture can we send this bloke too?

Send the GG and his wife and we have a supergroup.

Without he ANZACs , Canadians, Indians, "Colonies".. etc. Etc.etc we The United Kingdom would have been, A nd could be "REAMED!"

Yeah but you're talking WWI there; Australia post-1946 has generally been dragged into conflicts (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) where the main purpose of sending troops is to reassure the US of allyship.

Yeah! The point is they are, and I hope still are, on "OUR" side. I know that was long ago but even so... youtu.be/bahJ1eVOELY?...