To Protect Itself From U.S. Hostility Australia Decides to Buy U.S. Submarines
> Australia is not aligned with the US to protect itself from China. Australia is aligned with the US to protect itself from the US.
Joe Biden may have forgotten the name of the Australian Prime Minister. But Scott Morrison knows who he is expected to work for. In 1975 the U.S. and the UK launched a coup against the Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam who was moving his country towards independence. Few in the U.S. will remember that but Australian politicians do. Their country has since always done as it was told to do.