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The Chinese built islands in the South China Sea for strategic military purposes.

The USA, for diplomatic reasons, 'deputised' Australia to lead the criticism of China.

The Chinese retaliated with trade sanctions.

The notion that 'Australia started it' is absurd. /2

2. Australia responded to expansionism.

This is all you need to know.

However, one wonders why some media are calling on Australia to apologise or appease China, to paint Australia as the offender. Are we so afraid of the media calling us racist, again and as usual? /3

3. Is it: (white) Australia bad, everyone else good, as the default setting?

But this isn't new. Terrorist attacks against us are explained as retaliation against, for example, our military action in Afghanistan fighting the oppression of the brutal Taliban /4

4. By trying to defeat an evil regime for others' freedoms and safety, we're the bad guys and deserve what punishment comes.

More broadly, we see the perpetrators of crime portrayed as victims, objects of sympathy, whilst victims are ignored. /5

5. We see the perpetrators of crime's actions explained away as due to traumatic childhoods; coming from war-torn countries; the result of drug/alcohol 'issues' of their own making; intergenerational colonial trauma - it's everyone's fault but their own. /6

6. They are given laughable sentences, or no sentences at all, while victims have to live with trauma in perpetuity.

The compassion overload has, in effect, resulted in the bad guys becoming the poor souls worthy of sympathy. The good guys not. /7

7. It's time for a reset; for common sense and the 'fair go' to once again prevail.

Right is right; wrong is wrong.

No more bad guys as good guys.

Castigate the bad; make them take responsibility for their actions.

The truth matters. It is right, it is good, it is fair.
#ETW