The threat of Russia is being dealt a big blow.

ScoMo's $150m 'Donation' to Trump's NASA Mars Project.
Pushing Australia's impact on the International Space Scene with it's 'investment' to succeed in putting people on MARS.

Was it a hidden 'challenge' too?
Not likely.
More like an investment for Australia backing the USA to do it.

I hope you all know that it is Australia's future to 'replace' the empowerment of Russia as a Super Power and be 'greater' than the USSR!
Don't worry about China. After their Accountants send the Military off to invade the world (actually Russia, ironically  ;)) - as a Tax Write Off. China will also face its first decade of being an 'Aged Nation' as it's One Child Policy scuttle's their population growth for at least 50 years!

I think Australia's economy is larger than Russia's now.

Russia is rusted.
A shadow of its former USSR glory.

Even now, hundreds of thousands of Chinese are pouring into its Siberian region. Reclaiming by default, the lands 'taken' from them - by the USSR long ago, by force.
Now China is more powerful and they will take, by force, Siberia back and Putin is too weak and gutless to prevail.
They still try to offer 'Whiteys' FREE land and homes - but they don't want to go out there. Too many Yellow people you see and too close to China - out there.

Russia is slowly folding, especially in the East.

It is something that you don't think about. A billion-plus Chinese looking for room to live. Not bothered by Russia's extremely cold winters. Moving in when the Russians are too weak militarily, economically, and numerically to do anything about it.

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2019 at 1:37pm:

It is something that you don't think about. A billion-plus Chinese looking for room to live. Not bothered by Russia's extremely cold winters. Moving in when the Russians are too weak militarily, economically, and numerically to do anything about it.

Well it was all their lands originally before the USSR era.
I don't think they are bothered by Russia's Military either.
Putin tries to save face by not taking any 'hostile' action
of removal, because he knows China is more powerful than Russia. So he just turns a blind eye to it all.
The once heavily populated 'White' Siberia is now the 'Yellow' Siberia. Not even the promise of Free Land and House can entice a fearful White 're-population' of Siberia.

...soon, China will just take it back, by Force (for it ain't getting anywhere in Hong Kong currently).

Quote:

Australia replaces Russia

Nobody can fix an election like the Ruskies.

Dnarever wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2019 at 7:36pm:

Quote: Australia replaces Russia Nobody can fix an election like the Ruskies.

That's why they choose an awesome candidate like the Donald.

Genius.

Even if the Russians up their population and have a faster birth rate, do you really think that they are going to populate an area of Russia that is known for being extremely cold during the winter?

The 'White' Russian surge across Asia to as far as Vladivostok, via the USSR age - was motivated in part to the Yin/Yang 'master plan' of having a default Cold War with the USA and turning the entire Northern Hemisphere 'All White' as USA invades the Korean Peninsula and the White Soviets having taken by force, long ago - much of Siberia from the Chinese.

Such a Master Plan also needed the Brownies kicked out of much of the Middle-East too.  ::)

This Master Plan didn't work for it was called off with the realisation that as the Yellow Man dug into his home in Asia, the Black Man of Africa sacrificed his Sahulian Real Estate and sold out the Aborigine to make for a better world.

What I was taught in high school and through general reading was that people east of the Caucasus mountains were of Eurasian/Asian descent. The bulk of the Russian population were in the west of the country.

China & Russia will fade, especially Russia.

The world will be on Australia by then.
Ahh - the pressure.  ;)

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2019 at 1:37pm:

It is something that you don't think about. A billion-plus Chinese looking for room to live. Not bothered by Russia's extremely cold winters. Moving in when the Russians are too weak militarily, economically, and numerically to do anything about it.

栖息地  is Lebensraum in Chinese, apparently.

Frank wrote on Oct 4^th, 2019 at 6:40pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 23rd, 2019 at 1:37pm: It is something that you don't think about. A billion-plus Chinese looking for room to live. Not bothered by Russia's extremely cold winters. Moving in when the Russians are too weak militarily, economically, and numerically to do anything about it. 栖息地  is Lebensraum in Chinese, apparently.

Yes. Chinese Lebensraum is already happening.
Vietnam and Myanmar (Burma) are leading the joint defensive with Thailand, Laos, etc in the South Asia (Australasia) region - against China's threat of Lebensraum in their direction.

After China's SuperNova... it will be ironic to see that they lost 'Tibet' and Uyghur region too.