Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement (“we will improve our long-range strike capability”) regarding the acquisition of Tomahawk cruise missiles is part of the hybrid warfare that the US-led West has declared to the People’s Republic of China
ABOARD USS CAPE ST. GEORGE (CG 71) AT SEA — A Tomahawk cruise missile launches from USS Cape St. George, operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Photo by IS1 Kenneth Moll, USS Cape St. George) (Released by Sixth Fleet Public Affairs)
“The enhancement of offensive devices such as the Tomahawks and the language adopted by Morrison suggest that Australia – which is one of the West’s outposts in the vast Indo-Pacific area – is preparing to perform the strategic function of a platform, or rather, a bridgehead aimed at undermining China. If we relate the acquisition of the Tomahawks that will be deployed on the Hobart class destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy with the confirmation of the renunciation of respecting the agreement for the purchase and sale of French submarines, it is reasonable to assume that the countries of the Commonwealth are about to adopt, at least for the or means of offense, a sort of “Anglo-sphere strategy” which, as self-referential, tends to favor the United States and countries linked to the British Crown, thus excluding other supplying nations such as, in this particular case, France”.
If this strategy, which we have called the anglosphere, is followed up, it is likely that there will be repercussions within NATO and, taking into account the growing interest of the European Union in the establishment of a centralized common defense, also in diplomatic and economic relations among the member countries of the Western bloc.
Tiberio Graziani. Chairman of Vision & Global Trends. Institute for Global Analyses.