[War] Australia: Whole World's Going To Hell

[Daniel Sanderson]

OOC: Slight backpedal for me here, I was up to the 8th but everything’s been happening behind me, I’ll take a step back.

IC:
“Whole World’s Going To Hell”
Prime Minister Jack Decker
Australia
Monday August 4 2014

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TO: President Xia Hong, People’s Republic Of China
FRM: Prime Minister Jack Decker, Commonwealth of Australia 
RE: CONDOLENCES
SENT: SUNDAY AUGUST 3 2014

MADAME PRESIDENT, WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS MY SORROW AT THE NEWS OF YOUR HUSBAND’S DEATH. PLEASE ACCEPT THE SYMPATHIES OF MYSELF, MY FAMILY, THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AS A WHOLE.

IN FRIENDSHIP, AND IN SYMPATHY

JACK DECKER

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“Whole world’s going to hell.” Decker grumbled as he threw the daily newspaper onto his desk. His Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers, and a representative from the intelligence community, the mysterious Adam Goddard, stood in front of him, along with Lucas. “The Canadian’s are going Chuck Norris on us in China?”

“Appears that way.” Goddard said, his tone flat, neutral, which just made him appear creepier.

“How?” Minister King asked, more rhetorically. “They don’t have a huge amount of long-range tanker support…I can see why they think the Yanks had a hand in it, this is their type of op.”

“Used to be a day when you knew who would run ops like this.” Decker grunted. “Then we had the Chinese excursion into Iran, and this…”

“World’s not as simple as it used to be.” Lucas pointed out.

“True enough.” The PM nodded.

“President Williams has made a statement.” Joanna reported. “They provided intelligence as a friendly gesture to Canada, without knowing what it was for.”

“China’s not going to buy that.” Goddard pointed out.

“Neither will the world community, but what else could he do?” Decker asked.

“On a side note,” Goddard added. “The US President looks quite unwell.”

Decker stared the spook down. “And the relevance of that it?”

Goddard shrugged. “Just giving you intelligence sir.”

“You can go now Mr. Goddard.” Decker said sternly. Sometimes, spooks just gave you the shits, rather then any clear answers. “What else do we know Joanna?”

“The Russians have condemned the US-Canadian operation. All US diplomatic posts, save for Shanghai, have been closed down. Japan is sending out messages wanting to know what the hell is going on, and why they didn’t have a heads up.”

“That’s one factor.” Peter said. “If the US had been behind it, the Japanese would probably know. Any rescue operations by US forces would have been staged out of Okinawa or South Korea, unless they made the poor chopper pilots fly and tank all the way across the Pacific.”

“What do we do?”

“A neutral statement.” Lucas suggested. “Cross our fingers for regional stability.”

“There’s a resolution in the Security Council.” Joanna added. “China and Russia are already onboard. France might jump onboard; they don’t like people rocking the boat. The UK and the US are the wildcards, is Williams scorned enough to vote on a global reprimand of Canada?”

“Time will tell.” Decker said, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Work on that statement, and I’ll look it over before it goes to the press.” 

“There’s also a leak about the former First Gentlemen’s autopsy report…” Lucas went on to say, and Decker waved it off.

“I saw the papers. The man’s dead, and his wife, probably the second most powerful world leader, is mourning. You’d think the press would know not to try and piss her off. What’s done is done.”

He’d hoped this week would be domestic week, the Education and Human Services Departments were churning out some new legislation, and with the Japan summit in good hands (one of his old DFAT buddies was over there doing advance work now) he thought it might be a good week for him to boost his approval rating.

He was doodling with a pen, and then looked down and smiled at what he’d written. An old US military phrase, FIDO. Fuck It, Drive On. Deal with what you’ve got happening, no point getting down in the dumps when things don’t go the way you’d planned.

“Thanks guys. Keep me in the loop on what’s going on in the UN.”


--ACTIONS TAKEN—
1. A message of sympathy to the President of the PRC. 
2. Australia to release a neutral statement, that we hope for regional stability, and don’t like it when people risk that stability. Something that hopefully won’t hurt any of our relations…just make us look like we’ve got the world title for Fence Sitting.
3. Australia slightly wary about who was behind the operation. While the US says they had nothing to do with it, it would be a different Canadian military we’d be looking at if they pulled it off on their own.
4. Australia to monitor what goes on at the UN in regards to this.
5. The Australian PM dismisses the leaked autopsy report. What the former First Gentleman of the PRC got up to when he was alive has no relevance to the current issue.




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