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If big things have small beginnings, then there are two wee things in Australia we’d best keep our weather eye on. These are the pronouncements of former Aussie Prime Minister Paul Keating on the NATO alliance and those of former TV anchorwoman Mary Kostakidis on pathways to peace in Palestine.

Not only was Kostakidis a highly regarded anchorwoman on SBS, an Australian public broadcasting outfit with a format not unlike that of Russia Today, but she was also a stalwart in Australia’s campaign to free Julian Assange, a not insignificant fact in its own right, but a much bigger one when we consider that Kostakidis cobbled together a large, loose but very effective coalition from the unlikeliest of diverse streams, which all combined to move mountains to secure Assange’s release.

Australia’s Assange campaign was sufficiently robust to transform Assange’s case into one between the Australian and American governments. That that coalition could get the Aussie government to stand up to the Americans is something Kostakidis and her buddies can be rightly very proud of, as they move on to crack the even harder nut of peace in Palestine.

But even there they have hope. Although Australia’s Zionist movement have played their usual stunt of throwing the full weight of their legal teams against Kostakidis, claiming that Australia’s pre-eminent champion of diversity and multiculturalism is a racist or some such rot, because Kostakidis’ crew now have their own formidable legal crews, that stunt no longer works as easily as it once did, and Kostakidis’ twitter profile shows she is brimming with confidence, as she faces into the legal and other fights regarding her alleged anti-semitism that Australia’s well-entrenched Israeli lobby have dishonestly levied against her.

Though Kostakidis can take solace from the victory of “anti-Israeli propagandist Jayson Gillham” over the pro Israeli patrons of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, she can further fortify herself by knowing that she has been pivotal in forcing the Australian tide to turn and that millions of other Australians are also thoroughly disgusted at Israel’s Gaza genocide and, as the Assange campaign showed, they have very new, very novel and perhaps very uniquely Australian ways of making their voices count.

Though many younger Australian voices are calling out for justice and sanity, former Prime Minister Paul Keating is a very welcome blast from the past. Although he is now in his 80s, Keating is still one of those guys you would want to be well-prepared for before you take him on. An acerbic Parliamentary performer in his day, Keating seems to be as sharp as ever, at least when compared to Nancy Pelosi, who is one amongst a bag of top drawer American grifters he recently cut down to size.

Keating’s gripe is he does not feel Australia should be getting into a needless war with China, her biggest trading partner, just because that suits Yankee grifters like Pelosi, who is no more than a bothersome blow fly to Keating.

What initially got Keating to blow a gasket was America’s insistence that Australia renege on a deal it had with France to buy a bunch of fit-for-purpose submarines from them and that it instead stump up a king’s ransom to help the Yanks and the Poms station their very expensive nuclear subs in Aussie waters. Keating, who showed himself to be a master of both macro and micro economics when he was Prime Minister, was having none of that and he let all Australians know his opinions and, on top of that, he called out the cravenness of his own Labor Party as well.

Even though the Yanks and their Aussie plants were unhappy with all that, Keating didn’t give a damn and he didn’t mince words. Not only was the nuclear sub deal in his cross hairs, but so too were the massive spy stations the CIA operates in Australia. If you’ve ever witnessed a bull elephant spit the dummy, that is what Keating was like. He ran amok and helped rally untold numbers of Aussies to the cause of peace, rather than the cause of Pelosi and Yankeeland’s other grifters.

As Australia gets ready to host a large number of events highlighting the plight of the Palestinians and the scam that is the AUKUS nuclear sub deal, NATO best pay close attention. Australia is no longer the safe haven Macarthur could scuttle off to, once the Japanese gave him his marching orders from the Philippines. Nor is it the great land down under, where Churchill, aping Pope Alexander’s division of Latin America, was prepared to cede all of Western Australia to the Japanese, if that was the price of ultimate victory.

The days of Australia’s cultural cringe and the tyranny of distance are both gone, never to return. Australia now has a population of over 26 million, where the views of Kostakidis and Keating enjoy such widespread support that they are a force to be reckoned with. Not only have their elastic coalitions shown that they can be effective in the case of Assange, but Kostakidis, Keating and many more of them have proved time and again they can match NATO’s best even on NATO’s own terms.

The danger of that, from NATO’s point of view, is that this Aussie contagion will spread, upwards through Australia and into Indonesia, the Philippines and the various other countries that are pivotal to NATO’s coming war with China. Not only that, but Australia commands considerable influence in the Pacific as well, meaning that the Yanks might even meet unwelcome resistance in Micronesia and other archipelagos they haughtily claim is their back door.

Technology and social media have negated Australia’s tyranny of distance. They see the pasting NATO’s proxies are getting in Donbas and Kursk, and they do not want to be NATO’s next sacrificial lambs. They see where Australia fits into NATO’s plans of worldwide domination and they do not want to be another bolthole for American generals to scuttle off to, after China sends them packing. They see what is going on in Gaza and, though words might fail them, they do not fail Keating, Kostakidis and thousands of others, who are leading this silent surge towards peace, justice and righteousness.

The best part of all of this, to my mind at least, is because the threat that Kostakidis, Keating and millions more like them pose to NATO’s colonisation of Australia is too hard to categorise, it is therefore also too hard to counter. Although NATO’s project to contain China may not be coming apart at the seams, it is most definitely unravelling in Australia, and it will take more than a couple of nuclear submarines and a smooth talking POTUS Trump to Humpty Dumpty that alliance back together again.