Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

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Unless Russia becomes a true ally which cooperates militarily with the US, the US has no choice but to guard against a sudden military conflict. 

Why is Australia spending billions on the JSF?  We can't stand against China anyway unless the US defends us. Whether we have a few JSFs won't matter much overall We have good relations with the Chinese anyway as we do with our immediate neighbours.  Yet we clearly are arming ourselves to maintain air superiority over the Indonesians, for example.  IOW, we are arming ourselves not against any existing threat but against the possibility of the relationship worsening in the future.

But isn't trying to normalise relations with them a step towards this?