Every day is a learning experience when it comes to this government’s errors of judgment.

The fuel insecurity crisis triggered by the Iran war has led to the revelation that Australia’s aviation industry is dependent on Beijing’s goodwill.

Not only is roughly 30 per cent of aviation fuel coming directly from China, something in the order of 90 per cent passes third-hand across the communist empire.

While our Prime Minister signs high-level defence pacts and shakes hands on Aukus to defend against the imminent threat of Chinese expansion into the Pacific, Canberra has left most of its critical fuel supplies tied to China.

It’s a failure of logic beyond comprehension.

For those of you who find Trump’s Truth Social outbursts distasteful and prefer the ‘more modern’ ally of China, keep in mind Xue Jian, a Chinese consul stationed in Japan, tweeted his desire to see the Japanese Prime Minister decapitated over their intention to defend Taiwan’s security.

‘That filthy neck that barged in on its own … I’ve got no choice to cut it off without a moment’s hesitation. Are you prepared for that?’

No criticism from the Albanese government. No comment at all, actually, as far as we can see.

When it comes to war, it is as if politicians understand the abstract construct of armed conflict, and that they must make provisions for these eventualities in the Budget, and yet they have no inkling of the true nature of war itself.

They remain ignorant of supply lines, reserves, changing diplomatic relations, likely contract cancellations, and national hoarding.

China isn’t. The Belt and Road network is not, as is commonly cited, a trade highway. If you take the time to examine Beijing’s acquisitions of transit lanes, deep water ports, and mining operations, it becomes clear they have cleaned up the world war two map of critical choke points while the West shrugged and bought cheap clothes from slave-run factories.

History buffs find this infuriating while the hashtag media class remain blissfully unaware.

To be fair to Albanese & Co, these are not the first politicians in history to exhibit this lack of survival instinct. However, they are certainly the highest paid of their kin and frankly we deserve better value for money. Even AI chatbots are better strategists. (Go on, I dare you to ask them.)

Odds are, at least some people inside our fattened bureaucracy do know the history and have seen the risk profiles.

Parliament is littered with reports, warnings, and even stern cautions from our allies who remain stunned by our choke points and strategic fragility.

What we have instead is structural and cultural addiction to the merits of globalism, short-term gain of cheaply-sourced regional product, and a delusional belief that the world order will hold forever.

They call this the peacetime bias.

It’s a very serious mental condition that afflicts third and fourth generation politicians who manage the nation rather than actively run it as their ancestors did.

Canberra genuinely thought the oil market would sort itself out, that there was enough global flexibility to handle shocks, and that the Middle East would never experience a full-scale war at the same time as Russia disrupted production in Europe.

Our politicians assumed they could buy their way out of a crisis by paying top dollar for oil.

But you can’t buy what isn’t there.

What they never planned for was our neighbours protecting their own oil supplies and refusing to sell us scheduled shipments. In other words, they serve their people first, as they should.

China, the ally many governments have cuddled up to as the next great protector despite their brutal communist regime embracing expansionism, environmental catastrophe, and casually violating human rights, has cut us off from critical oil shipments without warning. Did Parliament forget China’s bullying during Covid when we asked a few honest questions about dodgy labs in Wuhan collapsing the world’s economy?

So much for being friends. They are fair-weather trade partners, at best.

Asian fuel shortages and a desert of supply after April has come as a genuine shock … to Canberra.

To everyone else, it was obvious.

Forget about the Middle Eastern oil crisis for a moment, it would be fascinating to know what Albanese’s plan was going to be if China moved on Taiwan later in the year, as they have promised.

If we were forced to enter a Pacific conflict, even in a defensive capacity, did Canberra imagine China would continue shipping our jet fuel? What was the contingency plan? How did we stand there shaking hands on the Aukus arrangement knowing we were strategically neutered by our supply lines?

Why were none of these questions asked or answered?

Even if we can use our LNP shipments to pressure China into delivering, this problem needs a long-term solution. It cannot be swept away like the mistakes of the Covid era.

In the 1990s Australia was close to entirely self-sufficient in refined fuels.

Upwards of 95 per cent of our fuel was processed here. We were independent. Powerful. And insulated from global conflict.

If this war had happened then, we wouldn’t even blink.

Government obsession over climate change policy is largely to blame for the situation Australia finds itself in, and both sides of government have utterly filthy hands.

But more than that, it was a mindset shift that saw convenience as preferable to resilience.

Shame on those cowards who sold our sovereignty.

This is a self-inflicted crisis that the government had no social licence to create. Now, the people of Australia will suffer. Businesses will go. Jobs will go. Families will be separated. And the government will use the same emotional we’re all in this together framing to gaslight people into thinking this is some sort of Act of God to overcome instead of a political failure.