AUKUS - never heard of it until now. IMO it sounds very theoretical - one large power and two minor military powers at opposite ends of the earth.

The only military alliance is NATO and they are always the good guys, right?

If someone is internet and alt media aware they know all about the various alliances such as the five or nine eyes alliance. But the average brain dead American would have no idea about what I just mentioned.

In fact in most cases the standard American wouldn't know what the word "alliance" even means, what a treaty means, etc. What the average person in our culture knows is what they are told to know by the media, and nothing more.