Our alliance with the US is in crisis under Trump

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1. Neither Albo or Potato head are world leaders.

2. Australia have WMD? No? Then there are no any crises, only waiting time when Australia will become object of interest of geopolitical subjects.

   As it is right now with Ukraine.

3. As a French I can’t help smirk a little thinking about AUKUS.

4. Most pertinent extract from the article is – “Trump’s gaslighting of Ukraine and its leader — his false equivalence between Russia and Ukraine’s fighting — is effectively similar to telling a woman who is being beaten by her husband and fights back that she is responsible for the violence because she isn’t prepared to sit there and take it. It is absurd yet here we are, pretending that our alliance is in normal shape at a time when this kind of gaslighting continues”

5. There’s one problem with divesting from the United States: you can’t do it without greatly decreasing your standard of living and overall wealth.

   Additionally, if your goal is to ensure your own security, you’ll have to either risk vulnerability or join a new security bloc. Joining the Russian or Chinese security bloc, however, will not come without its own costs. Instead of being nudged in the direction of the US dollar, instead of a McDonald’s opening in a former opera hall or Costco causing small businesses to reassess their strategies, a country like Australia will come under intense political pressure in a new security bloc. That is the impulse of all autocracies, to turn the fractured, the other, the compelling and interesting, the jagged edges into a single entity, a one-party state, a president for life.

6. I mean alienating our neighbors (Mexico and Canada). Throwing the rest of NATO under the bus with Ukraine. Yeah, it’s only natural for the tides to go against here.

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