As the event and its mixed messages about tariffs nears,the Donald Trump’s White House appears to have liberated itself from reality.
Voters want to know what the contenders for the prime ministership will do to protect the national interest. Neither Albanese nor Dutton so far have any answers for them.
Former ambassadors and Defence officials warned on Monday that Australia should shift to a stronger form of self-defence in case the US retreated from the ANZUS alliance.
The US has not been perfect in its application of soft power over the years,but diplomacy and aid are preferable to war and weapons.
The United States,the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid,has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.
The blundering Signal chat may be the least of the Trump administration’s dangerous moves. As a former senior spy put it,“we’re shooting ourselves in the head,not the foot”.
For much of this past week,the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?
Haven’t we all written something nasty about someone,and accidentally texted it to them,or shared top level national secrets with an investigative journalist?
Some are predictable picks for their roles,most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.