Australia always frets about the US alliance. Today, fret is becoming frenetic. Even a touch feverish. Fear darkens the fancies.
Donald Trump could do to US alliances what he’s done to US trade policy. The president’s approach to trade and defence might be America’s new normal. Be frightened by that thought; Canberra is. The new normal line is offered by Australia’s departing ambassador in Washington, Joe Hockey, in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘“We are not going back,” Hockey said. “America has changed, global commerce has changed, geo-politics has changed and it’s going to have a profound impact on every part of the world.”’ Read more: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-normal-for-america-is-new-abnormal-for-australia/
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