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Trumpmerica’s protection racket

"Nice country you got there. Shame if anything happened to it . . ." That's Trumplomacy in a nutshell. The rationale behind the flurry of tariffs and "deals" arranged by Trump since he got back into the White House can be dressed up to look a little more civilized than Tony Soprano sending his boys out to pick up their regular "envelopes". But really, it's much the same when push comes to shove, which it does. The clearest explanation of Trumpnomics comes courtesy of one of Trump's most trusted and influential advisers, Stephen Miran. Miran heads…

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Lest we forget, war is horrific

ANZAC Day seems a good time to observe, again, how trends in international relations in 2023 appear to resemble those of a hundred years ago. Just as in 1914, some people with an eye to history were looking back a century to Napoleon and Waterloo, we too can cast a backwards glance and be dismayed at what we see. Today we find ourselves once again apparently being pushed by the tides of politics and economics into what could be another incredibly destructive war. If you read a little about the lead-up to World War 1 you…

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The new cold war gets warmer, again

The big guns are out, and they are aiming towards Asia and the Pacific. Sure, the current hot proxy war between the US Empire and Russia happens to be in Europe but the big target is China, and the cold war to prevent its rise is warming by degrees with every day that passes. For Australia – America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and its “deputy sheriff” in the Pacific Region – the signs are all very ominous. The commandant of the US Marine Corps, General David Berger, was in Australia this week, urging the government to ramp…

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