The greatest absurdity in Australia’s political discourse about the second Trump administration is the mantra that America perpetually remains a “reliable ally’’.
Trump’s United States is no longer Australia’s dependable big buddy as it was since the second world war. All those imperial conflicts Australia trailed Washington into (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) for “alliance maintenance’’ mean nothing to an expansionist Trump who treats far more geo-politically important supposed friends, like Canada, with blatant contempt.
