Canberra should reach out to Donald Trump not with gold-plated AUKUS submarine models but by restating why Australia’s defence matters to American security.
Not only that he would withhold American military protection in the event of an attack from Russia, but that he’d “encourage” Moscow “to do whatever the hell they want” to Washington’s NATO allies in Europe.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s international editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
