It doesn’t take much to de-code the White House National Security Strategy’s message to the rest of the Americas: if you’re not ready to be our poodles, be afraid, be very afraid. 

“We will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed.”

Is the future of Australia and New Zealand really as NATO forts, armed to the teeth glaring menacingly at an ever-rising China?  Are we risking what we cannot afford to lose by failing to see the world around us is changing rapidly and that we may be backing the wrong horse?  Our instinctive allegiance to a US hell-bent on escalation to maintain primacy risks the people of Down Under getting a Come Uppance of terrible proportions.

War crimes tribunals on the Palestine Genocide will be essential to restore international law. War criminals whether in Tel Aviv, London, Canberra or Wellington must one day face justice.

Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel back onto the invite list for the commemorations in Nagasaki on 9 August.  Last year Israel was excluded, triggering a refusal by these countries to attend in 2024.  Does the ‘personal’ invitation that Nagasaki has just sent to Israel represent a triumph of Western diplomacy or a sick joke?