Add to that the establishment of an “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida and Trump’s recently revealed threat to “bomb the sh*t out of Russia and China,” and it’s no surprise that even Trump’s core MAGA supporters are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with a president who promised them that he would swiftly end the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and restore America’s economic prosperity. Albanese’s previous reluctance to assert its foreign policy independence is a consequence of Australia’s longstanding dependence on America – together with Albanese’s pragmatic decision to adopt wholesale the Conservative coalition’s foreign policy framework so as to neutralise foreign policy as a domestic political issue. Albanese, of course, has has not succeeded in placating Murdoch – and it is a measure of his abject weakness as a political leader that he refuses to openly attack the owner of Fox News who peddles the same discredited dogmas in Australia that he does in America.
Author: RT
Published at: 2025-07-22 21:44:11
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