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A requiem for the Indo-Pacific Strategy: Trump’s Arctic pivot

13 March 2025 Mike Scrafton

Don’t expect to hear Trump going on about the Indo-Pacific. His designs on Canada and Greenland signal a shift in prime strategic focus to access to mineral and other resources in the Arctic. And with it a willingness to collude with strong players to divide up the resources.

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Trump’s pre-modern approach to Sovereignty must be resisted

25 February 2025 Mike Scrafton

A common conception of sovereignty is the essential foundation of the modern state and international law. Trump’s contrarian understanding of sovereignty, evident in actions during his first term, could have far more damaging consequences in his second.

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Recent – Global

Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order

19 September 2024
Kamal Harris addresses DNC August 2024

Would Harris adopt the militarism of the failed Biden Doctrine?

29 August 2024

Trump and Vance’s theocratic republic of America

3 August 2024

Beyond the stockade – is Australia ready for US isolationism?

1 August 2024

The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable

20 June 2024

Biden’s distorted D-Day history seeks to rally others to his endless wars

11 June 2024

Recent – Australian focus

Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses?

16 August 2024

Three compelling reasons to exit ANZUS

15 May 2024

Australia’s AUKUS Tributes

26 March 2024

The new Pericles: Marles, master of the Seas

27 February 2024

AUKUS: Conroy’s justification of the “greatest industrial undertaking” falls short

13 December 2023

Australians need to know what lies beneath the new era of US-Australia strategic cooperation

7 December 2023

AUKUS

  • Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses?
    16 August 2024
  • Three compelling reasons to exit ANZUS
    15 May 2024
  • Australia’s AUKUS Tributes
    26 March 2024

Featured

Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’?

27 September 2023

ISRAEL

  • Ethics-free realism explains, but shouldn’t justify, Western responses to Gaza
    28 January 2024
  • Western leaders must acknowledge Israel’s rights are not untrammelled
    17 November 2023
  • ‘Shared values’ on show in Jerusalem
    7 February 2023

The UKRAINE Archive

  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order
    19 September 2024
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable
    20 June 2024
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems
    13 March 2023
  • Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer
    27 January 2023
  • After Ukraine a fractured and unravelling global order will confront governments
    10 May 2022
  • Ethics and war: the Ukrainian tragedy
    2 May 2022
  • US National Security and Ukraine: What’s the connection?
    19 January 2020

Most read this week

  • Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses? 16 August 2024
  • Trump’s pre-modern approach to Sovereignty must be resisted 25 February 2025
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable 20 June 2024

Most read in the last year

  • Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’? 27 September 2023
  • Trump and Vance’s theocratic republic of America 3 August 2024
  • Republicans push for Mexican-American war: Don’t rule it out 30 August 2023
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

Disclaimer

Mike’s writing is not published with his permission on any profit-making websites, blogs or forums associated with profit-making business entities. Mike has no current association with any commercial organisation. He is a completely independent writer, derives no income from his writing, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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