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

13 March 2025 Mike Scrafton Featured 2

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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Three compelling reasons to exit ANZUS

15 May 2024 Mike Scrafton AUKUS, Australian focus, Featured 2

How long can Australian politicians continue with the pretence that the American alliance aligns with the nation’s interests? Trump or Biden? It doesn’t really matter except for determining the path of America’s decline into illiberalism. ANZUS must be exited, but the impetus will have to come from voters.

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REVISITING 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
  • 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
  • All over bar the shouting: the inevitability of a submarine farce
    1 March 2023
  • Time to talk about time and the AUKUS submarines
    18 February 2023
  • An AUKUS ménage à trois
    8 February 2023
  • All pathways to AUKUS submarines sub-optimal
    14 January 2023
  • America’s shiny submarine lure reels in Australia’s sovereignty
    10 December 2022
  • Extent of former US officials’ role in AUKUS submarines decision called into question
    24 October 2022
  • More than an acronym: AUKUS must be an election issue in 2022
    21 December 2021
  • Magical thinking: nuclear submarines and Australia’s Maginot Line of the imagination
    6 October 2021
  • AUSMIN and AUKUS: It’s worse than you think
    21 September 2021
  • Nuclear-powered submarines are just bad defence policy
    19 September 2021

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. A former government senior executive, ministerial adviser and consultant, Mike now combines travelling, research and writing – with a particular focus on current issues in defence and strategic policy, and responses to climate change. Read more about Mike here.

Most viewed posts

  • Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’? 27 September 2023
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023
  • Republicans push for Mexican-American war: Don’t rule it out 30 August 2023
  • Ethics-free realism explains, but shouldn’t justify, Western responses to Gaza 28 January 2024
  • Trump and Vance’s theocratic republic of America 3 August 2024
  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order 19 September 2024
  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems 13 March 2023
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • Western leaders must acknowledge Israel’s rights are not untrammelled 17 November 2023

Disclaimer

Mike is an independent writer and derives no income from his writing. He has no current association with any commercial or profit-making organisation, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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