Putin’s forces might not progress far beyond the Dnieper River. And yet the invasion will reshape the world in which the next Australian government operates.
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Tag: defence and security
Magical thinking: nuclear submarines and Australia’s Maginot Line of the imagination
The prospect of nuclear powered submarines has generated a lot of magical thinking in defence and strategic policy circles. But the incontrovertible fact is that submarines that don’t exist cannot either defend or deter.
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The NATO communique highlights Europe’s strategic concern: Russia
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison might have gone to Europe with the Indo-Pacific region “is the epicentre of renewed strategic competition” mantra on his lips, but the NATO communique reflects the reality that it is Russia, not China, that fills Europe’s strategic horizon.
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France 24 Debate: Trouble ahead? Russia, US in Black Sea showdown over Ukraine
France24’s nightly show, The Debate, hosted by François Picard and with guests Julian Nundy, Lyudmyla Tautiyeva, Brian Taylor, Mark Sleboda, tackles the issues around the tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border, in a program that went to air on 14 April 2021.
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