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Tag: 2024 US Election

Kamal Harris addresses DNC August 2024

Would Harris adopt the militarism of the failed Biden Doctrine?

29 August 2024 Mike Scrafton Global

As Trump’s prospects of electoral success seem to fade, the question becomes whether as president Kamala Harris would carve out a different foreign policy path from the failing Biden Doctrine.

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Biden’s fanaticism might be a threat to peace everywhere

16 January 2024 Mike Scrafton Global

President Biden’s regular paeans to America as “the greatest nation in history” need to be a warning to Australian policy-makers that a second term for him could be worse for Australia than the election of Trump. Biden’s obsession with the challenge of China is not just geopolitics. It’s a fanaticism that makes war conceivable, possibly inevitable.

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

27 September 2023 Mike Scrafton Global

A significant number of interlinked think tanks, organisations, and individuals are engaged in extensive preparations for Trump’s return – and for reform of the ‘administrative state’ and every aspect of American government policy. The program of the reactionary forces in America is as radical as that of the interwar fascists.

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

25 February 2025

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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UKRAINE

  • On its current trajectory, no settlement outcome in Ukraine bodes well for Europe
    24 November 2025
  • The Gordian knots – security guarantees and borders for Ukraine
    5 October 2025
  • A European farce de réassurance
    16 September 2025
  • Hypocrisy undermines international law
    9 September 2025
  • In the Rimlands America’s hegemony is receding
    12 August 2025
  • 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

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
  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order 19 September 2024
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems 13 March 2023
  • 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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