In the face of destabilising provocation.
John Menadue is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pearls and Irritations. He was formerly Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, Ambassador to Japan, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and CEO of Qantas.
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3 responses to “CATHY WILCOX. Standing by our trusted ally. (SMH 23.8.2019)”
Your sentence may well be one-dimensional as compared with your two dimensional cartoons. But it isn’t.
It too is two-dimensional – thanks to its depth!
Pretty disgraceful really. That we fall in with our “friend” the USA may have been sensible once, it certainly at best is a mixed bag today. Over this past 30 years the US economy has descended into a Predatory Capitalist economy, sowing chaos everywhere it interferes, and that is in many places.
China is much more welcomed as a counterforce, though caution should apply there as well. Venezuela shows that although it is in a ruinous economy today. It has not yielded and once the sanctions are lifted will recover soon enough. Russia has saved Syria and Venezuela and may save Europe too [maybe]. The USA is on the wane, which means it will double down at first, so we need to tread carefully. Morrison is not yet looking capable, so fingers crossed!
“My country right or wrong” can now be re-scripted to “My ally right or wrong”.