Next week’s NATO summit will see the organisation extend its reach into Asia, but at home security hawks squawk over funding for Ukraine, writes James Curran.
For an overseas trip that at one point looked in the balance as to whether he would show up, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to Lithuania has assumed new prominence.
The theory is for NATO to contain Russia in Europe and for the IP4 to counter China. A technocrat’s conjuring of a “single global theatre of operations”, it intends to signal that the West could handle simultaneous contingencies in Europe and Asia. That it can bookend Russian and Chinese behemoths. This debate has resonance for Australia. Arguably, no prime minister since John Curtin in 1941-42 has faced so stark a challenge of having its great power consumed by war in Europe while strategic heat glows in its own region.The baying of local national security hawks, perched atop mountains of their own moral righteousness, is being heard once more.
But Albanese is turning up to his second NATO summit, he has visited Ukraine, and consistently lends strong rhetorical support to its leader and people at international meetings.last week show, Australia as of this February was not only giving as much military assistance to Ukraine as any non-NATO country, but it was also giving as much as France.
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