The Cost of Silence: How Australia’s US Alliance Is Testing Its Core Values - Australian Institute of International Affairs Australian support for US strikes on Iran represents the latest instance of appeasement of the Trump administration’s damaging behaviour. Reconciling this with a stated commitment to rules, standards,...

Very grateful to @aiianational.bsky.social for publishing my thoughts on Australian support for the US strikes on Iran, and what it says about our broader foreign policy values

James Baldwin wrote “if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” The instinct to throw some group under the bus as protection is not only morally wrong but always politically stupid. This is what the center-facilitated assault on trans rights has wrought.