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Trump’s Annexation Threats: Australia’s Alliance Dilemma

7 January 2026 AIMN Editorial, By Alasdair Black, https://theaimn.net/trumps-annexation-threats-australias-alliance-dilemma/

How can we, Australia, remain allied to the US if they threaten annexation of an ally’s territory?

This throws into question our AUKUS pact with the UK and US, and sets America on the path to being an unreliable – if not dangerous and possibly even hostile – ally.

This is getting all too bizarre.

What of our official status as an “Enhanced Opportunities Partner of NATO”? While we are not a member of NATO, because it is a geographically confined alliance, we have always worked in partnership with them because of our historical connection to the UK and having been involved in European conflicts in both WWI and WWII, and the conflict following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia.

Are we just going to shrug off the violation of a NATO partner’s territory, abandon the support of self-determination, sovereignty, and support of an international rules-based order?

Will the potential collapse of NATO be without repercussions to AUKUS or our relationship with an aggressively military expansionist America?

Do we even want to maintain a relationship with such a dangerous, unreliable partner and ally?

We are in an epoch- or era-changing moment.

Trump is a declining, demented geriatric, raging against the dying of his light, with megalomaniacal and sociopathic tendencies.

This current crisis is possibly the biggest global crisis since Hitler marched into Poland in 1939.

Are we going to choose the moral high ground, or are we going to be on the wrong side of history?

Are we going to, by default, end up being on the side of a Hitlerian maniac, who could quite possibly be setting the foundations of WWIII?

Trump right now is being more of a threat to Europe than Putin, if that’s even possible.

The Trump shit show has just jumped the shark.

America needs to muzzle and chain up its distempered dog.

America, is it time to metaphorically take “Old Yeller” out behind the barn and put him out of his misery.

Are there any adults left in the room in the American Congress, in the American establishment, in the American military-intelligence apparatus?

Where we stand at the moment, in my opinion, is at one minute to midnight on the Doomsday clock.

America, along with their demented President, has dangerously lost the plot.

Trump is turning into a global threat!

January 9, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, politics international