A recalcitrant US government could turn-off Australia’s ability to defend itself within days.
In 1932, the wonderful Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted a “Self-portrait along the Borderline between Mexico and the United States”. With due alteration for detail, Kahlo’s passionate political statement of self-respect and independence can be seen as foreshadowing the abject nature of Australia’s defence mindset, currently epitomised by AUKUS.
AUKUS confirms that we are mendicant clients of the US By Alan Stephens