by DAVID FLINT – EMPIRES can normally expect to survive for about ten generations, around 250 years, argued Glubb Pasha persuasively in The Fate of Empires. The imperial republic, as great French philosopher Raymond Aron described the United States, is the West’s great…
UKRANIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a phone call he deeply appreciates Australia’s military and humanitarian assistance after his country was invaded by Russian forces. Mr Zelenskiy tweeted on Saturday night that he had updated Mr Morrison…
RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “rude awakening” for political leaders who thought the global rules-based order could be maintained through treaties and not armed force, according to a defence expert from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “The big thing that…
by JURIS LAUCIS – WOMEN with plywood cut out rifles, preparing to resist 180,000 Russian troops and thousands of tanks, missiles and artillery amassed on the borders of Ukraine. The photo says it all. All the while the West assists the beleaguered…
