Desperately seeking safety: Why Australia could benefit from America’s woes

What’s more frightening? The rapidly escalating horror in the Middle East as Tel Aviv and Tehran trade missile barrages or the sight of America descending into authoritarianism with soldiers on the streets of Los Angeles and military parades in Washington. The world suddenly has become a much more dangerous place as uneasy parallels have begun to emerge between recent events and those of a century ago. Global superpowers once again are jostling for domination as America actively tries to disengage from trade and defence alliances that have governed the global order for eight decades. A brutal three-year-old war is raging…