As I wrote recently, has Australia ever had a more embarrassing PM than Anthony Albanese? Watching Albanese desperately scuttling around, begging for a meeting with US President Donald Trump, is one of the more cringey political spectacles in decades. Especially when so many of Albo’s fellow woke lefties have had no problem getting some of the Donald’s time.
When you’re getting shown up by Canada’s Mark Carney, Keir Starmer of all people and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, you know you’re the embarrassing dweeb of the G7 playground. All three, despite even deeper past differences with Trump than Albanese’s childish sniping, managed perfectly cordial, even constructive, meetings with the US president.
Albanese was left standing around like that one kid nobody ever picked for the football team.
Yet at the G7 were three leaders who faced similar challenges as Australia and each devised a way to overcome them. Canadian Prime Minister
Carney, Starmer and Zelensky are the future. We are living in the past.
In particular, the future visions of Carney and Starmer are totally different to where Albanese is leading Australia.
The two most obvious contrasts are Carney and Starmer. Starmer, who holds the dubious distinction of being more hated, and elected on an even smaller vote than Albanese, provides a damning contrast, especially when it comes to defence.
Starmer has worked out how to have good relations with President Trump – act on his requests to take more of your defence burden rather than leaving your defence to the US.
Starmer did the “right thing” and lifted the UK defence spending substantially, and what followed was a sensible discussion on tariffs and an endorsement of AUKUS.
Contrast that with the dire warnings from the Trump administration, should Australia continue to play the mendicant and expect the US to meet our defence obligations for us.
Also critically undermining our defence capability are Albanese’s and Chris Bowen’s demented energy and climate policies, on which they’re being shamefully shown up by Canada’s Carney.
When Carney was governor of the Bank of England, he had green views that were even more extreme than our Energy Minister Chris Bowen. For example, at one time, Carney called on the world to leave 80 per cent of oil and gas in the ground […]
At the same time, he fostered major investments in renewables, but in many of them costs exploded and reliability became an issue. That is exactly what is happening in Australia.
Unlike Bowen and Albanese, Carney has learned the lesson of being mugged by reality.
Now Carney has turned full circle. Carney now wants Canada to extract more oil and gas, so the nation does not have to buy it from the US.
He plans to create a list of so-called “nation building” projects led by pipelines, nuclear reactors and trade corridors and also create a framework in which the projects would be approved in under two years.
Carney sees nuclear technology as the way to achieve his long-term carbon dreams at a reasonable cost. Albanese bans the technology.
While Zelensky’s military strategy has been far from exemplary, no matter what the delusional cheerleaders of the MSM would have you believe (losing 20 per cent of your territory, most likely forever, is not ‘winning’). But Ukraine has shown occasional flashes of tactical genius, most notably its stunning drone attack on Russia’s bomber fleet.
Zelensky would have explained to Albanese that warfare has totally changed, which presents a wonderful opportunity for a low population country like Australia wanting to support its defence with local manufacture.
Ukraine has developed technology to attack any enemy soldier or vehicle close to the front and destroy them within minutes of being located.
In fact, Australia would be better served by paying attention to Israel, which has not only successfully fought a three-front war for the past 18 months, but has in just days humiliated the Iranian regime. Iran’s population is 10 times Israel’s and its military budget slightly bigger. But it took less than a week for Israel to not only decapitate most of the Iranian leadership, but all-but crush its military-industrial capability.
Both the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Iran conflicts are showing the future of warfare: (relatively) cheap, unmanned weapons, which save lives by replacing humans with advanced technology.
Ukraine’s defence industry can now produce one of these weapons for about 10 per cent of the cost of a single 155mm artillery shell […]
But Russia is also developing drone and missile technology, and the Ukraine missile protection systems are not nearly as effective as those being used in Israel.
Key Albanese “Made in Australia” projects are falling over.
It’s said that generals always fight the last war. Albanese is leaving Australia at least two wars behind everyone else.
