A wake-up call for Australia's relationship with US

Andrew Greene
Updated about an hour ago

Over a year ago, when Donald Trump was still battling to win the Republican Party's nomination, defence chiefs in Canberra were nervously watching his increasingly radical public pronouncements ...

"I've been watching the alliance relationship for more than 30 years now and I think this is as difficult a period as we've seen since the so-called MX missile crisis of the early 1980s," said Peter Jennings, the director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute ...

Just over fifty years ago, another Australian prime minister, Harold Holt, travelled to the White House to meet former president Lyndon Johnson, where he famously declared Australia was "all the way with L-B-J".

In 2017, a wiser motto for the Prime Minister would be "let's wait and see with D-J-T".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-03/trumps-tirade-a-wake-up-call-for-australia-us-defence-relations/8237114