In Episode 37 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program Sam Roggeveen unpacks his The Echidna Strategy for Australia’s strategic autonomy, critiques bipartisan orthodoxy on U.S.
'6 Australia should emphasise preventative diplomacy and security of people in its international relations, recognising that the most pressing global risks must be approached collectively.'
Good idea! I'm all for Australian adopting a 95% defensive military strategy.
Everything the US foreign policy does appears to be for its own Military Industrial Complex.
https://the307.substack.com/p/the-dark-side-of-usaid-left-out-of
Australians are belatedly waking up to that covert reality.
https://theconversation.com/australians-are-markedly-more-worried-about-us-interference-still-wary-about-china-new-poll-268209
The UK has always been less harmful, yet still too imperialist and neoliberalist:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-army-must-end-child-recruitment-afc-harrogate-abuse-revealed/
The world broadly is waking up to the harm of the Anglo Axis of Fossil Fuel Imperialism:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/south-korean-decision-to-close-all-coal-fired-power-plants-by-2040-sounds-alarm-for-australian-exports
We want to make allies, not enemies (with whomever the US feels like invading next).
https://www.postcourier.com.pg/friends-to-all-enemies-to-none-says-tkatchenko/
We should build up a neutral bloc who say 'no, thanks' to imperialism and other tyranny.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/declareneutrality/
https://thehaguegroup.org/home/
'6 Australia should emphasise preventative diplomacy and security of people in its international relations, recognising that the most pressing global risks must be approached collectively.'
https://greens.org.au/policies/international-affairs-and-global-cooperation