Australia faces shifting world order as Middle East war erupts
Australia is among the middle powers grappling with a new and dangerous world order after the Trump administration’s attack on Iran.
As the man who declared the international rules-based order dead prepares to land in Australia, US President Donald Trump has made his point for him.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will arrive days after a joint US-Israeli operation killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a development which threatens to spark an all-out regional conflict and a bloody civil war in Iran.
Carney will meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as middle powers mull their place in the new world order, managing an increasingly aggressive Trump administration and the possibility of war on multiple continents.
“We shouldn’t have fantasies about the world that we might have been in,” Coalition defence spokesman James Paterson said in response to Capital Brief’s question on Monday.
