Letter

In response to Canada and Australia: working together – without the US

Someone has put the blinkers on us

All of this recent talk of a fractured world order is not new. The United Nations-brokered Cold War was replaced by a uni-polar moment. That is now evolving into a dance of hegemons. Calls for like-minded middle powers such as Canada and Australia to find common cause make common sense. Five Eyes will remain our default setting through ties of history, culture and language, but that needn’t be all we see. BRICS has also emerged as a result of the fractured world-as-was order. It offers an alternative way forward. It allows like-minded countries, including some middle and some emerging powers, to find common cause. But neither Canada nor Australia seem able to see that. Someone has put the blinkers on us.

— Hal Duell from Alice Springs