So far Aukus retains broad bipartisan support in Australia and the US, including with Trump and the US submarine industrial base is being re-energised.
In the face of a US transactional retreat from ideational leadership, the white paper talked up the alliance but mainly bolstered other connections to offset growing US disengagement.
The Quad also helped tie in the US, alongside Japan, India and Australia, working on regional economic, technical and human security projects.
Today the Europeans, Quad and Five Eyes connections may have a newfound utility – for engaging with equally shocked erstwhile US allies and partners including friends in Asean, the Pif and Iora.
US globalism has been soured by the effects of catastrophic wars in the Middle East since 2001, coupled with the 2008 global financial crisis, a drug scourge, a surge of immigration, a sense of being taken advantage of and an undermining of faith in government.
