Japan, with the fifth largest economy in the world, has begun its return to the world strategic stage after eight decades of penance, apology, and subordination to the US following Japan’s World War II defeat by the Allies.
Significant improvements in the sophistication and general capabilities of South-East Asian nations, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, have relegated Australia’s historical strategic and miliary dominance of the region to a reduced significance.
Starmer’s exit is indicative of the political turmoil afflicting Western governments around the world as nationalism overtakes globalism.
A brief history of the oldest alliance in the world
