Memo MAGA: Hectoring the Indo-Pacific could backfire
Replicating Trump's NATO success is no guarantee
Elbridge Colby, the man reviewing AUKUS inside the Pentagon, thinks he can replicate MAGA’s success in scolding, berating and bullying Europe into lifting defence spending in Australia and the Indo-Pacific.
But his cut-and-paste approach may not only fail, but backfire.
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