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Memo MAGA: Hectoring the Indo-Pacific could backfire

Memo MAGA: Hectoring the Indo-Pacific could backfire

Replicating Trump's NATO success is no guarantee

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Jul 16, 2025
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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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