As the illegal American-Israeli air war on Iran spreads its treacherous dangers virus-like across the globe, Australia, despite its limp rhetoric of non-involvement, risks increasing ensnarement in a hyper-macho Trump folly with no apparent endgame.

Call it US-Australia Alliance management. Call it an obsequious maintenance at all costs of the reckless Aukus submarine security pact. Or call it what it more closely resembles – appeasement of a belligerent US administration hell-bent on reiterating its global domination at any cost. Regardless, Australia’s passive refusal to challenge the US and Israel on everything from the illegality of the murderous bombing of Iran to the war’s opaque objectives, draws us closer to the danger daily.

The reality is that alliance management at all costs with the Trump administration indulges little but an increasingly redundant, sentimental notion of a US-Australia relationship built on a century of diplomatic and military trust – and genuine historic ally-ship. That relationship no longer exists because, quite simply, the current administration is incapable of fulfilling its part, having defined itself with an obscene self-love and with bullying global threats on national security and trade.

As this reckless war draws ever-broader retaliation across the Middle East and increasingly lures in a reluctant continental Europe and Britain, the moral and........

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