Australia Awakens to 'Unpredictable' US, Ignores Decades of Predictable Chaos
Former Australian foreign ministers Bob Carr and Gareth Evans are suddenly ringing alarm bells, calling the US 'fiercely unpredictable' after Donald Trump's latest Venezuela stunt and Greenland fantasies. One might wonder what took them so long to notice. Was it the 1953 Iranian coup? The 1973 Chilean coup? The 2003 Iraq invasion? Or perhaps the 2011 Libya catastrophe? The 'unpredictability' of
the US has been a remarkably consistent feature of global geopolitics for decades. Their newfound concern, sparked by Trump, conveniently sidesteps the bipartisan consensus that has fueled American adventurism regardless of who occupies the White House. It's not unpredictability; it's a predictable pattern of safeguarding 'national interests' – often synonymous with corporate interests and the
military-industrial complex – under the guise of democratic ideals. To call it 'unpredictable' now is to sanitize a very predictable history of global destabilization.