The invasion of liberal Ukraine by a revanchist Russia is as good an occasion as any to muse upon Australia’s political posture amidst the broader schism opening up between the America-led liberal order and Russia, China, and other traditionalist states.

As is well known – and has been the case since John Curtin’s ‘turn to America’ and the ‘all the way with LBJ’ rhetoric of the 60s – we’ve barely budged from our American masters.