http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-malcolm-turnbull-played-a-part-in-the-rise-of-donald-trump-20-20170213-gubjzr.html

Part of the article...


Mike Green says that Trump's upset with Malcolm Turnbull helped push the president towards reality: "That phone call was deeply embarrassing for Trump. 'If you can't get along with Australia, you don't deserve the job.' That's been the consensus here."

Beijing and Tokyo, says Green, owe the Australian prime minister a debt: "Turnbull deserves the highest order from the Japanese emperor and from the Chinese Communist Party for whatever he did to upset Trump and cause the backlash in the US."

The backlash over the Australian kerfuffle reinforced the work that Trump's Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis, and other officials have been doing to restore stability to the Asia-Pacific.

Overall, says Green, "it's achieved nothing, it's unsettled everybody. There was no logical strategic goal."

So the status quo ante has been restored? On the surface, yes. But there is lasting damage to US credibility. Trump has shown everybody that US commitments, even on the fundamentals, are unstable. The great negotiator turns out to be merely the great blowhard.




So... Trumpoids....  Your king got beaten down by Turnbull.  Go suck it!