Letters
The US needs to accept its dominance is over
It seems that there is a fantasy underlying US strategy, foreign and defence policy and that the UK and Australia with the announcement of Aukus are being dragged ever deeper into the fantasy (Spotlight 17 September and Big Story, 24 September). The US appears to believe that it can be the permanent hegemonic global power and that the current world economic and social order is for ever.
This is akin has seen the rise, triumph, decline and fall of settlements, cities, kingdoms, empires, nations, civilisations and their associated leaders.
