A new poll conducted for The Australia Institute reveals that more than half of Australian voters believe Donald Trump is a greater threat to global security than Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The YouGov poll of 1502 people found more than more than twice as many (59%) Australians now believe Australia’s interests are better served by a more independent foreign policy rather than a closer alliance with the United States (23%). Just one in eight (13%) Australians believe the US is a “very reliable” security ally.
The poll shows a further erosion of confidence in the US under President Trump. A year ago, a similar poll found that 31% of Australians believed Trump was a greater threat to world peace than Putin (27%) and Xi (27%).
Now, 52% feel that Trump is a bigger threat than Putin (17%) and Xi (16%).
Key findings:
More One Nation voters (35%) believe Trump is a bigger threat to world peace than Putin (18%), and about the same number think Xi is the biggest threat (32%).
One third (33%) of Australians now believe the AUKUS security agreement is not in Australia’s best interests.
68% of Australians, including 53% of One Nation voters, oppose Australia’s involvement in the US and Israel’s war on Iran.
As someone living in the US I can assure you Trump absolutely is, he is out of his mind and the power structures around him are letting him do basically whatever he wants.
The Supreme Court here is existentially broke for what may be decades and the current leading opposition leaders in the Senate and House, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, have provided almost no effective resistance against any of Trump’s agenda even though Project 2025 was a public facing project that announced everything it was going to do before it did it.
The Democratic Party/DNC here would rather lose to fascism than risk progressive Democrats winning actual power.
Act accordingly.