
Matthew Sussex
Contributor at The Conversation
Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Articles
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1 month ago |
nbr.org | Matthew Sussex |Maria Rost Rublee |Joanne Wallis |Rebecca Strating
Recalibrating Australia’s Strategy toward Its Maritime NeighborhoodSarah Teo Smooth Sailing or Troubled Waters?
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1 month ago |
thestar.com.my | Matthew Sussex
JAKARTA: A news report that Russia has sought to base long-range aircraft in Indonesia caught Australia’s political leaders by surprise during an already hectic election campaign. The military publication Janes reported on Tuesday (April 15) that Russia had requested permission for its aircraft to be based at the Manuhua Air Force Base in Papua. The base is just 1,300km away from Darwin, Australia.
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1 month ago |
theconversation.com | Matthew Sussex
A news report that Russia has sought to base long-range aircraft in Indonesia caught Australia’s political leaders by surprise during an already hectic election campaign. The military publication Janes reported on Tuesday that Russia had requested permission for its aircraft to be based at the Manuhua Air Force Base in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua. The base is just 1,300 kilometres away from Darwin.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
dailybulletin.com.au | Matthew Sussex
What does an ideal world look like for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump? In a word: ugly. Trump’s embrace of Russia’s dictator, his bullying of a weakened Ukraine, his musings about new US territorial conquests, and his dismantling of US democratic institutions would, in any other age, have resulted in his immediate removal from office.
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Mar 4, 2025 |
theconversation.com | Matthew Sussex
What does an ideal world look like for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump? In a word: ugly. Trump’s embrace of Russia’s dictator, his bullying of a weakened Ukraine, his musings about new US territorial conquests, and his dismantling of US democratic institutions would, in any other age, have resulted in his immediate removal from office.
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Absolutely right. Dugin’s influence is marginal at best. His ideas about cultural geopolitics were laughed at by Russians when he was the ideologue of the fascist Russian National Bolsheviks. His elevation in Western discourse to “Putin’s brain” are incorrect and overblown.

Western mainstream media have played a major and deeply disturbing role in amplifying the ideas of Russian fascist ideologue Alexander Dugin, both in the West and beyond. 1/10

RT @AmbVasyl: Russia is sharing its disinformation toolbox with the Global South

RT @AusAmb_DE: Fantastic to attend the 2025 🇦🇺-🇩🇪 1.5 Track Dialogue on #HybridThreats & #disinformation on 16 May – an important exchange…