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Matthew Sussex

Tasmania

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.

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Articles

  • A Russian base in Indonesia? Should Australia be concerned?

    1 week 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.

  • Does Russia have military interest in Indonesia? Here’s what we know - and why Australia would be concerned

    1 week 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.

  • Safe for autocracy: the world according to Putin and Trump

    1 month ago | 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.

  • Safe for autocracy: the world according to Putin and Trump

    1 month ago | 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.

  • Opinion | Trump's chaotic foreign policy accelerates US decline | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT

    1 month ago | canberratimes.com.au | Matthew Sussex

    Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald Trump's America?

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Matthew Sussex
Matthew Sussex @matthew_sussex
19 Apr 25

“Russophobia” is such a boring trope. You can be repulsed by the regime and not be Russophobic. But that’s why authoritarian regimes will never understand democracies. https://t.co/65DrTQJBSG

Matthew Sussex
Matthew Sussex @matthew_sussex
19 Apr 25

RT @ChakhoyanAndrew: FFS, what kind of strategy is this? 🇺🇸→🇺🇦 Agree to peace NOW! 🇺🇦→🇺🇸 OK. Unconditional ceasefire, negotiated in a day…

Matthew Sussex
Matthew Sussex @matthew_sussex
17 Apr 25

RT @mfullilove: 🧵Since President Trump's election, the United States has changed direction. In the forthcoming 2025 @LowyInstitute Poll, on…