PM’s pragmatism on Trump’s Iran fury risks Australia following US into Operation Epic Fail | Zoe Daniel

Anthony Albanese’s support for actions that do not adhere to international law stands in stark contrast to the principles demonstrated by Labor two decades ago Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast For all of our sakes, let’s hope that Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury doesn’t turn into Operation Epic Fail. And although I’ve written here before that hope is not a strategy, the rapid disintegration of the global order means there’s little else to lean on in this moment. Last year, in an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump said the only constraint to his power as US president was: “My own morality, my own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He added: “I don’t need international law.” Today, we’re living that quote from the “apex opportunist”, as the Liberal MP and SAS veteran Andrew Hastie rightly describes Trump, who aims to hoover up global oil supplies (via first Venezuela and now Iran) as much as anything else. Hastie also says anyone who thinks the global rules-based order still exists is in “fantasyland”. The attacks on Iran are a vindication of t