Russia has gained quite a few very strategic partners who also know that the US bully tactics are wearing thin even among some of it's allies. The US fiat machine empire is crumbling and while this is happening Washington is becoming more desperate and reckless to hang onto it's hegemony vice. Australia needs to distance itself rather than be caught up in the entanglement of the US with it's controversial garbage. Signing of the TPP will be a big mistake for us.
