Many were surprised – and some disappointed – to see Australia’s most left-wing prime minister receive what appeared to be President Trump’s seal of approval, demonstrating again Donald Trump is significantly different from the media’s caricature.

Above all he has a rare understanding of the limitations and the best strategic use of power, demonstrated so well with Iran and the Gaza peace plan.

He is courageous, and not only in the face of threats to silence and even kill him.

He is one of the very few political leaders prepared to go against the grain and denounce climate catastrophism for what, I believe, history will confirm has been ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’.

From this flows that essential exercise in relation to climate catastrophism: always follow the money.

This is the likely reason Climate Tsar Chris Bowen is still defying a Senate order to hand over unredacted crucial public service advice to the government on climate issues following the last election.

This presumably warns against the massive capital cost of attaining net zero, which, according to one recent analysis, will cost trillions, around A$20 billion per month.

This could reveal how much various fat cats – as well as Beijing – will receive from those trillions of dollars to be poured down the drain.

(The free event noted below explains how our founders gave Australians a crucial tool to make governments accountable on such issues.)

As to Albanese’s eventual meeting in Washington, the President was no doubt well aware that Albanese had long been trying to replace their crucial first meeting with something perfunctory on the sidelines of a forgettable talkfest.

He was obviously terrified that he might be exposed as others have.

By genuinely not being available, Trump forced Albanese to replace that fake meeting with something serious where the future of the Alliance could be properly discussed, probably as serious as those meetings Albanese indulged in over six days in Beijing.

The Americans were no doubt concerned that under the cover of the long-delayed delivery of the Aukus submarines, Albanese was running down Australia’s defences, moving the country away from the West  and towards a closer relationship with Beijing and the Islamist world, all while making mining projects increasingly unviable.

On this, it should be remembered that Albanese has only briefly had what is called a ‘real job’.

Until he was elevated to the ministry, his essentially political experience had been in  advancing the cause of Labor’s ‘hard left’,  which, on the broad political spectrum, is next to the communists.

From that narrow, sub-factional base, he masterfully acquired control of the whole left faction.

He followed this with the takeover of the Labor party itself.

It was then that on the basis of a little over one-third of the vote our electoral system awarded him with just under two-thirds of the House seats.

To achieve all this, aided by the media and a Labour-lite-dominated opposition, he long ago became a master chameleon, unlike the usual decorator revolutionaries who clutter the ranks of the hard left.

His could well become a  casebook example on how to control a Western nation from the far left by posing as a boring petty bourgeois rather than an heroic Che Guevara .

That said, not for a millisecond did he pull the wool over Donald Trump’s eyes.

The President would have been briefed on the mess Australia is in.

While it’s difficult to imagine any government doing more long-term damage to Australia than Albanese’s, argues the Australian’s Greg Sheridan, it is is equally impossible to imagine an opposition making less out of this than the current one.

With some outstanding exceptions, the media favours Labor’s agenda.

But so does a significant slice of the once formidable Liberal party.

Prepared to pour unlimited funds into gaining votes, the  Albanese government is now beyond proper accountability.

Another reason why Australians at the next election must remember to take up what the founders of federation gave them, the power to make  governments really accountable by voting strategically in the Senate. (This is the subject of the free event mentioned below.)

As to President Trump, it is important to understand that he is not the cartoon character many in the media pretend, thrashing about like some out-of-control madman or deranged dictator.

While he has solemnly warned the West that climate catastrophism and uncontrolled immigration will destroy them, he knows that only the voters in each country can stop this madness.

Even he cannot force common sense onto them.

Neither being a dictator nor wanting to be one, he will not try. President Trump clearly does not see it as his role to run allied countries.

With the cunning that he has learned in his long, almost wholly political career, Albanese eventually realised that scheming for some fake meeting was not working, and if he wanted to survive he had to commit to things against his far-left nature.

Above all he knows that were he to destroy the US Alliance, as he is in the process of achieving as regards Israel, most Australians would strongly disapprove.

In addition, the Washington audience was well timed, with Beijing making two crucial errors.

They revealed that they would use the power against the West which the rare earth monopoly gives them, and they again behaved aggressively against the RAAF in the South China Sea.

This allowed Albanese to offer to Trump  to mine and, despite the massive emissions, at least partially process rare earth materials and instead of rolling over to Beijing, to protest strongly like a real government.

Not only did Australia gain, the visit was deemed successful.