Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, joins to comment on AUKUS (Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), a triple alliance hammered out under the Biden administration. These last weeks it has been under review by the new leadership at the Department of Defense, with a question raised whether it was going to remain part of the library of the future or be retired, along with other programs of the Biden administration.
Gregory joins to comment because AUKUS will eventually, if it goes through, enliven the lives of the people from Western Australia, where Gregory hails from—from Perth and from Fremantle—and all of the boat-building opportunities for Australia into the indefinite future.
However, we begin with the news from the G7.
Before Mr. Trump left to go back to Washington—we're told to concern himself with decision-making in the Israeli-Iran conflict—he had a conversation with Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of Great Britain (the UK part of AUKUS). That conversation went positively, says the Prime Minister, and he passed that on to the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Albanese, who was also in attendance in the Canadian Rockies. And Mr. Albanese says he's confident AUKUS is going forward.
So it appears that Keir Starmer is a Trump whisperer, or Mr. Trump was always disposed to the project. What is the mission of AUKUS and what does it look like?
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