#AUKUS AT THE G-7: GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:12.0 | Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, my mentor joins to comment on |
| 0:17.7 | Aucus, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, |
| 0:22.4 | a triple alliance hammered out under the Biden administration, |
| 0:26.6 | and these last weeks, under review by the new leadership at the Department of Defense, |
| 0:32.8 | a question raised whether it was going to remain part of the library of the future or be retired |
| 0:39.7 | along with other programs of the Biden administration. Gregory joins to comment because |
| 0:45.3 | August will eventually, if it goes through, enliven the life of the people from Western |
| 0:52.5 | Australia, where Gregory hails from, from Perth and from Fremantle, |
| 0:56.7 | and all of the boat building opportunities for Australia into the indefinite future. |
| 1:03.0 | However, we begin with the news from the G7. |
| 1:07.3 | Before Mr. Trump left, to go back to Washington, we're told to concern himself with decision-making |
| 1:14.2 | in the Israeli-Iran conflict. He had a conversation with Kirstarmer, the Prime Minister of the Great |
| 1:21.7 | Britain, the UK part of August. And that conversation went positively, says the prime minister, and he passed that on to the |
| 1:31.2 | Prime Minister of Australia. Mr. Albanese, who was also in attendance in the Canadian Rockies, |
| 1:38.0 | and Mr. Albanese says he's confident Augustus is going forward. So it appears that Tearstomber is a Trump whisper or Mr. Trump was |
| 1:46.8 | always disposed to the project. Gregory, what is the mission of Ocus and what does it look like? |
| 1:52.7 | Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, the mission of Ours is clouded in mystery. It began when |
| 2:00.4 | Australia said it needed to have nuclear submarines and approached the United |
| 2:05.0 | Kingdom for the supply of such vessels or the supply of shipbuilding cooperation for |
| 2:11.8 | nuclear submarines. |
| 2:13.4 | The UK said that its nuclear propulsion technology was shared with the United States, and for the UK to help in this, they would have to get US support. |
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