3h ago (03:10 GMT) Australia’s Albanese urges de-escalation, says it’s ‘not clear what more needs to be achieved’ Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called for de-escalation after Trump’s speech in which the US leader claimed that Washington’s “core strategic objectives” were nearing completion in the war on Iran. Albanese told reporters in Canberra that it was not clear what more needed to be achieved. “The objectives that President Trump outlined at the time of him launching the action against Iran have largely been achieved, and we want to see a de-escalation,” the prime minister said. “Now those objectives have been realised, it is not clear what more needs to be achieved or what the end point looks like,” he added. “What is clear is that the longer the war goes on, the more significant the impact on the global economy will be.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/2/iran-war-live-trump-to-address-nation-tehran-denies-seeking-ceasefire?update=4455193
From @aljazeera.com, finally some comments on the #DonnieDuck lack of "plan" by #Albo. #AusPol
“Now those objectives have been realised, it is not clear what more needs to be achieved or what the end point looks like,” he added.
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Trump says he’s seriously considering pulling US out of NATO
Speaking with the UK’s The Telegraph, President Trump has threatened to leave NATO.
“Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration,” he said. “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”
Trump has regularly railed against NATO allies over their lack of support for the war, calling them “cowards” for refusing to send troops to the Strait of Hormuz.
He repeated those complaints to The Telegraph, claiming support “should be automatic” and appearing to draw a comparison between the war on Iran and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem,” he said. “It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”
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