AUKUS Will Proceed

President Donald Trump signals the United States' commitment to the trilateral AUKUS security compact.

A. The United States President Donald Trump and Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have met in person for the first time. President Trump has signalled the US commitment to the trilateral AUKUS security compact - after Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby completed his AUKUS Review. I spent part of today going over the AUKUS literature to date - including discovering a 2022 thesis by Anna Karstensen-Krstich (Uppsala University) on the respective Australian and French emotional reactions to the AUKUS deal being announced in 2021.

B. Andrew Ross Sorkin has talked about his new book 1929 (about the financial crash) to Amanpour and Company:

C. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Understanding Military Operations by the late MIT Professor Owen Cote (H-Diplo memorial and Google Scholar page).

D. The New Statesman’s conservative political philosopher John Gray explains why he is not a postliberal. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (London: The Penguin Press, 2024). His interview:

E. Bloomberg on the oil surplus: