🎙️My latest podcast is up.
🇪🇪🇦🇺This week, I speak to Estonia's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna, who is on his way to Australia.
We discuss Estonia's support for the US/Israel in Iran, Trump's oil reprieve for Putin and his conversation with Wang Yi.
🎧 all podcast apps www.latikambourke.com
Pete Hegseth says the Americans sank the Iranian warship off Sri Lanka.
Hegseth says it is the first sinking of an enemy ship since World War II. He says the Iranians thought they were safe in international waters, but with a torpedo, the US delivered 'quiet death.'
The US says it will start chartering jets to evacuate Americans out of United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. #Iran
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead declares Trump.
EXCLUSIVE
AUKUS is delivering declares Australia's Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy.
In an interview for The Nightly he tells me Australia, the UK and the US have developed a new algorithm that enables allies to better hunt down Chinese submarines.
COALITION of the SENDING should TRAIN IN UKRAINE
Ukrainian Oppn MP who confronted Emmanuel Macron at Munich about sending the Coalition of the Willing to Ukraine NOW says Britain and allies should move training in-country now too
✍️ My article from Kyiv & Odesa: https://
latika.me/TraininUkraine
A significant development.
✍️ From me in Kyiv. 🇺🇦 👇🏼
latika.me/Putin4Yrs
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🎙️ My latest podcast comes to you from Odesa.
🇺🇦 I interview Ukrainian Opposition MP Oleksii Goncharenko about the domestic political situation in Ukraine approaching the fourth year of the big war
🕊️ 🫱🏻🫲🏼 security guarantees
❌ why he doesn't want an election now
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latika.me/OleksiiGonch...
'Queen Elizabeth’s judgement went unquestioned at the time. It was and remains unfashionable to criticise her.'
My column on Andrew's arrest: latika.me/Andrew
EXCLUSIVE
Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles says Trump's National Security Strategy and National Defence Strategy (which does not mention Taiwan) does NOT represent a retreat on the US's commitment to the self-governed island.
Read more: latika.me/MarlesTaiwan
‘In the early years of the war in Ukraine, Russia was concerned about its growing economic dependence on China, and it is now adjusting to the asymmetry in the bilateral relationship by aligning its political agenda with China’s projects and initiatives.'
latika.me/EFIS
Thank you!
Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles is attending Munich.
First time Australia has sent a representative at this level, reflecting both Marles' personal engagement with Europe (a rarity in the Australian Cabinet) + MSC's greater engagement in Indo-Pacific.
Japan's FM also coming.
That was a long time ago.
The EU is showing Trump what the "art of the deal" really looks like @latikambourke.com
thenightly.com.au/politics/eur...
Marco Rubio's Critical Minerals Summit in DC on Wednesday will bring together many of the United States partners and allies who Trump has put offside with this aggressive trade and foreign policies.
✍️ My article: latika.me/KingMinerals
Add to the can Starmer turn it around pile. He's just announced a cap on ground rents and announced it via a video on TikTok.
Sources, Gov.uk: www.gov.uk/government/n...
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@keirstarmer...
Well, this is awkward.
Rubio champions AUKUS as upholding the 'rules-based order in the Indo Pacific' in Australia Day message, two days after
the Defence Strategy blasted 'cloud-castle abstractions like the rules-based international order'
latika.me/RulesBasedOr...
🇦🇺🦘🐨 Happy Australia Day Straya.
Well, this is welcome.
After the US detained a Russian ghost ship in the Atlantic, the French have finally followed suit, seizing one in the Med.
Brits helped.
Sources: Emmanuel Macron and UK MOD.
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Apart from anything, Trump's Davos speech was actually very dull, matched only by its length.
Trump at Davos says he won't use force to acquire Greenland.
At last! A leader gets honest with voters.
Mark Carney tells middle powers to stop with the 'international rules-based order.'
latika.me/CarneyDavos
William Hague, as always, is unmissable. (£)
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 Carney and Starmer: 'The leaders discussed the need to maintain progress to end the war in Ukraine..."
Important to note that in all the noise that Trump is creating with Greenland, his promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hrs is now not only a year overdue but falling by the wayside...
Add to the TACO pile?
Asked if he would use force to seize Greenland, the president said, “No comment,” in a brief telephone interview with NBC News.
Source: NBC: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
