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Trump to world: Sort out your own oil supply · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump says he's achieved America's
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  Speaker 1: goal of denying Iran a nuclear weapon, and US forces
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  Speaker 1: will quote finish the job in the next two weeks
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  Speaker 1: or so. That's despite a huge influx of US ground
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  Speaker 1: troops to the Middle East, bringing America's presence in the
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  Speaker 1: region to over fifty thousand soldiers, sailors, aircrew and marines
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  Speaker 1: that had prompted speculation Trump was about to launch a
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  Speaker 1: ground invasion of Iran. But the President has, as is
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  Speaker 1: his way, knocked everyone's expectations off kilter.
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  Speaker 2: We're finishing the job, and I think we're then maybe
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  Speaker 2: two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do
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  Speaker 2: the job. But we want to knock out every single
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  Speaker 2: thing there. Now it's possible that will make a.
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  Speaker 1: Deal with Trump also said he'd leave to others the
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  Speaker 1: reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf where twenty percent of the world's oil
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  Speaker 1: and gas flows.
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  Speaker 2: And if France or some other country wants to get
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  Speaker 2: oil or gas, they'll go up through the Street and
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  Speaker 2: Hormo Street. They'll go right up there and they'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to fend for themselves. I think it'll be very safe, actually,
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  Speaker 2: But we have nothing to do with that. What happens
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  Speaker 2: of the street, we're not going to have anything to
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  Speaker 2: do with because these countries, China, China will go up
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  Speaker 2: and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave
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  Speaker 2: and they'll take care of themselves. There's no reason for
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  Speaker 2: us to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Artificials from the United Arab Emirates said they're prepared to
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  Speaker 1: help the United States and its allies reopen the vital
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  Speaker 1: shipping route by force. If the United Nations Security Council
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  Speaker 1: gives that plan the green light, the UAE would be
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  Speaker 1: the first Gulf state to enter the conflict as a combatant.
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  Speaker 1: Trump said America's diplomatic task has been made easier by
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  Speaker 1: what he called regime change.
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  Speaker 2: We had to take a little due to it because
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  Speaker 2: we had a madman named COMMANDI, who sadly is no
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  Speaker 2: longer with us, and we had regime change already. We've
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  Speaker 2: knocked out one regime, then we knocked out the second regime.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have a group of people that's very that
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  Speaker 2: are very different. They're much more reasonable, I think, much more,
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  Speaker 2: much less radicalized. A we've had regime change.
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  Speaker 1: White House per Secretary Caroline leave It said in a
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  Speaker 1: social media post. President Trump will give a national address
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  Speaker 1: about the war on Thursday morning. Australian Time Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State Marco Rubio said the United States will re examine
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  Speaker 1: its relationship with NATO Alliance countries Europe and Canada when
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  Speaker 1: the conflict ends.
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  Speaker 3: If now we have reached a point where the NATO
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  Speaker 3: Alliance means that we can't use those bases, that in fact,
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  Speaker 3: that we can no longer use those bases to defend
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  Speaker 3: America's interests. The NATO is a one way street, then
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  Speaker 3: why are we in NATO. You have to ask that question.
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  Speaker 3: Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: and all these American forces stationed in the region we
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  Speaker 3: can only use we can in our time of need.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to be allowed to use those bases,
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  Speaker 3: So I think there's no doubt. Unfortunately, after this conflict
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  Speaker 3: is concluded, we're going to have to re examine that relationship.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to have to re examine the value of
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  Speaker 3: NATO and that alliance for our country. Ultimately, that's a
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  Speaker 3: decision for the President to make.
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  Speaker 1: Slain fugitive Desi Freeman was shot more than twenty times
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  Speaker 1: in a shootout with Elite police at the remote Victorian
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  Speaker 1: hiding place where he was found on Monday. Freeman had
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  Speaker 1: been on the run for more than two hundred days
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  Speaker 1: after he shot and killed two police officers who were
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  Speaker 1: serving a warrant for suspected child sex offenses at his
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  Speaker 1: home near Poora Punka in Victoria's High Country. Victoria Police
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  Speaker 1: said he refused to surrender peacefully and fired at offices
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  Speaker 1: during the confrontation earlier this week. In a statement on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: Victoria Police said Freeman's body had been formally identified. It's
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  Speaker 1: believed police located a mobile phone at the hideout, which
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  Speaker 1: will be examined now as officers try to work out
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  Speaker 1: if anyone helped Freeman hide, for example, by providing electricity
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