{"id":637047,"date":"2026-04-28T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637047\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:51:09","slug":"british-monarch-addresses-us-congress-trump-says-iran-is-in-a-state-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637047\/","title":{"rendered":"British monarch addresses US Congress; Trump says Iran is in a \u2018state of collapse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The King has underlined the enduring nature of the NATO alliance between the US and Europe, and stressed the importance of continuing to help Ukraine, as we enter a more politically contentious part of his address.<\/p>\n<p>He noted this year is the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, which he will commemorate tomorrow in New York, and that NATO\u2019s Article 5 \u2013 the mutual defence clause \u2013 was invoked for the first and only time in the aftermath of that atrocity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Charles stressed the importance of continuing to help Ukraine.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e5a1ab5ae00088a97ff70a3d810aa1118ad54ca5.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>King Charles stressed the importance of continuing to help Ukraine.AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe answered the call together, as our people have done so for more than a century, shoulder to shoulder, through two World Wars, the Cold War, Afghanistan and moments that have defined our shared security,\u201d Charles said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Mr Speaker, that same, unyielding resolve is needed for the defence of Ukraine and her most courageous people, in order to secure a truly just and lasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats were quick to leap to their feet, applaud and cheer when Charles called for the ongoing support of Ukraine. Republicans also rose to applaud, albeit a little slower off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>These comments are significant as Donald Trump has wavered on both his commitment to the NATO alliance and support for Ukraine in its four-year-old war against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King has underlined the enduring nature of the NATO alliance between the US and Europe, and stressed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-637047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}