Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
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Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#2Incidentally, Scott Morrison, the former PM who scuttled the French deal in favour of AUKUS - which costs the Australian tax payer 380 billion - is now on the board of at least one US defence think tank and I think at least another military manufacturer.
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#3Incidentally, Scott Morrison, the former PM who scuttled the French deal in favour of AUKUS - which costs the Australian tax payer 380 billion - is now on the board of at least one US defence think tank and I think at least another military manufacturer.
It’s Democracy at it’s finest.
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#4Incidentally, Scott Morrison, the former PM who scuttled the French deal in favour of AUKUS - which costs the Australian tax payer 380 billion - is now on the board of at least one US defence think tank and I think at least another military manufacturer.
It’s Democracy at it’s finest.
I think it's just "humanity" and self interest, not sure any given government form is immune to such things.
Historically when I see folks rise up to stop such things, they just mean get their own piece of the pie, or all of it. Humanity is very good at "problem solved, because it is ok when i do it".
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#5> the Pentagon budget draft request includes construction of just one Virginia-class nuclear submarine for 2025
We’re selling them, right? Presumably not at a loss?
Why does the Congress need to appropriate for a boat Canberra is buying?
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#6I have to say, knowing a bit more than is public about the deal the Australians had in the first place with the French and that they chose to just throw away, that I'm left laughing out loud.
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#7This is corruption of the highest level. This is what the western leaders are doing with our carbon budget and the last few decades of high-energy society.
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#8Yeah and the whole reason China is a military threat is because McArthur got shot down by Truman and military tech is constantly stolen from the U.S.
Australia has to design and build it's own weapons to realistically have it's own political will.
We've seen it time and time again. People like Australia shirtless and plunderable.
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#9I have to say, knowing a bit more than is public about the deal the Australians had in the first place with the French and that they chose to just throw away, that I'm left laughing out loud.
> that they chose to just throw away
I believe the tech transfers are still happening. That’s massive. American nuclear submarine technology is in a class of its own.
Re: Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build
#10Laughs in French.
I'm strongly reminded of the diplomacy saying "Don't go into a well with an American rope".