Chinas warships are already on our doorstep. A bunch of out of date subs that aren’t to be delivered for decades is a fanciful journey our politicians are on.
Oh how I wish we as taxpayers had a legal avenue to stop this AUKUS bs from going one step further. The scale of damage underway in the US surely serves as the brightest of red flags imaginable that a relationship with them is akin to one with a DV perpetrator.
I see a lot of hate for AUKUS. A small power like Australia needs an asymmetric deterrent to great powers like China. Conventional subs are too easily detected by satellites. Non US-UK nuclear tech means subs have to be refuelled overseas (disaster). Only the terms with the US seems bad to me.
Has nobody ever watched an infomercial before? Are we so addled we just don't know the difference anymore? A real press would call the circus out. Not play a participatory role.
It's the political equivalent of the 2008 financial crisis. An attempt to earn political capital from nuclear submarines that will never get built and which will then be used to justify nuclear power stations that will also never get built, designed to earn more political capital. When is the crash?
I disagree. We are not just buying subs, we are buying an entire industry. The strategic implications are enormous and a must have to help defend our territory.
Small subs? They'd only be good for coastal defence. The Australian Defence Force hasn't been about, um, defence since 1942. Since then, it's all been force projection.
Australia gives up sovereignty every time we make a trade deal or a treaty. We agree to do or not do certain things as does the other side. We're better off but more constrained.
I wonder if Malcolm Turnbull would have freed us from AUKUS or if that's just him being a hero. I agree with him about that stupid alliance but who's brave enough to cut us loose?
Turnbull wanted the French submarines. It was Scott Morrison who dreamed up AUKUS and ripped up our deal with the French. Unfortunately Albanese made the incorrect decision of continuing AUKUS without questioning its value. A pox on both their houses.
Are you 9 years old? Just fucking say who you mean. Also "VaGina" as an insult isn't as fucking clever as you think it is. It's just weird and misogynistic.
And even dumber politicians. Who signed off on it? That would be Morrison as PM (among 6 other portfolios) Defence Ministers, Dutton and Reynolds, Defence Industry Minister, Price, Assitant Defence MMinisters, Hastie and Hawke.
Imagine what we could spend the $380B on in this country.
Add to this the likely cost blow outs, delays, issues with commissioning and loss of sovereignty.
Main reason Albo went along was to not allow Dutton to try and be the 'strong man'.
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Love America
...except we're paying 🤷🏻🤦
What a legacy Smirko has left.
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7139
He f***s us up as badly as his cover of April Sun in Cuba on the ukulele.
#auspol
Of course you're a drip.
The one who stabbed Mal “function” Turnbull & allowed Soot Morrorson to rise to power.
Her name is Geor-Gina Hope Rinehart (née Hancock)
VaGina Rhinestone for short.
The 💧is a Angus Taylor #watergate2019 thing.
$80M of corrupt payments by Barnaby Joyce, that has never been questioned.
#auspol
It's about Angus and his water theft.
Add to this the likely cost blow outs, delays, issues with commissioning and loss of sovereignty.
Main reason Albo went along was to not allow Dutton to try and be the 'strong man'.
What type of sub and which country?