A reminder, at $368bn we have just made a payment of $800m,
So just 459 easy payments of $800m each to go before we get the subs... assuming the US military builds them (which they probably won't have) and they don't want them (which they definitely will).
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So just 459 easy payments of $800m each to go before we get the subs... assuming the US military builds them (which they probably won't have) and they don't want them (which they definitely will).
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I'd suggest Richard Marles is the only one who thinks we might get any subs.
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They are sunk cost.
Build some fucking dwellings. Tents, cars, caravans, tiny homes, fucking anything.
That's it.
They'll always be under US control. We pay for them to be built; Aussie RAN submariners will be part of US led crew; they'll use our facilities here.
When the time comes to deal with nuclear waste, we have to find somewhere to store it for the next 10,000 years.
The US has now explicitly said their international agreements are meaningless. Only an idiot would continue this farce.
There are no grey areas.
It’s a shakedown.
They can go f*** themselves. That’s language Trump gets.
And Hoges should deliver it in the Oval Office wearing stubbies and thongs.
*Because not all Yanks are nefarious.
This happened to the Brits in 1938. Paid for slipways and merchants ships built on them and their design became the 'Liberty' class ships.