“… the program’s eye-watering cost will make it difficult to acquire the other capabilities that are already reshaping the nature of modern warfare: state-of-the-art drones, missiles, aircraft and cyber defense.” Spot on Gareth Evans! #AUKUS #auspol
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Australia should show some spine and pull out of aukus and make our own decisions. If the US want to put nuclear weapons in our area they can just try.
The Americans agreed to the deal because they saw it to be in their strategic interest, not ours. As then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell observed (indiscreetly) last year, “we have them locked in now for the next 40 years.”
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