Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build

Incidentally, 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.

I 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.

This 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.

&gt; <i>the Pentagon budget draft request includes construction of just one Virginia-class nuclear submarine for 2025</i><p>We’re selling them, right? Presumably not at a loss?<p>Why does the Congress need to appropriate for a boat Canberra is buying?

<i>Laughs in French.</i><p>I&#x27;m strongly reminded of the diplomacy saying &quot;Don&#x27;t go into a well with an American rope&quot;.

Yeah 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.<p>Australia has to design and build it&#x27;s own weapons to realistically have it&#x27;s own political will.<p>We&#x27;ve seen it time and time again. People like Australia shirtless and plunderable.