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Powerful closing quote: Australia’s no-holds-barred embrace of AUKUS is more likely than not to prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made, not only putting at profound risk our sovereign independence, but generating more risk than reward for the very national security it promises to protect.


This will go down as one of the largest and most expensive military fuck ups in Australian history. Spending half a trillion dollars on maybe getting some subs that we might be able to operate independently, that could in theory be used for some useful things. Meanwhile pissing off half of APAC and painting a target on us.

All from the government that said we were so strapped for cash we needed to get some centerlink users to neck themselves. Cool and Good.

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[–] No1@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What I wonder is if this could end up turning generations of Australians against US & UK alliances in the future.

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 2 months ago

I really hope that nobody has cause to learn why they're such terrible allies (again)