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    Possibility of US ever selling Australia nuclear submarines is increasingly remote, Aukus critics say | Aukus

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    4. Puzzleheaded-Eye9081 on

      I’m at the point where I don’t want to hear another word about the fucking subs. I’ll be more surprised if they actually turn up tbh.

    5. Potatoe_Potahto on

      I gotta say, it’s easy to blame ScoMo for selling us up the river with this deal, but if anything I’m more disappointed in myself. I mean, we all knew Scotty was giving the US $400bn for no submarines. But here I am, and it just so happens that I’ve got no submarines sitting in my back yard gathering dust right now! I coulda phoned him up and made him an offer. $200 billion, that’s a bargain right there. Everybody wins. What a missed opportunity! 

    7. Turbulent_Ad3045 on

      Aukus critics believe that? Wow such a shocking revelation that detractors mights detract.

    11. playground_mulch on

      We keep the US happy with 400bn of ‘protection money’, and we avoid being an active participant in an East Asia war. Win/win.

    12. cmmndrkn613 on

      We have the cards to leverage this, we tell the filthy yanks that they need to move out of Pine Gap if they don’t deliver the agreed upon deal. They need us more than we need them, without Pine Gap, the US is flying blind in the middle east. More politicians need to be bringing this up.

    14. santas_uncle on

      A blind one legged stray dog could have told told you this years ago before they signed the deal….

    16. Turbulent-Break-4947 on

      If they were selling a house… wouldn’t you be looking at the contract and reminding them you’d paid a deposit?

      The amount of maybe/maybe not speaks to amazing unreliability

    19. lizardozzz on

      Is this like coercive control by the US? they’ll have a shit fit if we go elsewhere, but won’t deliver what we paid for, and therefore keep us reliant on them as allies.

    20. robfuscate on

      So what thinking people already knew, that AUKUS was just Danegeld in disguise, is slowly being revealed and put out in the open.

    22. ThimMerrilyn on

      It’s ok .. if they don’t deliver the subs they’ll give all the billions back, amirite guys ?

      Guys ?!

    23. pulpist on

      Trump is shoveling those billions into his pockets as fast as he can, and laughing at Australia.

    24. CelebrationFit8548 on

      ScuMo is ‘fully to blame’ for this absolute ‘shitshow’! Is he still in some sort of ‘middleman’ role atm?

    25. AFerociousPineapple on

      Well yeah critics of something do tend to have pessimistic outlooks on the thing they’re critical of… surely there’s a better way to phrase that headline

    26. propellerlead on

      Rest assured we’ll still keep on paying billions of dollars like the good lapdog we are. 🤗

    29. charlotteedadrummond on

      I hope I’m wrong but I called it about a year ago. But as far as I’m concerned the yanks have never been trustworthy.

    30. Kenyon_118 on

      Imagine going to Harvey Norman for a couch then agreeing to start payments immediately but the store will decide later if they will send you the couch or not. All the while fantastic furniture and IKEA are just dying to send you one straight away. That’s AUKUS for you.

    33. T_J_Rain on

      So let me get this: we’re on the hook for $368 Bn, but we’re not getting anything for it.

      Got it.

    35. QLDZDR on

      Submersible drones are the future.
      The nuclear submarines are probably an underwater recharge base in the future. A floating recharge base would do the job but potentially allow the drones to be tracked from satellites as they arrive and leave the recharge ports.

    36. Aggressive_Cook_4061 on

      The US can’t even build subs for themselves. Their supply chain has been butchered over the last 10 years. The navy is spending billions in trying to fix this