Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, Britain and the United States, envisages the transfer and building of nuclear-powered submarines to the Royal Australian Navy.

So far, the money stream has flown into the military industrial complexes of Britain and the US, both desperate to keep the production of these absurd boats steady.

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Australia is yet to see these white elephants and the Labor government in the meantime is allowing the country to become garrisoned to Washington’s geopolitical vanities.

China has become the target for Canberra’s foreign policy dunces, despite being Australia’s most lucrative trading partner and not being an adversary in any sense.

Announced in September 2021 as “an enhanced trilateral security partnership”, AUKUS has stuttered its way into 2025.

The conservative media, such as the Economist,

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