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What about the RAAF in the AUKUS equation

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All the commentary about AUKUS is predicated on some kind of conflict with China over Taiwan. That is foolishness personified. But there is another factor that is even more bewildering. Both sides of the argument appear to have forgotten the existence of the RAAF.

Three nuclear-powered American submarines, some built in Britain, to be delivered somewhere in the 2050s at some unknown, eye-watering cost is an exercise that only an unbalanced Prime Minister who needed five additional secret ministries would have contemplated. And only agreed to by another PM determined not to be ‘wedged’ as being soft on defence; and with a Deputy hopelessly infatuated with........

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