“I told you so”: No Aussie subs in 2030s, total reliance on the Yanks
Mar 16, 2024
The sweetest words in the English language: I told you so.
French submarines, the first of which were scheduled for delivery in 2034 under a $90bn program with France’s Naval Group – before the contract was ripped up by the Morrison government – were lethal and affordable.
Now we know that the US is very reluctant to sell us Virginia Class nuclear powered SSNs under the AUKUS agreement.
The Result?
No Aussie subs in the 2030s and total reliance on the Yanks.
We are not a sovereign nation.
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Bob Carr is a former Premier of New South Wales (1995–2005), a former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (2012–2013) and the former Director of the Australia–China Relations Institute, the University of Technology Sydney (2014–2019).
Bob Carr was the longest-serving premier of NSW and a federal Labor foreign minister.
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