Best of 2024: “I told you so”: No Aussie subs in 2030s, total reliance on the Yanks
Best of 2024: “I told you so”: No Aussie subs in 2030s, total reliance on the Yanks
Bob Carr

Best of 2024: “I told you so”: No Aussie subs in 2030s, total reliance on the Yanks

The sweetest words in the English language: I told you so.

A repost from Mar, 16, 2024

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.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/pentagon-halves-number-of-aukus-submarines-it-will-build-in-2025/103580236

The Result?

No Aussie subs in the 2030s and total reliance on the Yanks.

We are not a sovereign nation.

For more on this topic, P&I recommends:

https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/australias-biggest-aukus-risk-our-allies-plan-b/

The views expressed in this article may or may not reflect those of Pearls and Irritations.

Bob Carr

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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