For anyone still naive enough to think that the war in Afghanistan was to save a few peasant women from having to wear the burkha rather than to put a ring of steel around Chine I would let you know this. Biden has announced that the US and their pucky little lapdog, The UK, are to supply Australia with nuke subs. Fresh off their ignominious defeat in Afghanistan they are moving to a different tack. Keep the "3 eyes" on China and control the Pacific.
If people start flinging nukes. Maybe.
The deal uses a loophole in the treaty to provide the knowledge to build the subs.... and yes, Australia would be the first country in the world to do this....
What this opens up though if it goes ahead, is the likes of China/Russia helping the likes of Iran or NK to gain the same capabilities..
You'd imagine it would along these lines.
Some people him seem unaware that Australia has always been close with the UK and US militarily.
They also had some presence in Afghanistan and had a Naval presence in the Gulf war.
No it doesn't Nuclear power which is what these subs are is not covered under the non-proliferation treaty.
LOL if people start flinging nukes its probably a bit late isnt it?
That's the first thing I thought of.
How are you ending white supremacy by the way?
The French seem quite angry, say they've being stabbed in the back, their foreign minister is even fixating on Trump 😂😂
Someday soon the world is going to have to realise Trump is gone and this has nothing to do with him. Anyway, I'm delighted, a nice hit to French arm sales.
“This unilateral, sudden and unforeseeable decision very much recalls what Mr Trump would do,” referring to the previous US president who exasperated Europe with unpredictable decision-making.
I'd agree - we should be all decoupling our economies from China. They are aiming for worldwide economic and military control.
The Chinese government has constructed a wharf on the island of Vanuatu large enough for naval vessels [1]. The Aussies are right to be worried as we all should be.
About France (+ anger over this), it's all very interesting.
Boris Johnson (and UK under his leadership) are some bag of snakes when it comes to dealing with their (as he always puts it) "friends and allies in Europe".
On subject of defence contracts, I think there's EU countries deeply involved in an extremely expensive future generation fighter program with the UK (presume it kicked off pre Brexit - would they start something like that now with UK as a partner I wonder?).
With BoJo in charge I wonder if they'll get a broken airfix kit out of the deal, while UK keeps the actual jets/drones produced and all the technology/knowledge?!
Considering China's massive military built up and sudden increase in their own nuclear arsenal they can hardly complain about another country building up too
I don't see an issue with Australia building up barely minimal naval defensive capabilities. It's not like they are going to invade the south cost of China with a dozen submarines. It's all a big deal about nothing.
Australia is putting billions into its military infrastructure , from land ,sea and Air not because of a specific threat but down to modernisation ,some of their armoured vehicles date back to Vietnam ,but China is building up for modernisation and offensive capabilities the south China sea and Taiwan come to mind
Well being the case that there is no such country called "Taiwan", it's hardly an invasion.
It's flipping rogue Chinese territory, that is all.
I'd say the Chinese are terrified, the lads who just got kicked out of Afghanistan by a few thousand sandle wearing tribesmen with AKs now have a few new subs.
No doubt the Chinese are already trying to negotiate some kind of surrender agreement 😂
Don't be coming in her with your facts and straight talk! It doesn't fit the narrative.
This is a great move on the part of Australia and I support it, though I think the money would be better spent on buying balistic missiles that can reach China.
These submarines will only be nuclear powered and will not have any nuclear weapons, which is a bit of a miss.
It's a democratic country , the only reason it's known as anything else is to keep China happy ,
Texas used to be in Mexico and Alaska used to be in Russia , Kaliningrad is Germany , don't see anything changing in them countries ,
Taiwan is a country and should be recognised as such
Not really. There been over 2000 nuclear explosions on this planet.
Yet we are still here.
I don't know really. I haven't seen the Chinese operate in an active war yet. Apart from some skirmishes in the Himalayas and the Korean war are they actually tested?
Anyway noone should be terrified, its just a remote country getting some defensive subs.
It most certainly is not a country.
Does anybody in the UN recognize it as a country?
They've had a few skirmishes over the years.
We've no idea how good the modern China military is. They mostly buy in arms and copy it.
The sheer size of it, is the issue.
That's correct the Chinese haven't been at war in the last 70 years...but the western BS narrative is that its an aggressive nation that wants to take over the world.
Doesn't look very aggressive to me...now on the other hand those that are accusing it of being aggressive, oh dear where would you even start listing their wars!
Taiwan or the Republic of China is the last remaining territory belonging to the real China republic. Communist revolution created the PRC who took over mainland China.
Taiwan is not, and never has been, a part of the PRC.
That's not how the United Nations sees it.
Ah yes the United Nations whose 2nd biggest funding partner is... drumroll please... the People's Republic of China!
Why would they say that Taiwan belongs to PRC, I cant think why..
You are wrong, it most certainly is an independent country - and a democracy to boot. The UN is irrelevant and should be scrapped it's voting system, particularly of the security council, is so utterly flawed.
Does Ireland recognize a country called Taiwan?
They are very aggressive. Instead of waging wars they are acquiring territory by stealth and acts of fait accompli - whereby they invade and occupy land militarily and basically then declare it belongs to them and dares anyone to try and get them out.
There will be a significant military conflict with China fairly soon I believe, as this expansionist aggressiveness can not go unchecked. They recently attacked India by having their military hackers knocking out the electrical grid, which undoubtedly cost lives. Acts of criminality and aggression by their hackers should be met with a physical military response.
Most of what they are using are russian clones and clones of American equipment , even the Israeli's have sold them equipment ,but like that there big stealth programs have turned out to be anything but Stealth ,they have numbers but in this day and age it doesn't add up to much ,huge columns of men and equipment tend to turn into killing fields without ever having to put other men on the ground
China is almost constantly in conflict with someone.
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