Middle East conflict

[Litespeed]

What Red said times 10

[red750]

That manuscript was a copy of a Facebook post.

[rgmwa]

Looks like it’s a ‘no’ from us then. 

[Litespeed]

Now we can hope he spits the dummy and cancels the AUKUS deal

[onetrack]

I really think the AUKUS deal and the Yank submarine deal needs to be cancelled - from our end.

The last thing we need is to deal with, is a tantrum-throwing toddler when he's supposed to be leading the worlds only remaining superpower, and setting statesmanship-like behaviour and standards. 

On top of that, the subs are vastly overpriced, and will be delivered 30 years too late, and be obsolete when they are delivered.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Not to mention they are too large for our more shallow regional waters. 

 

I posted a YT video of war games where one of our "noisy" Collins class subs easily accounted for one of their nuclear subs...

 

(and ours was commanded by a native Brit... How is that for irony in an AUKUS context). 

[old man emu]

There were war games held a few years ago around Hawaii. Our clunky Collins Class sub "torpedoed" a US destroyer or such through the sheer cunning and seamanship of our Captain