AUKUS delusions. More rivets pop in submarine drama

To declare a new unilateral subs-fail with the UK, to resist a study calls, to ignore the attention of a US admiral while building hundreds of houses for the US army. Aukus is shocked. Old Senator and Submariner Rex Patrick Reports.

On Friday, July 25, Defense Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong stood by British colleagues at a short press conference in Sydney. They answered questions about the agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia on a new 50 -year -old agreement on the Aukus submarine plan.

The journalists who attended the press conference did not have the text of the agreement that was not signed by Marles and British Defense Secretary John Healey until the next day, not in Sydney, not in Sydney. Without the publication of the Treaty text, difficult questions cannot be asked (see below).

Marles apparently thought that it was more important to sign the text the day after the ministry debates, so ““Nuclear -energy submarine partnership and cooperation agreement between the Australian government and the Great Britain and the Northern Ireland government“It can be officially called the“ Geelong Treaty ından from his hometown.

All the events ruled by the stage were an event that would make everyone feel warm and blurred in parliamentary halls than rhetoric reality.

Australia to reach an agreement with a 50 -year ink to support England Aukus

Meanwhile, at the US Congress

At the same time, the Treaty of Geelong was announced, in Australia, the next US Navy Chief Admiral Daryl Caudle was witnessing the US Senate. What he said did not increase a good increase in Australia, eventually the three US Virginia -class nuclear -energy attack under Aukus were provided with submarines.

“Australia’s ability to execute submarine war is not in question by me or anyone,” the Admiral Senate Armed Services Committee of the Admiral Senate. “However, as you know, the tempo of the delivery is not the place to be done well in the column 1 of the Aukus agreement, which is currently being examined by our Defense Department”.

“There is no magic beans,” Caudle said.

“We must understand whether the industrial base can produce the necessary submarines, so that we can be good on a real agreement with England and Australia around 2.2 2.3 virginia class submarines.”

“This will require a 10 percent development, not 20 percent, not 100 percent improvement, but a transformational development.”

Of course, none of this was really news. The US Congress Research Service and other informed observers have been syllabing these facts for a while, but Prime Minister Anthony Arnavut and Defense Minister Marles continue to be deliberately blind to the facts. After putting all political chips in AUKUS, they do not want to see or hear anything negative. Instead of pause, they write checks financed by the taxpayer to give them a gift to the Shipyards of the United States.

Last week, they shifted the US government more than $ 800 million without a repayment of $ 800 million.

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No control, no guarantee

‘Geelong Treaty’ until Monday Table in Parliament.

Reading the Treaty Documents revealed the fully lop -sided nature of the partnership with the UK. While Australia has some say, England decides the design of SSN-AUKUS. Australia will buy and build a British design, and the success, delivery program and cost will certainly depend on the UK’s exhausted and struggling submarine industry base.

And if it doesn’t work in the end, there is no guarantee.

Investigation calls

During the election campaign, a number of cross -spots and greens began to call for a AUKUS investigation, which was repeated by Senator David Shoebridge this week. It has filed a lawsuit for establishing a distinguished committee about our most expensive and most important defense supply project so far.

The investigation movement was initially set to vote on Tuesday, but the Senator Shoebridge continued to postpone as the week progressed. This is a sign that they do not have numbers to get the ‘yes’ vote. The Labor Party has already rejected an investigation and the Senator seems to be trying to take the Liberal Party on the ship.

Now we will learn the fate of the investigation on August 25th. It is unlikely that the liberal party will support the investigation. They want to criticize the government to address the US alliance, but there is no intention of questioning Aukus, which was first designed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison by his men.

A risk-filled one-the-thhe-thhe-the-the-thhe-thhe-thhe-thhe-thhe-368b-basket ability acquisition-but there will be no surveillance.

Since the Parliament did not want to review Aukus, the real Trump tariff announced that the US Department of Defense Ministry of Defense AUKUS will not be completed up to the “decline” (next three months).

The Minister plays the American review of the AUKUS agreement

Housing invoice shook

To add cream to the cake, the government’s first housing bill in Parliament was voted from the house on Wednesday, not for Australians, but to build a house for foreign military personnel and their families in Perth.

Senator Shoebridge trying to refer to a Senate Committee:

“In the last parliament, we saw that labor found one million in which they could not do anything in the housing housing. They could not help people in rents, they could not build public housing, and then, they continued to say that they were the error of all the greens to support these parliaments.

“Please, the Minister, how much you have not announced on the invoice on the bill; will you come from the defense budget or another budget?”

It was not answered and was not referred to a committee.

The Aukus Week closed with some lobbies in the sky by former Interior Minister Michael Parzulo. PEZZULO officially infamousHowever, it is not expert in national security problems.

Pimzulo knows something about the financing of Australia’s defense capabilities and issued a blunt warning about the scale and urgency of Australia’s Aukus commitments, saying that the nuclear submarine program would demand an equal national effort with Medicare.

“This is like having a military version of Medicare. This is something that transcends the nations, states, regional governments to the industrial, academy, both universities and vocational education educational institutions.

To reveal Trifecta of all this statement. The US cannot deliver us the virginia class submarines; The UK submarine industry is a cluster fiasco; And Australia is not ready. And if we have a chance to succeed, we must make AUKUS submarines our number one national priority.

In 2023, Paul Keating-America will be given a total of $ 4.7 billion or a similar amount given to the UK to be given to the United States, or without the fact that the United States will be delivered, and indeed without knowing the facts called “the worst agreement in all history ,, in relation to SSN-AUKUS.

Knowing what we know now, Keating was wrong. He had to say, “The most stupid agreement on all history”.

I just want a ferrari, sorry, a nuclear submarine, no matter what cost

Rex Patrick is a former senator of South Australia and a submarine in the armed forces. Rex, known as the best fight against corruption and transparency crusaders, “Transparent warrior. “