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Winning design for Australia’s $10b general purpose frigate not expected until 2026​

By Andrew Greene​

A decision on which country will build the Australian Navy's next fleet of warships is not expected to be made until next year.
Defence is evaluating competing bids from Japan and Germany for the $10 billion general purpose frigate program which will begin with an offshore build before moving to Western Australia.
Industry figures expected a winner announced in the second half of this year, but Deputy Defence secretary Jim McDowell told senate estimates last night he's expecting a "government decision it the first quarter of next year".
"It's an extremely aggressive program. You know we started it, we're going to do a complete evaluation of a complex warship from start to finish in just a little bit over two years. It would normally take us seven, eight, nine or ten years in the past."
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Defence first assistant secretary Sheryl Lutz told the senate committee hearing they're still seeking further information from both international bidders.
"Then we'll go out, the plan is to go out to an RFT (Request for Tender) to get tender quality pricing so we can go to what is called second pass in quarter one next year."
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But speaking to reporters in Geelong today, minister Richard Marles said he wanted a decision made "this year".
 
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Man. Who would have thought that Trump would save the Canadian Liberals.

Conservatives with an up to +30% lead for years to achieving an -2% lead in less than 2 months. Quite the impressive achievement.

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This was actually later revealed to be the actual plan of Kash Patel to increase the financial health of the FBI
 
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Ofc the anti CN accts lways use te same "feeling"
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"China's central government has criticized a decision by the Taiwan region's authorities to ban colleges on the island from conducting educational exchanges with three mainland educational institutions, including Jinan University and Huaqiao University. China's mainland says the ban will harm cross-Straits ties."
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"The Chinese mainland says the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in Taiwan are betraying the interests of Taiwan compatriots and enterprises under pressure from the United States. The statement follows media reports of a possible joint venture between the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and American technology giant Intel."
 
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The US is now the enemy of the west​

Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world

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“Freedom and independence are today in jeopardy the world over. If the forces of conquest are not successfully resisted and defeated there will be no freedom, no independence and no opportunity for freedom for any nation.” Thus did Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorate the first anniversary of the Atlantic Charter, which had been agreed between him and Winston Churchill on August 14 1941. Half a century later, with the fall of the Soviet Union, it was at least reasonable to hope that these ideals might be realised across much of the globe. That was not to be. Today, not only are autocracies increasingly confident. The US is moving to their side. That is the lesson of the last two weeks. Freedom is not in as much danger as it was in 1942. Yet the dangers are very real.
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Three events stand out. The first was a speech on February 12 by Donald Trump’s secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Nato in which he told the Europeans that they were now on their own. America was now principally concerned with its own borders and China. In sum: “Safeguarding European security must be an imperative for European members of Nato. As part of this Europe must provide the overwhelming share of future lethal and non-lethal aid to Ukraine.”
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The second was a speech by JD Vance, vice-president of the US, at the Munich Security Conference on February 14 in which he declared that “what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America”. An example he gave of such a threat was that “the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election”. To this one might respond that Europeans know better than Americans what happens when the enemies of freedom come to power through elections. But they also know that his boss, Trump himself, sought to annul the outcome of the presidential election four years ago. “Pots”, “kettles” and “black” come to mind.
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The third and most revealing event is the negotiation over the future of Ukraine. Hegseth had of course already accepted Putin’s most important conditions by declaring that Ukraine’s borders would not be re-established and it could not join Nato. But this was just the beginning. The negotiations have been conducted between the US and Russia over the heads of the Europeans, even though the latter have been ordered to make any deal secure, and, outrageously, of Ukraine itself, whose people have borne the brunt of Vladimir Putin’s three years of aggression. Yet now, insists the US, Russia was not the aggressor. On the contrary, Ukraine started the war. To underline the split from Europe, the US voted for a resolution in the UN Security Council alongside Russia and China, while France, the UK and other Europeans abstained. The “west” is dead.
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These vassal are getting uppity these days, the US should teach them some manners.
 
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