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SanWenYu said:
More details? The linked article from tweet is paywall'ed.
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Basically a republican with close link to US Navy is saying the navy doesn't want to transfer the tech to Australia. You may say well that's just noise and they're not in charge, well then:
  • has Biden said anything to reassure Australia?
  • would the republicans be back in charge 2022? 2024? Who knows
 
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SanWenYu said:
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Australia might not receive a single nuclear submarine as part of the AUKUS security pact, according to the former Trump administration official who coined the term “Indo-Pacific”, which now dominates security and diplomatic discussion across the vast region.

Randy Schriver, a former assistant secretary of defence in the Trump administration, said “many potential obstacles on both sides” including pushback from the US navy and political turnover in Washington and Canberra could spell doom for the promised fleet of eight nuclear-powered submarines.

A supporter of AUKUS, he told The Australian there needed to be “sustained commitment from the senior political leaders in both capitals, otherwise the chances of Australia deploying its own nuclear submarine will drop below 50 per cent”.
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My energy bill went up almost €70 from €177 to €245/ month. There went the bit of pay raise I got at work. I ended up with a decrease in spending power
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yup. living standards are going to go down. German producer prices rose 24% in December. that will ultimately translates to products and services for end consumers.


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Mr Schriver said the idea of “leasing” a US nuclear submarine, floated by Defence Minister Peter Dutton and former prime minister Tony Abbott, was “difficult but not impossible”.
“That scenario might entail US crew still being on, or having ultimate control of the submarine,” he said.
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Could this be his real intent? It seems that the Aussies are not paying the US enough to earn the full trust.

Perhaps at the end the US will get LM involved in this deal. Aussie navy will be able to operate their nuclear subs only if they have the activation code.
 
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