If AUKUS is sovereign, it is useless

Monday 20 March 2023

Albo’s idiots are lying:

The Australian government will have complete control over the Virginia-class submarines it plans to buy from the United States with Defence Minister Richard Marles rejecting any suggestion a deal has been done with America that the boats would be used in a war over Taiwan.

Marles, speaking on ABC’s Insiders on Sunday, said it was “plain wrong” to suggest the submarines, due to be acquired through the 2030s, were bought on the understanding they could be used for anything but Australia’s national interest.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.