The AUKUS pact and submarine deal was a surprise transfer of partners as a mere five years ago, Australia had signed a $65 billion deal for 12 nuclear submarines with France and its Barracuda Class Nuclear powered weapons of war. On the plus side at least we gave the middle finger to France’s neo-colonial geopolitical strategy. The announcement of this project happened after Australian military experts made their concerns apparent that the Biden administration was lacking a sense of urgency about China as a ‘near-term military competitor.’ The formation of the AUKUS deal is considered to be a strategic and necessary one by the rhetoric of a nationalistic and profit hungry economic elite, the corporate owned state and its various violent apendages such as the police. According to these industry model institutions China has posed itself as a serious and looming threat due to their impressive and rapid military modernisation within the last few decades.
AUKUS imperialism
Scott Morrison has once again been totally on brand with his terrible decision making on foreign policy, economy and environment. This time it is the AUKUS military alliance. This alliance is another step in Obama’s 2011 ‘rebalance in Asia’ plan. It is a three-party partnership between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom in sharing nuclear sensitive information, material, technology and assistance in order for Australia to acquire what it needs to build nuclear powered submarines and have them ready for use in the Asia-Pacific region. The plan itself will take 18 months to finalise and approximately another 18 years for it to develop. The financial cost of building, powering, regulating and maintaining these show-off weapons of war are said to be more than one hundred billion dollars. That is one hundred billion that could have been used for expanding Medicare, social housing and education. This one hundred billion dollars could have gone to improving the lives of millions of people. This is the one hundred billion’th reason why capitalism is a corrupt system and why it will never help us.
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