The fuck in the thinly veiled threat or spectacular poor taste are they implying?
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Border Gateway Protectionism?
Bullshit. A few huge lumbering nuclear subs delivered over decades are not a good way to protect our cables (assuming they are not overseas fighting America's next forever war). But having 17 or 20 converntional subs bought off the shelf would provide wider coverage sooner and allow us independent strategy.
@hacks4pancakes
Isn't there a saying about about turning threat into opportunity?
Time to "drop anchor" and pull up the drawbridge.
(Yeah I know... but a girl can dream)
We have the tech and the talent here and we built this country without the www.
Hell, our indigenous people managed 60+ thousand years without inventing the wheel.
We might even share with the rest of the world - after they put their weapons down and burn all their current politicians at the stake.
😀🏴☠️
#MadMax #ANZAC #onlyHalfJoking
@hacks4pancakes I think they are obtusely trying to reference this or the ,never to arrive, conventional subs.
https://australiatimes.com/anduril-opens-sydney-factory-to-build-ghost-shark-undersea-drones
@hacks4pancakes What a load rot, this old cold was rot to justify their BS wars is becoming tiresome.
@hacks4pancakes As a recent immigrant you might not be fully conversant with Oz history.
Australia is basically a vassal state to the US, and the pattern of pay us money or bad things will happen is par for the course in the relationship.
The one time a Oz prime minister even mildly stood up for Oz interests to the US, the CIA destabilized his govt, causing his removal (Gough Whitlam).
General population knows this, and so Oz slang for an USAian is "seppo" derived from "Septic Tank" (sorry).
@hacks4pancakes @rancoisse
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“If you kids don’t behave, I will plunge this world into darkness and chaos, don’t think I won’t”
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how goddam broken can you be
@hacks4pancakes wouldn't ships with new cable leave shore the second one failed?
We have given the US billions, years ago for new submarines.
We currently have zero new submarines to protect the hundreds of thousands of kilometres of undersea internet cables.
We may get a second hand one sometime, when they can be bothered. The rest are on the back of thr queue.
@hacks4pancakes a bill will follow soon, knowing these guys
@hacks4pancakes I swear, it feels like a toddler, only worse because of the stakes, and actively malicious instead of just developing like kids do.
"Having successfully pushed one boundary with no tangible repercussions (starlink in ukraine) the emotionally stunted creature surveys the landscape, seeking another, bigger, boundary to test."
@hacks4pancakes Fine cables you got there, it’d be a shame if our friends in the red Kremlin got a wiff of them, eh?
@hacks4pancakes I think perhaps it's a cry for help.
@hacks4pancakes American tech billionaires and their companies, fresh off getting to keep all their money in California and preventing us from taxing wealth for the foreseeable future, and losing all of their AI ballot measures in the USA on Nov. 3, are directing their government to tell countries not cooperating with their AI and global domination ambitions to play ball...or else.
Finland embassy Canberra: ✨starts an adorable, wholesome meme about dating and embassy closures ✨💕
US embassy Canberra: Nice internet cables you got there, shame if something happened to them 🤜🏻👀
Though there needs to be a very serious conversation that will not happen under certain far right parties about domestic ability to repair those cables.
@hacks4pancakes The US Embassy is lying when it asserts that it will protect Australia from Sea-floor cable sabotage.
The only thing AUKUS will succeed in achieving is a military conflict with our largest trading partner, China, and the more enmeshed we are with the USA and its military and intelligence infrastructure on our territory, the more likely the Chinese will feel both obliged, even invited, to interfere with our interest even more than they do now.