@ChrisMayLA6

Judging by what I read in the comments, few peeps here know anything about building, operating and maintaining SSN and SSNB. Moreover, they have no idea of the interconnectedness between the #US and #UK (And now Australia — #AUKUS) in terms of engineering, design and distributed component manufacture which are imbedded into these submarine systems. Whatever else one might opine about the AUKUS deal, Australia is currently investing in both the US and UK submarine building capacity as well as on home ground near Adelaide — thousands of long term jobs and increased industrial capacity in all three nation states. In the US some 76 billions USD have just been awarded to US submarine builders. The UK is merely mirroring a similar commitment, just as Australia is beginning to do.

Sure, rage against defence spending using misinformed opinions if you must. I just think that given the current break down of international agreements, and aggressive heads of State, it’s a more dangerous world out there. Our anger is better directed at matters which we can fix domestically… health, cost-of-living, tax reforms, regulated financial markets, limits to individual wealth, wealth redistribution, strengthening democratic institutions, law reforms, govt accountability, institutional transparency…. And the list goes on. Unless we’ve made the effort to get into the weeds of Defence matters, we ought to keep the discussion at a very, very high level IMO.