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Sorry, but based on my understanding of the deal, the parts about making us a target for a nuclear strike and concerns about non-proliferation is off base and well overblown. There is a huge difference between nuclear POWERED subs and subs that carry nuclear weapons, and the deal is absolutely only for the former. Nuclear powered subs are no different to any other nuclear reactor, it is simply a way to create steam to power the thing. I mean, you can put nuclear weapons on conventional subs if you want. We are not getting any nuclear weapons for those subs, and merely having those reactors (especially if they're built by the UK / US instead of us) puts us no closer to developing nuclear weapons, even if we wanted to; especially since we could already do that given any desire to. I won't argue about all the shitfuckery around the politics etc of the deal, but my understanding is that from a military effectiveness point of view, there are good reasons for us to have nuclear powered subs, since the biggest weakness in conventional subs is operating range, and given the scale of our waters, range is a huge issue for us.

Have to admit I'd never heard of Chagos atoll islands. That's why you guys are best. Funny, informative, insightful.

Thank you Giordano and team- as always some fresh perspectives and creative twists👌 For me, countries possessing a modicum of sanity in our world on the brink of climate collapse and potential nuclear or biological wipe out, would be sitting down together in crisis talks designed to STOP the childish power plays and political and populist LUNACY and devise and execute PEACE and SURVIVAL ACTIONS. NOW.

Hard not to sigh whenever you see any of those coal fondling morons do anything.

We should have cut off their iron and coal supplies

Deep idk when do we stop going back in time? When Attila conquered the earth? Maybe stating from now 🤣🤣🤣 yes Guam Hawaii etc it’s true but China has built an underground airbase modelled on their aircraft carrier with all the money they saved with slave labourers don’t repeat please it’s like a thunderbirds are go movie

Brilliant and so on point again. Well done! Very well done!! 👏👏👏

FAUKUS would have been more appropriate alliance but with the same outcome that acronym suggests. Cannot imagine Aus came up with this plan as Scotty seems to suggest. Well above his pay grade and certainly locking us in to the US, so who would benefit most from that?

Great! Sovereign Risk Ha Ha!

Would be a good idea if these shit heads actually sat down with China and talked to them about what they think is China. It cannot be North Korea, South Korea or Japan but it might be Taiwan. That might be why they are being bigger dick heads so they can take back their "rightful" territory. Taiwan has been an US industrial engine farming off production to cheap labour. A real US capitalist dream!

Love it....I'll happily spread it around once you publish it.

Love "Scotty from Announcements" "AwKUS" & "fUKyers" ... major LOLs at that last one in particular!! It doesn't require any edits however, when you get to discussing the expense of our new Subways (sorry, submarines) you could possibly add or substitute a contrasting ref. to "Because we can't POSSIBLY sign off on climate action, can we, despite nearly a decade in power to calculate the cost of that" ... Great job again, love ya shitfuckery Xx

Nice. Although, I expected a bit of a mention of the war drumming against China by the weapons manufacturers and Defence Dept via their front organisation the Aust Strategic Policy Institute.

good add, you could have mentioned the HEU v LEU issue which is a pretty big one; going with the US sub model means we have to use HEU which is weapons grade uranium whereas had we brought in France we could have had the LEU option which would be a much better option. but agree that it was an opportunity to annoy Labor but a very expensive one and we pissed off the largest trading block on the planet so dumb on so many levels. FAUKUS would have been a much better opportunity to strengthen our indo-pacific posture against a bulging China. great work though, <3

Hahaha! Champions! Tears up.

Absolutely love your work, the Juice Media. As a dual national (US-Aus) the alliance makes no fucking sense at all. Tell me, anyone, what has the US ever done for Australia (post WWII) except lead us in to disastrous wars and stuff us around with really bad trade deals. AUKUS is a ridiculously expensive joke!

A little disappointed that you were so soft on Scotty from Marketing

Marvelous work. Its great to hear from the real opposition party. the Poll that Peter Todd referred to might be this one. https://essentialvision.com.au/party-trust-to-handle-issues-17. I am amazed at the figures since the Liberals have gotten Australia involved in more wars since 1950 than Labor. I still remember that Mick Kelty of the AFP came back from internation;al police conference saying that our involvement in Iraq had made us more vulnerable to terrrism and John Howad muzzled him instantly, and went on to embarrass him by drawing him into the attrack on Dr Haneef.

Thank you - although the truth you speak made me cry.

Brilliant HGA, I wish there was a way to make the comparisons - Adani’s $billion, poverty, mental health and housing - hang with deeper gravitas? Anyway Giordano and team well done again.

Undoubtedly your best, juicemedia. And the most important All power to your hairy arms 😊

Thanks for continuing to provide some insight on the real workings of these announcements and photo ops. Looking forward to the video & the Podcast.

As Michael West said the French were left out cos it would have been Faukus. Which is exactly what this is going to do. Further costings put it at closer to 200 billion. What about the nuclear waste? Where's that going to go? The Libs always say there's no money due to the deficit now theyre happy to blow $200 billion to try to get re elected. Future wars will be predominantly cyberwars. Why don't they invest some of that money in universities and education to attract that talent instead. We now have a big target on our back due to this announcement and ostracising ourselves in the process. This has got to be one of the worst decisions by the worst government in my lifetime. 200 billion for 8 subs which we don't get until 2040 and the last not until 2060. Fiction writers could not come up with that rubbish!

Looking forward to seeing the videos. As a Brit, I'm absolutely delighted to see that you pretty much ignored us for being the irrelevant fifth wheel on this particular clown car - no matter what Boris 'Britain Trump' Johnson likes to boast.

Spot on with your description of the USA. The way things are going, I really am starting to fear that Mad Max or Soylent Green is just around the corner on this planet.

yar, sorry to disapprove. love the climate vids, and all for Greta++, but cutting down fellow (albeit often shit-for-brains) western democratic powers and alliances in favour of a weaker stance against the CCP is not smart geo-politics IMHO. you realise we're pretty much back into a new cold war plus a whole new cyber war, right? democracy is at stake here and that's what Russia and the CCP and other authoritarian states are targeting. actual spending on actual (better) defence hardware still means something, even in this tiker-gram and twitter-tube age.

Sounds like another ripper! Thought you might have added something about this being just more shitfuckery for us to import from the USA, like we have with crazy freedom riots etc. I don't think USA and UK are shining examples of democracy we would want to ally with! Russia's almost looking like sweetheart at this stage! Lol.

yeah, nah. I am no fan of scotty from marketting, but what do you mean china being arseholes "lately"? perhaps you are forgetting vietnam and korea? are you saying china "recently" crushing hk into the dust is just fine, and you're ok to sacrifice all of taiwan in the next maybe 2, or 5, max 10 years, and that's just fine too? as per trumpism, all democracy is at stake here, not just some idealised leftist western democracy (which is my favourite, but that's just me). democracy is under threat globaly, and to defend it we need allies, and positions of actual power (ie. effective deterrants like umm, actually better subs) and not just as you say faux "moral high grounds". so yeah, nah. bad video.

"Cool and Normal.... pal!" Oh I LOLed You nailed it on the reasoning - national security is this shitshow party's top rated 'strength' and they're banking on that being a winner for them in next year's election. I'm sure you've seen the survey.

Another great HGA. It really pisses me off that Scomo can just do this without even a by your leave! No parliament involvement, no public consultation and he just flushes $100billion down the drain - money that as you pointed out can be better spent on social issues. Boys with their toys!! Even if they’re only thought bubbles at the moment and won’t turn up before 2040. These fuckers in the LNP really make me mad!! Rant over.

Oh man, doesn't everyone already know that aligning with the US on any geopolitical issue only ends up in inflaming the situation and bringing about the thing you were hoping to avoid! Thank you HGA for nailing their throats to the honesty box once again!