World News

32322 readers

713 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Australia chose AUKUS and now it faces the prospect of having no submarine capability for at least a decade (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (5 children)

That was known on day 1

Whatever made us throw France under the bus must have been pretty fucking good and also had nothing to do with Subs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whatever made us throw France under the bus

US interference in the form of diplomatic extortion is my bet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

As soon as I read "diesel," I guessed that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Mostly the conservatives being unable to think beyond Bush-era “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” stereotypes, I’d bet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A variety of reasons including, rather ironically, concerns about delays: https://www.politico.eu/article/why-australia-wanted-out-of-its-french-sub-deal/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Even more ironic is a bunch of the delays were caused by Australia demanding the French change the designs from nuclear to diesel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It was scomo he’s a dumb cunt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

On an unrelated matter. France needs to be thrown under the bus from time to time. They need the constant pressure of revolution to function properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

They need the constant ~~pressure of~~ revolution to function properly.

Looking at the last 250 years of history, FTFY