On 12/17/2023 3:19 PM one "Joseph"claimed:
[It is] "Straight up treason [for the US] selling sub-tech, propulsion systems, cnc specs, etc, to a foreign country [like Australia], especially one that has done so much damage to the US security and political system. And the traitors in Congress are trying to prevent a future President with actual patriotic bonafides from undoing the damage they're wreaking.
There's a reason why the Australians were among the primary countries that interfered not only the US election process, but also in the sabotage of the Trump administration by conducting the "Russia-hoax" [Joseph may be referring to the Papadopoulos' indiscrete comments to Australian High Commissioner Alexander Downer]. They never would have gotten this deal under Trump, and Trump actually tried to withdraw forces (not just from Syria, Europe, Afghanistan, etc), including the Marines stationed in Australia right now.
This
deal needs to be scrapped. The Australians, like the Israelis, British,
Japanese, etc, are GUARANTEED to reverse-engineer and sell this tech to China -
that has been the historic record (and during the Cold War, these
"Allies" sold American core technology to the USSR)."
Pete Comment
But have not the US and its ever loyal ally, Australia, fought shoulder to shoulder continuously against tyranny since World War One?
Australia is regularly paying big premiums, through arms purchases, for US nuclear weapons protection against the sharks of this world (China and Russia).
In terms of premiums AUKUS is a major extravaganza for the US. The Trump Organization can take their cut. Australia has agreed to pay US$1 Billion per year to America's highly profitable Virginia industrial base through to the 2030s AND pay a cool US$8 Billion per Virginia in inflated 2032 US dollars.
Sure Pollard sent secrets to Israel and Klaus Fuchs for Great Britain sent US
A-Bomb and H-Bomb secrets to Russia, but those are the type of risks the AUKUS security agency alliance are working to avoid.
On leaks of of secrets hasn't Trump sent some Russia's way already?!
See
the 2017 report https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit
"President Trump
revealed "highly classified information" to two top Russian officials
during a controversial Oval Office meeting last week, according to a report
from The
Washington Post.
The Post,
citing current and former U.S. officials, reported Monday evening that the
information relayed by the president to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak "jeopardized a critical source of
intelligence" on ISIS."
If, as is likely, Trump wins the November 5, 2024 Elections, he should do what he does best, make a transactional deal to shake down America's allies for more cash. Trump will need to weigh up US Navy calls to cancel the Virginia agreement with all that protection money Trump can squeeze out of Australia.