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Source: NEO
AUKUS may turn out to be the largest financial swindle perpetrated by the United States and the United Kingdom against Australia and other Asia Pacific nations
Equipment for the country's ground forces "arrives with depressing regularity," years behind time, and substantially over budget, according to a report issued on April 19 by the British Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee. For instance, the programs, which provide new Ajax armored fighting vehicles and Morpheus tactical communication and information systems, have faced significant difficulties. According to the MPs' assessment, the issue is made worse by underfunding of the defense budget expenditures and the pound’s declining purchasing value in relation to the dollar.
Ten days later, on April 28 this year, the Royal Navy informed the public about the decision to decommission the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier, launched just four years ago (in 2019), to be used as a donor for spare parts for the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier of the same class. According to the Royal Navy, the $3.72 billion aircraft carrier has docked more frequently than it has participated in naval operations, and the most recent maintenance cost $42 million.
This dispiriting news came just a month after the leaders of the US, the UK, and Australia had disclosed their ambitious long-term plans to build a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Canberra on the basis of British technology, which will cost the Australian budget $245 billion.
When it comes to extremely sophisticated projects like nuclear submarines, it seems inconceivable that the parties involved would be so irresponsible as to neglect to evaluate the contractors’ capacity to meet their obligations. Still, if you trust the claims made by senior US, British, and Australian officials, the opposite is true in the case of AUKUS. Canberra would never have consented to work together on submarine design and construction with Great Britain's waning technological strength otherwise. The example of the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier shows that not only is Great Britain unable to complete a big naval project, but it is also facing significant technological difficulties in order to satisfy present ambitions for defense construction and equipment upgrades.
In the realm of economic crime, assigning work to a contractor who is known to be unable to perform is fraud, money laundering, or corruption.
In the context of Anglo-Saxon big politics, this appears to be retaliation against a certain sector of Australia's elites for Canberra's departure from a coordinated approach to restrain the PRC back in the day. This is primarily about the carefree era when Australia and China's trading and economic relations remained unbroken, providing Canberra with significant revenue from exports to the PRC of a wide range of items, from wine and agricultural products to hard coal and other minerals.
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If readers would like to undertand what industrial military production is visit Andrei Martyanov's blog and read through some of his blog posts to acquire a grasp of what Russia is capable of manufacturing.
Commercial warfare going on at the Pentagon:
Private commercial warfare under the auspices of the US military:
It is extremely dangerous when war has been privatized. The US will continue to seek out proxies to go to war against their antagonists and belligerent nations just what is currently happening in Ukraine.
The UK is in bad shape and getting worse. Economic circumstances are so bad in Britain crime is the only option for many. If this is a "powder keg waiting to blow," then perhaps the UK's Ministry of Justice (warped "justice" system already) should contact the Wagner PMC Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin, to see about prisoners in the UK volunteering for some combat duty in Ukraine?
Sure thing, Sunak, anything you say after the Russian military continues to drop accurate missiles on NATO assets destroying millions and millions of dollars worth of munitions. Besides, the Wagner PMCs just took the city of Bakhmut. Now what? Send more British soldiers and PMCs to fight Russians?
If you want to call it "corruption" fine, but in commercial warfare everyone is at risk. If anyone further thinks the FBI, the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the CIA will do anything to end the "corruption" in the defense industry and in the Pentagon, think again.
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