Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social)
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🚨 US officials told their British counterparts: If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly. You have got to be careful.” This will be the end of US weapons exports globally. https://www.thetimes.com/article/a591fcae-34c9-4cdc-9f95-7d203cce7879?shareToken=8b4db674777d1664a5841466bbb0f415

US officials told their British counterparts: If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly. You have got to be careful.” This will be the end of US weapons exports globally. www.thetimes.com/article/a591…

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Has anyone got any more sources on this quote?

If it’s real how quickly can we cancel aukus

  • squigumEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised to hear about Australian officials having profound misgivings around AUKUS behind closed doors, but our defence policy in recent years threw so many more eggs into the US alliance basket that it’s become “too big to fail” and “too late to change”, while our politics are stuck in such a narrow comfort zone (e.g. tax increases being taboo) that the changing conditions are likely to be met with a state of denial or crossing of fingers rather than bold adaptation.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      There is a growing group of people, myself included, loudly saying we need to rationalise and rebalance our tax system, Stephen Mayne and Alan Kohler, & Ken Henry (of course), being people who often speak really well on this subject.