Pentagon Mulls Scrapping Aukus Agreement With Australia, UK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/pentagon-mulls-scrapping-aukus-agreement-with-australia-and-uk

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  1. SS: The Pentagon has launched a review of the Biden-era Aukus pact to develop nuclear-powered submarines with Australia and the UK. The deal called for the US to sell Australia as many as five of its Virginia-class submarines and then, farther into the future, for Canberra and London to deliver a next-generation submarine — to be dubbed the SSN Aukus — together. The review will study whether the deal is “aligned with the President’s America First agenda,” the Pentagon said in a statement. A spokesperson for Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement that Canberra and London had both been informed that a review was going to take place.

  2. That would be a popular decision. In Australia, AUKUS is frequently singled out, both in the news and privately, as a decision the government shouldn’t have made.

  3. The US has big problems of its own, these have been underreported in Australian media and political commentary. There are many US reports like this one about the US capacity to build the AUKUS subs.

    The US is far behind in its own ship building and maintenance that AUKUS is something they do not need and not a priority.

    [Top admiral warns US far behind on building submarines needed to meet Aukus target](https://www.subsim.com/top-admiral-warns-us-far-behind-on-building-submarines-needed-to-meet-aukus-target/) (US source, Nov 2024)

    The could be about the priority of the US to be able to maintain and expand their navy.

  4. So after paying nearly a billion dollars to dump the French Sub Contract to buy from the US, the US then bins the project?

    Tried to post this statement 4 times but the bot keeps censoring me for metacommentary whatever the heck that is… AUKUS Agreement Pentagon Submarine budget

  5. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because of new unmanned naval systems, think of the drone war, but in the water. Instead of six submarines, they could probably invest in a massive naval drone fleet.

  6. Keeping up with America’s Schizophrenia is becoming exhausting.

  7. The US berates its allies for not spending enough on military equipment and then scraps deals with its allies for them to buy military equipment.

  8. The US needs to stop humiliating its vassal states like this.

  9. Australie should have sticked to the deal with France…

  10. Is there anything Trump has done that a Russian agent wouldn’t have done?

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