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The Bug is Australia's longest running and least profitable satire and humour publication, offending sensibilities worldwide since 1989.

[Pammieoz @Pammieoz]

Wake Up Australia 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[John Rowsthorne @JohnRowsthorne]

If Wong is genuine she would expel the israeli ambassador and albanese would cut all ties with israel. Nothing less will suffice
https://t.co/CpdRAqPSqz

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Some strategic reality from our @ABCnews — conceding the Australians’ increasing bitterness towards the United States.

“With many Australians feeling more disconnected from the United States, and bitterness over past failed interventions in the Middle East joined by Australia, the AUKUS agreement to deepen military ties to the US has been a flash point for whether Australia should maintain its ties or distance itself from the US.”

https://t.co/litD7EVmUy

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Some strategic reality from our @ABCnews — conceding the Australians’ increasing bitterness towards the United States.

“With many Australians feeling more disconnected from the United States, and bitterness over past failed interventions in the Middle East joined by Australia, the AUKUS agreement to deepen military ties to the US has been a flash point for whether Australia should maintain its ties or distance itself from the US.”

https://t.co/litD7EVmUy

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🍉🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"The deeper problem for Australia’s foreign policy is the inability of our leaders to understand the fading hegemonic power of the United States. Despite all the warrior talk that Marles has taken in from Hegseth, the emperor is naked."
https://t.co/SdykvItBzo

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🍉🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"The deeper problem for Australia’s foreign policy is the inability of our leaders to understand the fading hegemonic power of the United States. Despite all the warrior talk that Marles has taken in from Hegseth, the emperor is naked."
https://t.co/SdykvItBzo

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Jeff Morris @jmwhistleblower]

Must read. The West Coast submarine base constructed under AUKUS will make it easier for US & allied subs to sever China's energy pipeline across the Indian Ocean as tankers ply between the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Malacca. We are on the front line in any war with China.

[Jeff Morris @jmwhistleblower]

Must read. The West Coast submarine base constructed under AUKUS will make it easier for US & allied subs to sever China's energy pipeline across the Indian Ocean as tankers ply between the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Malacca. We are on the front line in any war with China.

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[🐀 Senior Junior 🐀 @TabularasaMMXIX]

Amid choppy waters around ‘secondhand subs’ and Trump, Labor’s sensitivity about the Aukus debate is growing https://t.co/diO2407yzE

[🐀 Senior Junior 🐀 @TabularasaMMXIX]

Amid choppy waters around ‘secondhand subs’ and Trump, Labor’s sensitivity about the Aukus debate is growing https://t.co/diO2407yzE

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Peter Fox 🦊🇦🇺 @Foxy_PeterFox]

@Albo says its full steam ahead with #Aukus, but do we still want our defence and security linked with U.S. at any price? We dont need nuclear subs to defend our region. And we dont want to be dragged into U.S. wars. #auspol

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

Brilliant piece from Pearls and Irritations. Finally, someone in Australia is saying out loud what the rest of us have been watching for the past five years

Let's be clear about what AUKUS actually is: the greatest military protection racket in modern history. Washington looked at its own crippled submarine industrial base—17 boats short, yards choking, Congress screaming—and found the perfect mark. A wealthy, eager, insecure middle power with a bipartisan fetish for great-power relevance and a defense minister who treats strategic questions like a classified state secret

The deal? Australia pays half a trillion dollars. In return, it gets used Virginia-class hand-me-downs—Block IV boats with a decade of wear already on the hulls, probably smelling faintly of its previous crew

Even more intriguing, the article confirms for what this overpriced second-hand Australian "sovereign" nuclear submarine fleet is actually for:

Hunting Chinese Jin-class and Type 096 SSBNs. Not to protect Sydney Harbour. Not to secure Australia's trade routes. To find, track, and if ordered, destroy the Chinese nuclear submarines that threaten continental America!

That's the job. That's the whole job. Australia just committed A$368 billion to be the US Navy's underwater security guard!

The comedy of "sovereign capability" is almost too rich. Sovereign? The reactors are American. The combat system is American. The weapons are American. The fuel is American. The intelligence feed is American. The maintenance schedule is American. Permanently tethering Australia to U.S. software, maintenance, and logistics, effectively ending any "sovereign" capability. The only thing Australian is the taxpayer—and the Prime Minister standing in front of a camera calling this independence

Australia is not buying a submarine; it is buying a node in a U.S. sensor network. The acquisition deeply integrates Australia into the U.S. military command structure, making Australia a tool for U.S. strategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific — while a massive amount of Australian wealth is transferred into the U.S. military-industrial complex

And the timing is exquisite. Washington just added another half-trillion to its own defense budget while Australia is told to hit 3.5% of GDP. America gets the money, the boats, the basing rights at HMAS Stirling, and a Pacific ASW auxiliary. Australia gets the bill, the dependency, and the warm fuzzy feeling of being taken seriously by the adults.

The U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) emphasizes "burden-sharing among allies" and "realist diplomacy." This submarine deal is the perfect execution of that strategy: the U.S. maintains its military overmatch against China by essentially "outsourcing" the financial cost of undersea surveillance to Australia 🤡

Paul Keating called this three years ago. He was mocked, of course. The press club gasped. The security establishment rolled its eyes. But he was right then, and this article proves he's right now. It is worse than he thought. It's not that AUKUS is of little military benefit to Australia. It's that AUKUS is of negative military benefit to Australia—actively diverting resources from actual defense needs toward a capability designed for someone else's homeland

https://t.co/f7lYAMf3JY

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

Brilliant piece from Pearls and Irritations. Finally, someone in Australia is saying out loud what the rest of us have been watching for the past five years

Let's be clear about what AUKUS actually is: the greatest military protection racket in modern history. Washington looked at its own crippled submarine industrial base—17 boats short, yards choking, Congress screaming—and found the perfect mark. A wealthy, eager, insecure middle power with a bipartisan fetish for great-power relevance and a defense minister who treats strategic questions like a classified state secret

The deal? Australia pays half a trillion dollars. In return, it gets used Virginia-class hand-me-downs—Block IV boats with a decade of wear already on the hulls, probably smelling faintly of its previous crew

Even more intriguing, the article confirms for what this overpriced second-hand Australian "sovereign" nuclear submarine fleet is actually for:

Hunting Chinese Jin-class and Type 096 SSBNs. Not to protect Sydney Harbour. Not to secure Australia's trade routes. To find, track, and if ordered, destroy the Chinese nuclear submarines that threaten continental America!

That's the job. That's the whole job. Australia just committed A$368 billion to be the US Navy's underwater security guard!

The comedy of "sovereign capability" is almost too rich. Sovereign? The reactors are American. The combat system is American. The weapons are American. The fuel is American. The intelligence feed is American. The maintenance schedule is American. Permanently tethering Australia to U.S. software, maintenance, and logistics, effectively ending any "sovereign" capability. The only thing Australian is the taxpayer—and the Prime Minister standing in front of a camera calling this independence

Australia is not buying a submarine; it is buying a node in a U.S. sensor network. The acquisition deeply integrates Australia into the U.S. military command structure, making Australia a tool for U.S. strategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific — while a massive amount of Australian wealth is transferred into the U.S. military-industrial complex

And the timing is exquisite. Washington just added another half-trillion to its own defense budget while Australia is told to hit 3.5% of GDP. America gets the money, the boats, the basing rights at HMAS Stirling, and a Pacific ASW auxiliary. Australia gets the bill, the dependency, and the warm fuzzy feeling of being taken seriously by the adults.

The U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) emphasizes "burden-sharing among allies" and "realist diplomacy." This submarine deal is the perfect execution of that strategy: the U.S. maintains its military overmatch against China by essentially "outsourcing" the financial cost of undersea surveillance to Australia 🤡

Paul Keating called this three years ago. He was mocked, of course. The press club gasped. The security establishment rolled its eyes. But he was right then, and this article proves he's right now. It is worse than he thought. It's not that AUKUS is of little military benefit to Australia. It's that AUKUS is of negative military benefit to Australia—actively diverting resources from actual defense needs toward a capability designed for someone else's homeland

https://t.co/f7lYAMf3JY

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[IndependentAustralia @independentaus]

Australia's AUKUS submarine plan is being reshaped by U.S. and British constraints, raising questions about whether the promised leap in capability is quietly becoming a compromise.

AUKUS: Australia gets what America can spare
~ Professor Vince Hooper

https://t.co/1mQjxdcsMm

[IndependentAustralia @independentaus]

Australia's AUKUS submarine plan is being reshaped by U.S. and British constraints, raising questions about whether the promised leap in capability is quietly becoming a compromise.

AUKUS: Australia gets what America can spare
~ Professor Vince Hooper

https://t.co/1mQjxdcsMm

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Anonymous Democracy @Democracy_Duck]

#auspol #insiders @ausgov @RichardMarlesMP

Riddle me this.. if submarines from America being second hand is better..

Why are we getting new submarines being made at all??

The truth is Richard Marles is a lobbyist cosplaying as a politician

AUKUS is a total scam

[Anonymous Democracy @Democracy_Duck]

#auspol #insiders @ausgov @RichardMarlesMP

Riddle me this.. if submarines from America being second hand is better..

Why are we getting new submarines being made at all??

The truth is Richard Marles is a lobbyist cosplaying as a politician

AUKUS is a total scam

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Goody HOW @Mayella09476043]

@rationalbitch @lynlinking Yes. AUKUS was the brain child of Scott Morrison.

He did it in attempt to wedge Labor on defence.

Labor, the Opposition, in 2021, went along with it to defuse that attempt. It should never had done that.

Let’s also not forget the $90 billion cancellation of the French subs.

[Goody HOW @Mayella09476043]

@rationalbitch @lynlinking Yes. AUKUS was the brain child of Scott Morrison.

He did it in attempt to wedge Labor on defence.

Labor, the Opposition, in 2021, went along with it to defuse that attempt. It should never had done that.

Let’s also not forget the $90 billion cancellation of the French subs.

[@thebugonline @thebugonline]

The Bug reveals the identity of a senior Albanese minister who has coped a complete cloacal coating in its latest Xcrements-of-the-Week review.

https://t.co/J53Tkr34xO

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Meanwhile, here’s a report card on the performance of the UK shipbuilding industry our Defence Dept ‘geniuses’ chose to partner with to design our SSN #AUKUS subs 🤦‍♂️. It would be hard to make this stuff up! #auspol