What President Donald Trump has been saying about his friends and our allies recently clearly suggests that both the AUKUS arrangement (it is not a treaty), along with last month’s down payment of some $US500k, has been and will prove to be a terrible mistake.
Trump has ruled out allies, implying too that with AUKUS we have bought a ‘pig in a poke’ By Andrew Farran
With AUKUS we have thrown all our eggs into one basket. With what assurance, as opposed to expectation, of a return? Nor is it clear as to purpose once a military stalemate is between the US and China.