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I’ve maintained for a while, the U.K. government response to COVID was essentially the biggest heist in history
Can it match the trillion bucks Australian taxpayers will be gifting the US military-industrial complex over the coming decades under the AUKUS banner?
(Should actually be USUKA, for a couple of very obvious reasons)
Bonus kick in the teeth: this policy, begun under the most corrupt government we've had in living memory (conservative, naturally), is being continued by our nominally 'Labor' government... Because neoliberalism, aka neofuedalism, is all there is on the table.
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Don’t forget the French already had their pound of flesh.
The whole submarine bullshit was bizarre tho; ask the French to turn their nuclear sub into a conventional one “because we don’t like nuclear here” then complain that it’s not nuclear.
Do you happen to know Adelaide fared? I know the city was putting their hopes on the naval yard after the car plants closed (we were considering an office there at one point).
I’ve maintained for a while, the U.K. government response to COVID was essentially the biggest heist in history