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    From mccoyrufus@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 19 17:43:42 2023
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18
    Our defence minister, Richard Marles, says we need the nuclear sub to protect our trade routes in ABC "Insiders" program. He obviously haven't see this YouTube video created some 2 years ago !!!! This 2 year old joke seems to be coming true !!!! Even the
    $ figure mentioned in the video seems accurate enough !!!

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to mccoy...@gmail.com on Mon Mar 20 05:25:38 2023
    On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 12:43:44 AM UTC, mccoy...@gmail.com wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18
    Our defence minister, Richard Marles, says we need the nuclear sub to protect our trade routes in ABC "Insiders" program. He obviously haven't see this YouTube video created some 2 years ago !!!! This 2 year old joke seems to be coming true !!!! Even
    the $ figure mentioned in the video seems accurate enough !!!

    China is a threat to the US, at least from the Pentagon's point of view. Without China, the generals
    and admirals have a lot less reasons to raise the US defense budget. But then China is a regional
    power, it is mostly peaceful with its neighbors during the last 200 years. It is currently the biggest
    trading partner to most of them. And it does not have allies and military bases all over the world
    like the US. Viola! The concept of Indo-Pacific and strategic interest over the Indo-Pacific were born.

    The pen is mightier than the sword in creating conflict.

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