Australia 'mugged by reality' on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build (opens in new tab)

Lack of integrity kills everything. This is one "resource" you start with, that you can only lose. There is no gain. Some people lost it all before they can understand what integrity is.

It’s Democracy at it’s finest.

'Australia pays $830m penalty for ditching non-nuclear French submarines'

> that they chose to just throw away

I believe the tech transfers are still happening. That’s massive. American nuclear submarine technology is in a class of its own.

The issue is industrial capacity. Right now the US has enough industrial capacity to deliver maybe 2 submarines a year, and that needs to scale a lot. But that requires the companies involved to build more dockyards, train more workers (this is fairly specialized stuff), etc. Thats a big upfront cost for those companies, and they aren’t entirely sure such investments would pay off, and things like the above budget request underline that hesitancy. Personally I think this is why we need government intervention, more than just throwing money at them and hoping they invest it in industrial capacity.

You can't build and sell a warship (or submarine in this case) without congressional approval in the US

You may have some points but McArthur wanted to turn Korea into a sea of irradiated isotopes. I think it's fair he was turned down.