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    • #6818
      Jeff MarvelJeff Marvel
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      Now that the United States, Britain and Australia have coordinated and articulated their joint Indo Pacific strategy and booted France out, some news outlets are joshing down any concern about repercussions from France or the impotent EU. 

      Don’t you know it, France is the only military nation, and underpowered at that in Western Europe, the UK has departed the EU in Brexit after it had displayed year after year of discontent at being unable to assume the leadership of the group.

      So what can France do to upend the Mighty AUKUS alliance and its designs over the Pacific region?

      One thing for sure we don’t want to see Disneyland Paris booted out or shut down, ohhhh naaw 😥 disaster for our shareholders and their Roth IRAs.

      We also don’t want to see American business or tourists booted out of every Club Med resort – ohhhhh sob, sob, sob I am in tears at the ground shaking underneath my boots. 😱 😭

      We don’t want Germany to re-arm itself and NATO squeezed out of Europe by a new military.  Ooops NATO is in Europe but the UK is no more, Macron and conniving sniveling hoods are just starting the remodeling effort.  Scoff, snort, snort they don’t have the economics to do levitate a coffee bean on an espresso machine. 🤮

      We don’t want the Euro Fighter contracts cancelled by Spain, Italy and Sweden and replaced by Dassault Aviation or the Euro Fighter British BAE consortium pushed out and replaced by a new block comprised of Dassault and Airbus.  Damn the Norwegians and Netherlands are misreading our signals.

      Ultimately though we would hate to see Macron yell out to Eastern Europe’s massive nuclear army “Hey Putin, me Kassa es su Kassa, my pussy is your pussy, if my ass is grass so is yours” 💄💋 👩🏻‍🦰

      The AUKUS alliance would really be in a bind especially since Eastern Europe’s nuclear army is already at China’s backdoor and India’s front door.  Crazy Ivan is, without a doubt, America’s lackey, they call them Crazy Ivan because they don’t dance all that well and aren’t good at double crossing old alliances.

       

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      SupermanUSASupermanUSA
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      Gene Hack Man is definitely into
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    • #6843
      SoarinDragon21SoarinDragon21
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      @JeffMarvel1 its nothing more than a defense contract flushed down the tubes, happens all the time, the media needed a big story and they hyped it to high heaven, Macron is in election year and this was really bad timing on part of the “allies” so he had no other game than to play the very card the media was handing him.  It’s a parade charade and let’s pray it doesnt get out of hand.

      On the down and dirty side, France was used by Australia as canon fodder to play down the next bidder.  Naval Group is very much able to build nuclear submarines, so why didnt the Australians ask for Naval’s nuclear subs when they changed their minds????  The cost overruns Australia is whining about is their doing, these kind of military projects are monitored by several agencies in France and Australia, budget overruns are scrutinized at every step the client (Australia) makes a change.  A CHANGE ORDER OR SCOPE CHANGE in a well defined contract is VERY VERY COSTLY, ask any big ticket manufacturer (Boeing, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, etc.) or heavy industry construction contractor (Fluor Corporation, Kiewit, Halliburton, Skanska).

      This post is to suggest the news is taking stories with headlines-making potential and blowing them out of proportion.  Print ragheads only care about copy sales and circulation.  Anyone in the industries I mentioned are laughing at the credibility of the press eroding BECAUSE WE TALK, my colleagues TELL WAR STORIES and this is ONE OF THEM.

      Cost overruns on military defense projects are the norm, and when a customer starts asking for custom re-redesign of an already finalized military systems platform they ARE ASKING FOR IT!!!!!!

      So why didnt the Australians just re-negotiate the contract and ask Naval Group for nuclear subs????  In most cases it is cheaper to use the same contractor who already started than to start over and especially if they asking for off the shelf nuclear submarines fleet.  Naval would even have cut them a special deal just to keep the customer happy and avoid the blowout – which they know would happen on a high profile program such as is.  News says the billings were only $1 billion into a $50 billion package, hardly worth all the screaming and shouting and “allies falling out” CHINA IS SMILING AT THE BATMAN THEATRICS GONE TOO STUPID.

      But hold on says Ronco Rotisserie sales guy, we get one more angle to this shit show, there is the angle of publicity, Biden, Johnson and Morrison are getting TOUGH ON CRIME, CRIMEA, GRIME, COUGH COUGH COUGH, THEY ARE GETTING TOUGH ON CHINA and they needed all the publicity this cancelled military contract could give them.  YES MACRON IS IN ON IT, he is one of the four mothketeers, CLOWNS playing along with this charade cooked up by the press, DC and the White House.

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