Australia’s $368 billion submarine program is apparently wobbling again, not because US shipyards can’t keep up, or because a future president could cancel the deal with the flick of a pen.
Those are mere details.
The real “problem”, we’re told, is tonal.
Pay up, shut up, speak up against China, or we won't get the subs (some wise Americans demand)
According to a recent report by Nine Newspapers, John Bolton (he of moustache and missile fame), Bryan Clark (Hudson Institute, Pentagon whisperer), and Alexander Gray (Trump-era adviser turned Atlantic Council fellow) all offered the same diagnosis: