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Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS
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The subs deal has always been insanely stupid. It’s like when we spent like $10bil on a few fighter jets a while back - if China came knocking looking for an invasion, having 6 subs and a few dozen fighter jets may as well be a few mosquitos buzzing around chinas ears. Completely pointless.
No one is coming to invade Australia. We’re too far away, too barren, and we already give away all of our resources for almost free to anyone who asks.
Our military strategy should be “yeah nah she’ll be right” because we have nothing to worry about in terms of an army from another country pushing a full scale invasion.
Our bigger issue is that we are currently just welcoming in immigrants from anywhere in record numbers, and have been selling all of our land and assets to China and other countries for decades. We’ve imported ~20% of our population in the last 5 years, mostly from China and the Middle East. You know, 2 of the 3 places that are the most likely to invade/start a war with anyone, alongside Russia. Our government is essentially selling our country out as it is with welcoming arms, so there is no need for any military invasion.
I had to check this claim for myself and as far as I can see your numbers are way off. Looking at the numbers supplied by the ABS I can see 2.485M arrivals over 5 years to 2024, or neally 10% of the 26M population. Not the 20% in your claim but feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
65% of these arrivals are Temporary visa holders, so they go home again...
13% were returning Australian Citizens.
6.3% were from NZ.
14% were Perminant Visa holders. 350K over 5 years is 1.34% of the Australian population.