Antinuclear

Submission- Andrew Gaines -re new agreement on  Naval Nuclear Propulsion- could take us to war against China.

Submission no. 8  https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Treaties/NuclearPropulsion/Submissions

This Agreement should not go forward
The question at hand is whether the Agreement on Cooperation Related to Naval
Nuclear Propulsion should be ratified. The agreement paves the way for Virginia
class submarines to be acquired by Australia, along with nuclear fuel and relevant IP.

The previous Liberal government and the present Labor government have both
committed Australia to AUKUS submarines. To my knowledge this was done without
a Parliamentary inquiry, and without considered public debate.

Which is to say, up t o now neither the Australian public nor the Parliament has been
given an opportunity to veto the AUKUS agreement. De facto, this Agreement
provide such an opportunity.

Should Australia ratify the agreement? The short answer is no.

War became obsolete with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The obvious intention of the AUKUS program is to increase the United
States offensive capacity against China (after all these are attack submarines).

As a Chinese diplomat quipped, “Of course, your submarines are for sightseeing?”

Although the Labor government and the media portray China as a growing military
threat against Australia, two former Australian Prime Ministers, one of whom speaks
fluent Mandarin, assert that China is no threat to us

However, by militarily aligning with the United States against China we could
probably turn China into an enemy. And if the insanity of nuclear war erupts, well,
there goes Pine Gap, US bases in the Northern Territory, Port Kembla if that’s the
homeport for nuclear powered submarines… and who knows what else

In the greater scheme of things Australia, America, Russia, China and other countries
should be doing our best to tone down geopolitical military jockeying. The alternative
– highly likely in my view – is that at some point, whether through technological
accident or demented leadership on one side or another, things get out of hand, a
nuclear exchange occurs, and our globalized civilization is destroyed within a matter
of hours.
Proceeding down the path of AUKUS will not make us safer. This Agreement should not go forward.

September 7, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized