Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Trade wars and a Gaza 'take over' bid | Planet America Wednesday" video.

  1. Engineer here 1) There's nothing that says AI drones would work at anything. You're simply reading way too much into the RIDICULOUSLY OVER HYPED capabilities of AI. 2) The entire AUKUS program is ridiculous and not because its nuclear. I have supported for almost 20 years that our next submarines should be nuclear. In 2006 I had a technician who was an ex-US Navy nuclear power plant tech/operator who'd worked on aircraft carriers which have exactly the same nuclear reactors as the subs. There'd been some news story on what Australia should have after Collins and he simply crushed the stupidity that Australia should have diesel electric subs with the amount of ocean area we have to patrol. The 2 best reasons AUKUS is ridiculous are: 1) The cost. At $268 Billion for 8 Subs that's $33.5 Billion each over their lifetime. The basic cost of a Virginia class is $5.5 Billion. So where is the other $28 Billion going? No one is even asking that. So I did some research 2 years ago and even building and maintaining all that I could find listed and then multiplying the costs the closest I came to $268 was around $155 Billion. I have discussed this with other engineers and there's at least $100 billion none of us can work out where its going. 2) Crewing the Virginia class Virginia class subs need almost 140 submariners while the Collins requires 60. Australis has struggled with getting enough submariners qualified to operate 4 of the 6 Collins class subs we have. Just to crew 2 Virginia class subs would take MORE THAN the current RAN Submariner corps. Who's going to crew the other 6? An ex-RAN Submarine commander was asked about this on 4-Corners and his answer was: "We'll have to do better." YES that was his answer. Nothing about how. Nothing about training. Nothing about where these people would come from. He had nothing, nada, zip or diddley squat AND THAT'S THE BEST ANSWER SO FAR.
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  2. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. YES over 70 million Americans lost their minds when the put Trump back into power, but the other 260 million or so of them are decent people that we really should call friends and allies. The main culprits in this clusterf--k are the Dum-o-crats who utterly lost the plot. Right now Labor seem to have hired the same campaign people because their early ads are all about "More of the same." Remember Kamala Harris's famous answer "I can't think of anything I'd do differently"? That comment was what sunk here campaign and why over 7 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 did NOT vote in 2024. Fundamentally any party anywhere in the world that goes with the "More of the same strategy" is going to lose and lose huge. Even if its to a clown howling that "They're eating cats and dogs!" This is what happened with Brexit and European elections and French elections and other places.
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  3. ​ @andrewduan5123  There was an ABC story where they revealed that there were 10-12 ex US Navy officers (including at least 1 admiral) who had been in Australia for more than 10 years consulting on the Collins replacement. They were being paid between $5,000 and $8,000 PER DAY that's $1.2 million to $1.9million a year. Further to what I looked through I found that ASPI, the think tank in Canberra that is heavily funded by our government to give advice ALSO receives money from the US State Department. I think that's called a conflict of interest.
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