XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, aus.politics   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: Leper@MalokaiColony.com   
      
   On 2/13/2023 5:22 PM, Peter Jason wrote:   
   > On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:18:14 +1100, "Rod Speed"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:59:52 +1100, Peter Jason  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:18:36 -0000 (UTC), J D Young   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it would accelerate plans to   
   >>>> buy advanced sea mines to protect its maritime routes and ports from   
   >>>> "potential aggressors" amid China's plans to increase its influence in   
   >>>> the   
   >>>> Pacific region.   
   >>>   
   >>> Laudable.  But will they also be placed along the length of submarine   
   >>> cables which could be cut by some enemy, in many locations, so   
   >>> isolating Oz from the rest of the world?   
   >>   
   >> Even if all the submarine cables were all cut in multiple places,   
   >> we would not be isolated from the rest of the world due to satellites.   
   >   
   >   
   > That is true.  But the cost and queuing would slow things down to a   
   > crawl.  Presumably use would be rationed to the benefit of we posters   
   > in aus.politics.   
      
   But in times of a real war, would those Satellites survive the first few   
   hours?  Possibly be the very first causalities. To prevent return   
   missile targeting.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>> China has plans to step up its presence in the Pacific and entered a   
   >>>> security pact with Solomon Islands last year, raising concerns in the   
   >>>> United States and Australia, who for decades have seen the region as   
   >>>> their   
   >>>> sphere of influence.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Australia has been looking to boost its defence spending over the past   
   >>>> few   
   >>>> years, including entering into a deal in 2021 to buy nuclear submarines   
   >>>> from the United States and Britain.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ($1 = 1.4323 Australian dollars)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> (Reporting by Renju Jose. Editing by Gerry Doyle)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://news.yahoo.com/australia-speed-purchase-sea-mines-034254381.html   
      
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