Carlton Supporters Club

I love the way you said you'd give LP the last word only to get in the last word yourself and then close the discussion

Cancel all foreign aid to them and give them notice we're closing our embassy.  Then watch them sweat

Playing right into the CCP’s hands 

The fact that the US didn’t re-open its Solomon Islands embassy is a factor in the CCP gaining a foothold in our backyard. Hopefully, a new US embassy and Scotty keeping his mouth shut will reverse the CCP’s gains.

And we wouldn’t get much of a missile base for the paltry amount of aid we give the Solomons … not that a missile base would present much of a threat.

We cant compete with the handouts or the build China will offer in terms of infrastructure, the Chinese Renminbi has bought the Solomon islands off and thats the bottom line. Doesnt matter if it was the LP or ALP they were never going to fork out what the Chinese were offering in money and toys. The only hope was the USA showing some interest and its clear they have given up and conceded the Solomons to China and dont give a flying feck about their mates down under which doesnt bode well for Taiwan's future. Sogavare has looked after his own future and is just a puppet of China now and has sold out his people, good luck trying to vote him out next election thats if they ever have one.

Getting infrastructure off China is like buying all your stuff at Venture, it's cheap plastic filled crap that'll crumble and turn to rubbish before it's a decade old!
 

Yep its like compounded chocolate vs the real stuff, problem is the kids will eat the compounded if its free....

Over $240 million p.a. is not paltry .... stuff them.  Ingrates

We cant compete with the handouts or the build China will offer in terms of infrastructure, the Chinese Renminbi has bought the Solomon islands off and thats the bottom line. Doesnt matter if it was the LP or ALP they were never going to fork out what the Chinese were offering in money and toys. The only hope was the USA showing some interest and its clear they have given up and conceded the Solomons to China and dont give a flying feck about their mates down under which doesnt bode well for Taiwan's future. Sogavare has looked after his own future and is just a puppet of China now and has sold out his people, good luck trying to vote him out next election thats if they ever have one.

As for the anti-nuclear sub protestors, I've no interest in the anti-nuclear parrots. In any case, the tell that the deal was done happened straight after the election, when labour announced the purchase of missiles that are useless when housed on a conventional platform. If the platform cannot loiter indefinitely the missiles are worthless, so it's a huge tell the deal will proceed.

I've copied this from the China thread:

The ADF has selected the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)  as its long-range, rocket artillery system.  This was initially proposed in the 2016 White Paper and was confirmed by the 2020 Defence Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan.  Essentially a commitment of the previous Government but Labor has undertaken to honor defence procurement commitments (as well as adding its own).

HIMARS is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army, mounted on a standard Army M1140 truck frame.  As the name suggests, it is a highly mobile system that is able to "shoot and scoot", thereby evading counter battery fire.  In addition to a range of warheads, HIMARS is capable of firing the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM). Australia has an MoU  with the US for the development of the PrSM weapon.

HIMARS is a state of the art weapon system that will address a serious gap in our defence capability.  It is perfectly suited to our conditions and will integrate seamlessly with current and future defence materiel.

HIMARS, and the older MRLS, are tipped to give Ukraine an edge in its artillery duels with Russian forces.  Russian missile launchers have a shorter range and lack the mobility of the US and UK missile systems.

https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-the-us-and-uk-missile-systems-which-will-challenge-russias-artillery-dominance-184479

Poland has just ordered 500 HIMARS.