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Re:Australia to acquire nuclear submarine fleet (AUKUS) by nsonha on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:16AM (#28566435)
Just out of curiosity why would the French even have a Pacific strategy?
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Re:Australia to acquire nuclear submarine fleet (AUKUS) by Bayart on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:46AM (#28566832)
We have territories in the Pacific, most notably New Caledonia (Australia's closest neighbour, I believe), and a huge EEZ [1].

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Map_of_t...

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Re:Australia to acquire nuclear submarine fleet (AUKUS) by caf on Saturday September 18, 2021 @07:32AM (#28575347)
Australia's closest neighbour is Papua New Guinea - the closest Australian island is only 4km from the PNG coast.
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Re:Australia to acquire nuclear submarine fleet (AUKUS) by nsonha on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:46PM (#28569379)
reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykDDyHDTZY
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