AUKUS: Australians paying to defend the US homeland

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/aukus-australians-paying-to-defend-the-us-homeland/

AUKUS is sold as a sovereign Australian defence capability. But its strategic logic and dependence on US systems raise a harder question: whose homeland is it really designed to defend? It is not to defend Australia. It is primarily to defend the US homeland....read on https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/aukus-australians-paying-to-defend-the-us-homeland/

The AUKUS Inquiry Commissioners will release their report, findings and recommendations at the National Press Club at 1230 AEDT Wednesday 4th November.