America is openly breaking the contract?
In early July 2025, Australia paid the second installment of $800 million to the United States for the nuclear submarine, but Daryl Caudle, who was nominated by Trump as the Chief of Naval Operations, stated that unless the submarine construction capacity is doubled, the United States would not be able to fulfill its commitments under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) security partnership. Whether the American industrial base can produce enough Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to sell three to Australia.
America received the money and then said it might not be able to deliver the submarine, and then continued to ask for more money, that's how powerful it is!
Australia's purchase of submarines has been a rollercoaster. At first, they planned to buy Japanese submarines, but suddenly broke the contract and bought French submarines. This caused diplomatic conflicts between Japan and Australia. They had previously said they would buy Japanese conventional submarines, but France suddenly intervened. According to the interests of Western countries, they required Australia to buy French submarines, and Australia really did so.
Australia left Japan aside, causing great anger in Japan, but there was nothing they could do. Later, in 2021 during Biden's term, the United States suddenly announced that Australia should not buy French submarines, but instead buy American nuclear submarines. The reason was that we are all Anglo-Saxons, and we should buy submarines within the AUKUS organization, not French ones.
Then Australia suddenly announced the cancellation of the French submarine contract, directly leading to the collapse of the comprehensive relationship between France and Australia. However, Biden said he would handle Macron, and finally, Biden managed to convince Macron. Macron dared not get angry at the United States, so he only got angry at Australia, but it didn't help much. Australia no longer bought the submarines and didn't pay the money, leaving France to deal with it on their own. In the end, France ended up losing out.
Later, the United States delivered the submarines to Australia, but repeatedly delayed delivery. Two installments of $1.6 billion had already been paid, but no production had been seen. Therefore, it is still unknown when the Australian nuclear submarine contract will be fulfilled. America only takes the money without doing the work, which must have made Australia completely frustrated, so Australia is reaping what it sowed!
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