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Australia is becoming America’s military launch-pad into Asia. Are Australian voters ready for the costs of great-power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific? (www.economist.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I saw an article earlier today about shutting down Diego Garcia. Doubt it'll happen anytime soon, but if they do, that stuff - and there's a lot of it - would probably move to Oz.

(Found the article on lemmy - https://startrek.website/post/1093559)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Curious about what stuff? Missiles? Troops? Hardware?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia#United_States_military_activities