Read ex-PM's blistering 200-word rant about American nuclear submarines - warning 'if the US can't beat a bunch of Taliban rebels in pick-up trucks, what chance would it have against China?'
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating was critical of the nuclear subs agreement
He said the US military had shown it could not beat 'a bunch of Taliban rebels'
Mr Keating said Australia would become 'hostage' to US military policy in Asia
He wondered how Australia cold maintain 'sophisticated nuclear submarines'
By Michael Pickering For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 23:12 EDT, 15 September 2021 | Updated: 03:30 EDT, 16 September 2021
Former prime minister Paul Keating has slammed the new nuclear submarines deal between the US, UK and Australia, arguing the US military can't beat a bunch of Taliban rebels in pick-up trucks.
In a damning assessment of the agreement jointly announced this morning by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mr Keating said the deal represented a further 'dramatic loss of Australian sovereignty'.
Mr Keating, the famously acid-tongued Labor PM from 1991-1996, released a statement that questioned the wisdom of Australia locking in its military equipment and defence forces with the US to counter the growing power of China.
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