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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Interesting, wonder how much the lease is, it's sound more like a defense trade deal than anything else
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I think opening up bases in Australia would be the bigger things than necessarily the dollar value. Having good bases in a stable, friendly country in a strategic part of the world is a big carrot. That's part of the reason for the French anger as New Caledonia and Réunion are definitely in sailing distance of Australia and are constitutionally part of France