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Jun 2^nd, 2025 at 8:28am

US wants Aust to up defence spending to 3.5 per cent Sad

Jun 02, 2025
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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles denied a specific percentage of defence spending was discussed.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Australia to increase its defence spending to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product during a meeting with Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles, the Pentagon said.

The defence chiefs also discussed security issues on Sunday, including accelerating US defence capabilities in Australia, advancing defence industrial base cooperation and creating supply chain resilience, the defence department said in a statement.

“On defence spending, Secretary Hegseth conveyed that Australia should increase its defence spending to 3.5 per cent of its GDP as soon as possible,” the statement said. Sad

The ministers’ meeting on Friday on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier security forum, is only the second between the security allies since US President Donald Trump took office in January.

Marles said after the meeting they did not discuss a specific percentage of GDP to raise Australian defence spending.

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whiteknight Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8566 melbourne Gender:	Re: US Wants Australia To Up Defence Spending Reply #1 - Jun 2^nd, 2025 at 8:29am Where's the money coming from?
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Reply #2 - Jun 3^rd, 2025 at 10:07pm

Trumpica wants us to increase defence spending.
Essentially what is meant by that is that we need to buy more arms from the U.S.
Fine , there are official and unofficial American bases in Australia, if recompense is or is not being made then charge them or up the rate, there is our additional defence spending.
If they threaten to depart then there are neighbours who will be willing to fill the gap.
As stated in “Times have changed” then land of the free has become the land of greed.

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Marla Gold Member Offline Run for me, MAGA bunny. Posts: 14114 Colorado Gender:	Re: US Wants Australia To Up Defence Spending Reply #3 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 4:30am Trump to Australia when China (eventually) invades: "F**k you! You're on your own." MAGA!
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Marla Gold Member Offline Run for me, MAGA bunny. Posts: 14114 Colorado Gender:	Re: US Wants Australia To Up Defence Spending Reply #4 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 4:32am TEPFAM wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2025 at 10:07pm: Trumpica wants us to increase defence spending. No, he wants Australia to protect and defend it's own F A T ass. Your free ride on the American taxpayer dime is coming to an end.
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Reply #5 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 7:52am

Start investing heavily into local robotics, drone, and ai technology. All human workers are going to be replaced. Human soldiers will be too easy and cheap to kill off with ai drones and other methods.

Millions of Australian ai robotic soldiers. Thats the way forward. Nothing bad will come out of this ! They can work within the economy in between invading our neighbours.

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Reply #6 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 8:06am

Marla wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 4:32am:

TEPFAM wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2025 at 10:07pm:

Trumpica wants us to increase defence spending.

No, he wants Australia to protect and defend it's own F A T ass. Your free ride on the American taxpayer dime is coming to an end.

For once. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MARLA.
Australia, like the rest of the world has sponged and relied on America to do it for them.

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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.

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Ai_Took_Our_Jobs Full Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 247 Gender:	Re: US Wants Australia To Up Defence Spending Reply #7 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:01am Then the flip side should be, all countries free to dump the USD for trade, making Americans live off their own sweat, rather than living off perpetual debt while exporting their inflation on to us. Time for everyone to stand on their own fat feet.
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Reply #8 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:09am

Jasin wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 8:06am:

Marla wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 4:32am:

TEPFAM wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2025 at 10:07pm:

Trumpica wants us to increase defence spending.

No, he wants Australia to protect and defend it's own F A T ass. Your free ride on the American taxpayer dime is coming to an end.

For once. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MARLA.
Australia, like the rest of the world has sponged and relied on America to do it for them.

But we can't - China!
how could we take on the largest navy in the world?

The irony is that they used our Steel and Aluminium to build it. Roll Eyes

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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26784 Gender:	Re: US Wants Australia To Up Defence Spending Reply #9 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:52am Thank goodness we don't have Keating as our PM now, or else we'd really be in trouble!
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Reply #10 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:54am

Bobby. wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:09am:

Jasin wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 8:06am:

Marla wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 4:32am:

TEPFAM wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2025 at 10:07pm:

Trumpica wants us to increase defence spending.

No, he wants Australia to protect and defend it's own F A T ass. Your free ride on the American taxpayer dime is coming to an end.

For once. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MARLA.
Australia, like the rest of the world has sponged and relied on America to do it for them.

But we can't - China!
how could we take on the largest navy in the world?

The irony is that they used our Steel and Aluminium to build it. Roll Eyes

They may have the largest navy in terms of numbers, but they don't yet have the ability to truly project that power beyond their shores as a real blue water navy does. They also don't have any fighting experience, unlike the US Navy, UK Navy or even the Australian Navy. I think that experience will count more than numbers should any conflict begin.

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Reply #11 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 10:04am

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:52am:

Thank goodness we don't have Keating as our PM now, or else we'd really be in trouble!

As opposed to Peter Dutton....Australia dodged a bullet when Mr Potato Head was given his marching orders....Dutton by his own admission would have sucked up Trump's fat arse and reignite the trade war with China....Paul Keating opened up Australia to trade and free markets unlike the Coalition who started a trade war with out biggest market....Thank goodness most Australians are not as stupid as you!!!

Roll Eyes

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Reply #12 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 10:08am

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:54am:

Bobby. wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:09am:

Jasin wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 8:06am:

Marla wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 4:32am:

TEPFAM wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2025 at 10:07pm:

Trumpica wants us to increase defence spending.

No, he wants Australia to protect and defend it's own F A T ass. Your free ride on the American taxpayer dime is coming to an end.

For once. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MARLA.
Australia, like the rest of the world has sponged and relied on America to do it for them.

But we can't - China!
how could we take on the largest navy in the world?

The irony is that they used our Steel and Aluminium to build it. Roll Eyes

They may have the largest navy in terms of numbers, but they don't yet have the ability to truly project that power beyond their shores as a real blue water navy does. They also don't have any fighting experience, unlike the US Navy, UK Navy or even the Australian Navy. I think that experience will count more than numbers should any conflict begin.

We can only stop China if the Yanks help us.

We can't do what Marla wants -

"No, he wants Australia to protect and defend it's own F A T ass."

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Ai_Took_Our_Jobs Full Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 247 Gender:	Re: US Wants Australia To Up Defence Spending Reply #13 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 10:31am If Australia was serious about defending herself, then we would pull away from the US and chart a more independent path. India is leveraging BRICS and the West well. Take a page out of India's defence book.
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Reply #14 - Jun 4^th, 2025 at 10:43am

philperth2010 wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 10:04am:

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jun 4^th, 2025 at 9:52am:

Thank goodness we don't have Keating as our PM now, or else we'd really be in trouble!

As opposed to Peter Dutton....Australia dodged a bullet when Mr Potato Head was given his marching orders....Dutton by his own admission would have sucked up Trump's fat arse and reignite the trade war with China....Paul Keating opened up Australia to trade and free markets unlike the Coalition who started a trade war with out biggest market....Thank goodness most Australians are not as stupid as you!!!

Roll Eyes

Yeah, you are dead wrong. Dutton never once mentioned reigniting a trade war with China. On the other hand, Keating (and Labor as a whole) had history in turning a blind eye to dictators and Communists.

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