# AUKUS gets steamy, & cherrypicking can't make the US National Security Strategy good news Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/aukus-gets-steamy-cherrypicking-can-t-make-the-us-national-security-strategy-good-news Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/aukus-gets-steamy-cherrypicking-can-t-make-the-us-national-security-strategy-good-news.md Podcast: [The Grumpy Strategists](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649) Published: 2025-12-12T07:06:28+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists/2385606 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/228146/2385606/the-grumpy-strategists/2025_12_12_07_04_16_4fee0e93-05f9-4d03-a8a2-1201a1c3920f.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/episodes/aukus-gets-steamy-cherrypicking-can-t-make-the-us-national-security-strategy-good-news Duration seconds: 2975 ## Resource Well, well, well. the Pentagon's AUKUS review is out - well, actually under lock and key, but apparently its' great news that is about "strengthening" AUKUS. Hard to know how something that was flawlessly on track could need or be strengthened....Australian & US defence and foreign policy heads met in a steamy AUSMIN meeting leaving the rest of us in the dark while they got close. Meanwhile, the jarringly self-congratulatory grievance filled US National Security Strategy is out, bringing back the 19th Century idea of spheres of influence, this time for America, Russia and China. The fragments of remaining commitment to allies & any sense of collective security will be seized on by governments pretending everything is still good, but any engagement with the changed America the NSS describes will look very different. Foreign interference is out unless it's done to US friends & allies, or makes a buck. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/episodes/aukus-gets-steamy-cherrypicking-can-t-make-the-us-national-security-strategy-good-news/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/aukus-gets-steamy-cherrypicking-can-t-make-the-us-national-security-strategy-good-news.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.