This Government has betrayed and sacrificed our Independent Foreign Policy for what?

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New Zealand eyes NATO deal amid security rethink

N ew Zealand on Friday said it was ready to sign a new cooperation deal with NATO, as the country rethinks security in the face of regional tensions and growing Chinese military might.  Foreign minister Winston Peters said after a two-day visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels that a “partnership program” with the alliance would be agreed “in the coming months”. Since the center-right coalition was elected last October, steadfastly independent New Zealand has looked to deepen military ties with “traditional” Western allies.  “The coalition government has made clear the strong emphasis it places on cooperation with New Zealand’s traditional partners, and NATO is a big part of that,” Peters said.  New Zealand has had a partnership with NATO since 2012, but the new deal is expected to foster much closer strategic alignment.

We are quickly becoming a vassal for America.

Winston who loves America almost as much as he loves himself plus a Minister of Defence with the nickname ‘Crusher’ (who has a long and twisted history of abusing political power), have fecklessly led us into an American War and we all have to pretend this is normal?

The Military Industrial Complex that has been softening us up for months…

New Zealand officials began pitching the benefits of joining AUKUS months ago – documents

Documents show Defence officials have for months been pitching the benefits of joining the AUKUS military alliance.

Defence Minister Judith Collins meets her counterpart in Melbourne on Thursday and is expected to raise the prospect of joining the non-nuclear part of the deal – called Pillar 2.

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…why are we pretending Winston and Judith and a weak Luxon sending Military personnel to select targets for America to bomb is reasonable and normal while we get sucked into the vortex of the latest Military Industrial Complex profit drive?

Do any of you honestly think Warmongers like Winston and Judith are operating in our  best interests as they meet the Military Industrial Complex Nazgul?

We should all be deeply alarmed at where Winston and Judith are leading us here!

This isn’t normal, and it should be criticised fiercely!

Yes, as a trading nation it is essential for our interests to see shipping lanes free and open.

No issue with that.

HOWEVER.

The solution we have jumped to by signing up to bombing one of the poorest countries on the planet is a disgrace and moral abomination!

Let’s be very clear what we’ve signed up to. In the words of one of the best analysts in NZ, Dr Paul Buchanan…

…that’s right.

We are in the “kill chain” now. That’s what our NZDF deployment will be doing.

We are helping select targets for America to bomb.

We may as well be pulling the trigger ourselves, so don’t you dare flinch when hear ‘kill chain’, don’t you dare pretend we won’t be killing people and destroying shit.

Again – want to keep sea lanes open, but bombing the Houthis isn’t the solution!

REMEMBER: We claim we are doing this to support the Rules based Order, yet Israel is committing an active ethnic cleansing war crime and we aren’t doing jack shit about that!

REMEMBER: The Houthis are attacking Red Sea shipping lanes BECAUSE Israel is committing a current ethnic cleansing war crime! If we want the shipping lanes open, we should be demanding an immediate Israeli ceasefire!

REMEMBER: Bombing the poorest country in the Middle East is not a solution, it’s an act of war!

Aside from the moral crime, the whole strategy is counter productive bullshit!

The Washington Post isn’t a card carrying member of the Communist Party, and their assessment is that the current bombing campaign we have just enabled and signed up to will actually only strengthen the Houthi…

Analysts contend that this new phase of hostilities may strengthen the Houthis, rather than weaken them. The aftermath of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on southern Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas has seen Israel conduct an operation unprecedented in its scale and ferocity, reducing much of Gaza to rubble, killing more than 23,000 people and immiserating Gaza’s population. The Houthis are part of the so-called “axis of resistance,” a network of Iran-aligned militant groups around the Middle East. While militias like Lebanon’s Hezbollah seem to want to avoid a direct escalation with Israel, the Houthis thrust themselves into the spotlight by taking up the mantle of the Palestinian cause. They insist their actions in the Red Sea will stop when Israel ceases its bombardments.

…so we are bombing a poor country and using tactics that will only strengthen the group we are attacking?

Well that’s all splendid isn’t folks?

This entire adventure is an escalation in a region that desperately needs de-escalation and because Luxon is so weak, we have war dogs like Judith Collins and bloody Winston Peters, signing us up to a conflict where we are on the side of evil!

You heard me!

WE. ARE. ON. THE. SIDE. OF. EVIL.

This expose by the BBC hilariously came out at the same time as our decision to sign up to it. The special investigation shows how our side in this conflict have conducted illegal political assassinations FFS…

UAE has funded political assassinations in Yemen, BBC finds

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has funded politically motivated assassinations in Yemen, a BBC investigation has found.

Training provided by American mercenaries – hired by the UAE in 2015 – has then been used by Emiratis to instruct locals, sparking a surge in targeted killings, a whistleblower says.

The findings come as conflict in Yemen has returned to the international spotlight following attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

The UAE government has denied the allegations in our investigation – that it had assassinated those without links to terrorism – saying they were “false and without merit”.

The killing spree in Yemen – more than 100 assassinations in a three-year period – is just one element of an ongoing bitter internecine conflict pitting several international powers against each other in the Middle East’s poorest country.

The deadly atmosphere has discouraged the permanent return of Yemen’s internationally recognised government. This, it could be argued, has indirectly helped to embolden the Iran-backed Houthis. Washington has announced that it will now re-designate the group as “global terrorists”.

…that’s right!

Just when you couldn’t start feeling more sick about what this new hard right racist Government has signed us up to, ‘our side’ has been conducting a wave of political assassinations that hilariously have only made the Houthis more powerful.

What are we doing getting involved in this orgy of malice?

Obscenely the NZ mainstream media have done sweet fuck all in holding these war numpties to account here!

My dear fellow New Zealander’s, there are enormous tectonic shifts occurring and you are being blinded to them all by the petty and the meaningless.

The half billion dollar contract to Rocketlabs ties us into the Military Industrial Complex.

 

They rally ’round the family with a pocket full of shells.

Bulls on parade.

Rage Against The Machine 

 

 

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24 COMMENTS

    • Israel should stop killing now they have made their point but Hamas were quilts of rape and other war crimes . It is a sad situation and the losers are innocent citizens on both sides.

      • Absolute nonsense. There is no more evidence of rape by Hamas than there is of 40 beheaded babies or the other lies made up the zionists, who lie as easily as they breathe.

        • im right, trevor and bob the first are the same thing. Don’t be fooled.
          Some right wing troll has figured out how to have three comment streams ( By having three email addresses. I know because I did it myself to see if it could work. I went by the nom de plume Battle Field Earth) and now he, or she, and / or perhaps an it, can pretend to be different but really they’re the same pathetic thing. Fuck they’re annoying though aren’t they? They’re like having a sandflies in the car after dark. They keep nipping away but you can’t see them to squash squash them.

  4. Obscenely the NZ mainstream media have done sweet fuck all in holding these war numpties to account here!
    And if they did raise this issue Winnie would be up on his high horse bleating about how ‘baised’ the media is in NZ against the right – BS – if anything the media have a strong right bais due to the editors of publications being aligned with the right wing power brokers.

    • Exactly @ Bob. We’ve really only had one political identity since 1984 actually. The politics of greed, and now, anything will do to hide the crimes they committed against us in those preceding years.
      winston peters is the archetypical lap poodle sent in to run about yapping after being instructed to make certain nothing’s ever found.
      You can’t have 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires each with a $50 million net minimum and four foreign owned and operated banks stealing $180.00 a second net 24/7/365 from a small agricultural economy generated by a scant few 50 thousand people on a country with 5.2 million without some seriously dodgy shit having gone down for generations.
      And fuck you bob the pathetic, im a dick and trev the right wing psycho.

  6. The Coalition is simply carrying on the direction of Labour’s foreign policy, which was urgently trying to re-new traditional friendships and form new alliances ahead of increasing de-globalization and the breakdown of the rules-based order.

    • +100. And on the domestic front scrambling to implement a social cohesion policy whilst opening NZ up to record numbers of immigrants, many of whom are bringing ethnic and faith conflicts in their countries of origin with them.

  7. “This Government has betrayed and sacrificed our Independent Foreign Policy for what?” Martyn Bradbury

    Yes, for what? Now that is a very good question.

    Are we swapping exporting milk powder, for exporting cannon fodder, as Fiji does?

    Is this our cunning master plan for the economy?

    A. Craig Copetas: On Fiji, a crop of soldiers fuels economy
    Share full article
    Oct. 30, 2007
    SUVA, Fiji — Since the 1970s, this impoverished and remote remnant of the British Empire has positioned itself as a discount-soldier surplus store……

    Are we diversifying our export led economy, into a sideline of death and destruction, in competition with Fiji, just in case our Chinese trading partners decide to ditch us in a huff over our alliance with the US, as they did to Australia

    Despite China being Australia’s largest trading partner, trade tensions fuelled by geopolitical rivalry have threatened to derail the relationship. Over the past 3 years China has banned or increased tariffs on a wide range of Australian goods and services, while seeking alternative sources of iron ore and coal….

    https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/GlobalTradeRisksAndOpportunities#

  8. The stance of the current government has essentially been the New Zealand government’s position since 2001. Numerous Foreign and Defence Ministers have been to NATO conferences over the last 23 years.
    China knows all of this. The key is to ensure a balanced relationship with appropriate understanding of our major trading partners.
    Will this change under a future Labour/Green/Te Pati Maori government in the 2030’s? Maybe somewhat, but even they will have to be mindful of New Zealands’s relationship with Australia. If New Zealand abandons the alliance with Australia, New Zealand also abandons its close social and economic ties with Australia. With drastic effects on the economy.

  10. I hate to this think ‘for what’ . The anti nuc policy will be next, for sure.
    At this point, we have to consider that Luxon is actually the ring master. That guy is a first class creep. And to think I once thought Key was. Not any more.

  11. This from The Guardian. They’re having the same problems in the UK as we are here. And this is why.
    Unfettered greed. The rich and greedy can be as rich and greedy as they like and there’s nothing left within our laws and our politics to stop them. No unions, no money and now no hope.
    ‘It’s greed, that’s what it’s about’: documenting the UK’s cost of living crisis – photo essay
    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/01/uk-cost-of-living-crisis-tipton-south-shields-bristol-photo-essay

  12. Peters, Collins & this Motley National Party bunch of Losers are on the wrong side of History? NATO, the North American Terrorist Organisation is being defeated in it’s NATO Proxy War in Ukraine, hence the absolute panic & realisation at this meeting in Brussels that they are losing, it’s all turning to shit, Sanctions have failed to destroy Russia, Waging a undeclared US War against Russia in Ukraine has failed only making Russia Militarily stronger, its Industrial Weapons Industry is in hyperdrive pumping out Weapons the West can’t compete so all they left to destroy Russia with was Rules based Terror attacks in Moscow with the CROCAS attack which pissed on the Russians to the point they are accelerating massive attacks on Ukraine which is falling apart & NATO & the US don’t know what to do, they are bogged down un Ukraine & the Middle East & unable to pivot to their next War against China? Russia has shown that the US created NATO is a weak, feckless, toothless, worthless Organisation that the Russians have demilitarised along with America’s Rules based Order which is in tatters thanks to the ineptitude of the Biden Regime, America is having it’s ass handed to it in Ukraine by the Russians, the Houthis have defeated the US Navy & it’s Allies in the Red Sea despite not having a Blue water Navy & it’s genocidal Proxy Israel has been humiliated by Hamas, 6 mths of murdering Gazan Women & children have not defeated Hamas or led to the Hostages being released, Israel has lost, this murderous Zionist Nation will cease to exist & the recent killing of the White Food Aid workers, deliberately targeted & the bombing of a Iranian Embassy, breaking the Geneva convention was the final straw? And now this NZ Coalition of Fuckwits is hitching NZ’s Wagon to the dying US Empire & Western Capitalism that’s in collapse around the World, America’s soft power & reputation as a Moral leader is in the toilet! BRICs with China & Russia & along with the Global Majority are the Future while the decrepit Colonial Imperial West are the past & NZ will collapse with the West, this motley lot running the Country is backing the wrong Horse?

  13. International hypocrite of the Century.
    Winston Peters who cut New Zealand aid to UNWRA on unsubstantiated allegations made by Israel.

    Peters calls war in Gaza an ‘utter catastrophe’ at UN meeting

    Thomas Manch, Stuff.co.nz, April 08, 2024, • 10:00am

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350239183/peters-calls-war-gaza-utter-catastrophe-un-meeting

    ‘…..Peters criticised the UN Security Council for failing to act decisively in response to the war, acknowledged Israel’s “belated announcements” it would provide more aid, and re-stated New Zealand’s support for a two-state solution to Israel-Palestinian issue.’

    ‘…..Peters said Israel could not “be under any misconceptions as to its legal obligations” after the International Court of Justice last month ordered unimpeded aid be allowed into Gaza.’

    Peters impedes aid to Gaza:

    RNZ
    POLITICS 30 Jan 2024

    No more aid for UN aid agency until Peters satisfied – Luxon
    12:41 pm on 30 January 2024

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507907/no-more-aid-for-un-aid-agency-until-peters-satisfied-luxon#

    ‘….Heading into National’s caucus meeting this morning, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed New Zealand would be withholding further funding for the agency until Foreign Minister Winston Peters gave the go-ahead.’

    Commonwealth countries Australia and Canada have reinstated their funding to UNRWA after Israel failed to provide evidence of their allegations made against the aid agency.

    The Times of Israel
    ISRAEL AT WAR – DAY 186

    Australia to resume funding for UNRWA, pledges further aid for Gaza
    ‘UNRWA is not a terrorist organization,’ says Australian FM after Israeli allegations that some of the UN Palestinian refugee agency’s staff took part in October 7 onslaught

    By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF, 16 March 2024, 4:18 am

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-to-resume-funding-for-unrwa-pledges-further-aid-for-gaza/

    ‘….Australia’s move follows Sweden, the European Commission and Canada in reinstating funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which had seen its international funding frozen while the allegations were investigated.’

    After helping Israel starve Palestinians, Peters is met by protesters;

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/winston-peters-heckled-by-protestors-before-state-of-the-nation-speech/YMJFNGVTB56KWBMGGKDRXAPHQ4/

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