Very defensive and grumpy speech by Winston as he continues to soften NZ up on why he’s traded our Independent Foreign Policy to the American Military Industrial Complex for 3 Magic Beans.
Explaining why we would allow America to build a Submarine base in Northland might be a hard sell to a country that last hosted American troops in World War Two.
The recently passed massive US Military Aid Bill has a large budget for building bases around the South Pacific as the drums for war beat across the Indo-China theatre.
Winston loves America almost as much as he loves himself, so entrusting Lange’s Legacy to him is a bit Fox in the Hen House wearing a large chicken costume armed with a submachine gun for me.
What was interesting is he seemed to hold up the $3.5billion for Military hardware and suggest they should be replaced with a new deal that ensures our equipment is compatible with AUKUS forces.
Now that was a surprising comment because as far as I can see we are already on the hook for that equipment, is Winston suggesting we dump that cost, freeing up Billions for National and he’s going to get us some sweet heart deal on some AUKUS toys?
If he is, wouldn’t that compatibility expect some blind loyalty in times of conflict?
Wouldn’t that be the very killing off of an Independent Foreign Policy?
Winston’s tone sounded like it was shaped by the TVNZ Poll. All the assertions the Right have convinced themselves of since the election have all be challenged in the last 72 hours since the Poll release and Winston is testing out how attached NZ is to its Independent Foreign Policy.
He is no fool, Helen Clark has enormous respect and when she is directly criticising your position, you back off.
Let’s see if a military base is Fast Tracked.
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Even if we were to be involved in any way in a future war with China how would that play out with huge numbers of ethnic Chinese living here whose only allegiance is to the Chinese Communist Party and their local Mercedes dealership?
A USA sub base in Northland would help resolve the unemployment in the area and be a big boost to the economy of the area.Deep Freeze US base is great for Christchurch.
apparently the .Deep Freeze US base was/is a conduit for drugs into Christchurch ,,,,,,,,,, good for drug dealers economics ….
The only thing the Ammurrican military brings is rape and murder.
As Martyn has pointed out in the past ,,,, kissing Usa arse is more expensive than just the mouthwash (spin) to convince the non-western world that your breath don’t stink ,,,,
Martyn in particular pointed out the very expensive (for New Zealand) cost of buying Submarine hunting and destroying (Chinese subs naturally ), NATO compatible Aircraft ,,,,, ” these planes will cost the country more than $2.3 billion.” ,,,, “The planes are designed for: anti-submarine warfare; anti-surface warfare; armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; interoperable, command, control and communications; stand-off targeting and strike support; ………… and (as an after thought?) search and rescue.”
Martyn has long argued, correctly, that it is naive and stupid to have all our cows in one Beijing paddock,,, which the Washington Post has noted in their observation about us,,, that …… “The dairy and meat export economy is overwhelmingly reliant on the Chinese market — but has so far escaped the kind of economic retribution inflicted on the other Five Eyes nations as punishment for political acts.” …. Like joining up with the Usa military aggression/threat/encirclement ,,, and propaganda, against China.
Over-reliance on China is a weakness ,,,, but just like Australia it did largely protected our economy from the 2008 economic meltdown that hammered the usa ,,,, as the Chinese kept buying our exports.
But the yanks will blackmail us into self harm before we have diversified https://youtu.be/YsFwKzYI5_4?t=1942 ,,, the yanks have tariffs trade barriers etc against our exports
,,, and it’s mainly their corporations who rob us of tax https://michaelwest.com.au/worlds-biggest-scam-billionaires-multinationals-tax-dodging-cant-be-fixed-by-talkfests/ … “The problem with talkfests is that, not only are they infested with Big 4 types whose firms actually orchestrate the tax dodging along with tax lawyers, they rely on the co-operation of the US. And the US is home to the most billionaires and MNC which benefit from tax dodging. They will not act against their own interests. Full stop. ”
Back to Aukus and it’s Military costs ,,,, it’s more than just our interdependent foreign policy ,,, as the Aussies are learning …. “AUKUS risks unveiled – is Australia sleepwalking into a submarines disaster?” https://michaelwest.com.au/aukus-submarines-risk-too-high/
No money for aerial fire figthing, lots for overseas shipyards. https://michaelwest.com.au/aerial-firefighting-versus-aukus/
It takes a certain kind of degenerate to sell NZ out to these psychopaths at this time in history. I’m wondering if these old men just don’t care about humanity anymore (if they did in the first place), their comfortable lives are coming to an end so fuck the rest of us.
Yes it would be three magic beans. The tarrif reduction magic disappearing trick as soon as a few wisconsin dairy farmers or western ranchers had words with their local congressman. And nothing Winstonasset Peters could do or want to do in response.
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