U.S. Navy Capt. Nicholas DeLeo, commanding officer of the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) talks with media about this historic visit to Wellington, New Zealand 🇺🇸🇳🇿⚓️
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— US Embassy NZ 🇺🇸🇳🇿 (@usembassynz) May 16, 2025
Just in case no one else has had the balls to say it, and because we should stand for peace,
Get out of our country you Trumpian Fascists!
We don’t welcome you because your President is an orange fascist who is becoming increasingly more corrupt and utterly unbalanced and when push comes to shove and he tells you tomorrow to hurt us in some way, you’ll do as your told, no matter how many fake smiles you give us today!
You are the weapon of our enemy and you shouldn’t be welcomed here.
Go Home Yankee!

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Trump is not welcome the US Navy is just as rhe Chinese Navy is .Sailors spend money .
Wait until the Chinese Navy are circumnaivigating NZ and then let’s see how much we like the US Navy.
Which country is most likely to support New Zealand’s application to the UN for neutral country status, the US, or China?
Which country is more likely to draw us into agressive military alliances and foreign wars, the US, or China?
Neutrality is for cowards.
I support the Chinese navy sinking any filthy american ship anywhere near NZ, whether it’s this vessel full of filthy rapists or Larry Paige’s yacht.
No Pasaran!
The “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND) policy is a US Navy doctrine that states they will not reveal whether or not specific ships or aircraft have nuclear weapons on board. This policy, also known as the “Glomar response”, is in place to maintain strategic ambiguity and protect sensitive information.
New Zealand History.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/uss-buchanan-refused-entry-new-zealand
USS Buchanan refused entry to New Zealand
4 February 1985
New Zealand’s Labour government refused the USS Buchanan entry because the United States would neither confirm nor deny that the warship had nuclear capability. David Lange’s government, elected in July 1984, had made clear its intention to pursue policies that would establish New Zealand as a nuclear-free country.
This was a popular stand, and by the end of the year nearly 40 towns and boroughs had declared themselves nuclear-free. Labour announced its decision to ban ships that were either nuclear-powered or -armed. The US policy to ‘neither confirm nor deny’ the presence of nuclear weapons on any of their warships soon led to a stalemate.
The US decided to test the new government’s resolve. In late 1984 it requested a visit by the guided-missile destroyer USS Buchanan, which had been commissioned in 1962 and was unlikely to be nuclear-armed. The Americans assessed that it might slip under the political radar. ‘Near-uncertainty was not now enough for us,’ Lange recalled. ‘Whatever the truth of its armaments, its arrival in New Zealand would be seen as a surrender by the government…..
Have the government and the Colonel Blimps in the NZDF surrendered to the Yanks
All US warships were banned from New Zealand waters and ports under New Zealand’s nuclear free legislation passed in 1987.
The only loophole under the legislation was that before any US naval vessel is granted permission to enter NZ territorial waters, is that they had to first officially confirm that any such vessels did not have on board any nuclear weapons.
The US navy refused this condition under their policy of neither confirm nor deny and so began the decades long stand off.
My question for the Luxon administration is this. Did the captain of the USS Blue Bridge, or any other official in the US navy and government make a declaration to New Zealand’s customs authorities, and to the government and people of New Zealand, that the USS Blue Bridge carried no nuclear weapons into our territory?
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