Oh look, the Daily Blog I told you so express on time over Cook Islands and MFAT screwing up
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Comrades.
I fear The Daily Blog I told you so express is on time again, and redneck Trolls all know how much you hate to hear me say that, but I argued back in April 2024 that this new Government had fucked up with the Cook Islands because we simply rolled over and allowed America to screw us!
Don’t know what I’m talking about?
Of course you don’t!
This was me, April 16th, 2024…
I said that Winston had failed us as a foreign minister because the first thing he did when becoming Foreign Minister was to allow America to encroach into our Realm…
US to open embassies in the Cook Islands, Niue
Announcement comes as US President Joe Biden prepares to host a second summit with Pacific Island leaders in Washington DC.
…why are we allowing the Realm of NZ to be encroached upon by the Americans?
Surely our job as an independent voice in the pacific is to protect our Pacific Neighbours in ensuring their agency over the interests of Washington and Beijing, especially when that pacific Neighbour is part of our Realm!
America has encroached into our Realm and neither Winston or Judith will criticise this encroachment because both are thralls of the American Military Industrial Complex!
They are both so keen to show America our subservience and acquiescence to whatever new war they want to drag us into, Judith and Winston will invite us themselves!
…what ended up happening after we allowed the fucking Americans to encroach directly into our Realm and declare Niue and the Cooks as Independent states with no relationship with NZ?
Why the Prime Minister of the Cooks took that declaration by the Americans to negotiate a deal with China that we knew nothing about!
We allowed America to redefine the relationship last year and the Cooks PM, Mark Brown, decided to take that redefinition and negotiate a deal with China.
NZ got played by America last year and the result has been China encroaching directly into our Realm.
The fact the mainstream media (other than TVNZs Barbara Dreaver who is a national treasure) aren’t focusing on this political crisis shows how braindead the NZ mainstream media is an in light of the Wikileaks revelation that 25 NZ mainstream media area paid by USAID…
…you wonder how much that commercial relationship pulled editorial attention away from asking America and hard questions.
None of the newsrooms seem to be focusing on this, none of the Politicians seem aware of it, the Fourth Estate has been euthanised and is currently undergoing taxidermy to be placed inside Te Papa.
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The cooks have only ever been a source of cheap labour for the colonists for decades .
Of course you were right, Martyn. But were they listening then? Are they listening now? I think not. The economy is being dumbed down. Unskilled migrants being employed on minimum wage in tourism and agriculture. Skilled industrial workers decamping to Australia as their jobs evaporate. (It is called “growth”). That combination would be bad enough in itself. But alongside the dumbing of the economy, politics is also being dumbed down. Really, really dumb decisions like acceding to the United States demand for direct state to state relations with the Cook Islands. (Joe Biden telling New Zealand “I can’t trust you to manage the kids”). It doesn’t worry me personally, because I am not unhappy to see the Cook Islands move towards complete independence from New Zealand. But anyone who wants the colonialist regime survive in all its tawdry glory should be very, very worried.
It’s possible that China offers the serious long-term investment and economic development these countries need which NZ, Australia and the US do not.
We let Islanders come and pick our fruit on limited visa’s for low wages and that’s the best we can offer – not hard for China to offer something more substantial than that because we’ve set such a very low bar.
Yup just ask the Sri Lankan’s how much they have benefitted from Chinese investment . .
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html