Imagine If Winston had said this instead?
Winston Peters was in the room just before Trump backed down. Imagine if New Zealand had used that moment to speak with principle instead of crawling.

Winston Peters was in the room just before Trump backed down. Imagine if New Zealand had used that moment to speak with principle instead of crawling.

Trump’s geopolitical madness won’t stay in the Middle East. It’s coming for your groceries, your mortgage, your job and every excuse this Government makes for staying silent.
If Iran closing Hormuz is extortion, what is America doing? Trump’s plan doesn’t just target Iran — it turns the entire global economy into collateral damage.

We’re asking the wrong question about Iran. It’s not “will this escalate?” — it’s whether we’re already in World War 3 and pretending we’re not.

Iran threatens to close it. Trump says he’ll close it first. Oil spikes. Markets panic. And somehow this is meant to be strategy?

Six weeks. That’s all it took to turn a war into a humiliation.

You’re paying more at the pump. So who’s actually responsible?
Trump swaggered into conflict pretending to be a strongman and stumbled out handing Iran leverage, chaos in the Gulf and a shudder through the global economy.

Winston Peters is heading to Washington, but Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says he cannot afford another round of diplomatic cowardice while Gaza burns.

Trump is threatening Iran again — and the Alliance is asking why New Zealand is still tied to the fallout. How long do we stay hitched to this?