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.

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

Mining. Fishing. Donations. At what point does “policy” start looking like payback?

Winston says he had nothing to do with it. The official report says otherwise. So who’s telling the truth — and why does it matter now?

Bend the logic hard enough and anything looks defensible. That’s the trick. That’s also the tell.

When things fall apart, who picks you up — and who tells you to harden up? The fuel crisis gave us the answer.

A claim is made. A judge is dragged. Then it’s “disavowed.” But the damage? That sticks.
They won’t call it what it is — but their silence says enough. If this is “defence”, where’s the line?

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