Well this should make the right wing happy in NZ. Cut funding to health and education and housing and increase funds for defense.
We really need to find a better ally, the USA has nothing but bad intent for the average kiwi.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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What do you mean.
We’ve got land to put bunkers in, and citizenship for sale.
We’re a perfect place to take billionaire investment money. That’s good for all of us.
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Really glad to see the article was about defence spending not territorial annexation like Greenland.
Realistically the real problem is likely to be nothing like this, it's more likely to be more subtle pressure on sovereignty issues (particularly civil rights and surveillance, possibly nuclear weapons) at the behest of Thiel et al.
Historically, once a faction of powerful country has strong vested private economic interests in a weaker one, if those private companies get the ear of their monarch or govt, they amp for their interests to be protected.
In extreme cases that's how the US got Hawai'i and the British got the Raj. In less extreme cases, it can play out in things like Musk's various interventions into South African politics.
We once had a non violent mutiny, essentially a strike, because a bunch of our sailors wanted out of their contracts because they could get twice the pay in the private sector.
Things are only slightly better today.