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21 sats \ 38 replies \ @OgFOMK 30 Oct \ parent \ on: Do People Actually Believe the Election Result will Result in Positive Change based
So maybe NZ will jump on the Brics wagon. It makes sense.
It will be a divisive process as a majority of NZs law and culture and political heritage is as a western imperial tribute state. There are growing Chinese links but the transition is unlikely to be as easy and smooth as the transition from British Empire to US hegemony was.
NZ with its commodity based exports is best trading with countries with a need for those commodities and the ability to provide manufactured goods at a good price.
This difficulty of transition from a US empire to Chinese dominance with some variations in character can probably be applied to many other countries like Australia, Canada, the EU, S.Korea and Japan.
It is time of vulnerability and uncertainty for not just the US, but also its historical allies.
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NZ is already part of the US intelligence apparatus, all the 5 eyes countries are.
That was step 1.
Brexit was step 2.
Step 3 is just a formality/disclosure at this point. China will be used to justify the 5-eyes countries becoming US protectorates in the next few years. Book it.
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Very unlikely NZ would accept that.
Especially if Trump or similar leadership holds power in the US.
Brexit had little effect on NZ except reviving interest from Britain in redeveloping traditional trade ties and freeing Britain from some EU constraints.
The US is abandoning its traditional allies as it displays more insular and isolationist tendencies.
The US is increasingly seen as an unreliable 'protector' and Trump re-election would substantially accelerate that decline in relationships.
China already offers NZ and many other western economies far more value added than the US does.
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To me the real interesting part is that all of these places are self sufficient but the media has done is job of creating scarcity.
All the resources we have are gifts from God. Mother Earth is a gift. She is the place we live on and she is a very special place for humans.
Each continent, Island and land mass is meant to change with time. Trade and resource movement is how we work out our desires with each other.
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Imperialism uses the threat of force to seize more than free trade would deliver to the imperialist.
This is as intrinsic to human nature and the age old competition between tribes as our DNA.
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It's already the fact on the ground, there's no debating it. NZ isn't a self-sufficient country and thus depends on the US for intelligence and defense matters... Australia rolling out US nuclear boats made it official, the Pacific is consolidating.
All that's remaining is the optics.
US is abandoning its traditional allies
You clearly have no idea wtf is going on, wake up its WW3
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If Trump is elected he has declared he will end the war and Ukraine and that will mean doing a deal with Putin...rewarding Chinese backed military aggression. Taiwan would be next.
Yes its WW3 and Chinese client state proxies are invading western allies and US allies feel abandoned by an America that is internally divided and increasingly isolated and dysfunctional.
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People do die when an aggressor invades a sovereign nation and that nation decides, against the odds to fight back for its sovereignty and with the support of other democracies.
Britain resisted the Nazi takeover of Europe when all others were for appeasement and surrender.
It was only when the USA was itself invaded that the tables began to turn.
If you think appeasement of war criminal Putin and his Chinese sponsors will be the end of their expansion plans, think again.
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Do you have any takes you didn't copy and paste out of a main stream news headline?
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I am referencing what Trump has said and nothing else that the MSM is saying. ..rather mostly that which is not being said...and clearly you cannot respond to it either without trying to shoot the messenger with disingenuous and false assertions.
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referencing what Trump has said
right before a retarded speculative rant over the implications that looks like something off the cover of The Atlantic
US allies feel abandoned by an America
holy fuck the brainwash