what i find most offensive about the current moment in new zealand is how the government and the bureaucracy are fighting 2008’s battles: a manufactured fiscal crisis, an uncertain monetary policy trajectory, tax cuts as a barely disguised wealth transfer. but it’s 2025, and the world is burning
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Hesitate to use "class" as a term but it is revolutionary to give the workers some actual bandwidth in the form of free or cheaper electricity.
Narcissistic sociopaths like trump & musk should be put on a global terrorist watch list at this point. They are devoid of integrity & empathy. Greed eats everything.
I am fully behind us being more independent and self-reliant but going full Viet Cong right now is a bit previous
It is ridiculoes though that the government are not talking about funding it with tax increases on the wealthy 🙄
a few centuries old.
A simple deterrent NZ could develop are anti-satellite missiles (using Rocket Lab’s capabilities).
A non-nuke deterrent that could take out the GPS, naval communications and missile guidance systems of any large nation state.
If we had that capability as a deterant it would be taken out in a first strike.
So it needs to be distributed.
So hiding in the bush with man portable anti sat?
For targets in orbit there’s really not much they can do intercept before we hit them.
Source: >1000 hours of Kerbal Space Program
But let’s be serious. What does your proposed defence spending get us? I’m struggling to see any benefits other than for immoral already rich shareholders. And fuck those people.
we don't have to win, they just have to know it will hurt
Ok, I'm curious, what do you think this is?
This seems a good enough article
https://www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-analysis/small-but-ready-how-finland-has-prepared-to-defend-itself/
But I would also read section 4 of this report, it has more detail and is a primary source that is easy to understand. https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/166004/PLM_2024_7.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y