11/01/2026
And what loyalty or reciprocity can New Zealand expect from America. We have supported them in nearly all of their wars, most of them ill judged. What can we expect in return?
It is easy to dismiss the new American international strategy as the product of just one deranged man, but where are the voices and actions of others in his party to rein in what seems a very short term and risky strategy.
Clearly this is not a one man policy. Donald Trump has wide support from his fellow right wing Republicans for this new American gangster mode extortion/threat based imperialism.
On the 3rd of September1939, New Zealand France and the UK were the the first countries to declare war on N**i Germany in WW2.
We should be announcing our condemnation of the kidnapping of a sovereign nation's dictator and the theft of the Venzuelian people's oil and America's threats of a military take over of Greenland all of which is in breach of international rules.
Yes America is our third largest trading partner, but what is of more value is our integrity and doing what is right. What happens when he realises New Zealand is rich in resources and is extremely valuable as a food supplier and that we are a strategically positioned unsinkable aircraft carrier in the South Pacific.
America is evidentally no longer a reliable partner.
If might is right, then it is right for Russia to invade Ukraine and it is right for China to take over Taiwan and it right for America to take over Venezuela and Greenland....who is next?
It's time that New Zealand sanctions America, Donald Trump and his key political supporters. It's time to begin boycotting Amercan goods and services. It's time for New Zealand to demonstrate a morale leadership role again.
Denmark has been a steadfast US ally. That this appears to count for so little in Washington should give Australia pause.