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  • mycodesucks
    5·
    22 hours ago

    This is the Board of Peace that costs $1 billion to join and has a permanent installed chairman who sent a letter to the Prime MInister of Norway threatening to invade and take over a sovereign ally because he didn’t receive an award about how peaceful he was?

    Can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be eager to get in on that.

  • persona_non_gravitas@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    This seems like a moderately big deal? I’ve got a vague impression of NZ as a pretty staunch US ally proud of its military history and current collaborative peacekeeping operations, could be wrong though.

    • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      15 minutes ago

      There has been previous friction over nz’s strong anti nuclear stance that for a while meant US officials qould avoid the term “ally”.

    • RossphorusEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      NZ is more aligned with the Commonwealth than the US. If the UK invited NZ to something and we turned it down that would be a big deal.

      We have a fairly small standing military, so we need at least one strong ally, and geographically speaking it’s gonna be either the US or China. I’d label NZ as a ‘begrudging’ US ally in that sense. NZ has previously verbally sparred with the US after we barred all nuclear-powered ships in our waters, so this wouldn’t be the first time there’s been some political tension between the two.

      Australia has a much stronger relationship with the US, hosting their military bases, nuclear weapons, and such. It’ll be interesting to see what their response is.