NZ does quite well without a US alliance and a substantially smaller military
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and a large land mass and 25 million of its mates covering its western and northern flanks
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I just don't see the credible threat that we're to spend multi-billions and subordinate ourselves to a foreign power to mitigate.
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It's there in the Defence white paper. "Remote" threat of military attack but vulnerability to regional stability. We've outsourced much of the maintenance of stability to the US. If we don't want that, we need something else to maintain credibility.
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So more F35s give us 'credibility'? How about more spending on diplomacy and foreign aid?
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Or even some planes that fly in the rain.
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Will this help?

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As long as it stays up at 1000 km per hr.
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According to Peter taxation is theft, which is a very grown up attitude to take.
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An efficiency review of defence would yield savings
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I would be interested in a more active non-violent strategy.
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With US by head and shoulders the world's largest arms exporter and US companies world's major weapons manufacturers, little wonder that Trump wants NATO allies to spend morehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-wants-all-of-nato-spending-2-percent-on-defense-but-does-that-even-make-sense/2018/07/10/6be06da2-7f08-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html?utm_term=.91fda0e87c9d …
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I can cop just about anything except Liberals talking about independent foreign policy. Think Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
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