They go in for some weird shit in the name of defence, those Russians. Whether it’s confounding the Luftwaffe by using WWI biplanes so slow that the fearsome Messerschmidt Me-109s couldn’t slow down to engage them without stalling, or simply retreating over an iced-over lake and watching and
25th April 2021 Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister said in 1932 “The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.” He was referring to aerial bombardment, but it is a
Nanaia Mahuta, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, has set the cat among the pigeons in the Five Eyes group. They want to scratch her eyes out over this. She borrowed the title of a book by Manying Ip from 2009 called “The Dragon and the Taniwha” and wove it into
A discussion is very much needed of both Nanaia Mahuta’s speech and New Zealand’s participation in Five Eyes. There has been considerable commentary from politicians and those in the media, some a little surprising. Two factors are at play here. One is the responsibility incurred when a country,
My father always used to think that everyone in New Zealand wore grass skirts and threw spears. He wasn’t joking. That was the view often presented to the world when royalty or dignitaries came here. He had a clear memory of the Prince and Princess of Wales in a
Let’s not kid ourselves: the BDS movement is anti-Semitism. Many of its adherents might protest otherwise, some of them no doubt actually believe it, a small number are surely well-intentioned, but the fact remains: BDS is anti-Semitic. Its founders are outspoken in their hatred of Jews. Its aim is
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In my recent posts, I have relentlessly excoriated the Ardern government for its Quisling stupidity regarding China. Lest BFD readers think I’m singling out New Zealand unfairly, I would point out that Australia has been there, too. Australia has learned the hard way from the same mistakes that New
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been savaged for sucking up to China and turning her back on the Five Eyes alliance during a historic debate in which British MPs unanimously declared that China is carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity. Newshub Nanaia Mahuta on Wednesday said Aotearoa would continue
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