@XR500 you’ll be getting a letter to step up again
Boom, cough,cough,cough
These days you can die for your country at any age, as shown in the Ukraine - it's actually the way it's always been. You can die sitting, running away, hiding or fighting back - lots of ways to die in a war.
Because we can still probably throw a grenade it's either 'front line' for you and me - or due to our advanced age (pathetic throw) we can go and smash beer bottles on the beaches where we think they might land.
The 'Homeguard' did that on the beach at Wainuiomata during WW2 as they saw it as a place where the Japanese might land. They cycled from Wellington with sacks of beer bottles on their back, over the hill and out to the coast.
That's quite a long way - they must have been buggered.
NZ has lots and lots of unprotected coastline, we are virtually indefensible - so, our best defence is to attack.
America (and Switzerland) has always recognised a strong militia poses a serious deterrent to an attacker. Any militia we might have had has been de-knackered - so that's out ........ we must attack
Ummn ........... how many boats have we got ............ and where the fuck is China ??
And that's just hypothesising, we will surrender - in fact, I think we've already done it
We dont even need to be attacked all they need to do now is cut off our fuel supply. We do have a tactic up our sleve with our airforce. Land one of our planes at someone elses air port and it breaks down there taking up space...
Just got an ACT email saying they will be scrapping Firearms Registry.
What sort of plane have we got ?
Peter jacksons got the most up to date ones...
This country in recent times has pretended no 'physical' threat exists - we rely on diplomacy.
Part of that 'diplomacy' includes we aren't seen as getting too close to potential allies (Aussie and America) - we are an ostrich with its head in the sand.
Our potential enemies play the game and suck us into a false sense of security - "Yeah, we'll buy your spuds."
As you said - we got rid of Marsden Point ............ what a brilliant thing to do, some clever bugger forgot about the 'dry ice' it produced and made us dependent on importing it.
We did the same with coal.
During WW2 the Scandinavian countries had no fuel resources, they relied on imports. When imported fuel dried up they reverted to wood gasifiers to power transport. Wood gasifiers weren't popular, they required a degree of physical exertion and some specific knowledge to make them work - but they did keep essentials operating.
Wood Gasifiers can operate transport, both diesel and petrol and generators to produce electricity - they kept those countries operating, food and other essential supplies was delivered.
Sweden and Denmark's independence (relative) relied on them doing shit for themselves - and they did it. Wood gasification is ready to be rolled out should such another shitty eventuality occur.
We are at the butt end of nowhere, we are not a threat to anyone - so we tell ourselves.
But I look at the immigrants and wonder what they tell their friends in those fucked over countries they escaped from.
We do not 'fix' those countries, they're usually fucked because of internal strife created by Russia and America - and so the flood of refugees continues.
Those countries are fucked because they have oil, or something else the major players want - and it's been like that for a very long time.
We are a country with a tiny population (by world standards) with a vast food growing potential - we have got to be highly attractive to someone.
I watched a doco on the Aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan - and that vessel could conquer NZ on it's own. It has better attack power and better defences - and that brought home a realisation - all we have is diplomacy.
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