Are you moving onto something more productivePs. I’ve just sold my tourism business
Current Affairs 2026 Iran War
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He could be the new Colin CraigMaybe a career in politics Wiz? Seems to be your thing.
Absolutely. The New Productive Party
I plan to spend good parts of every winter there
Family and homes in NZ but my hearts elsewhere
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Found it.I plan to spend good parts of every winter there
Family and homes in NZ but my hearts elsewhere
So many chicken littles got absolutely decimated. Couple of friends got pretty badly burnt too.
View: https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2031098109900509237?s=46&t=N6rrXot3pBpvv2hdvhmStw
View: https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2031098109900509237?s=46&t=N6rrXot3pBpvv2hdvhmStw
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I’ve mentioned it for years that I don’t believe the opposition format of politics serves anyone well and in my view nothing but a fallacy for us voters to believe either is going to something different. We get a token gesture of a vote and think change is possible while the system only responds to money and power and strongly gone back to that way. We’ve never truly had democracy because we as public get one vote to trust a person and party to do right by us when we’ve all got our own individual needsI think it’s deeper than that.
NZ is fundamentally broken (not in a MT8 way) where our standard of living has been slipping for 20 years under multiple govt. It’s been glossed over by rampant immigration under many govts.
Key hid it with mass immigration. Ardern/ Robertson hid it by borrowing heaps. It’s just becoming more obvious now.
Changing govt won’t help (unless we borrow massively again and dig a deeper hole).
This is so obvious travelling where countries we used to look down on have overtaken us. We’re a retirement village economy.
Whatever govt wins the futures pretty grim where big moves can’t be made without becoming unpopular. Many underlying long term issues are being worked on (immigration, housing prices, move away from services to productive economy) and Luxons going to pay for it because we as a country can’t handle what needs to be done.
Democracy appears broken when MPs just paper over cracks and stay popular for as long as possible while the house burns…
Ps. I’ve just sold my tourism business
Along with a decline in personal standards, responsibility and accountability.
Very noticeable in the current crop of politicians
Unbelievable at times the disregard and disdain they show for the people who put them there
Well said Rick
I was just having this conversation with my brother.
It generally goes that politicians are like CEOs. They crave power and care very little about the people they hold it over.
Sure, they may start off with good intentions, but that gets grinded away by beurocratic structures and a desire to rise through the ranks.
Although a tad extreme, Guy Fawkes certainly had a point.
Iran doesn't actually need to launch as many missiles/drones as they did in the initial days of this war.
Of course logic and common sense dictates you would start with a roar but if done strategically and taking the enemies radar radar off the board then the need to overwhelm defences is reduced greatly..
View: https://youtu.be/o0cIOMVBSbU?si=E6l9wUJrsCchLnTs
So: At the behest of Israel, Israel and the US start a war with Iran, in the case of Israel engaging with Iran's proxies in an acceleration as well.
So far the US gave no reasons to start with, and an incoherent mess with no formal planned outcome or objectives. We know oil is one, I've got no doubt Trump being a strong man is another, and Israel's agenda is third
The US and Israel are war criminals, including their figureheads
The US are actively avoiding committing ground troops. They are trying to stir up other groups to do their dirty work
Yet the US and Israel have actively slaughtered to date hundreds of Iranians
The US is demanding they choose who goes into power in Iran, as they clearly want a proxy they can manipulate. This won't ever happen.
The US at least seems doomed to repeat Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan and condemning a kind people to utter misery
We can be certain that regime change for the good of the people was never on the agenda, as both Israel and the US don't give a fuck about them
No one has any idea of what victory is or looks like, except maybe Israel.
That about sum it up so far?
So far the US gave no reasons to start with, and an incoherent mess with no formal planned outcome or objectives. We know oil is one, I've got no doubt Trump being a strong man is another, and Israel's agenda is third
The US and Israel are war criminals, including their figureheads
The US are actively avoiding committing ground troops. They are trying to stir up other groups to do their dirty work
Yet the US and Israel have actively slaughtered to date hundreds of Iranians
The US is demanding they choose who goes into power in Iran, as they clearly want a proxy they can manipulate. This won't ever happen.
The US at least seems doomed to repeat Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan and condemning a kind people to utter misery
We can be certain that regime change for the good of the people was never on the agenda, as both Israel and the US don't give a fuck about them
No one has any idea of what victory is or looks like, except maybe Israel.
That about sum it up so far?
More hypocrisy, deflection and denial.
There was an interesting article (which I can't find now) I read about how the republican Guard is organised and the depth they have economically, politically and militarily. Upshot, each village, hapu, whanau is looked after by a commissar, maybe more than one. Anyone steps out of line it's curtains and the general populace know it.
For a regime change, all that will have to be rooted out (these guys aren't changing sides) so it may be likely boots on the ground will be required.
Found it
For a regime change, all that will have to be rooted out (these guys aren't changing sides) so it may be likely boots on the ground will be required.
Found it
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