Posted on 10/18/2016 8:04:27 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A U.S. Navy warship will visit New Zealand next month for the first time since the 1980s, ending a 30-year-old military stalemate between the countries that was triggered when New Zealand banned nuclear warships.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced Tuesday that he had given clearance for the destroyer USS Sampson to visit during celebrations marking the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary.
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This is a good time to end that nonsense.
New Zealand will appreciate having good military maritime relations with us in time.
This old world is getting less stable.
I hear that John Key is a conservative, by New Zealand standards.
Yes, because New Zealand is always facing invasion. It’s so easy to get to and all.
I was fully expecting to read that we had caved — this is Obama’s military after all. But apparently not.
Meh, let them worry a little.
Or A LOT.
Let them BEG us.
You’d think they got the word decades ago when GHWB eliminated nukes on board ships.
A stupid decision IMO, you know damn well the ChiComs and Russians have not.
Never saw that before. Celebrate the day we smashed the kiwis! Lol
Well I am sure the US Navy will display their diversity rather than military power to the Kiwis.
We’ve seen some not too easy or seemingly important places taken over in past wars.
Who knows have the future holds as this place melts down.
Very misleading formulation! A stalemate can exist only between two opponents - two sides that are openly hostile to each other, where each has declared its goal of vanquishing the other.
Regards,
Unfortunately these are not real ads. They were made for an Australian TV program called ‘The Gruen Transfer’ that examines how advertising works. Each week, teams from two different ad agencies are given a task to make an ad for some weird product or weird idea as a competition. These were part of that - they were asked to make an ad to promote the idea of invading New Zealand.
They’re still really funny
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