Comment on Australia tests new long-range missile capable of hitting targets 500km away
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 months agoyeah if it were up to me i’d be aligning with israel for air defence, ukraine for drones of every kind, uk for ships, europe for fighter jets, korea/germany for tanks etc
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 months ago
We shouldn’t rely on nations willing to commit genocide for anything. Therefore Israel is a non-starter, and must be treated with caution and distance from here on in all levels of engagement.
A concentration on domestic, or near neighbour manufacturing should be our focus. The European powers are probably more reliable in terms of not letting sudden political values changes, shred their military alliances, but their ability to supply a nation on the other side of the world limits the extent we can rely on such partnerships.
In other words, we can rely on New Zealand absolutely, then other nations to much lesser degrees than we have been, in terms of maintaining a secure logistical supply of our essential ADF technology. This means I do think we have to completely re-engineer our defense force, and community expectations around what our military is capable of delivering.
Our military has been artificially propped up to a more capable technology level than our country has prepared to be able to maintain, in a world where might makes right, that means our sovereignty is beholden to the whims of our senior suppliers. I’d like more independence of manoeuvre than that.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 months ago
l want the best from allies we can rely on, israel who has the worlds best air defence system which it uses as protection from its genocidal neighbours and islamic terrorists across the border
I have not heard of nz excelling in anything defence related? i forgot they had an army tbh
europe is struggling to keep up with the us, musk for example is a huge influence with starlink, we have to rely on others or we’ll be left behind and inevitably lose influence/wars
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 months ago
If you want the best from ‘allies’ then the US should have been the partner of choice in most of that little list.
Your thoughts on Israel are tiring, a refusal to see a genocide when it is happening in front of you is sad. I hope one day you’ll recognise the ridiculousness of your equivalences with their far less powerful neighbours. Even if you could prove a genocide against Israel by those neighbours (which cant be done), one genocide doesn’t absolve another genocide. A crime against humanity stands as a black mark against those who sink to those levels of depravity.
The reason NZ is the partner of choice, is because they are the only nation we can rely on. I alluded to this earlier, my view is we should accept less influence, but be more able to protect ourselves. Essentially we have become too reliant on the alliance structure as a means of securing our power and prosperity, to a fault. I advocate a paring back of this reliance, which inherently means a trade off of international power, but means we will be a more reliable partner, and not a subject, in a conflict.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Ah yes, it’s the jews fault they don’t subscribe to a backwards religion, treat their women like cattle, and spend most of their time praying to a god that doesn’t exist instead of working to improve diplomatic relations and business capacity of their own countries.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/…/105040948
They’re a little less of a friend now, it’s completely understandable why we would rely on them in the past but times change eh?
I did see this though:
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-27/…/102653824
Just wish we could get those bloody ships out of Americas grubby tiny hands but this might just be realpolitik