There are important lessons here for New Zealand and now, with National and ACT in the driving seat, maybe we’ll juice up our defence spending? Is there an appetite for that? Let me know in the comments.
Green, powerless, defenceless
31st October, 2023
by Viv Forbes with help from friends
Washpool, Qld 4306, Australia
As net zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless and defenceless.
History holds lessons that we ignore at our peril. Japan was opened to trade with the US in the 1850s. They were daunted by the naval power of Britain and the US but were determined to catch up.
In the 1930s Japan attacked China, Mussolini attacked Ethiopia and Hitler planned how to avenge WW1 in Europe. Britain’s PM Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler and proclaimed he had achieved “Peace in our Time”.
But Churchill warned:
Britain must arm. America must arm. We will surely do it in the end but how
much greater the cost for each day’s delay.
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