09-18-2021, 04:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-18-2021, 04:57 AM by ElwoodBlues1.)
(09-18-2021, 03:27 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:We are becoming an extremely strategic base in the growing conflict between the West and China and can expect a major build up of the US military here in the coming years. The game has changed and the military requirements will be different. Bad luck for the French as we will now be a part of a much more integrated force, relinquishing the more independent model we have been following.Meanwhile NZ and Jacinda are reading up on how to be the Switzerland of the Pacific.
They don't want US Warships in their waters but will be wanting US help when a Chinese Sub pops up in Karaka Bay and says hello..