Quote:
Originally Posted by SneakySnake
From the ANZUS treaty
Captain subtext: We (the US) are WAY bigger than any/all of you mob put together, so you better do as we say (in lieu of protection money), or else you may find yourself alone and undefended in the big Pacific (peaceful now) ocean when the yellow hordes decide to invade southwards.
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Actually, NZ will be perfectly safe; what the hordes (of whatever stripe) want is Australia. Big, lightly-inhabited, lots of minerals and resources. It's the resulting flood of aussie boat-people NZ has to worry about.
(This stuff *has* been war-gamed.)
