Remember the way NZ was expelled from ANZUS?

June 13, 2025

Paul, you're quite right with most of what you say, but why not go on to suggest we need wise diplomats who will know how to tell the US that we will not only leave AUKUS, but will suspend our membership of ANZUS as long as the US continues down the Trump régime path of international demolition in the interests of real-estate deals?

Of course, it would be a massive wrench for the prime minister and the member for Corio to face up to the shambles of ANZUS that resulted in 1986 when a previous Labor Government joined with Ronnie Raygun to kick New Zealand out because of our close neighbour’s commitment to a nuclear-free Southwest Pacific.

We were warned by the felon himself, before his inauguration, about the way he would “deal” with international “real-estate”. But our US ambassador and minister for Foreign Affairs did not take the hint and instead blithely attended the inauguration, thereby compromising our national interest by showing a willingness to indulge such aspirations, not only directed at the US Constitution but at an international order that he had foreshadowed would be taken up with his real-estate deal-making.