This is the 200th Blog since I sat down in October 2014, to write Blog No 1. Looking back, I realise that I have been writing as much for the sake of clarifying my own thoughts in regard to international relations, as for clarifying those of the limited numbers, who actually read what I have […]
Blog 199 The recent UN summit of world leaders showed a world in total disarray. Disarray The Western ‘rules based system,’ based on social inequality, is now in open conflict (war by other means) with a Chinese communalist alternative that is challenging its economic and political supremacy. The Americans use the term ‘ communist’ as […]
Blog 198. I can’t help entering into a deep depression whenever I read of Australia’s leadership’s self-sacrificing obeisance to the demands of its new step-father. This morning I read this Reuters report; ScoMo’s thoughts The report on ScoMo’s latest kowtow to Washington. “ …the paradigm through which the government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison now […]
Blog 197. A New Zealander with Australian grand-children, looks askance at Australian foreign policy. To help preserve its global economic dominance, your American ally appears prepared to fight China to the last dollar in your treasury. As a New Zealand resident and citizen, with two young grand-children being brought up in Australia, I look on […]
Blog 196 The facts of this tentative treaty are readily available on Wikipedia Treaty The Treaty was adopted by the UN General Assembly in July 2017 by a vote of 122 States in favour (with just the Netherlands voting against and Singapore abstaining.) 193 UN members would have been entitled to vote. 69 states did […]
Blog 195 South China Sea For foreign news, the west’s English-speaking mainstream media draws its stories almost exclusively from just two international news agencies, Toronto-based Reuters and New York-based Associated Press. Both of these are heavily exposed to influence by western intelligence and psyops agencies. It is therefore not surprising that New Zealand and Australian […]
Leaving the Western alliance – Part III Blog No. 194. Previous blogs and Parts I & II of this blog have looked at the reasons why NZ can and should depart from its allegiance/subservience to the USA’s western alliance. When the time comes, it is anticipated that NZ will opt for neutrality, rather than entry […]
Blog No. 193. This blog assumes that the reader has first read Part I. https://khakispecs.com/leaving-the-western-alliance-part-1/ Previous blogs have referred to the crises facing all humanity: pandemics; environmental collapse; climate change; high-tech nuclear war. None of these can be effectively addressed while the institutions of global governance are in their current state of anarchy. A major […]
Blog No 192. Clark interview Helen Clark interview: Geoffrey Palmer’s comment says it all – joining the Five Eyes was in no way a democratic decision – we now need one to get us out. 4 minute read Not totally subservient NZ did’t join other Five Eyes members protests over Hong-Kong: It should be noted […]
On the 14th May 2020, the contents of this blog were sent to Ron Mark, NZ’s Minister of Defence. Neither the article nor the covering letter that argued for a reconsideration of NZ’s commitment to the US alliance received an acknowledgement. Today, it is open to the public. Blog No. 191. I was recently asked […]
