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Its not because the ships are "scary"! (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/politics@lemmy.nz
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We dont allow any nuclear ships in NZ because the ships are some sort of "boogyman". We dont let the ships in because you dont tell us which ones store the nuclear bombs! So we treat all the ships like they are carrying nukes and dont allow any of them.

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[–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

He also described his desire to see US warships in New Zealand waters, and discussed staging a basketball game on the ship.

"I would love to see one of our aircraft carriers come down, in Auckland Harbour, the City of Sails, so that you can see what it is and what we have.

That yank can fuck right off back where he came from.

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    • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "I'm very disappointed - I don't mean to scold New Zealanders - but disappointed that they feel that way."

    "It's important that you care as much about your defence as we care about your defence, and that does mean increasing spending."

    He's either stupid, naive, or malicious. Whatever the case he can fuck off.

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Our nuclear policy bans vessels that are nuclear armed or nuclear powered, so even if the USA can guarantee they don't have nuclear weapons on board, their nuclear propulsion rules them out.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Interestingly though, it is about the ships. Although we have no nuclear power plants, they are not banned.

    So while it does ban nuclear propulsion, I would suspect it's not about the nuclear propulsion and is instead because we don't trust them not to lie.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This was always my thought. If they dont tell us what boats have the bombs then any boat that throws off a wonky rad signiture is banned. We cant tell the difference and know immediatly that we could not trust their word on it.

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