The agreement may have locked the country into an alliance with the declining superpower for decades while taxpayers subsidise its massive ‘national security’ budget.
Unfortunately, the irony of “the world’s most complete and comprehensive” intelligence alliance issuing such warnings seems to have been lost on many Western commentators.
Aotearoa New Zealand is right to criticise Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but cannot expect these criticisms to be taken seriously by the rest of the world, much of which is all too familiar with such crimes—only committed by those countries now passionately denouncing Russia.
