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Week of 1 Jun 2026
Topic

Defence Interoperability

10 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 31 May 2026 · first seen 3 May 2026

The New Zealand Defence Force has revealed the appearance and capabilities of its new Airbus A321XLR planes, which will replace the ageing Boeing 757 fleet starting in 2028, enhancing transport, mission reach, and national interoperability.

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  • And I remember being in Manila after this um with George Schultz, the um American Secretary of State, and uh my colleague Richard Griffin was garrotted by a secret serviceman who said you needn't think you're talking to our Secretary of State when he comes out of the room. Well, I got in with my microphone over the top of them, and we got uh comment from um him saying that um we part, but we part as friends. And then a few years later, um Colin Powell, he said we're very, very, very good friends. That was another question I put to him when he was seeing Helen Clark, and then lo and behold, in 2008 in July before that election, Condoleezza Rice came and batted her eyelids at Winston Peters, the foreign minister, and um she said that we're allies who were seen as a major breakthrough, and indeed it uh in fact was.
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Sample framings

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a shift from need to alliance dependency

Democracy Briefing: Should NZ pay Washington’s defence bill?
2 Jun
point-of-order Centre-right

technocratic, alliance-focused, performance-driven

Should NZ pay Washington’s defence bill?
2 Jun
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