cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25557059
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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What side do you think nz is on?
Hopefully none of the above, besides your current pm you guys seem to be on an okay track. You're already decades ahead of the US in most development stats and you couldn't be more opposed to us ideology.
NZ is an ally of the united states and Europe. We are strongly against Russia and softly against China. Also your cherrypicked irrelevant stat of per captia prison population isnt even correct. United states does not have more prisoners than every authoritarian regime in history.
It actually does. But don't worry, pick any stat you associate with freedom. The US will rank below 40 compared to other nations, it will rank below 100 in many categories.
Nz being an ally of the US is a hold over from your imperialist colonialist past, nothing more. You've advanced beyond the US, as have a lot of nations. The only thing the US has over you is GDP, a stat not useful for much according to the inventor of GDP, and military spending.
Given what it uses that spending for I get why you'd be scared, being an island nation in the Pacific and all; but realistically they're not competent enough to invade you anymore. I mean they've lost every war they started since WWII.
Ok I can pick any stat? I pick the stat which I think is why western countries are in an alliance and thats democracy. Looking at this stat the US is up near the top and Russia and China are way down. Shocked. (This data was from 2016)
Now with trump in power I'm less inclined to want to be in an alliance with the united states but I still expect and believe its good for "western powers"(meaning western democracy) to oppose non western powers whereever we can.
You see foreign intervention as west bad but its far more complex. On each side of the conflict is a great power so its not as simple as saying if America pulls out everything will be OK.
Man I hope this is satire. It has to be satire.
What part of what I said could even be considered a joke? Is it that I said the us is a democracy? I clarified thats no longer the case under trump.