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Jul 18Liked by Bernard Hickey

Great podcast thanks. All your guests are so interesting and informative - particularly enjoyed the interview with Sam Stubbs and hearing about Simplicity Build.

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Jul 18Liked by Bernard Hickey

Great to hear Sam, have a few pennies invested in his housing fund

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Bernard: "Robert wrote this article for RUSI".

Patman: "It should be emphasised that Ukraine is a liberal democracy"

Me (and the rest of the world not aligned with NATO): "Ukraine was a liberal democracy until 2014 when a $5 billion US backed coup established an ethno-nationalist state with a naive leadership that was tricked into provoking an unwinnable war with Russia by attacking it's own large Russian ethnic minority".

For the record, I'm not a 'Putin lover', but when an empire has slipped so far into decline as the US dollar- hegemony has, it's a one-way street downhill. Rearguard action against emerging economic alternatives, while understandable, is futile and dangerous.

Eighty years ago, our country was part of 'the greatest empire the world has ever seen'. That 'special relationship' came to an end abruptly when the USA forced an end to 'empire preference' as the condition of $5 billion loan from the USA to a bankrupt UK in 1945. There was no opportunity for 'rearguard action' by an empire exhausted by war, but there was life for NZ and the rest of the commonwealth after that event. There will be life for us all in the coming multipolar world.

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A good Hoon but I do take issue with both Robert and Karin’s view on the desirability of the current “international rules based order”. That is an order that is based solely on the western world’s colonial view of everything. The western world is a very small part of the world and as there is a multipolar world emerging we all have to get our heads together to work out an order that suits everybody. Not one where might is right. And this idea that China is the enemy is ridiculous. How many countries has China invaded in the last 100 years. How many countries have Western countries invaded in the last 100 years for gods sake.

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Tibet

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Yes you are right.

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Thank goodness for heroes out there like Sam Stubbs and co - a glimmer of hope for the NZ housing situation - inspite of governments (in)actions 😇

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Great listening thanks. Gives me some hope.

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