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5-nation defense pact including NZ to increase ‘complexity’ of Asian military drills

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The F-16C, right, and F-15SG, left, aircraft are the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s front-line fighters. Image – defensenews.com.

Five countries under the Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) are set to expand their military collaborations with more sophisticated exercises in Asia, integrating drones, fifth-generation fighter jets, and surveillance planes.

Announced during the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, these exercises involve Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore, marking a significant escalation in response to the growing military activity and geopolitical tension in the region. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles highlighted the inclusion of Australia’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in the upcoming Bersama Lima exercise, emphasising the group’s intent to intensify their strategic engagements.

The FPDA’s initiative is designed to enhance interoperability among its members and is not explicitly aimed at countering China, according to Marles. However, the presence of advanced military assets like the U.S.’s P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft, which will be stationed in Singapore for the first time, underscores the strategic importance of the area amidst China’s increasing submarine activities in adjacent waters. The annual Bersama Lima exercise, which translates to “Five Together”, symbolizes a collective effort to foster closer military ties and readiness among the member nations, with plans for even more ambitious operations in the coming years, including Britain’s potential deployment of an aircraft carrier in 2025.

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  1. Why don’t the Taiwanese people have a referendum on whether they want to rejoin China? Has it been such a disaster for Hong Kong? I am not surprised that Malaysia was easily bought, but I thought Singapore would be more sensible although there is the possibility they will have the level thinking required to stop NATO going too far.
    NATOs attempts to keep US and UK hegemony relevant will ultimately beggar Australia and New Zealand, just as it has done to the people of Europe and America.

    • At the start of World War Two, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, and the southwest Pacific Archipelago fell to the Japanese in a matter of days using rudimentary weapons (ie prop-driven fighters, Naval Vessels powered by oil, and non-smart Infantry Weapons.
      Today, we have Nukes of varying Kilo and Mega-Tonnage, Hypersonic Missiles, Space-based Weapons, (ie DEWs), and Satellite Mapping used to gather Intel.
      This will be a repeat of the first paragraph, but will take only minutes to achieve what the Japanese took days to accomplish.
      Armed Neutrality for New Zealand is the better option; while the rest of the Earth wages World War Three, we shall wage business and trade!
      And to do the above, the Firearms Laws that Jabby forced down our throats without a single peep of protest from the floor of Parliament needs to be repealed ASAP, and FULL FIREARMS RIGHTS RESTORED!

      “You cannot invade the United States as there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass!” – Japanese General Isoruko Yamamoto

  2. The growing military activity and geopolitical tension in the region is the tool of Britain and Australia, as vasall of the US, to keep peaceloving nations on their toes.
    And we know who their masters are, don’t we?

    • We are still suckers for the great game, last time the bogy man was Germany and the threat it posed to the global financial hierarchy, now it is China and its manufacturing capacity and Russia and its enormous natural resources and America trying to stay on top by being the man in the middle but with an overburdening debt that was loaded onto them by the ‘independent’ (((federal reserve))) and the ((($ews))) pulling all the strings.
      Fool me once (WW1) shame on you, fool me twice (WW2) shame on me, now fool me again?

      • Back then we only had radio and the controlled newspaper. Now everyone has a TV camera in their pocket, everyone gets the message and everyone gets a say. Their mistakes are public knowledge across the world in seconds. Hi-res Tiny cameras. I suspect an outage when something is released they really don’t want us to have.

  3. Getting into bed with the UK terrorists, a thoroughly unsavoury notion….time to sever all links with these villains, not hook up them…..another corrupt govt making us look bad……….

  4. The reason that we have the current PM who was (s)elected by the J3wi$h / Zionist / Talmudic money-changers is due to his former roles of a CEO / CFO which the PTB and the WEF find re-assuring as such a creature will continue the Globalist Mission Dictates and expectations of the Nations that are not actually ‘Nations’, but Corporate Entities under *Admiralty Law (*Law of Water).
    ‘J3wi$h / Zionist Bankster and former PM ‘Sir’ John Key (The Smiling Assassin) is mentoring the Bald-Headed One, insuring that he complies with the NWO dictates.
    That means;
    1. Hyper-inflation to the point where food, goods and services are unaffordable;
    2. The Supply Chain dries-up due to being oversold / hoarded / lack of manufacturing / processing;
    3. Destruction of the natural food chain by with-holding seeding / planting under penalty of law using Terminator Seeds, and the unavailability of food causing at first malnourishment and then starvation;
    4. Cessation of oil & gas mining and refinement processing;
    5. Removal of cash, replaced by CBDC that will be cut-off from the account holders electronically under ‘Social Credit’;
    6. Losing your stand-alone home via the Globalist-supporting Coalition Government using ‘Imminent Domain Law’ to take your home due to ‘Carbon Tax & credits’, over-priced Council Rates, and additional Capital Gains Taxation that makes such a home unaffordable;
    7. Minimising Health Care and Medications to insure that a good portion of the population dies as per the CIA’s Deagel Forecast for 2025 into 2030;
    8. Losing both your personal Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of the Nation where you live;
    9. Outlawing petrol-powered and hydrogen-powered vehicles and aircraft;
    10. Having utility services cut-off via ‘Smart Meters’, or having a low ‘Social Credit Score’

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