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Should the government increase or decrease military spending?

Should New Zealand increase or decrease military spending?

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Increase, but only after our deficit is drastically reduced

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 @9F6K7S8answered…1yr1Y

Don’t know how much is being spent

 @9DGFBRJanswered…1yr1Y

Increase surrounding climate change and related changes to our strategic environment

 @9TDLWQZanswered…2mos2MO

They don't need extra money because we are never under attack but we shouldn't take money away incase there is an attack

 @9RDDX4Tanswered…4mos4MO

when our military cargo planes the Hercules/hercs are 50 years old and we denied ourselves access to jets that could of helped and still can help with the countries defences and most of our planes are from the 90's or earlier

 @9Q37867answered…5mos5MO

2% of GDP 48% police deparment, 30% Nuclearand biological Research, 10% food for the rich, and the rest to line the pockets of the rich

 @9L9R4MQ answered…8mos8MO

Increase, and make our youth more patriotic/nationalistic to new zealand whether they are european or maori/islander

 @9KJC3V9answered…9mos9MO

I think we should decrease the spending because we are not in any trouble and I don't think that any country will attack us.

 @9DHHD6Fanswered…1yr1Y

NZ has virtually no capability to defend itself and is too reliant on other countries. If we spent more on DEFENCE this could also offer people careers they otherwise wouldn't have access to.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3wks3W

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.