I mean... helping underwrite that "national spirit" he so admires among their military and society is US taxpayer funding, which is not only vast but has been putting billions and *billions*, for *decades*, into it. The price for US taxpayers btw is? Diminishing *their* opportunities and tax base.

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Then yes, there's the "seemingly endless war" bit. No seemingly about it. Particularly the last 3 years, but, whether the more "public" and more widely known State-on-State incidents, or the Settlement-related (regularly ignored): there's been endless war alright, it's not at all just "seemingly".

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If his project - their project - is really about national cohesion, lots of policies can be worked out that can certainly achieve a lot of those goals... but *without* the need to attach it to some *militarizing the civilian population* as the vehicle to get there. *None* of that is required.

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“Politics aside”, says the aspiring politician. About “a cycle of seemingly endless war”. There is not a bin big enough or stinky enough for these people to get in.

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Just more of the national service fantasy. Singapore would be a far better example relevant to AoNZ than the IDF. But it's not because our cultures are so dissimilar... The same people pushing this also think boot camps for young offenders are a good idea...

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