Originally Posted by
tommygun
Any of it mate. You're upset that NZ soldiers, who's job it is is to kill enemy soldiers using rifles (or at least as far as the infantry is concerned), have some new rifles to do that?
I'm pretty sure that is literally their job description. Sounds like you haven't peeled yourself away from your sources of conspiracy theory inspiration long enough to realise that while the NZDF is trained and equipped to fight like most armies, they actually don't play much of a front-line role. Since the Vietnam war they have typically been in a peacekeeping role, or deployed to train soldiers in the foreign country in question, as a rule. Yet you are spouting some bullshit about NZ somehow being responsible for NATO's alleged war crimes in East Ukraine (your words, not mine). NZ doesn't use its army defensively or offensively; there is a third option, and that is aiding our allies in their military efforts, and yes we like to think this happens to fight evil and uphold humanity's values, but it is just as much in order to support our allies because that is what we are obliged to do if our nation that wants to be taken seriously in the geopolitical world, and because we want to maintain military ties with them in case we should ever need them (god forbid)
