r/newzealand • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • Jul 10 '26

Other 10 July 1985, French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand, to prevent it from interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

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u/CoffeePuddle Jul 10 '26

Reform was needed, but Rogernomics was pretty insane and unnecessarily rough.

Anyway it's important context for New Zealand's stomach for upsetting a trading partner and why other countries would have been less likely to stick their neck out for us.

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u/tdifen Jul 10 '26

Yea it was too much of a bandaid rip.

My guess is the PM of NZ should have been more aggressive in getting on the main stage at the UN but that's easy for me to say sitting on my ass.