The choices for NZ when you're inside the tent with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

The choices for NZ when you're inside the tent with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
New Zealand has to decide between a tent pitched by Donald Trump or one pitched by Kamala Harris. Image: Getty)
Dileepa Fonseka
Geopolitics nerds are fond of camping analogies: countries choosing whether they should be in one camp or another, or deciding whether to urinate from inside a tent or outside one.The latter example is not a reference to Donald Trump’s alleged pee tape, but US President Lyndon Johnson’s oft-cited quote that it is “better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in”. What proponents of this aphorism fail to mention is that it is also somewhat undesirable to be inside a tent while eve...

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