> I’ve expressed nothing but praise and compliment for the country, & people of New Zealand.
Bollix. Let’s be clear on this. Among other things, you have claimed that the British paid for what the people of New Zealand paid for. And you have claimed that our New Zealand soldiers were British, and that the decorations for valor that they earned were awarded to British soldiers (that would certainly be news to the Maori recipients, of which there are not a few).
These claims are neither praise nor compliments despite your claims to the contrary, and are matters that I will not discuss with you further.
True enough. They are not. What they are is facts.
When I repeatedly called your country "beautiful", and your people "magnificent"; those were praise & compliments.
Despite this being a thread about nationalizing private enterprise, you have chosen to argue how boorish & bumbling America is. Not surprisingly, deriding America was a matter you were willing to discuss.
Cheers, mate.