New Zealand escaped relatively lightly from the Occupation. The Mekon realised the country's capacity for agriculture, and directed labour that way, in order to provide food for many of his insane and callous projects. It is therefore all the more surprising that the country should produce a politician who is so fiercely in favour of rebuilding Earth's defenses at almost any cost. It is certainly a populist approach that has done the Senator no harm electorally, altho he is now in danger of becoming a "single issue" politician. If he wants to be taken more seriously on the world stage, he needs to extend his policy range.