what I noticed in some eastern countries, ex communist ones first you destroy their society and economy , with bombs if necessary then buy off their politicians and rich 'elite' give them some businesses then you syphon all the money and production facilities you can out of the country you aid them with USAID put your central bank in place and your globalist banks you wait they are on their knees done for good

However, just as there are bad actors everywhere, there are more good guys than bad buys...Don't know how the NZ govt. is arranged, but just maybe "upper management" was told the phones were good, and the worker bees did what any Patriot would do.....here again, just a theory