WW2 - The Battle of Singapore

Someone send me a link to remind me of the glorious Battle of Singapore. With all due respect to the platoon of brave Malay Regiment, I think they were volunteers, this so called Battle was a joke in military terms but fondly remembered by Singaporeans as the Battle of Singapore.  Why was the Battle of Singapore best remembered by this event? Did the British put up a fight or none at all? There were 70,000 to 85,000 soldiers according to Singapore Infopedia.

What happened in the Battle of Singapore was a platoon of volunteers, poorly armed with outdated rifles, maybe no machine guns at all, taking the brunt of the attack from the main force of the Japanese invading Army, two divisions according to historical records. The rest of the fighting was really just aerial bombings by the Japs.

During those days, the locals, especially the volunteers, would not be issued with the latest weapons, mostly old weapons or rejects that the British would not use. What a mismatch, and the poor soldiers of the Malay Regiment were left there to be slaughtered by the Japanese. Outgun, out man and with no British soldiers around to provide any form of fire support. The British soldiers were hiding safely in their bunkers. The area was supposedly to be defended by Australian soldiers.  Where were they, did they fight or hide or fled? 

The Brits had been withdrawing their main forces from the Malay Peninsular all the way back to Singapore for safety, not engaging or barely engaging the Japanese Army.  And they let a platoon of volunteers to take on two divisions of the Japanese Army, nearly 20,000 men!  This is first degree betrayal, first degree murder!

It was a ridiculous battle. The Brits should have the decency to pull back the Malay Regiment from the slaughter. How could they keep a platoon of Malay Regiment there to fight the Japanese Imperial Army? The British commander should be charged for causing the unnecessary death of the brave Malay soldiers.  How many British or Allied soldiers were killed in the Battle of Singapore? The numbers would revealed how bravely they fought or how cowardly they hid in their bunkers.

Does anyone feel sorry for the unnecessary death of the brave soldiers of the Malay Regiment? Did anyone apologise for it, give every one of the brave men a medal of valour? They deserved the highest military honours for putting up a senseless fight in vain. 

The British Empire had forgotten about these brave men. Their story is only of interest to Singapore.

What do you think?

Who is leading USA? Or who is the 'President' of USA?

 This is a queer question but must be asked. Of course everyone would be saying Joe Biden. or Trump's supporters would say they still believe Trump is their president. There was a comment by a vlogger, the European, saying that till today, the Democrats forbid Joe Biden from meeting the press to answer unscript questions. They are afraid that he would mess up the whole session due to his dementia, unable to recall facts and low IQ.  So, who is running the USA, or who is running Joe Biden?

It could be obvious that the Democrats are running Joe Biden and thus running American from behind. Biden is just for show. But this view is not really the truth.

The man that is running Joe Biden and America is really Donald Trump. How so? This low sleepy Joe not only did not have the intellect to run America in his own agenda, he also did not have the guts to overturn Trump's policy, all dictated by Trump before he departed. And sleepy Joe could only be seen to carry out Trump's policies and even has to prove that he is doing better than Trump by following what Trump wanted him to do.

This is how weak and how clueless sleepy Joe is as the de jure President of the USA but the de facto President is still Donald Trump. Nothing important has really changed.  Sleepy Joe is just there to carry out what Trump set up for him to do. Can you believe that, a US President does not dare to do anything contrary to his predecessor even if he disagrees and obediently carrying out what Trump wanted him to do?

What good is an American President that has no will of his own, afraid of his predecessor and doing his bidding?

Who is running USA? Of course it is Donald Trump, the man behind the curtain, sitting in his office in Florida, the new White House. And Trump is looking over the shoulder of Biden, watching him very carefully. And sleepy Joe is hapless, clueless, dunno what to do except to do what Trump set up for him to do, and to do it well, very well.

How pathetic! A puppet president on the string, pulling by Trump. He is so frightened of Trump and his supporters.

The Americans have voted in a new President. His name is Joe Biden Trump, dutifully carrying out the policies of Trump.

US China top level meeting in Anchorage, Alaska

 

Anonymous said...

China's top diplomats will meet US Secretary of State and White House National Security Adviser in Alaska on Friday.

Due to a series of offensive words and deeds by the US, Chinese public has little expectations that this dialogue can achieve any substantive results. Chinese society as a whole is prepared for greater tensions between China and US.

The meeting is a platform for strategic dialogue rather than a stage for the US to put unilateral pressures on China. Any idea that US could dominate this dialogue is illusory. Their perceived strengths could have been used for other things, but they cannot shape China's attitude on issues concerning China's core interests.

Could they ask China to withdraw the national security law for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or to recall the decision made by National People's Congress to amend and improve Hong Kong electoral system? Every Chinese can tell the US that this is simply wishful thinking.

China believes that communication is always necessary because the US has an overall misjudgment about China. China wants the US to gradually understand some of its basic positions and the sources of its confidence in defending them.

First, China has no geopolitical ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region. China's development is driven by the desire of 1.4 billion people to pursue a better livelihood. Further satisfying this desire is the fundamental focus of China's political governance. China does not believe that it has the ability, or that it's necessary to pursue development by imperialist expansion.

Second, China has explored a set of domestic governance methods that suit its national conditions. There are some ideological differences between China and the West, but China has no hostility toward the West. China has, since ancient times, always been an exponent of keeping harmony in diversity. The US initiated the strategic containment of China, which has deteriorated China's security environment, forced China to speed up development of its military power and carry out tit-for-tat ideological struggle.

Third, China will never accept US interference in its internal affairs. How US consumes the so-called human rights domestically is its own business. China will never give foreign forces a window to exercise long-arm jurisdiction on its internal affairs. What China can do is to help US understand China's political logic and the moral basis for all its governance measures. Such a dialogue does not mean that China is likely to yield to any US pressure.

Fourth, it is true that China has territorial disputes with some of its neighbors, but China's consistent position on these disputes is to resolve them peacefully, except Taiwan. China has always advocated that territorial disputes should not become the dominant aspect of bilateral relations and should not interfere with cooperation between China and other countries. China is firm in its position of managing territorial disputes.

Fifth, it is China's sacred right to develop. China has never contemplated as a geopolitical goal the possibility of overtaking the US in economic growth in a few years, nor has China ever considered replacing US hegemony with "Chinese hegemony."

Sixth, the Chinese are confident that they are capable of defending their own national security, and no matter how hard the US tries, it cannot contain China. If USA is willing to coexist and cooperate with China in peace, China welcomes that and will work hard to make that relationship work. If USA is determined to engage in confrontation, China will fight to the end.

It is important to point out that US has seriously overestimated the matching degree between its national power and its strategic fantasy of containing China.

March 18, 2021 9:25 pm

USA - The Beast of War

 The  aggressive warmongering Americans, the Beast of War, fighting wars non stop for the last 8 decades and still fighting in 76 countries around the world, got the cheek to accuse China of being aggressive when China has not fought a war for the last 40 years.  This kind of wild and baseless accusation coming from the evil and lying Americans is a daily affair propagated by western media and silly Asian media as well. The most aggressive country in the world, the warmongers, is accusing China of aggression and expansion when all China did was trade and infrastructure development, including developing its own islands by pouring more sand on them to make them liveable and useful for humankind.

This beast and its equally hideous leaders are now gathering a bunch of equally monstrous countries, infamous for aggression and war crimes, the barbaric Japan of WW2, the murderers of aborigines Australia, and the slimy pretentious super power dreamer India, to form a 4 member gang to want to start a war with China, just by lying and smearing China as an aggressive power that is not involved in any war and had been victims of invasion by these 4 warmongering countries. The aggressors accusing their victim of aggression! This is textbook war rhetoric of these warmongering countries.

The world must tame this monster of a beast, the USA and the equally aggressive and monstrous members of the so called QUAD, an international gang of aggressive nations set to destabilise peace and security in east Asia.

The Beast of War is fighting so many wars all over the world and wanting to start more wars, to sell more weapons at the cost of destruction and lives of countries it has invaded and occupied, robbing their resources and the gold and money in their bank vaults. They are the robbers benefiting from wars and invasion of weak countries. America's main business is war and the selling of weapons for more wars.

The Beast of War is strutting around the world carrying an olive branch but mustering and gathering countries to join them to start new wars.  They are not satisfied with the wars they are conducting in 76 countries and wanting to start more wars. With their huge offensive war budget of US$1 trillion dollars and the massive weapons of destruction and war criminals and murderers in uniform, they need wars to justify their existence and the cost to support them. Without wars they have no reason to exist.

War is the bread and butter, the daily bread of this Beast of War. These evil people thrives and benefited from the turmoil, destruction and death in countries they invaded and in continuous wars, unending wars. Their agenda is not just about starting wars and fighting wars, but about endless wars, perpetuating wars and making countries keep paying for the weapons they are peddling to them to kill or be killed.

The world must not be deceived by this Beast of  War and must work together to put this Beast in a cage to prevent it from agitating, inciting and conducting more wars. For world peace, this American Beast must be locked up for good, or better dead than alive. They have killed and maimed too many people around the world and brought untold sufferings to the victims of their wars.

Tame the aggressive Beast of War, the evil American Empire.

The Truth About Meritocracy

 The Truth About Meritocracy

Meritocracy, like democracy, has become a dirty word in the world today.

It does not bring about equality but creates inequality.

It does not bring about freedom but creates restrictions and limitations.

It does not bring out the beauty of those who have talents but their ugliness and their iniquities.

It does not help the majority nor the society but only serves the few who set out to grab the best of everything for themselves.

Most importantly, it does not bring happiness to the country and its people but only questionable happiness to a few.

Finally, it leads to a elitist society controlled and manipulated at the very pinnacle of power by a tiny group of self-serving, self-enriching and self-praising elitists, always hungry and greedy for more and more.....

LP.