Philippines - the Sick Man of Asean

 The Pinoys, thinking that the USA is staunchly behind it, is behaving in a 'boh tua boh soi' manner. It really needs a real spanking.

While other ASEAN countries are embracing China within its ranks, the Philippine is being used by the USA to destroy the status quo. And we know what the real reason is.

But let it be. The Philippines will soon become the 'Sick Man of ASEAN', a position it once was in and is going back to, with Japan taking the honor of becoming the 'Sick Man of Asia'. Of course, Marcos Jr is not too worried about how far the Philippines will descend into. What he is more worried about is the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by his father and how to get it released by the USA. It does not need a smart person to know that is how the USA has managed to keep him on a leash and follow its dictate, even blackmailing for more military bases in the Philippines.

Japan is desperately propping up the Yen, spending almost US$60 billion in early May to do that. This is to be added to its already astronomical 263% debt to GDP ratio, the highest in the developed world. Japan is toast, having to stimulate its economy and propping up the Yen. It is a double whammy, which even the Japanese are clueless in dealing with. Kishida-omics is just as lame as Abenomics.

Japan already lost its 3rd position in global GDP ranking just recently to Germany, a country also going downhill itself. Now the 3rd and 4th richest country in the world in terms of GDP are fighting a battle to see who goes down the gutter faster. And who was the mastermind?

Anonymous

Asean countries complicit in the genocide of Palestinians

 The Gaza Genocide has reached a point when it is no longer bearable and tolerable. It is genocide in cold blood by the Americans and the Jews on a defenceless Arab and Muslim population ie the Palestinians. The Jews may called them animals or subhumans, but the world and the Arab and Muslim states would not accept that. Rafah is the last piece of land to be flattened by Netanyahu and his butchers.

Now, the students around the world are rising to condemn this atrocious and vicious massacre of innocent civilians, women and children, ethnic cleansing by the Americans and the Jews. And the students in America have taken the lead to fight for the right of the Palestinians to live and to have their own homeland, their own state. On the other hand the leaders of the Global South are shivering in their pants, not daring even to speak out.

How many countries are still acting dumb, refusing to comment or condemn the genocide?

What about Asean? Is the silence of Asean seen as approval of the genocide? What happens to the principles that Asean held so highly morally, against violation of human rights, injustice and genocide?

Or is Asean saying, by not saying, that the genocide and expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland is a principle thing and no need to object or to speak out against? Is Asean complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians by acting dumb and blind? Would Asean defend the principle that the Palestinians have the right to live, to have their own state, to be protected from being driven off from their homeland by American and Israelis terrorists? If they don't speak out now, their turn will come, especially the Muslim states in Asean will be the first to go.

PS. All the white states are united to bring down Russia in Ukraine. They are also united to decimate the Palestinians and robbed their land. The rest of the world is hapless, divided and each waiting for their turn to be taken down. Their only hope is not to be the next Russia or Palestine. This is how pathetic and useless the rest of the world is. All acting like sheep to be led to the slaughter, one by one.

American and Israeli weapon systems are only superior by lies

 Now the attack on Israel comes from many directions - Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Hamas. Does Israel have all the 'Iron Dome' defense capabilities to deal with all of them? How many Israeli patriot missile defense batteries are left? And the Houthi's have added another dimension to the conflict by targeting Israeli ships transversing the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

The Muslim countries in the Middle East have now found the 'Archille's Heel' of the Israeli invincibility myth since the missile attack by Iran. That unprovoked attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria was really a colossal mistake by Israel, that many analysts are now saying. It led to the puncturing of its 'Irone Dome' myth and laid bare its weaknesses.

That such a highly touted defense system is now left in ruins by unheralded cheaper ways of overcoming it is a lesson that has to be learnt. Same as the USA overpowering aerial and highly touted and highly trained military personnel falling to tenacious and fearless North Vietnamese fighters is telling. But warmongers never bother to learn. Oh, let us not forget also the Taliban farmers enormous feat of defeating the USA using just small arms with no aerial or highly rated logistical support.

Anonymous

PS. All those silly countries clamouring to buy Patriots and F35s are being exposed for their stupidity. When other countries did not have any weapons, these fakes would be the best. But when there are better weapons available, the fakes would be fakes.

Xi's trip to help struggling European states bankrupt by the Americans

 We know for a fact that Xi will never travel outside China unless it is vitally important.

And whatever is expected of such visits is never about countering the sovereignty of another country or taking it down, unlike the USA. This trip by Xi to Europe is no exception. China's priority is all about forming economic alliances, helping countries to rise above poverty, which is just what the objective of the BRI and the formation of BRICS are for, being first and foremost economic blocs, not alliances to counter the military powers of the USA, unlike the Five Eyes, QUAD or AUKUS.

Even those innocent-sounding Global Infrastructure Investment and India/Middle East/Europe Corridor initiated by the USA are just to counter China's BRI. Investments should first and foremost be about benefiting parties involved, not wasted on countering an already favorably accepted and beneficial concept as the BRI. Such mentality is just as wasteful as churning out weapons and having to start wars to destroy.

China's help is always for the longer term, like the help that China gave Africa, which goes back to the days of the 50s, when China was even poorer than Africa. African leaders always like to mention that episode and are outwardly extremely grateful. There was one African leader who even talked about China facing food shortages at home and yet was sending food to help certain African countries facing famine.

With the USA, any summit, any meeting between its leaders and others is always centered on countering China or Russia. These two countries can never be left in peace in any conversation between the USA and its allies.

Jealousy and envy coupled with hatred will eventually swallow up the USA and its Western backers. 

Anonymous

F35s is a piece of fake waiting to be scrapped, F22s already scrapped

 Several articles have been written about the F35s and its perennial shortcomings. After more than a decade and a half of tinkering with its problems ever since entering service in 2006, nothing came out of Lockheed Martin's attempts to solve those problems that still persists.

And those persistent problems are still afflicting the aircraft, with the USA even admitting that only 25% of the F35s in its fleet are fit for combat duty. That tells the whole story and just boggles the mind that some countries are still vying to buy them at exorbitant prices. A newer version of that plane is already being produced and the price is said to be 'astronomical'. But some silly goons will still buy them undoubtedly.

One of the many problems of the F35 is the special skin coating needed for radar evasion which is reported to peel off after just a few flights. Such peelings will render the stealth factor to be compromised.

In the face of recent developments in radar technology and the relatively slower flying speed of the F35 compared to other newer supersonic fighter jets, the F35 is losing its relevance. Its only useful role is carrying out bombing missions using its stealth approach, which is becoming irrelevant with newer radar capabilities being developed to track them. Only continued hyping has kept it in production to sell to those still living under a rock.

Moreover, smaller countries have little use for them as bombing other much bigger country is not in their interest. The USA's experience in Vietnam shows clearly to the world that using carpet bombing is a perfect example of how a war can still be lost with that superior advantage.

And the USA is also said to have stringent covenant regarding the F35's usage and in whose hands they can be flown. A F35 falling into enemy hands or crashing in enemy territory is a big matter of concern. However, in today's weaponry development, it may be a different story. China was not even interested in the F35C that fell into the South China Sea in 2022, while landing on a carrier, which the USA had been blowing up the fear that the Chinese may be attempting to salvage it to learn its secrets.

Just a matter of interest, reports have now surfaced that some of the supposedly destroyed weaponry left behind by the USA during its hurried scampering out of Afghanistan, some have been rebuilt by the Taliban and are causing nervousness in the USA and the West. The USA may have assumed that they have damaged those weaponry beyond repair before their hurried escape from Kabul, but using reverse engineering the Taliban has managed to reap a windfall not only in breathing new life into those damaged weapons but also in understanding the workings of those weapons, which will serve them well. If they share them with the Russians or Chinese, that will be highly detrimental to the USA. Shooting its own foot is becoming the hobby of the USA.

Anonymous 

PS. F22 is supposedly the best air superiority American fighter. Why did the Americans scrapped production of this aircraft when they did not have another better aircraft? Very likely the hype about the F22 is just that, hype, not real. So it is better to scrap it fast. F35 is nothing better than the F22 but another hype. Since there are still stupid buyers, the Americans would just keep pushing and selling it like fake mRNA vaccines. There will be suckers wanting to buy it. If not, coerce them to buy and keep spreading the fantasy that it is the best American aircraft, the best in the world.