5/25/2025

New Cabinet - Was it a major change?

 Lawrence Wong has his new cabinet handcrafted and installed to his likings. His closest comrades in arms are in position to work and support him for the next 5 years. Gan Kim Yong, Chan Chun Seng, Ong Yee Kung and Shanmugam would be his right hand, left hand, back and front men, the strongest team from what is available currently. This would secure Lawrence position as the PM against any challenger during his term in office.

Other than the addition of a couple of new faces, the rest are just a matter of moving the furniture pieces here and there. The expectation of a major change in a new cabinet did not live up to the expectations of those wanting real changes.

Can anything else be read from this rearrangement of a new cabinet? One thing that stands out is that there is no one other than Vivian to fill the Foreign Minister post. Without Vivian, this position would likely be left vacant for good. So, Vivian would be the Foreign Minister until he retires from politics.  Or is it that Vivian cannot fit into any other post other than the MFA?

There is a slight change though in Shanmugam vacating the Law Ministry to Edwin Tong. This ministry and MHA are in a way like 'personal to holder' ministries to Shanmugam, like MFA is to Vivian. In this change, the Law Ministry has been carved out and only the MHA is personal to holder to Shanmugam for now and maybe till his retirement.

Again, not sure whether Shanmugam is born just to be the minister for MHA or he cannot fit into any other ministry, caveat, the Law ministry.

In a way this is a consequence of Singapore's lack of talents, and for the past decades and coming decades, the PM, whoever he is, would have serious problem looking for replacement for the MFA and MHA, and would have even greater problem finding a ministry suitable for Vivian and Shanmugam to take care of.

The rest of the furniture are easy to move around, to fit into any peg into any holes, square holes, round holes, irregular holes, no problem. Anyway, it is just a few pieces of furniture in a cabinet, square peg in round hole, round peg in square hole, just squeeze them in, after a while they will all fit in nicely.

The main point to note is that the first, second and third generation leaders are all gone, except for Hsien Loong as the guardian angel, or the pillar that holds the roof and everything in place. For sure, no one would dare to attempt a coup against Lawrence.


India's new enemies and a period of grieving

 India turning on its friends, blaming them and making enemies of them. Top on the list is the USA.  It was just a few days back when Modi was happily kissing and hugging Trump in the White House. Modi is now furious with the Americans, especially Trump for betrayal and humiliating him. Trump is showing India he has no love for Modi.

The apparently innocent visit by DC Vance and his family to India and calling on Modi was not that innocent after all. Putting the pieces together, the cause of the Pahalgam terrorist attack and the 4 day India Pakistan war becomes pretty evident. It does not need much stretching of the grey matter to know what it was all about.  What is unacceptable is the back pedalling of Trump away from this fiasco, pretending to be innocent, not interested, did not want to be involved, when the Americans' fingerprints were everywhere from the start to the end.

It was embarrassing and demeaning for Modi to have to call Pakistan for a ceasefire. Trump crashed in to claim credit, that he was responsible for the ceasefire. Not to forget, Trump did not allow the Indians to use the F16s they bought from the Americans in this war, not that the F16s would make any difference, probably the first to be shot down.

To further frustrate the Indians, Trump's family signed a big deal on cryptocurrency with Pakistan when the war was going on. Trump also claimed that there was a deal with India on tariffs that India totally denied. And the Americans, the best of India's friends, Trump was Modi's lover, were the first to confirm the downing of the Rafales to embarrass the Indians. Modi and the Indians would hope the Americans would at least deny or not say anything about it. Now the whole world is quoting the Americans as the authoritative source of this information. Another nail on the Indian coffin, Trump told Tim Cook not to set up factories to produce Apple phones in India.

The whole of India's media resources is now trained at the Americans. Their top spokesmen and spokeswomen were spewing barrages of attacks on the Americans daily, 7/24. Suddenly the Americans are India's number one enemy. American bashing is the order of the day.

The French came in second as India's new enemy. I may be wrong as both the Americans and the French are neck to neck in the eyes of Modi and the Indians. India paid so much, overcharged by the French for the Rafales, to have the bragging rights of having the world's best fighter aircraft and confidently strutting around like they have the best air force in Asia, snapping at China's airforce as has been, history. India is number one.

In a matter of one night, a brief encounter, the myth of the India Air Force as number one was gone with the wind. And France did not hesitate to tell the truth, that the Rafales were shot down, while India is still claiming they were not till today. This is a betrayal by the French. And for all things, France ordered India not to fly the Rafales in its war with Pakistan! Hey, India bought the Rafales exactly for this, and how could France forbid its use against Pakistan? Of course, India could reject the order, just like rejecting the American's order not to fly the F16s. But this would mean no more parts, no more material and servicing support from the suppliers of these aircraft. And France is still adamant not to share the source code with the Indians, holding the Indians at ransom.

The Indians are now stuck in a shit hole. Having paid so much for the Rafales that have turned out to be duds, only for show but not to win a war.

Then there are the Turks and Azerbaijans, both are now enemies of India. India is calling its people to boycott these two countries, not to visit them as tourists or buy their products.

And its eastern neighbour Bangladesh has openly called for the cutting off of the chicken neck passage in Siliguri Corridor, with the intent to create a Greater Bangladesh with merging the 7 north eastern Indian states. Wow, this is big.

A false flag terrorist attack as an excuse to start a war with Pakistan has ended up with India having so many new enemies. This is a big achievement for the Modi govt. Now the deal with the French on the Rafales is likely to get burnt. And with the souring of relations with Trump, the dream of acquiring the F35s also hangs in the balance. Looking from a positive angle, India finally discovered who are their real enemies masquerading as friends and allies.

Modi and the Indians would be suffering from this fiasco for a long while. It is just too much to swallow for the pompous Indians. A sure win war with little Pakistan is now turning into a big national embarrassment in front of the whole world. The whole world knows that India lost this war, that India was walloped by little Pakistan with cheaper but better weapon systems and aircraft.



SAF lucky not to be trained by India

What's the use of 500,000 troops when they are just only trained to stomp their feet for their shadowing Clowns parades at the Pakistan/India Borders dailies for their rituals.

Once a few got hammered the Rest started running.

Once in 1967, our Malay Regiment SIRs instructors told us laughingly that you jokers are lucky that the Indians are NOT HERE to train you all as they rejected the call from SinkiesLAND to help.

If NOT, you be polishing your bare toenails with kiwi black and marching like half failed ducks to markets.

Actually also the hype myths invincibility of also the Israelis lah!

SIRs Regiments Regulars good enough to train our own.

But sadly after using them downgraded them to be GD Men and also discharged them after their services of providing the backbone of our First Few Battalions.

They are the Ones who defended Singapore during the Indonesian Konfrontasi or Confrontation!

One time Lau Goh even gave those NOT on Active Services of that year of less NS incentives payments to all the ORD Men.

Forgot all the roots of the first few batches contributions that saved his skin.

Virgo49

India demanding huge discounts or returning the Rafales to France

Pakistan is getting the more updated J35 from China just in case the Indians gets F35s to up the ante and continue to act funny. But those F35s are equally expensive, while Pakistan is getting more bang for the buck with cheaper but not necessarily inferior weapons from China.
What is going to happen to the Rafales now, about 30 still left? Was there a 'goods return clause' agreed with the French, knowing they are not useful enough for real battle, but just good for gloating. If there is still a loan left of the US$9 billion left to be repaid, perhaps India has a good, big and beautiful bargaining chip to take a leaf from Trump use of superlatives in everything.

Pakistan was reported to be using Chinese satellite guidance system during the air battle, with India now blaming China for helping the Pakistanis. Why not blame it on the lack of co-ordination between the different segments of its military using weapons from different countries, all using different operational codes.

This, by the way, is the same problem of why India cannot rise with so many different languages used by so many different segments of the population, with no common language to advance direction. The chickens do not understand the ducks. China was able to make mandarin the common language of the Chinese and the population understands perfectly what the central government is telling them and what to do.


Anonymous

5/24/2025

Africans on the march - Western puppets being culled

 The real African revolution and freedom from western colonialism and control is in the making. Since the end of WW2 and the declaration of independence by most of the African states, Africa was independent and free only superficially. Many of their leaders were really puppets of the West, controlled and paid by the Americans, French and EU countries and taking orders from the West against the interests of their country and people.  The real African leaders were dead or imprisoned by the whites. African Union, ECOWAS, COMESA, ECCAS, SADC, EAC etc etc were all controlled by the West through African leaders serving the interests of the West.

Enough is enough. The fake independence of African states and their failure to make substantive economic progress to better the lives of Africans did not go unnoticed to the African nationalists. Many past African nationalist leaders did not survive for long, many assassinated, put to jail by their own people, by leaders that were puppets of the West. And the sad story of Africa continues today, as the most exploited continent in the world, left to mess around by their ineffective leaders, a joke in the western world with Trump openly calling it a shit hole.

A young Capt Ibrahim Traore had conducted a coup and took over Burkina Faso from the pro French leaders, declared independence and started to chart a new course of national and economic development for its own people, completely in control of their own destiny, for the good of their own people. He is expelling all foreign forces and mercenaries from his country. No more French presence and control. He is being joined by the leaders of Mali, Niger and Morocco on the way. 

The good work of Traore did not go unnoticed to the Africans and to the West. The young Africans across Africa are rising to the call of this young captain, now the President of Burkina Faso, to rebuild a free and independent Africa. Africans across the Atlantic Ocean are also heeding his call and the Africa diaspora is returning in waves to their motherland, to rebuild a new Africa.

In Washington, Paris and other capital cities of Europe, Traore is a threat and must be gotten rid of immediately. He is a cancer to the white men and is spreading across Africa like wildfire. He must be stopped. They tried in many ways, in many coups to assassinate and remove Traore. But Traore survived, protected by his own people, but the western puppets are lurking in the dark corners to bring him down.

The African leaders in African organisations controlled by the West were ordered to take out Traore as well. They too see Traore as a threat to their positions and golden rice bowl from cheating and robbing their own people and country, supported by the West like puppets on a string.

So far, they failed. Traore and his nationalist friends in Mali and Niger would not last a single day without external help. The foreign forces and traitorous African leaders were too powerful for them, well armed and financed, to take him down by hook or crook. Fortunately, outside help is coming to Traore and friends. China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea etc etc are not standing idly by. They send him weapons, machine, factories, even soldiers, commandos to protect his safety, finance and technological knowhows to rebuild Burkina Faso and to defend their land.

3 years and Burkina Faso is holding and becomes a bright shining star in economic and national development, infrastructures, schools, hospitals, factories, shopping malls, sprouted all over the country. Foreign supported rebels and terrorists are being taken down, defeated and on the run. The people feel safer and found jobs to build a new life under a truly African leader for the Africans.

Traore and Burkina Faso are the shining lights for the Africans to rally around. Ivory Coast just had a coup and removed the western puppet leader that wanted to send African soldiers from ECOWAS states to bring down Traore.  Senegal has declared war on France to rid its country of French influence and control. Other African states are looking and watching closely what is happening and are moved, aroused by a new hope of true independence, free, freedom from their western masters, to live a better life, to build a modern and rich country for their own people. Young Africans across Africa are rallying behind Traore as the new African hope. Ethnic Africans in America, the Caribbeans and Latin America are returning home to Africa to rebuild their motherland.

The journey has started but it is not going to be a smooth ride. The West would not relinquish their control of Africa. They have superior military forces and finance to retake Africa. A French warship is now outside Ivory Coast. They have an African Command, commanded by an American general, taking orders from Washington, to rule and police Africa in the name of fighting terrorism. Who are the terrorists, who are behind the terrorists, who financed and trained the terrorists to destabilise Africa? When there is no such thing as 'terrorists' in Africa, there is no reason for an Africa Command owned by the American Empire. Even if there are terrorists in Africa, there is no need for an American Africa Command in Africa. The Africans can take care of their own countries.

Africa cannot be free fighting alone. Their biggest military threat is the Africa Command and its army of terrorists and mercenaries. The Global South must lend a helping hand, to stand with Africa to fight the western domination and hegemony, to be really free, in their homeland, in their motherland, free from the American and western terrorists. They cannot watch from a safe distance and say it is Africa's fight. It is the fight of the Global South for real freedom from white men's hegemony and control.

More African states would rise to the occasion...to be really free again.