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[Tse]

I'm actually curious.

How much pull does the west have over SG practically speaking? How about India or China?

I mean SG on paper is an independent country and does it own thing. But we know reality isn't so nice like that and there's a lot SG wants to avoid doing or pissing off people it is heavily dependent on for certain things.

Singapore has the capability to defy the US when its elite wants to. See the trade war speech:

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or see the "blood on the floor" incident with the US State Department in 1981 over Cambodia

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The problem is not that Singapore elites are beholden to the West, like the corrupt Philippine Caciques. Of course the US can do some damage to Singapore's economy, but these threats hardly ever come up because Singapore elites already identify with the interests of the First World. The ruling party of Singapore originates from the multiracial colonial comprador class of British Malaya which defeated the Chinese commercial class to seize control in the 1960s. It draws its cadres from footloose globalist graduates from Ivy League or similar, with investments all over the world. Their siblings, cousins and classmates are expat venture capitalist types, who could have accepted the invitation to public service but chose money. Singapore is the perfect case study for Marxian theory on class interests always being foremost. Most similar to the Anglo-Jewish financial elite, they are not any more sympathetic to either Chinese Nationalism, Hindutva, Islamism or White Nationalism, because they see all of these as obstacles to their neoliberal dystopia.

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

Indians often bring some of their customs to other parts of the world. For example, nepotism。if a company puts an Indian in charge of human resources, you'll find that the proportion of Indians in the company grows very rapidly. This can also happen in immigration control departments, and I think

You'd think that a country that is famous for exporting their women for labor overseas as maids and nannies (who also risk getting exploited horrifically) while the husbands stay home and collect the remittances and play with their side-pieces would have more women be skeptical before opening up their legs for the local men. It's this kind of wide-spread laissez faire culture that is deadly for a country's development.

You seem intimately familiar with this unfortunate part of Filipino culture.

 

[Phead128]

The failure of the French and Germans to agree on a workable path forward together certainly calls for some level of mockery and schadenfreude, but this doesn't mark the death of future European manned combat aircraft development. On the contrary, the basic obstacle was that each major party was unwilling to cede enough workshare and control to the other to satisfy them. The French and Germans each wanted more, not less. The most likely eventual outcome is that we will see additional future European combat aircraft programs rather than fewer. Those projects may arrive later, be delivered in fewer numbers with higher long-term sustainment costs, and perhaps even be broadly inferior to a joint solution, but they'll exist.

They can iterate from their 4.5 gen base to a 5.5 gen at best, and partially source foreign subsystems from US to fill in remaining gaps. A true 6th gen project needs the resources of a continental sized superpower, these European individual countries are too small economically and R&D wise to leapfrog from 4.5 gen to 6th gen alone. They should stick to off-the-shelf solutions from US like F-47E or FA-XXE for 6th gen and preserve their industrial base with a mini-5th gen project as what Turkey is doing with Kaan.

GCAP is not smooth sailing as well. IP issues is raised as Italian Defense Minister complaining that UK is not sharing their best tech with Italy/Japan

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and recent news suggest massive delays to GCAP due to lack of dedicated funding from UK Treasury (

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). I predict GCAP will be so delayed that Japan will opt for more F-35s as a stop-gap and F-47Es in future because of uncertainty with GCAP. It's so predictable. Industry wants money, politicians want to look productive, but when it counts (money, IP, etc...), individual egoism and nationalism intervenes, it falls apart. China and Russia boogeyman fear mongering won't save your inherent pettiness and other weakness.

 

[Hitomi]

They can iterate from their 4.5 gen base to a 5.5 gen at best, and partially source foreign subsystems from US to fill in remaining gaps. A true 6th gen project needs the resources of a continental sized superpower, these European individual countries are too small economically and R&D wise to leapfrog from 4.5 gen to 6th gen alone. They should stick to off-the-shelf solutions from US like F-47E or FA-XXE for 6th gen and preserve their industrial base with a 5th gen mini-project.


GCAP is not smooth sailing as well. IP issues is raised as Italian Defense Minister complaining that UK is not sharing their best tech with Italy/Japan

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and recent news suggest massive delays to GCAP due to lack of dedicated funding from UK Treasury (

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). I predict GCAP will be so delayed that Japan will opt for more F-35s as a stop-gap and F-47Es in future because of uncertainty with GCAP. It's so predictable. Industry wants money, politicians want to look productive, but when it counts (money, IP, etc...), individual egoism and nationalism intervenes, it falls apart. China and Russia boogeyman fear mongering won't save your inherent pettiness and other weakness.

Who knows, maybe they will pay the US enough to enlarge the F-35C wings even more, call it the F-3 Lightning Zero or something, put an indigenous GaN radar inside a few years earlier than the F-35, then call it a masterpiece in domestic development.

 

[magmunta]

An interesting demographic insight about the Phillipines:


With a population of 117 million, there are ~14 million single mothers. Compare that to the larger population US, which is infamous for single black mothers, at ~11 million single mothers.

Due to a combination of laws, religion & culture, there is an significant amount of single mothers in the Philippines.
Catholicism making it difficult to divorce, teenage pregnancies, & a large amount of deadbeat fathers who fail to provide good role models for fatherless boys & girls alike.

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This post was inspired by the recent Asian Boss video, "Why Filipino Women Are Choosing to Stay Single Forever":

A famous American economist Thomas Sowell has done some research on children with a single parent and shown that mathematical expectation is that children with single parent are less educated, more likely to "fail" in life.

 

[tamsen_ikard]

I'm actually curious.

How much pull does the west have over SG practically speaking? How about India or China?

I mean SG on paper is an independent country and does it own thing. But we know reality isn't so nice like that and there's a lot SG wants to avoid doing or pissing off people it is heavily dependent on for certain things.

There is no pull, there is only western worship and mental racial hierarchy at play. Whether its Phillipines, Japan, Korea, Taiwan or Singapore.

Every one of these countries will oppose China's rise and US decline because it clashes with their worldview of racial hierarchy.

 

[RavenClaws]

There is no pull, there is only western worship and mental racial hierarchy at play. Whether its Phillipines, Japan, Korea, Taiwan or Singapore.

Every one of these countries will oppose China's rise and US decline because it clashes with their worldview of racial hierarchy.

They need to rewatch the footage of Tom Cotton grilling the tiktok CEO a couple more times.

"Are you a member of the Chinese Communist Part-"

"Sir I'm Singaporean!"

"... Are you a member of the Chinese Communist PARTY!?"

 

[Ringsword]

They need to rewatch the footage of Tom Cotton grilling the tiktok CEO a couple more times.

"Are you a member of the Chinese Communist Part-"

"Sir I'm Singaporean!"

"... Are you a member of the Chinese Communist PARTY!?"

I think Jensen Huang knows about this racial badgering and harassment and has decline appearing before a Senate hearing.But a sober reckoning is coming for "poor " Jensen as these MAGA days continue.

 

[supersnoop]

Who knows, maybe they will pay the US enough to enlarge the F-35C wings even more, call it the F-3 Lightning Zero or something, put an indigenous GaN radar inside a few years earlier than the F-35, then call it a masterpiece in domestic development.

F-2 was a silly project, but the idea was to build something a bit more "original" than strict license production like F-15J. Japan successfully executed E-767, C-2 and P-1 projects, which is probably more than most other countries can handle in a similar time period (i.e. India - Tejas). Problem with their projects is they are always over budget, faced with slim export chances leading to high unit cost, and plagued with quality issues (F-2 wing cracking, C-2 cargo door issues, P-1 sea water corrosion on wings and sensors, pretty critical issue for Maritime Patrol aircraft). If they manage a 5.5 gen fighter, they might be able to afford 20 at the exorbitant cost of $250 million each. In the end, their military projects are just like their post-90's consumer electronics, Galapagos products.

 

[supersnoop]

They need to rewatch the footage of Tom Cotton grilling the tiktok CEO a couple more times.

"Are you a member of the Chinese Communist Part-"

"Sir I'm Singaporean!"

"... Are you a member of the Chinese Communist PARTY!?"

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