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Which Filipinos, the Christian western lap dog one, or the Muslim one?
China's SCS Strategy Thread
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It's obviously the Christian loudmouthes
From artcle: "Seven out of 10 Filipinos “will not support” candidates in the 2025 midterm elections who take positions favorable to China despite its maritime disputes with the Philippines, according to a Pulse Asia survey commissioned by the private think tank Stratbase Group."
Whats that Stratbase Group?
Literally the Akhand Bharat of South East Asia
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I do not think the attempt to ukrainize the phillipines will be successful, largely because the phillipines lacks any hardcore neo-nazi or nationalist segment to appeal to. their pro-american compradors are mostly liberal types who live in big cities and eat lotuses for a living, not right wing street fighters.
lcloo
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plawolf
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No, the core reasons the Philippines can never be another Ukraine is because the west lacks the material means to support even one Ukraine, never mind two. The second most important reason the Philippines cannot be China’s Ukraine is proximity and land boarders, or rather the lack of them.
Quite simply, China can bomb them back to the Stone Age, leave it a failed state and call it a day without any significant blowback in the same way America has been fighting foreign wars since it’s inception. And it is not going to cost China much more than ammo and fuel, and even then it can be done mostly with cheap glide bombs.
Given that one of the main worries within China right now seems to be that China lacks practice at waging modern wars, flexing its military might in the Philippines could be seen as an extremely attractive warm up for the main event.
I would not be at all surprised if China does play the Philippines card as a means of preventing America from moving on Iran, or massively handicapping its ability to back up Israel once it has attacked Iran.
"New drone boat boosts Philippine Coast Guard’s law enforcement, environmental protection efforts
By Maria T ReyesThe Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has enhanced its fleet with an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to help enforce maritime laws and protect natural resources. The boat bolsters the agency’s capabilities by supplementing its flotilla of crewed vessels."
The writer framex it as a UN donation to "enforce maritime laws....."
The website states:
"Indo-Pacific Defense Forum is a professional military magazine published quarterly by the Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command to provide an international FORUM for military personnel of the Indo-Pacific areas. The opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily represent the policies or points of view of this command or any other agency of the United States government. All articles are written by IPD FORUM staff unless otherwise noted."
I don't even think it needs to be unanimous, lets be honest it only needs China and Russia agreeing on it. There're ways to make India quit it to save face rather then some formal protocol.
But I think India is clinging onto Russia just enough so that won't happen yet