"Good Riddance" is the majority opinion from other ASEAN states. The Filipinos ran to it's american daddy first before consulting ASEAN and now they are crying not being helped by the association. The IQ levels are really beyond 90000000
Agreed, PH is essentially an American colony now, rather than a proper member of ASEAN. The rest of ASEAN are busy making deals and growing their economies, while the PH is busy trying to stir-up a new war in the SCS (and Myanmar is mired in its own civil war). Most of ASEAN needs more trade and economy now, not more wars. A war in the SCS could effectively strangle maritime trade for ASEAN.
But the PH is also a threat to ASEAN. I recalled the Lahad Datu skirmish back in 2013. The PH under Aquino III staged an invasion of Lahad Datu, Sabah using 235 Sulu militants as proxies. But they had all came from Southern PH, so it was a de-facto Filipino invasion. That was a joke of an invasion force, but it was surprisingly successful. It caught the Malaysian armed forces and police napping. Those PH militants captured a village in Lahad Datu, Sabah and raided the surrounding areas. The Malaysian response was a fiasco, but they finally won the fight after bringing in their professional soldiers, and the airforce. It was a 1 month plus conflict. Official figures put around 80+ killed in the conflict. But I suspect that the real figure is over 100 deaths, probably closer to 200, because civilians deaths were intentionally not counted properly by the Malaysian government to cover up their incompetence.
I consider the Lahad Datu skirmish an attempted invasion, because the entire PH was all over the place regarding what happened. Aquino III condemned the Sulu militants for acting rashly, but offered little cooperation with Malaysia. Various Filipino government officials were agreeing or denying that the Sulu militants were terrorists. The PH government didn't even attempt to arrest the Sulu leadership in Southern PH. The Filipino public OTOH was very supportive of the Sulu militants. Filipino netizens were busy hacking Malaysian websites and trolling. They had also protested in front of the Malaysian Embassy in the PH. Recently, the PH had even attempted to launch an arbitration of Sabah with American lawyers, so their intentions are very clear to me. I think that this Sabah dispute is gonna flare up again some day.
Regarding the rightful claim of Sabah, its just a messy affair that I won't make any conclusions from. Both the PH and Malaysia have their own versions of claims, but both are also artificial nations created by colonial powers. Filipinos claim that they inherited Sabah from the Sulu Sultanate, but that Sulu Sultanate had been defunct since the early 20th century. Malaysia claims Sabah because Sabah had "opted" to join Malaysia after the British granted independence to both. I had chatted with a few of the local indigenous Sabah people, and they actually prefer to be independent of both. They felt that they were cheated by the union deal with Malaysia, and the Filipinos are invaders who would do no better. Sadly for Sabah, if it does want to declare independence, both Malaysia and the PH would attempt to invade it, and it doesn't have the military force to stop either.
The PH is currently the loose cannon of ASEAN, but severely lacking the ability to realize its territorial ambitions. The PH practices its most aggressive foreign policy under both Aquino III and Marcos Jr, both of whom are American puppets. Aquino III is particularly bloody, with the Lahad Datu skirmish, the deadly shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman, and the deadly shooting of other SEA fishermen. I also blame him for the 2010 Manilla hostage massacre, because his government showed little regard and regret for the lives lost of Chinese HK tourists. Marcos Jr has yet to match the bloodshed of Aquino III, but with the way he is pushing the SCS disputes, he might actually provoke something worse.
