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horse said:

Hey brother, yeah, some old stuff, but good stuff, as I believe the American version or theory of the assassination.

President Marcos (a note for the younger generations here, when we say President Marcos, it means he was the leader, but he was not elected, President Marcos was a US backed dictator with American bases in the region, necessary to deter communism), did not order the hit.

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Bro I give you a brief historical context, Marcos like all politician is ambitious, he had build his image on a lie, with his war exploit. BUT he is a brilliant lawyer, stateman and an administrator. Like what I mentioned before he wanted to preserve his legacy but our past political system wouldn't allow it, so to remain in power he declared martial law and REFORM our political system to suit our needs, which is the right thing to do. The aftermath of Martial law our economy grew by leap and bounds as Marcos borrow heavily to fund his industrialization and agricultural project. Here he made a mistake in trusting the western financial institution, when he is starting to implement his independent foreign policy, western bank demand the immediate repayment of the loans and therefore were force to devalued our currency and establish a policy of exporting our labor (OFW)to fund and repay those loans. The hybrid war was first experimented here in the Philippine and the end result is the PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION. You can see the methods being used, in our case instead of sanction we were being hostage by the International bank, when Marcos regime endure they make a crisis (killing of Aquino) which forces Marcos to call a SNAP election, a contested election follow, bringing protest in the street then regime change. So Yes Marcos did not order the killing of Aquino. I want to emphasized that IF China is strong and prosperous at that time all these will not happen, China is not perfect at least she is the least of evil compare to the west and I'm glad a Rising China deviate and not follow the usual power politics of the West, if she does the 3rd world countries will be in for a lot of hurts and pains cause instead of a single bully there will be two.

horse said:

The Americans believed that factions in the army wanted to do the hit, in order to curry favour with President Marcos. Such that this was just doing something to get promoted. They knew they would get away with it, because given how the power structures were between the Americans and President Marcos, during that Cold War era.

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Bro, there are factions but they will not act without orders from above, remember at that time Martial law is in placed any movement from each faction are being monitor so they balanced out each other, for me this is the reason why a CIA mole had slip and entered the heavily secured airport because of military paralysis.

horse said:

I thought that logic was plausible, and it seemed bang on, given later events where nothing happened to President Marcos until the Cold War was over. After the Berlin Wall fell, President Marcos disappeared just like that!

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bro Reagan and Marcos are friend and hosting the Marcos family as a guess is like having an albatross on your neck for the incoming Cory Aquino gov't any move and decision the new gov't take need American approval and consent (in another words we are hostage to America whims and wishes). This had become a norm until Duterte become president and break that mold. Bro Duterte decision to bury the late Marcos remains in the Hero cemetery brings at end the curse of the two Family quarrel and we can finally moved on, we had endure enough hardship for nearly 30 years because of the divisiveness it bring.

Petrolicious88 said:

I think china now already poses significant challenge to the US. 80 miles off of Chinese cost, it will already be difficult for US to defeat China. Exactly why US is trying to combine forces with AU, UK, Japan, and possibly India and Korea; disperse their forces to prevent saturation attacks by Chinese missiles, etc... etc..

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south korea will most certaintly not get involved, because the moment they do north korea will enter the conflict
south korea is contained as long as north korea exist
People tend to underestimate how much influence China has on north korea

siegecrossbow said:

US might win without Indian support but will definitely lose with it. Once India is involved the whole combat strategy would be leaked to Twitter on the second day.

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The NSA was passing the Indians selected top-secret material, such as interrogation reports and recordings of intercepted phone calls. In the weeks following the Mumbai incident, India began leaking some of the intelligence — “at times it seemed a daily occurrence,” the NSA’s country desk officer complained. The NSA limited the provisioning of top-secret information to India after repeated warnings and meetings left it dissatisfied. Still, the NSA, which had deployed analysts to India, remained hopeful Indian intelligence agencies would “mature … into the partners NSA needs in South Asia.”

liamban said:

The NSA was passing the Indians selected top-secret material, such as interrogation reports and recordings of intercepted phone calls. In the weeks following the Mumbai incident, India began leaking some of the intelligence — “at times it seemed a daily occurrence,” the NSA’s country desk officer complained. The NSA limited the provisioning of top-secret information to India after repeated warnings and meetings left it dissatisfied. Still, the NSA, which had deployed analysts to India, remained hopeful Indian intelligence agencies would “mature … into the partners NSA needs in South Asia.”

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What do you know, there are useful idiots and there are useless idiots, and then there are idiots who are worse than useless because their “hard work” will mess up your whole operation.

I just learned something interesting, the Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty article 2 declares the two nations undertake all necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation.
In the event of taiwan reunification campaign and the quad militarily interfering on behalf of taiwan, and assuming south korean neutrality (most likely scenario), what would north korea do?
Will they do nothing? Or will they try to open a second front by lobbing a few missiles towards japan?

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bajingan said:

I just learned something interesting, the Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty article 2 declares the two nations undertake all necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation.
In the event of taiwan reunification campaign and the quad militarily interfering on behalf of taiwan, and assuming south korean neutrality (most likely scenario), what would north korea do?
Will they do nothing? Or will they try to open a second front by lobbing a few missiles towards japan?

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I have always thought that if China was really aggressive like the US claims it is, it would have invaded Taiwan and South Korea long ago. When the US started the semiconductor embargo, it would have been the most expedient way to cripple the global semiconductor industry in one swift stroke. A strategy of if I can't have it, you can't have it either.

gelgoog said:

I have always thought that if China was really aggressive like the US claims it is, it would have invaded Taiwan and South Korea long ago. When the US started the semiconductor embargo, it would have been the most expedient way to cripple the global semiconductor industry in one swift stroke. A strategy of if I can't have it, you can't have it either.

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@gelgoog bro a strategy which the US had overlook a critical design flaw, they don't have the endurance to sustain pain while the Chinese EAT BITTERNESS for breakfast.

Overbom said:

The moment you have so many troops of another nation inside your country, you immediately become a vassal/protectorate. To make it clearer, Germany does not belong to the Germans. It belongs to the US.

Same with S.Korea, same with Japan

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According to David Vine, professor of political anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC, the US had around 750 bases in at least 80 countries as of July 2021.

The actual number may be even higher as not all data is published by the Pentagon.

JAPAN has the highest number of US bases in the world with 120 active bases, followed by GERMANY with 119 and SOUTH KOREA with 73.

Like the US bases, the countries with the most number of US troops include JAPAN with 53,700, GERMANY with 33,900 and SOUTH KOREA with 26,400.

According to global US military deployment data published in the Conflict Management and Peace Science Journal, the US had around 173,000 troops deployed in 159 countries as of 2020.

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The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.


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gelgoog said:

I have always thought that if China was really aggressive like the US claims it is, it would have invaded Taiwan and South Korea long ago. When the US started the semiconductor embargo, it would have been the most expedient way to cripple the global semiconductor industry in one swift stroke. A strategy of if I can't have it, you can't have it either.

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That's exactly what the anglos would have done and what the anglos hoped china would do- the aggravations by the Five Eyes towards China these past 12 years have been with the hope and intention of instigating a war in east Asia whilst the anglos still held military primacy.

In those instances where the US came very close, the anglo leadership got cold feet and called off the attack eg obama calling off harry harris from starting a war in the SCS.