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[–]GoldenDynasty[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Very disappointing behavior from Marcos, seems like he's not as based as duterte as he was being advertised. This is a very bad decision putting the philippines into becoming a possible proxy war site by the us against china

[–]TwerKing 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Very disappointing behavior from Marcos, seems like he's not as based as duterte as he was being advertised. This is a very bad decision putting the philippines into becoming a possible proxy war site by the us against china

Not so fast there. To me, his motive is more truly based than he lets on or at least accidentally based for real. Lol. I'll tell you why in my next paragraph.

What Im interested to know however is how the us can be pushing for war against china now, apparently be 2025, while simultaneously being tied to a war in eastern europe, iran, etc and facing a potential issue of dedollarization? We should also consider the fact that a huge chunk of the arms supplies of NATO has been depleted in ukraine, and that they dont have the manufacturing capability to restore all those reserves. So how will they be able to go to a direct or even proxy with another gigantic manufacturing and technological superpower that has a modern military? Apparently the uk military could run out of ammo in a single afternoon at this point!

The bolded part is the reason why marcos jr wants to negotiate with the usa. But be mindful that it's skin deep. He's building off what duterte started through warming up relations between china and philippines. Just like duterte, marcos jr desires better links with china. Marcos know what's going on with usa backed war in ukraine. It's nothing but a distraction to stretch the yanks thin, basically a ploy to weaken the mericans much more. He likely accepts the reality that many of his countrymen are going to die if they get involved in a war. What marcos is doing in the long term is an act of distracting the enemy and self sacrifice.

Stupid?? Kinda, yes.

Heroic?? Also kinda yes.

That's how I see it.

[–]GoldenDynasty[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thats an interesting perspective but marcos should know that the US also tries to force other nations to host their military on their soil as a form of black mail. SK and Japan being prime examples. There's just a lot of risks involved in having us troops in their homelands aside from all the killings and rapes they do. They could make a false flag op where they start a hot war between the phillipines and china (already attempting to do so with sk and dprk, and china, japan and taiwan, etc.) He needs to be very careful here

[–]TwerKing 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh he knows. That's why I said he's very much aware many of his countrymen are likely going to die. It's a price he has to pay in order to have the yanks distracted and spread out thin. He's making his country a sacrifice so china could have a bigger advantage. Philippines kinda owes china anyway because philippines helped south korea rather than north korea. It's a complicated mess.

Filipinos are kinda famous for being heroic. More and more goldens are learning about the forgotten critical battle that made it possible for south korea to exist. I only learned this last year. Seems to have been taken out of many history books for a generation by some unknown forces, likely the usa doing their dirty work as usual to keep goldens divided and wanted to take credit for themselves from that legendary battle, along with some racist south korean politicians that abided by this agenda. Yeah, I think filipinos fought on the wrong side but it can also be said that south korea-minus some of the racist south korean politicians, made many wonderful contributions to our golden race even though they became a lapdog for the usa.

Watch these videos,

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIE9x1Bp6jI&list=LL&index=24

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKpXdnVt0KU&list=LL&index=22

3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV1M8ry8YkU

4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsY1SX7omSU&list=LL&index=25

5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRYSJ_lDMkI&list=LL&index=19

Stupid?? Yeah.

Heroic?? Also yeah.

Sometimes you have to take in the bad with the good.