I was surprised that U.S. bases in the Phillipines are considered a major part of the defense of Taiwan. And that the Phillipines has recently allowed the U.S to add bases in their northernmost islands right next to Taiwan. But the video also cites that a change of Phillipine presidential leadership could cause the U.S. and Taiwan to lose that advantage, and the deterrence it gives against a potential invasion of Taiwan.
At first glance, it looks like the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and South China Sea are wide open areas. But this and other videos clarify that from a military / naval standpoint, the shipping lanes through these areas are not as open as they look, and are vulnerable to being completely cut off at a few narrow choke points by naval blockade.
If Kamala Harris were elected a few days ago, we were already on a trajectory for world war with China, in about 5 years.
With Trump, there is a chance to break that trajectory,and create a strong U.S. policy that can rally and renew alliances in U.S. coalition with other nations, Nations that now have renewed confidence in U.S. leadership, that can deter or dissolve that China threat.
In both interviews, detailing how a weakened open U.S. southern border, that allows over 20 million illegal immigrants to enter, not only lets in illegal immigrants, criminals, drug cartels and terrorists, but how this is all intertwined with China waging an undeclared larger war on the United States, through multiple arms of attack:
1) Providing and shipping the chemicals to Mexico, for drug cartels to make fentanyl and other narcotics smuggled into the U.S., that now kills over 100,000 Americans annually, higher losses than in any war in U.S. history. Fentanyl is now the largest cause of death for Americans between the ages of 15 to 45.
2) U.S. deficit trade with China, costing the U.S. $850 billion a year, and that funds China's fentanyl trafficking, and also funds China's buildup of both conventional and nuclear military forces, to use on us at a later date.
3) Chine's cyber-theft from U.S. companies, that costs at least another $500 billion a year, and hacks not only private companies, but also hacks every U.S. government agency, including the Pentagon.
4) "Elite capture" of U.S. government officials, such as Joe and Hunter Biden, the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Eric Swallwell (who had a Chinese mistress who also worked in his House government office, to more easily steal information while he served on the House Intelligence Committee. And incredibly, Swallwell STILL remains in the House). And Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, among others. Whether out of greed, blackmail or other motivations, these treasonous Democrats do the bidding and share classified national security information with the Chinese government.
5) Chinese "Confucious Insitute" branch ideological indoctrination centers in hundreds of universities and schools, across the U.S., molding the brains of young Americans, to turn them into future Eric Swallwells and Tim Walzes.
6) TikTok social media app, that allows the Chinese government to gather personal data and location from every app user, including about U.S. military personnel and their families and children, for intelligence use in a future war against the U.S.
7) Covid-19, that appears to have been developed as a bio-weapon at the Wuhan Research Institute, but backfired on China, and then China allowed it to spread to the rest of the world, by ceasing internal flights WITHIIN China in early 2020, but allowed Covid-infected passenger flights OUT of China, to every other part of the world. This was not the original intent of China at the time, but when China suffered from its own bio-research outbreak, they decided to make sure the rest of the world suffered from it too. China similarly gathers data from 23AndMe genetic tests of Americans, to design other more deadly diseases that can be used at some later time to infect and cripple the U.S. and its allies on a massive scale worldwide, as part of a future war.
8) Chinese-made cel phones, drones, energy equipment, computers, software, and other electronics made and exported from China, that can also be used to steal data, or in other ways be weaponized or shut down remotely in advance of a Chinese military attack.
9) Interference in our 2020 and 2024 elections, to whatever degree they were successful.
10) Funding of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the open borders movement. These are just other ways for China to de-stablilize the U.S., and weaken us and the broader West. Russia and Iran do these things as well. And Russia in particular has been doing so since at least 1945, secretly funding communist front groups, communist newspapers, and other radical groups like the Black Panthers (who by the way, Georgia/Fulton Countty prosecutor Fani Willis' father was a very active part of).
These are just some of the components of China's undeclared asymmetric war on the U.S., preceding an actual military war.
I was surprised that U.S. bases in the Phillipines are considered a major part of the defense of Taiwan. And that the Phillipines has recently allowed the U.S to add bases in their northernmost islands right next to Taiwan. But the video also cites that a change of Phillipine presidential leadership could cause the U.S. and Taiwan to lose that advantage, and the deterrence it gives against a potential invasion of Taiwan.
At first glance, it looks like the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and South China Sea are wide open areas. But this and other videos clarify that from a military / naval standpoint, the shipping lanes through these areas are not as open as they look, and are vulnerable to being completely cut off at a few narrow choke points by naval blockade.
The US still has bases in here? I already told all of them to pack their bags and leave. I'll do it again tomorrow.
The last time we got dragged into the US' war, they got their asses kicked by the Japanese and then Gen. Douglas McArthur left us high and dry.
I don't know the current policy between he U.S. and the Phillipines,
But according to Wikipedia...
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The Empire of Japan invaded the Philippines in December 1941 during World War II,[125] and the Second Philippine Republic was established as a puppet state governed by Jose P. Laurel.[126][127] Beginning in 1942, the Japanese occupation of the Philippines was opposed by large-scale underground guerrilla activity.[128][129][130] Atrocities and war crimes were committed during the war, including the Bataan Death March and the Manila massacre.[131][132] The Philippine resistance and Allied troops defeated the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. Over one million Filipinos were estimated to have died by the end of the war.[133][134] On October 11, 1945, the Philippines became a founding member of the United Nations.[135][136]:?38–41? On July 4, 1946, during the presidency of Manuel Roxas, the country's independence was recognized by the United States with the Treaty of Manila.[136]:?38–41?[137]
That's the Reader's Digest version. And being local for you, you likely know the history way better than I do. But basically, at the same time, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, took oil fields in Indonesia, and invaded the Philllippines in a pretty rapid clip. With limited U.S. forces stationed beforehand in the Phillippines, and outnumbered, Macarthur had to make a tactical retreat to avoid being captured, and later returned in 1944 to push out the Japanese. But as they were in every country they occupied, the Japanese were awful in what they did to the Phillippine people.
As I mentioned before, I had a Phillippine girlfriend in 2001-2003, and she told me that when the Japanese invaded their rural island (Bohol) the Japanese killed every male member of her family, and raped every female in her family.
Because the Japanese were so awful to every country they invaded, they were met with heavy resistance and geurrillla fighters in every country they occupied. And Japan conscripted several hundred thousand women from these countries as basically slave prostitutes, termed "comfort women" to sexually service Japanese soldiers, many of them so abused they were no longer able to have children after the war.
The Japanese Bushido secret society were the inspiration for creation of the Nazi SS. A book I read that gives a history of the rise of medeival Japan and its rapid consolidation into an empire and its rapid industrialization from roughly 1866-1905, and its atrocities in the 1930's in Manchuria, is documented in The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang. It explains that unlike post-war Germany that was forced to educate future generations in schools about Nazi atrocities, Japanese citizens did not have to receive similar education about their war crimes, and largely remain unaware of that part of their history.
My knowledge of the beginning of U.S. involvement with the Phillippines starts with Spanish-American war in 1898, where in the treaty ending the war, Spain conceded Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines to the U.S. For the first time the U.S. had territory outside the United States, and this was controversial inside the U.S. even then, with many in government arguing it (along with Hawaii) turned us overnight into a colonial power like the nations of Europe. For reasons I don't understand, the U.S. held control militarily over the Phillipines for several decades instead of just letting it become independent, occupied from roughly 1900-1942, until the Japanese took it. And the Phillippines got its independence after in 1945.
You can look up "First Island Chain, Second Island Chain, Third Island Chain" (mentioned earlier in the topic), to see China's imperial plans for the Pacific region, that includes not only possession of the Philippines, but Guam and Hawaii as well, that China intends to turn into concentric rings of defensive islands around China.
I understand China is in terrible shape right now politically and economically. On the one hand, that should make China more weak and reluctant to make war on anyone. But on the other hand, Xi Xiinping sabre-rattles about seizing Taiwan , and war with other countries, as a way to rally nationalist popular support within his own country. From what I've seen said by U.S. generals interviewed, China is preparing o be ready for war with Taiwan by 2027 or 2028.
Thank God Trump was elected, because he is the one presidential choice that will rapidly re-arm the U.S. military, and hopefully deter China from starting a war. As in the many videos I've posted above, some say China is already more prepared for war with us and would win, and others say China is weaker than it seems and has vulnerabilities such as dependence on imports of energy and food that could bring China to is knees in a war. I don't want to find out, so I'm hoping for deterrence and a peaceful alternative !
