So an act of war, right?
Yeah, attacking a military unit seems like an act of war to me. Pretty blatant. Demonstrates that China only behaves as a bad actor with its neighbors, and can’t be trusted to be anything other than a bully.
This is basically China daring the US to do something about it. We shouldn’t take the dare, but we should respond with a show of support for the Philippines. China is flexing because they think the US is too busy with Ukraine, Israel, and the upcoming election.
Yeah, attacking a military unit seems like an act of war to me.
Civ 6 agrees with you.
My ships are merely passing through (your hull)
Well, according to China, those waters are their territory, which means that the presence of foreign military vessels is an invasion.
Practically speaking, I think you could call that area a contested region, so minor skirmishes like this are expected and could escalate to war (like Crimea eventually did).
I think that the Philippines approach has been something like, ‘You can claim those waters if you want, but you can’t possibly keep us from entering them, so we’re just going to ignore you until you start killing our people, and then we’re gonna call in big brother America.’
More of this will happen if the west doesn’t support Philippines or Ukraine Enough
America did it too and is trying to again
Philippines is a shithole that willingly elected the fascist Duterte as their president, they deserve no support.
Your taking about people from over 7000 islands as if it’s one entity.
Electing a fascist is rich America’s privilege, no? I’m speaking of trump just to make that perfectly clear.
As bad as Trump is, he isn’t championing and encouraging extrajudicial killings (at least not yet) like Duterte. That is however something your average Filipino voters were drawn to and supported with thunderous applause.
What about January 6
His lawyers are literally advocating that he should be able to have political opponents killed what the hell are you talking about?
As bad as Trump is, he isn’t championing and encouraging extrajudicial killings (at least not yet) like Duterte
He IS praising Duterte for it, though. As you implied yourself, Trump getting back in the white house will guarantee extrajudicial killings. Probably as a matter of stated policy rather than just something cops aren’t discouraged from.
That is however something your average Filipino voters were drawn to and supported with thunderous applause.
The country fell for the rhetoric of a demagogue. The US, Russia, Hungary, India, Israel, Belarus, and Japan all elected a fascist demagogue as their leader within the last 10 years.
I’m sure you consider some of those shithole countries but would you say that they all are, or do you admit that a country’s demagogue leader isn’t 1/1 indicative of the country as a whole?
I was wondering how they “punctured” this military vessel, then I watched the video… They’re fighting it out on freaking zodiacs.
Somehow this factors into taking over Taiwan.
It factors into China’s ambitions to control the entire South China Sea:
Straight-up imperialism. All your ocean are belong to us.
Anything China wants becomes “disputed” so they have an excuse to act like bullies.
