Opinion on the Philippine military? With the brewing conflict between America and China, I am curious about the capabilities of one of America's closest ally in Asia. People usually just talk about Korea and Japan when it comes to American allies in Asia. I heard that the soldiers are skilled but held back by outdated equipment.
They have shit capability and rely heavily on US gibs.
Their officers are whack and have no NCO corps.
But those are minor details, their politicians are Beijing bootlickers.
Their currwnt President Bong Bong Marcos is the son of US puppet dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Even when they were ousted from power by a revolution, his family was given assylum in Hawaii.
He owes it to the Americans who saved his ass to advance American interests.
>I am curious about the capabilities of one of America's closest ally in Asia.
This isn't the 20th century anymore.
>Their currwnt President Bong Bong Marcos is the son of US puppet dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Even when they were ousted from power by a revolution, his family was given assylum in Hawaii.
Bongbong Marcos was also China's preferred candidate. The region he comes from was turned into a PRC intelligence hub while he was Governor.
The Marcos family are part ethnically Chinese themselves, and have been personal friends with the CCP for decades. Bongbong has personally known Mao since he was a kid.
The partial Chinese descent of Bong Bong Marcos is inconsequential, his mother Imelda Romalduez is of mixed Spanish descent making her son around 1/4th Spanish.
Marcos personally knew Mao yes and also several US Presidents.
However Marcos is closer to USA and he recently approved the expansion of US bases in the Philippines from 5 to 9 bases and he alligned himself with Taiwan.
>Bongbong Marcos was also China's preferred candidate
>Agrees to open up four new US military bases in the country
The boys in Beijing must be fucking pissed about what happened
their equipment is definitely outdated
therye still runing mostly cold war stuff
SOVL
>I am curious about the capabilities of one of America's closest ally in Asia
Japan has one of the most capable militaries in Asia.
The Philippines are a corrupt shithole
Dont underestimate the Filipinos just like how the US Navy is called the Filipino mafia.
Filipinos exert a secret but dissproportionate influence in the merchant marine and navies of the world.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.d8aspring.com/eye-on-asia/filipino-seafarers-the-modern-foundation-of-the-maritime-industry%3Fhs_amp%3Dtrue&ved=2ahUKEwjV76WqxrX9AhUDBogKHVb3BV4QFnoECA4QBQ&usg=AOvVaw1XieCpWAHAY6v_euFTFwWG
Filipino Seafarers, the Modern Foundation of the Maritime Industry
Literally 25% of the world's seamen are Filipinos and form the largest nationality manning the world's various shipping.
If the Philippine Republic so wished, they could ask all the Filipino seamen to mutiny tomorrow and then Filipinos would possess a large chunk of the world's ships.
>ackchyually our people serve in foreign navies because home is such a shithole
why would you be proud of this
My home is not a shithole its underrated and undervalued. If its such a shithole how come Americans are immigrating here? Fleeing the expensive prices in America?
Blanket statements like yours is stupid since for example to an American retiree, the Philippines and its afforable prices is paradise compared to the capitalist hellhole that is America.
>minimal industty
>biggest export is its people
>its government sees nothing wrong with this
keep coping and nothing will change
The way you look at the Philippines is like some boomer stuck in the 20th Century, the Philippines has long discarded its' status as the sick man of Asia and is now among the fastest growing economies in Asia!
https://business.inquirer.net/387347/nomura-ph-among-asias-new-rising-stars
t. retards don't understand that *every* economic output of a country relies on the work of its people.
stop being anon and tell me exactly what country you're in so I can properly be racist back :^)
>Philippine military?
Uhm, what's that?
Useful as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for America.
Marcos' mother is a Romalduez, they descend from a Spanish friar and silversmith.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norberto_Romualdez
Think of Russians but american-aligned
>Russia is Nigeria with snow
>The Philippines is Russia with spam and rice
Glorified police force meant to keep their rebellious people down. For external defense the Philippines strokes the big black dick of the US Navy. Coupled with turbo-corrupt politicians, the Philippines has no real incentive to improve on its military capabilities and create a truly national military.
Just look at how they allowed US bases back after 20 years of telling the Americans to fuck off. They're a people without any dignity.
Lol 40% of the US Navy and 30% of US army are all Filipinos of American Citizenship though.
Also most the security for American soldiers in Iraq were from Filipino PMCs.
The US Navy is not called the Filipino Mafia for nothing kek.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/filipino-american-sailors-evolution/#:~:text=Anyone%20who%20has%20spent%20time,adobo%2C%20pancit%2C%20and%20lumpia.OvVaw3Aeb-e-l8rZCgR4DGnMrQu
This just highlights further how pathetic Filipinos are. An eternal colony always reliant on its former colonial masters.
Filipinos being the mafia in the American Navy isnt unique to America asides from the US navy, Filipinos also dominate the meechant marine of other nations. 25% of all the world's Seamen are Filipinos, wherever there are ships there are Filipinos, were widely dispersed and embedded in the marine forces of not only America but the whole world.
>Our people are a global wageslave force.
That's also another reason why the Philippines is a shithole: its people just look for other work in foreign countries who pay them in peanuts but is considered a """good wage""" in their homeshithole. The people then have no incentive to improve their country since they can just work abroad, while politicians continue to be corrupt as nobody is calling them out of it.
A slave race through and through.
Who you calling a slave race bro?
The Philippines was the First Constitutional Republic in Asia.
And within Southeast Asia, has the oldest succesful war of indendence against a Colonial Power... (Succesful against old Colonist Spain before falling to new colonist America)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonisation_of_Asia#Timeline
Lol the Philippines is only second to Greece when it comes to sheer number of Shipping Companies plying the world, Filipinos also is the most commonly employed nationality for Seamen and Marine Officers. Our grubby hands are all over the Merchant Marine and Navies of the world. If we so wished we could freeze Global Shipping tommorow once we ask all the seamen and marine officers we have embedded around the world, to mutiny.
Sir you do realize Filipinos choose to work on ships to get as far away from Phillipines as possible right
My best friend is a Marine Engineer. Far from it. They miss going home to the Philippines the most. Most of them dont do it because they hate the Philippines they do it because of the large price disparity between foreign currencies to the Philippine Peso. One Euro, One Dollar, On Yuan and etc. is worth on average 60-70 Pesos. So they work in foreign lands, save up on foreign mullah and leverage that to live like kings at home.
Lul
The Nominal GDP of the Philippines is 300 Billion Dollars however its valued in 1 Trillion Dollars by PPP.
So basically, the Philippine peso is undervalued to foreign currencies like the US dollar by magnitude 3x.
Which means that a luxury penthouse condo in Manila would be the same price as cramped appartment in New York dollad-wise
Thats why we deploy our citizens overseas and they save up and come back. Slave away in the foreign country but your family back home will live the royalty.
The American and European passport bros movement...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Passport%20bros
They have caught wind of this dynamic and began settling en masse here.
Were currently being flooded American and European code IT geeks working for American companies remotely while enjoying Philippine prices.
What's with SEA monkeys? Fuck me, y'all the most delusional motherfuckers giving people in Latin America a run for their money.
>PPP
Literally made by a butthurt Indian communist that could not cope his Marxist province in India was a shithole.
>And within Southeast Asia, has the oldest succesful war of indendence against a Colonial Power... (Succesful against old Colonist Spain before falling to new colonist America)
LMAO. What crack are you smoking? You only became "independent" because of the USA.
>Who you calling a slave race bro?
You actually. You went from being owned by the Spanish for hundreds of years now being indirectly owned by the Americans (after they realized directly owning you was a waste of time). You people are like Mexico- a semi-failed state throughout it's "independent" history that is defined by it's violence and corruption who's only value is providing cheap labour to the world.
A few thousand tech-bros "fleeing" to the third world because they want to avoid paying taxes and enjoy nice weather is not the same as literally millions of your people wanting to fuck off and come to the USA/Canada.
Lol. We fought and won our War of Independence Against Spain. The US did zilch on this.
We aint the oldest Constitutional Republic in Asia if we werent the first nation here to rebel against colonialism
In fact US casualties were larger in the Philippine-American War than the Spanish-American War.
Also the number of Americans who fled here is 600,000 not a couple thousand.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_United_States
600,000 Americans out of a Filipino population of 100 Million. And counting the naturalized Americans and Amerasians + 250,000 means 850,000 people of American descent live here, almost a million.
And there are 3.4 Million Filipinos living in America which has a population 336 Million.
So roughly almost 0.85% or almost 1% of the Philippine population is made up of Americans fleeing to the Philippines and a similar 1% of the American population is made up of Filipinos fleeing to America.
The ratio of immigrant American to Filipino population and Vice Versa is the same for both countries.
And lol at you thinking we are irrelevant when 1/3rd of world trade passes through our waters; as the South China Sea Route and Lombok-Philippines-Taiwan route where bigger than the Malacca-max freight gets funneled to, means that a large percentage of world trade passes through our waters. Ignore us in youe own peril.
If you want dying Superpower America to be relevant in the coming Asian century maybe you shouldnt insult the people who will drive world growth in the coming decades.
Lol Canacuck thinking his isolated backwater is more relevant!
Liek Omigod we have zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent the international trade and commerce the Philippines has, but lol our isolated backwater is more relevant yours because we have more rapefugees! TOP KEK!
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:111.6/centery:8.6/zoom:5
Noynoy had the right idea with modernization but Flips have the memory of a goldfish.
They're have one of the most competent soldiery in Asia although it's counteracted by having the shittiest hardware in the region.
The developments in the Philippines have been interesting and confusing to me, because over the last decade I got the distinct impression they were at least contemplating swinging entirely to a pro-China camp
But for some reason the Chinese didn't respond with any warmth or gladhanding to try to court them, just constant threats and seething as if they *want* them to stay in US orbit?
As a Filipino, as much as I hate Americans for being arrogant snobs who leveled my country to the ground due to their involvement across 3 wars here...
American exceptionalism pales in comparison to Chinese exceptionalism, they literally believe that China is the middle kingdom of the world and all should bow down and worship them. The US is like that too but at least you're more tolerant of other races compared to China.
you guys would have been japanese serfs or worse if not for us
>But for some reason the Chinese didn't respond with any warmth or gladhanding to try to court them, just constant threats and seething as if they *want* them to stay in US orbit?
Chinks play the long game, they know that Duterte is an anomaly and that most presidents after him will be US aligned.
Doesn't excuse that his predecessors and successor are all spineless cowards because they're afraid of China sending home a bajillion maids as protest if they did anything serious.
Pinoy gubmint determined 20-30 years back that they would sponsor gubmint regulated slavery and this will be their foreign policy moving forward
No Pinoy administration ever deviated from this policy
Why bother improving the country when you can send cheap labor overseas, regardless of how they're treated there
Their politicians, billionaires and elites get to lord over the shithole while everyone else is encouraged to move elsewhere, the smart ones migrate to first world cunts and never return leaving behind a massive, low IQ peasant class who will keep voting for the same politicians that made them servile and poor
whats with sea bros on PrepHole lately
probably the most irrelevant people per capita in the world
Yes an irellevant shithole where 1/3rd of total world trade passes through. God, you pol fags are insuferable ignorant savages. Go back to ===>4chan and contain your stupidity there.