Besides what you wrote.
You never be able to have a decent standing army 1/30 the size of current conscription. It is not in the nature of Chinese to join the army. Even the US is now relying on southern hicks, blacks, latinos and women. Its no longer fashionable to be associated with regimentation.
Since we are on this topic, Argentina and Falklands War comes to light. As the military junta increasing began to run the economy into the ground and they had committed atrocious human rights abuses, they had to divert the attention of their people. They chose a patriotic cause and chose the Falklands and British became their bogeyman. No one had a hint that a incident let alone a full scale war was going to take place.
Its the same with Malaysia and Indonesia. We have to be careful and we also have to ensure that they remain stable. Mahathir was notorious for playing bogeyman politics and the only thing stopping him and other idiots is the huge first strike capability. We allow the Indonesian and Malaysian politicians and Army to come to Singapore, stay at Hyatt, encourage the management to run Brannigans and an allow international smorgasboard of pussies to look after their needs for the very same reason. We are the biggest OKT in the region so that our kids can go school and Ah Pek can go have his Kopi Kow at his neighbourhood coffeeshop.
Thats life.
Sure you will get fighter pilots, defence scientist etc but no one to hold rifle, join infantry or drive tanks. As you know our international assignments typically avoids having NS men in battle zones. The detachment running drones for the Allies in Afghanistan is a puzzle to many of the international contingents. They cannot figure out why Singapore Army is made of Indian NCOs and specialists, Chinese women NCOs and Chinese senior officers.
I give the PAP govt a 10/10 rating for their policy of not allowing any MUSLIMS into the country permanently. It shows they're a lot smarter than those moronic bleeding liberal Westerners who actually believed that Muslims could co exist peacefully with the rest.
LKY deserves a Nobel Prize for his foresight in this matter. You only need to spend a couple of months in countries such as France and the UK to see how Islam has ruined what were once beautiful and peaceful neighborhoods and turned them into slums full of hatred.
Right you are on all counts. Wherever they settle and breed there usually is fear, distrust, decay and a shitload of problems.
The thing is most of them are ok when you get to talk to them as individuals. Some city in the UK came up with a reconciliation program at school level ....but i haven't seen any follow through resultswise.
The nature of our location requires us to spend. Tomorrow a nut case in Malaysia or Indonesia decides to score vote points and launches an attack. We have no choice but have an expensive deterrent. If Singapore with all things being equal was between Australia and New Zealand. I bet you we won't even have a General let alone an an infantry brigade. Many of PAP key business partners in trade and industry including so many towkays have appealed to old man and cabinet to avoid NS for their sons over the years. This is not negotiable.
One of the things that Goh Keng Swee realised was that the defence spending was going to be high so he started Sheng Li Holdings to recover some of the cost. It led to food production, arms manufacturing etc. It now called Temasek and many of those industries are within the Singapore Technology Group. They generate huge revenue and employ a lot of Singaporeans.
What you can see is the NS has been reduced and I suspect that it will be reduced further. We are now going to get the US to deploy littoral (coastal) navy deployments and reduce the dependency on NS. In return we will provide safe bases for them. Interestingly a return to British providing protection to strait settlement and we return to do what we do best - trading and make money.
A lot of distasteful, uncivilized, anti-Islamic, but blunt, frank admissions from the Kuffar.
Shows that their bogus oaths about not discriminating on the basis of race, religion or language are
false.
And it has been
false all along. These quotes above are proof enough, and it was/is still equally true for PAP-piglets starting from old fart Harry Lee down all the way today to Eunuch Loong.
This should be all the more reason Malaysia and Indonesia should work together, like during Pukul Habis or Malindo Darsasa 3AB, take it up a notch and flatten everything and anything worth targeting or suspected of worth targeting.
Take a leaf out of Iranian playbook if needed. Both countries have plenty of palm oil, natural gas, petroleum, and non-mineral resources that they can sell in return for Iranian ballistic, cruise, surface to air missiles and drones for both attack and for surveillance purposes.
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corruption or bribery from pap-piglets to keep their armed forces weak alone can not explain it. why are melayun indon military so weak?
race and IQ.
malaysia is a tiny country, we may expect that it's unable to work independently and anger yanks to purchase weapons from iran north korea or the likes. maybe that's reasonable.
for indon, world's 4th largest/most populous countries to fail to work independently and to act as a vassal of yankee jewish axis is a terribly pathetic and disastrous course of action. Indon should have shown some backbone and acted independently, purchased weapons from Iran North Korea openly and then received tech transfer for indigenous production. Win-win solution, bypass ang moh kia currency and SWIFT messaging system altogether.