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Excellent. The US and Philippines just recently agreed upon at least 9 bases at last since fter around 3 decades. A formal alliance of hopefully finally JP, PH, US, AUS, and SK should be made.
Not a fan of Marcos but I’m glad that he’s taking a proactive role in this and undoing all of Duterte’s ass-kissing with China. All of Southeast and East Asia needs to come together and unite against their common enemy; Winnie the Pooh and the CCP. >

I mean, South Korea + Japan + India + Philippines out-army and out-spend China last I checked. 
The world is so weird, on one hand we keep feeding the military-industrous-complex like how France+Uk+Germany alone outspend russia 6:1, let alone if you add the US. 
If I wasn't so sure greed is a huge factor I'd begin to believe it was all just the illuminati feeding the military-monster and keeping the masses occupied by fear and other problems. >

Flat currency spending means fuck all, and I wish people could grasp that.
Japanese privates make the equivalent of $1500 a month. Their Chinese counterpart makes $100 a month. The same goes for shipyard workers, aerospace fabricators, etc. 
China and Russian costs of living are dramatically lower than that of their adversaries, which means their spending goes further. 2000 Japanese soldiers are $36M a year. 2000 Chinese soldiers are $2.4M a year. 30,000 Chinese soldiers are $36M a year...
Same spending, but which is stronger? And even if they were equal in terms of manning, that's $33.6M China has to spend on hardware that Japan doesn't...
This is why flat currency comparisons is such a useless and ignorant utility that it does more harm than good >

Dudes who will work for $100 month are going to be shit. How is populating their military with low or unpaid knuckleheads working out for Russia?
A $100 Chinese soldier doesn't go toe to toe with a real military. More people and more force doesn't scale linearly. More people do make for more complicated/expensive supply lines.
If China needs to come up with 15x the supplies, weapons, etc to have maybe an equal force to peers, that's not an advantage. You can print more money but you can't unlose wars. >

That's what they're saying, that $100 a month in China ISN'T low or unpaid. Cost of living is drastically different so you can't compare spending like that.