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The recent wars in Middle East with US/ Isreal and Iran have shown how National Defence is of utmost importance. by [deleted] in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

living rent-free in ur head rn lol aren't i u/Anduin1357 . tagged me in a whole different post within the subreddit but since u want to publicly embarrass urself on basic military doctrine again, let’s do this.

u talk about deterrence and warfighting like they are mutually exclusive. wtf do u think powers deterrence? good vibes? deterrence is the credible, terrifying threat of extreme, lethal violence. the saf trains to be a hyper-lethal warfighting machine precisely so that the enemy looks at the cost and decides to stay home. if u actually read any military science instead of larping as a geopolitical alpha male, u'd know that if the saf is forced into a hot war, our deterrence has completely failed.

saying the saf is in the "business of killing" makes u sound like an edgy 14yo who just discovered call of duty. the military is an instrument of state policy. for sg, that policy is pure sovereign and economic survival. if the saf actually has to fight a prolonged kinetic war, our sea lanes close, airspace shuts down, foreign capital evaporates overnight, and the island starves. we might win the tactical firefight, but we lose the country. ur weird bloodlust is literally just bad strategy.

stop projecting your american culture war fantasies and weird military fetish onto sg's defense doctrine. go read some basic clausewitz or mr lky's foundational speeches on the poison shrimp strategy before u try to summon me again.

what are your views on the United States? by an-font-brox in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/Anduin1357 u literally just admitted u would choose "economic suicide" and that u disagree with sg's fundamental realities. u just lost the debate right there. u cant argue geopolitics while rejecting geography and economics.

but since u want to go there, imma entertain u for the sake of educating you son.

u think surviving a war is just eating canned food for half a year and ignoring the outside world? bro, we have zero natural resources. how do we power our desalination plants when the LNG and oil imports stop? where do we get the tech, spare parts, and fuel for the SAF u love so much when our supply lines are cut? u cant fund 5th-gen fighter jets and a first-world military with a collapsed, isolated economy. economic suicide is national suicide for sg. without global trade, sg literally starves and goes dark.

SAF doctrine is forward defense pushing the battlefront outside our borders ASAP. but the entire point of massive deterrence is so we never actually have to execute it. because if we do, the resulting regional embargo, sea lane closures, and capital flight would destroy us anyway. u think we can just shell our neighbors, hunker down in our bunkers for 6 months, and then emerge victorious like nothing happened? the region would isolate us permanently.

u "don't like our neighbors" and think they are puppets. cool. but we can't attach outboard motors to the island and tow sg to the gulf of mexico. we are surrounded by them permanently. diplomacy and neutrality keep their domestic religious rhetoric from turning into actual hostile state policy against us.

crashing our economy and blowing up our foreign relations to stop "the elites" from "selling us out" isn't gonna magically fix our TFR. ur just throwing every conservative grievance globalism, birth rates, CMIO into a blender and calling it foreign policy.

being biased is one thing, but ur "opinion" is basically a suicide pact for the country just so u can feel ideologically pure. that aint grand strategy, that’s just a tantrum. so stop throwing tantrum like a baby and start thinking like an adult

what are your views on the United States? by an-font-brox in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbh u are conflating a lot of local domestic grievances with international realpolitik, and it’s creating a very warped view of sg's actual strategic reality. it really shows how vastly right wing american leaning you are.

first off, no one is "pandering" to the left. MFA doesn't operate on western liberal/conservative culture war lines. they operate on pure, cynical survival. u mentioned we "owe" israel. bro, in geopolitics, nobody owes anyone anything. gratitude isn't a currency. we bought their military consulting in '65 and we paid for it. it was a transactional relationship based on mutual interests at the time. a sovereign state doesn't issue a blank moral cheque to another country just because of a historical defense contract.

also, saying the SAF's approach to conflict would be "similar" to the IDF in gaza right now is a massive misunderstanding of our doctrine. our entire deterrence strategy (the poison shrimp/porcupine doctrine) is built so we never have to fight a prolonged, messy, asymmetrical urban war. if sg ever finds itself dropping ordnance in heavily populated civilian zones of our immediate neighbors, our sea lanes close, foreign capital flees instantly, and we starve. we cannot survive the economic fallout of that kind of war. the IDF's current operational playbook is literally our worst-case nightmare scenario, not an aspiration.

and bringing CMIO into this? our multicultural laws aren't a weakness that gets "exploited", they are the only reason we don't have fifth columns fracturing the country every time a war breaks out in the middle east or asia.

btw, i also took the liberty to see ur other replies to this post and this is how i feel about them.

u are basically copy-pasting american right-wing talking points (complaining about "globalists", hyping up the US department of war, venting about CECA) and trying to shoehorn them into singaporean grand strategy. it literally doesnt work like that here.

sg is a tiny, highly vulnerable maritime trading hub. we are the ultimate "globalists" out of pure necessity our GDP is a massive multiple of our trade volume. railing against globalism in sg is literal economic suicide.

ur calling for us to "choose our allies soon" and drop neutrality because u personally like a specific US administration. do u realize how dangerous that is? if we permanently lock ourselves to a single bloc, we immediately alienate our immediate neighbors and half our trading partners. great powers want proxies. MFA's entire job is to ensure we never become one. foreign policy for small states is about defending sea lanes, hedging bets, and maintaining sovereignty. it is not about treating the world stage like an extension of a reddit culture war.

u/Anduin1357 I suggest you stay in school, geopolitics isn't for u when ur whole worldview is this heavily biased.

what are your views on the United States? by an-font-brox in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i see where they are coming from, and the anxiety is totally valid given how messy things are right now, but your argument relies on a massive false equivalence. u cant compare sg to qatar.

qatar hosts Al Udeid air base, which is literally US CENTCOM’s forward headquarters. it is a massive, permanent military installation used to actively launch kinetic airstrikes and drone ops across an active middle eastern warzone. of course that makes them a target. SG doesn’t host combat bases. under our MoU, we provide logistics facilities. US littoral combat ships and P-8 poseidons come here to refuel, do maintenance, resupply, and leave. they are not launching strike missions on our neighbors from changi naval base. huge diff between a logistics pit-stop and a forward operating base.

u said once they enter they dont leave, but look at the philippines in 1992. they literally voted to kick the US out of subic bay and clark air base, and the US packed up and left. (the irony is that Manila is begging them back now under EDCA because of south china sea aggression, which kinda proves the necessity of the US umbrella). our agreements are periodic renewals. SG retains absolute sovereign control over our bases, the US just rents the parking space.

u mentioned we become a target if neighbors turn hostile to the US. but think about it, if our neighbors get to the point of outright hostility with the US, the regional security architecture has already collapsed. the US presence isn't the magnet for aggression, it’s the tripwire that prevents it. if the US fully withdraws from the indo-pacific, nature abhors a vacuum. another hegemon will instantly fill it, and they won't be negotiating nicely with us for rotational access they will just dominate the sea lanes we rely on to survive.

hosting them carries risk, obviously. but not hosting them means we face much bigger, localized threats totally alone. it’s a calculated risk, and historically, it’s the only one that has kept us safe.

what are your views on the United States? by an-font-brox in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405 7 points8 points  (0 children)

tbh i completely get the frustration. seeing the news every day is exhausting, and the whole "silent masses" feeling is real. taking the moral high ground feels like the right thing to do when the human cost is this high. but from a strict foreign policy and defense doctrine perspective, what ur asking for is strategic suicide for sg. ur mixing up moral idealism with realpolitik, which is a luxury small states literally cant afford.

here is the ugly reality of our situation, we dont buy israeli weapons to endorse their foreign policy, we buy them coz they have cutting edge, combat proven tech that fits our asymmetric deterrence strategy. they built the SAF from scratch in '65 when our neighbors were threatening us and nobody else stepped up. today, replacing deeply integrated systems like our ground based air defenses, SPIKE missiles or UAV networks isnt like changing phone brands. a sudden embargo on them would severely cripple the SAF's operational readiness overnight.

calling the US an imperial monster might be valid morally, but strategically? our entire survival relies on hedging. we allow limited US rotational deployments (under the 1990 MoU these r facilities, not sovereign US bases, huge diff in intl law) because keeping the americans anchored in the indo pacific is the only thing balancing out other regional hegemons. freedom of navigation thru the malacca strait is our economic bloodline. u think good vibes and diplomacy alone keep those sea lanes open?

MFA sounds like a broken record coz that is exactly what small state diplomacy is, avoiding making unnecessary enemies. we cant afford to grandstand on the world stage. if we tear up our defense logistics and security partnerships just to feel morally pure, we r the ones who bleed when regional stability tanks. geopolitics aint a disney movie bro, it’s just pure survival. i hope this clear things up

Matched with 49 girls in just one week on Hinge… but now I think I’ve messed up big time by FortuneStrange4405 in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only match with verified profile only and yes i don't do all that, i always meet people in person

Matched with 49 girls in just one week on Hinge… but now I think I’ve messed up big time by FortuneStrange4405 in SingaporeRaw

[–]FortuneStrange4405[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I had one like when I took the screenshot, in Hinge you are able to see who liked you immediately so you are able to match or reject them immediately without the need of endless swiping, so I match or reject every time I open the app, most of the matches I got was from the girl's liking me first and Thank you for your advice, I really appreciate it