[Williams]

1. They have a weak military which the insurgents massacre, unless we help the government forces.

2. He loves communist China.

3 Duterte is popular but he’s turned into a real disaster.

[Zhang Fei]

[They have a weak military which the insurgents massacre, unless we help the government forces.]

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The regime is plenty strong for scorched earth tactics. They have the literal ability to exterminate everyone in the areas where the rebels operate. This kind of thing is pretty standard operating procedure in that region, because counter-insurgencies are expensive, whereas extermination is a one-time expense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366#Massacres

And it’s not something new. It’s how insurgencies have been quashed on the cheap pretty much since anyone started keeping records, and probably before then. Alexander did kill every man in Persepolis, the Persian capital.

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/diodorus/alexander-sacks-persepolis/

Decades before the NSDAP won power, the Kaiser did something similar in what is now Namibia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide

[MrEdd]

The insugencies are also weak.
Been there, we chased them around a bit, they limited us to three rounds per troop, we weren’t supposed to engage.

So yeah, they could have wiped them out back in the seventies and eighties.

As for China, why the FV@{ haven’t we reinstalled military facilities in the Pacific?

Shouldn’t Midway and all those little islands be occupied again? And should not the United States get it’s house in order on that matter before popping off about the Philippines?

There are times when hypocrisy hinders your ability to negotiate.