Is WWIII inevitable?

[Juan Martinez]

wars, like all man-made follies, are evitable, unlike natural disasters or force of nature, which are always inevitable. we're in the age of ICBM, of nuclear warheads, of nuclear weaponry. we're talking of annihilation of the specie. regional conflict, maybe, but not world war. russia can't even contain their own domestic problem. china cannot stand isolation from the rest of the world. no country can. it cannot afford sustained economic blockade. and i don't think panatag shoal a root cause of another world political upheaval with cataclysmic proportion. territorial bickering is not solved thru aggression but détente.

[jick.cejoco]

Too bad, Philippine defense is one of the weakest in the region. Kaya "ang mamatay mg dahil da iyo" kahit walang silbi ang kamatayan. Nabenta ang fort bonifacio para kuno sa afp modernization. Nabenta din ang camp lapulapu. Ngayon ang sundalong pinoy naging kawawang koboy

[donbuggy]

If a world war happens, which country will not be affected?

A popular urban myth or legend is the story of the highly intelligent European who, in 1938, felt sure that a massive war would break out in Europe and result in many deaths. As a result, the man picked a remote island in the South Pacific, an island no one had ever heard of, and moved there to avoid the coming war. The island, Guadalcanal, was virtually destroyed and, of course, the man was never heard from again.

http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Jour...04-Gregory.pdf

[Monseratto]

If it goes nuclear...



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If it goes nuclear...

[Morz]

If the ph unclos arbitration case gets a positive decision, the us and its allies can use that as moral leverage to force china to stop else not war but economic isolation. This is the only recourse every country will be willing to do. War is too costly.

[donbuggy]

A memoir of war (then) and China (now)
F Sionil Jose (The Philippine Star) | Updated June 7, 2015 - 12:00am

How will the Chinese come in the very near future? This is an infantile question, in some respects. As that astute journalist and political observer, Uli Schmetzer, said in his landmark book, The Chinese Juggernaut, they are already here.

They control 60 percent of our economy. Eight of the richest Filipinos according to the Forbes list are ethnic Chinese. Historically, they were in the region long before the Western colonizers came. They intermarried with the natives, and got acculturated. Rizal had Chinese ancestry. As I have said again and yet again, all of Southeast Asia will be sinicized within a couple of centuries.

During those three years that we were occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army, many Filipinos collaborated with them, some with the genuine nationalist belief that they were going to free Asia from Western imperialism. In believing so, they even formed armed groups to fight the guerrillas that waylaid the Japanese. The collaboration issue was settled politically when President Elpidio Quirino granted amnesty to them and many of the collaborators were elected to high positions in the post-war government. As a moral issue, however, the treason continues to rankle to this very day.

And now, China has already occupied portions of our territory. It is so glaringly ridiculous for them to say that Scarborough shoal - hundreds of miles from the Chinese mainland, and just a hundred miles off the coast of Zambales - is theirs! And yet, some Chinese Filipinos say that, indeed, the whole of the Spratlys belong to China. We see then that within our very ranks, within our very shores, China has far more collaborators than the Japanese had.

The communists who were their allies in the '60s and who missed out on EDSA1 have been silent - very, very silent - and have not voiced dissent or demonstrated against the Chinese incursions in our territory, in their stranglehold of our economy. Will they also be collaborators in the event that the tensions in the region erupt into war between us and China?

This war, according to David Archibald, a fellow of the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, is inevitable and will explode in a couple of years, in 2017, he predicts.

The events leading to it are emblazoned every day in our newspapers: the enlarging of the reefs in the Spratlys to assert China's claim on the region, its continuing threat to its neighbors and armed challenge to the United States which wants the sea lanes and airspace free for international navigation. Says Archibald, "When China gets around to enforcing that claim, foreign merchant vessels and aircraft will have to apply for permission to cross it." China, says Archibald, will likely start the war and attack American forward bases all the way to Guam, and those in the Philippines as well.

He concludes, "It will be one of the most pointless and destructive wars in history but that is what is coming."

[donbuggy]

Seven Reasons China Will Start a War By 2017
by David Archibald April 30, 2015

[b_9904]

I'll need to buy a rifle then.


Wonder if this is true: https://youtu.be/eGs_dcXt-3k

[jick.cejoco]

I'll need to buy a rifle then.


Wonder if this is true: https://youtu.be/eGs_dcXt-3k

First
Learn how to use the weapon
Second
Learn how to maintain it
Third
Learn corrective action if it fails when you need it
Fourth
Learn weapons retention otherwise the person at the opposite end of the weapon use it against you
Fifth
Learn weapons discipline and weapons capability
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifl...note-Lejeune-1

[ClaNker]

Seven Reasons China Will Start a War By 2017
by David Archibald April 30, 2015

Kawawa China nyan. Weak ang navy nya, after the allies sink their ships paano na.