RP would be well advised to develop considerable naval and aerial drone capacity as quickly as possible. That’d be murder on Chinese ships trying to navigate between all those islands...
*Everyone was going to China back then, after it broke up with the USSR.*
A week after Viet Nam fell?
*So you are in favor of extra-judicial murder by death squads? I am not.*
And Mexico’s? How much did it cost us to get rid of the rape rooms in Iraq?
*RP would be well advised to develop considerable naval and aerial drone capacity as quickly as possible. That’d be murder on Chinese ships trying to navigate between all those islands...*
Now you’re thinking. Who says they have to ‘develop’ their own? We ‘gave’ Ageus destroyers to Taiwan while replacements were online.
RP are buying arms as fast as they can. They have just received Israeli SAM systems, Indian-Russian antiship missiles, Korean Frigates, etc. Much more is coming. The arms purchasing budget is 7x what was in Dutertes time.
Thats a huge change in Philippine defense posture.