M.Krishnamoorthy
A media coach, adjunct professor and author
Are Malaysians going to wake up one morning and realise the ASEAN region is headed towards a nuclear conflict?
Will the United States expansion of nine military bases spark this threat?
A recent press conference disclosed that US-China geopolitical tensions may ignite problems in South East Asia.
"China is not your enemy. China is your neighbour. China is your friend. China doesn't want war," said a former U.S. Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter.
"America is not here to help you. America is here only to use you," Ritter, who was also the former UN weapons inspector told a Press conference that the Danger of Nuclear War Is Real and Must Be Stopped.
The Schiller Institute organised the event.
Ritter who has some background in the Philippines was in 1986 deployed in the country after the fall of the Marcos regime.
“The United States is incapable of fighting a sustained conflict against a peer-level force. The Philippines will be the next Ukraine? The United States cannot fight and engage China and win. We will not beat the Chinese. We cannot beat the Chinese. And we know this, and yet we’re using the Philippines to create the conditions of potential conflict with the Chinese. Please understand that for the Filipino people, this is a recipe for disaster.
“You think America is your friend. So too did the Ukrainian people, and they are dying by the hundreds of thousands. Friends don’t let friends die in those quantities. Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced. Friends don’t let friends have their cities destroyed in this manner. Friends don’t let friends have families separated, have mothers and children destined to a life of refugee status in perpetual poverty. That’s not how friends behave.
“America has never been the friend of Ukrainians, and we are not the friends of the Filipinos. We don’t like you. If we did like you, we wouldn’t be doing this to you. We are using you. You are a tool, nothing but a tool. And when the tool ceases to be useful, we will discard you. We are using you to gain momentary leverage over the Chinese. We will fail. The Chinese will win, and you will be destroyed. End of story.”
Ritter called on the Filipino people to pressure their government to start sitting down and engage with the Chinese government responsibly. “China is not your enemy. China is your neighbour. China is your friend. China doesn’t want war. And if you would engage China in diplomacy, and as we’ve all indicated here, America has long since lost the skill set necessary to carry out diplomacy. But the Filipinos, the Philippine people can reignite this, to relearn it, to use this skill to prevent a war.
“But if you continue to behave as colonial subjects, and I know that’s a sore, sore, sore subject of the Filipino, because you were the colonial subjects of America. We still view you as our colonial subjects. We don’t like you.
We don’t care about you. We just want to use you. Grow up and act responsibly. Take control of your own future. America is not here to help you. America is here only to use you until there’s nothing left. And then we will discard you on the trash heap of history.”
He replied to a question by Maria Catherine Cruz Suba, a Freelance Broadcaster with Radio Mindanao Network-DZXL.
“My question is about the proxy war that is being orchestrated in this part of the world — the Philippines. Our country is actually being used by the US in its intent of war against China and according to geopolitical analysts, the Philippines will be the next Ukraine.”
This follows Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. who has allowed additional 9 US military bases all over the country.
She added: “The Armed Forces of the Philippines seemed to be following orders from their US counterpart. Drumbeats of war are being heard almost every day. Sinophobia is being propagated in mainstream media. Almost every week, there’s an incident of the Chinese Coast Guard that water cannons a Philippine vessel in the South China Sea.”
In his concluding remarks, Ritter emphasised: “Every American needs to wake up every morning with that fear [of nuclear war] in your stomach… I don’t know what you think anybody’s been saying up here, but what I heard is we’re headed towards a nuclear conflict that the United States is going to start. How do we stop it? The first thing is the realisation that this threat is real.”
Freelance Writer M. Krishnamoorthy (www.imkrishna.net) is a media coach, adjunct professor and undercover journalist. He has freelanced with Bernama, NST, The Star, and Malaysiakini. He also freelances as a fixer/coordinator for CNN, BBC, German and Australian Television networks and the New York Times. As an undercover journalist, he has highlighted society's concerns.
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