Wake up Chan Chun Sing!

It is not easy arguing with an apparent truth but I will try when it is half truth.

Every country has historical and current dynamic.

You mentioned something but you forget something else.

LanFang republic was derived from hakka mining settlement. The Kailimantan sultanate introduced these Hakka workers because they were cheaper, better and faster. Sound familiar?

The rest was history, they took over and started their republic.

Now, you presented the picture of LanFang as weak, no, that was not true they were strong like Singapore, and sultanate around seek their protection, then why did it fall?

The reason is precisely because they kept the ruling elite within the Hakka family. Sound familiar?

Well, unlike you, I will present a fairer picture, it is because of European expansionism, where not a single country in Asia was spared, and such is the example you quoted to support your argument of strong defense?

Many countries with larger geographical extent fell to European expansionism during those times: to small countries like Netherlands.

Here is the real lesson:

It is not about your Demak or LanFang, there are umpteen examples of such and some have excellent defense, their failure is because they do not have progressive mind to understand that people need to come together to create, it is not just about meritocracy! It is also about the freedom to do away with redundant establishment, like the PAP, even when it preaches meritocracy while aiding and abetting autocracy.

European reformation, new knowledge enlightenment, renaissance, political reformation and renewed military thinking enabled them to increase their total capacity to survive.

These new realities caused the fall of myriad small kingdoms in Asia, not because these small kingdoms did not have strong defenses.

No one will ever argue defending a country with its military might is not critical to the survival of Nations, in fact that is not even a beginning.

For any country to survive the first rule is to change the unchangeable and to sustain such total capacity to survive, military is merely one of them but not the most important. In Singapore case, PAP is the hindrance to the buildup of such total capacity.

Move to our context, our core productive capacity and saving are currently going to military, there you will find the beginning of a whole new set of reality.

A Nation cannot survive by guns alone, agree not?

A Nation cannot survive by tired people, agree not?

Then can a Nation be sustained by tired people manning those guns?

Right now we have a defense expenditure which is amongst the heaviest in the world per capita, on the shoulder of every man, woman and child, do remember that woman and child are not combatants, that is the defending of the country, a tired people, whose labour force is the most intensively worked in the world, not every man, woman and children is born Spartan, agree not?

Now, just the day before, you tell them that each has their role and NS is not the issue, will this not mean the load of such heavy burden falling yet further on an already smaller group of people, agree not?

On top of that, you have disproportionately paid leader on the shoulders of these men!

And now you, and your PAP, sitting on top of this heap of human miseries shouting let us be united and move forward!


Like PAP, you are expired.

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