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Thanks Karl, while Indonesia might have a longstanding affinity with the USA, they are anything but fools. They are the largest muslim nation on earth and are likely offended to their core watching the USA lead and arm the genocide against Palestinian people in general and especially muslims in the West Asia region. They also have their own genocide carefully tucked awat in their memory of 1965. They have already been alerted to the complete vulgarity of the USA elites through the savagery against Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decades.

Indonesia is located in a big pond and among its near neighbours is Australia that strains at the bit to send its soldiers to whatever Gallipoli moment comes next. Its a multiple choice scenario for the warmongering leadership cults in Oz unfortunately. I guess Indonesian elites would relish the thought of Russian and Chinese arms supplying their defence forces. They are in the first stage of constructing a wide high speed rail network in conjunction with China.

Given that sage and peacemaking minds are in short supply among the USA political class, I would assume that Russia's steady diplomacy and simple transactional dealings will find a ready market in the entire region and the Philippines will just need to have another progressive revolution in the near future before they can join the club of BRICS and sensible nations. That is not a problem for anyone other than the people trapped inside the Philippino cage.

It matters little what the USA does when one considers the rapid acceleration of the aggregation of a multipolar world community committed to human betterment before oligarch monopoly. Sure there are oligarchs aplenty in Indonesia and very capable ones to boot but the emerging multipolar commons in the non Euro world may just offer a better, less murderous future.

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When will the peoples of post WW2 subjugation, namely Germany & Japan discard their adult diapers and fight for their Independence?

As if Japan's 280%+ debt/gdp ratio is not enough of an encumbrance that they've been cuckolded into confronting the world's most technically advanced nuclear power.

I can remember a recent statement by Blinken (made with that deadpan evil smirk I call snide) , he said, once you allow a Russian into your home you cant get rid of them. I almost choked on whichever liquid I held to my lips as clued-up people know that he was actually referring to the USA because I can't think of many occasions where Russia have outstayed their welcome but can name dozens where the outlaw American regime has and still remain to this day.

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