Tag: soviet union

The Ukrainian crisis: why Filipinos must be pragmatic

March 15, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 58 Comments

The military conflict involving Kiev and Moscow has been making the headlines of various news outlets all over the world. This Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict officially started when current Russian president Vladimir Putin recognized two people’s republics located in Eastern Ukraine, which are Luhansk and Donetsk. Collectively, they are grouped together as the Donbas region, where…

Economy, History, Politics, Society

Anti-Governmentism is a Dumb Fad

December 25, 2017 ChinoF 5 Comments

I’ve observed that nearly every country in the world has people who hate their government. Whether US, China, Japan, Russia, or even Israel, there sure are critics. Of course, hating on governments has been around since government has been around. But anti-governmentism has become bloated into one of today’s pretentious fads. Right now we have…

Culture, Government

Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, and Josef Stalin: The Philippines’ political drama in retrospect

June 23, 2015 Celestino Manrique II 31 Comments

One of the worst and most annoying characteristics of the Filipino people is the melodramatic personality. Filipinos are so driven by drama, sometimes (if not many times) to a fault. It has hampered the rationality of Philippine society, which is evident in elections. BS Aquino III was catapulted to the presidency after the death of…

Culture, Politics, Society

The Iron Lady: Could Filipinos have handled a leader like Margaret Thatcher?

April 9, 2013 benign0 90 Comments

Filipinos can only make wistful remarks about the greatness of the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died yesterday aged 87. This is a lady who busted Britain’s paralysing unions, sent Her Majesty’s warships sailing thousands of miles south to take back the Falkland Islands from the Argentines, and stared down scores of…

Culture, Politics, Society