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The Philippines needs less emotional millennials who can think strategically in terms of national interests

Posted on May 24, 2021 By Ramon Ortoll No Comments on The Philippines needs less emotional millennials who can think strategically in terms of national interests
The Philippines needs less emotional millennials who can think strategically in terms of national interests

Excellent read, this piece “A millennial considers the new German Problem after 30 years of peace”. Its author, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and German millennial Ulrike Franke, laments how her demographic “struggle to think in terms of interests, we struggle with the concept of geopolitical power, and we struggle…

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Filipinos’ habitual cry: ‘SAVE ME!’

Posted on May 13, 2015 By benign0 7 Comments on Filipinos’ habitual cry: ‘SAVE ME!’
Filipinos’ habitual cry: ‘SAVE ME!’

Save Mary Jane Veloso! Save Baguio City! Save the Pasig River! Save Boracay! It’s pathetic. Filipinos are always looking for a higher or wealthier power to “save” their wretched lot. The pattern has been set and the consistency now world-renowned. After abject neglect, wanton partying or sitting on their asses for years, or all of…

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The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks

Posted on September 22, 2014 By benign0 23 Comments on The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks
The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks

Recent events have, yet again, highlighted the embarrassing way with which Filipinos and the government they elected to lead them are desperately scrambling to extricate themselves from systemic poverty after decades of misguided “development” approaches and serial promise breaking. Like many many previous presidents before him, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III went on…

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