Tag: vladimir putin

A year after the Ukrainian crisis: what’s for the Philippines?

March 22, 2023March 23, 2023 The Unpopular Opinion 4 Comments

More than a year has passed since hostilities began when Moscow executed its special military operations on Ukrainian territory. Initially, numerous military analysts predicted a swift victory for Russia in a similar way when the port city of Sevastopol and the Crimean peninsula changed hands through false flag operations. However, the Ukrainians strongly defied these…

Economy, History

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

Duterte featured in @IanBremmer’s TIME Magazine article on the world’s top “strongmen”

May 4, 2018 benign0 9 Comments

Heads up! A piece published today by TIME Magazine put Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin amongst others. In “What the ‘Tough Guy’ Era Means for Global Politics“, Ian Bremmer writes what comes across as a lament over what could be the end of the moral ascendancy Western liberal democracy had enjoyed…

Media, Politics, Society

Philippine President Duterte is the world’s Number One troll

October 23, 2016March 19, 2018 Ilda 100 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent trip to China made me realise that he could be the world’s Number One troll. He leaves his critics baffled and his supporters surprised and awed by his statements. You can call him what you want – a former Filipino actress even called him a psychopath – but he definitely…

Economy, Politics

Why Rodrigo Duterte should seize any available opportunity to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin

September 2, 2016September 2, 2016 FallenAngel 17 Comments

In the upcoming ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit in Laos, President Rodrigo Duterte has an opportunity to meet other heads of state. Reportedly, the prospect of meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin is something Duterte looks forward to: Duterte, after meeting repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal…

Government, Politics

In Mother Philippines, the Joke Is On You

April 9, 2015 Grimwald 7 Comments

This article is dedicated to this latest article by Mike Portes and is an expansion on this article that few people ever really understood… Look guys, whether we like it or not, the Philippines is now in dire straits because of the choices of the generations that preceded us. We don’t want to blame them…

Crime, Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Cyber-attack on Sony Pictures changes the Internet business landscape

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

‘C’ is for “cyber”. Is World War C starting? It could be. A possible cyber-attack against North Korea may be in progress but the nature of the attack and who might be behind it remain shrouded in mystery at the moment. Various network infrastructure monitors have detected intermittent Internet access outages in North Korea over…

Crime, Government, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

Missile attack on Malaysian Airlines #MH17: Words fail

July 23, 2014July 23, 2014 benign0 55 Comments

A news report on TV last night on the tragic Malaysian Airlines crash in the Ukraine last Thursday, the 17th July 2014 caught my attention. This was but one amidst the din of information pouring out of the tube and social media over the last week, but the reason this one stood out was because…

Crime