Marcos Ain't Call U.S Military vs. China

 Sanamagan! U S Pres. Joe Biden unequivocally told President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to invoke the Mutual Defense Pact with Washington and the superior U S forces would come - at a dropped of a hat - to the succor of the Philippines military being harassed by the Chinese in the South China Sea.

“The United States defense commitments to Japan and to the Philippines are ironclad. They’re ironclad,” Biden said as he began three-way talks at the White House with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Marcos. “As I said before, any attack on Philippine aircraft, vessels or armed forces in the South China Sea would invoke our mutual defense treaty.”

Marcos and the Japanese Prime Minister are with Biden to formulate their strategies to deal with the belligerent Beijing government that threatened the multi trillion dollar trade sea lane there.

For me, Marcos will not call the U.S military help despite our ships from our coast guard have been rammed by Chinese government vessels in the Spratlys.

HERE MY REASON:

China’s trump card against the Philippines however is its imports from our country. By stopping to patronize them means tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs and U. S$10.97 Billion (P616 billion) would be lost in the Philippines.

We exported P616 billion to China in year 2022 according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Some of them were electronic equipment, ores slag and ash, copper, edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons and fish, crustaceans, molluscs, and aquatics invertebrates.

Our import from China was U. S$29.8 billion (P1.6 trillion) billion for the same year.

Our five top exporting countries in 2022 were U.S, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore with revenues of US$ 12.4 billion, US$11 billion, US$10.9 billion, U.S$10.4 billion, and U.S$4.9 billion, respectively.

Moreover, we have 242,107 Chinese tourists that arrived in the country from January 1 to November 27, 2023.

We have limited options to challenge China because we are a poor country.

If our total export in 2022 is a mere US$78, 929, 717, 000, our neighbors' Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore have a mammoth exports of US$291, 979, 103, 000 US$469, 548, 577, 000 and US$515, 077, 895, 000 in the same year (Seasea Stats).

As the maxim says: Beggars like us (like those military hands me down from our patron the U.S) cannot be choosers.

U.S F-16 Pilots Teach Filipino How to Hit Missile, Radar Sites

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

"Baby it's the U.S F-16 Block 50 jet that cost multiple billions of pesos each," as I quipped to the video camera of my son Jigger during the Cope Thunder 2024.

The American brought today in Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga 12 Lockheed Martin aircraft to collaborate with Filipino pilots of FA 50PH light attack multiple role jets how manuverability like air to ground attack islets and enemy ships.

Some Pinoys paid for airfare going to Singapore to watch an air expo to see jet like this while this Yokel is privileged to be part of the Ph military sanctioned reporters to cover American air assets and interview their pilots.

These jets are called Wild Weasel vaunted for air -to- ground attack.

The F-16 Wild Weasel Pilots explain to me that that flyby of the six multi-million pesos jets to the South China Sea from Basa Air Base in Pampanga is a hard drive where the pilot used their after burners to burn more gas just like for a dog fight mission.

The Wild Weasel mission is now assigned to the F-16 Fighting Falcon, using the Block 50 and Block 52, with production beginning in 1991. The single-seat Block 50/52 F-16C according to Wikipedia, is specifically tasked with this mission and aircraft modified for this mission are designated F-16CJ/DJ. The pilot now performs both the role of flying the airplane and targeting and employing against ground threats. Other aircraft, while capable of engaging anti-air emplacements, are typically tasked with other primary missions; the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog", primarily tasked with CAS missions, lacks the avionics to perform a true Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission and does not carry the AGM-88 HARM.

American F-16 Wild Weasel Pilots explain to me that that flyby of the six multi-million pesos jets to the South China Sea from Basa Air Base in Pampanga is a hard drive where the pilot used their after burners to burn more gas.

The Wild Weasel mission is now assigned to the F-16 Fighting Falcon, using the Block 50 and Block 52, with production beginning in 1991. The single-seat Block 50/52 F-16C according to Wikipedia, is specifically tasked with this mission and aircraft modified for this mission are designated F-16CJ/DJ. The pilot now performs both the role of flying the airplane and targeting and employing against ground threats. Other aircraft, while capable of engaging anti-air emplacements, are typically tasked with other primary missions; the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog", primarily tasked with CAS missions, lacks the avionics to perform a true Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission and does not carry the AGM-88 HARM.

The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system. Production was later taken over by Raytheon Corporation when it purchased the defense production business of Texas Instrument.