Your getting it part right, it is jealously, but it is before that a lost of pride, stemming from a lost of empowerment.
Remember, their middle and upper classes lacked the capacity to build a decent military, why they were so deeply dependent on the US to defend them, why we had to go so far in reassuring them during the cold war that the defensive treaty was ironclad, like in the cold war. It is less of a imperative now, and wholly contrary to liberal expectations, US doesn’t imperialize foreign countries, we set up alliances, put bases, but they are force projection basis, they don’t act like local garrisons usually for the direct population, only interaction is when the troops are released for the day and go out and get drunk.
Countries like Japan, in Iwo Jima, aren’t as ass backwards as the Philippines, so any sort of nationalist exclusion or rhetoric against the US as imperial powers trying to dominate them is reduced to arguments that the US base is using too much land or the inevitable crime, be it a soldier stealing or especially raping. Men that age do those things, within or withoutthe military, even tourist do. It is usually massively inflated well beyond the act, local mendoing similar acts aren’t treated similar in public opinion. The Japanese can afford this as they feel less threatened. The current China Crisis is scaring them a bit more, ironically by design, though if military planners on China’s side could ever figure out how to woo Japan while demonizing the US, while maintaining their larger priorities of breaking down the Pacific defensive network the US set up after WW2 , they would. If they push too hard, everyone else will catch on and start organizing tighter.
Philippines works because they feel disempowered, those stress hormones and the ever narrowing psychological outlook makes old allies look useless, that we were exploiting them (look at my analysis of Joker above, and tell me he isn’t going to knee jerk, saying we are on a absurd basis, and when pressed, can state a rather weak and uninformed How, but not the why when pressed to explain). How was the US doing it? We were not really, unless you point to a pre-WWII era. We can’t be blamed for the crimes or violence. They feel ashamed, insecure, and weak. So they not unpragmatically asserts China will pay for the privledge of being a ally, getting what the US got all along. What dies the phillipines get? Some short term economic stimulus.
I mentioned those Chinese philosophers above, because they are the forerunners of the mindset of not just the psychological type the Philippines will eventually have to move to to be economically balanced, but how long and how tough it us to get there, and how easy it us to fall apart. In the end, China really has no use for the phillipines other than to deny it to the US, and international trends, like in Djibouti, are to slap US and Chinese naval bases right next to one another. We tend not to disagree when deployed internationally by one another.
But the US will increasingly not want the phillipines, as it isn’t exactly the crown jewel of US foreign policy like India was the crown jewel of the British Empire. We colonized them, so felt responsible, but didn’t want them to do Communist during the cold war. That’s all over, if they want to say goodbye, we have very little reason to rush back in. I’m praying he rips up the defence treaty, I may very well cream my pants if he does.
Phillipines will get a few bridges built, a city they gotta pay high rent on, Chinese banks offering loans on the lower markets that most international banks so though for a very good reason- the shady economy isn’t built on much capital and implodes easily. Easy to get into, hard to maintain long term profits once economic bubbles burst.
They won’t industrialized in useful industries, as that is exactly the stuff the Chinese want to sell them? Want some steel mills for a over saturated international market?
China itself had to drop a lot of this bullshit and significantly refine how it handled itself internally. These reforms stated in the late 1800s, they made some success, but mostly blunders along the way, it is taken out on the people in terms of further impoverishment and alienation. It isn’t exactly a exportable theory, generally has failed international, but sells a fantastic propaganda line. And when your a minority party, and the people have been repressed by a Hillary State for decades, any potential offer looks damn good over what your currently getting. Greece came damn close to doing that in Grexit. Who would of thought Brexit would happen, but not Grexit?
These planstendnot to be well thought out. It isn’t worth trying to reason with them, you don’t. You buddy up with them and share in the rhetoric, saying we will be there for you, and show the financial goods, and join in the fight, or you bow out and keep silent. This isn’t te right time to go amnesty international on them. Notice China didn’t scream no to mass killings of druglords, they just ceremonially tossed, what was it, $15 or $30 million to drug rehab? They get it. They know however that money isn’t going to rehab shit.
Our international watchdog groups are fucking themselves over bad because they haven’t readjusted their strategy on the ground. If you interfere as a NGO, you get ostrachized, pushed out, nobody listens. Having a Spanish judge puts arrest warrant out legitimizes the propaganda against such groups that they are out to hurt the country or reform. Much better to recognize what the hysteria actually is, if it is misplaced, identify it, and realign policies to help alleviate it. It is wise to avoid punching them in their pride as everyone currently is, the people supporting the president don’t want to hear it, first time in decades they see alight at the end of the tunnel. They have lost a lot. All you can do is give them something, and give them personal level advice on how to fix it on the family level. You do that, these events are cut down by half the time for duration. What was the basis of Confucius’ system? Filial devotion within the family, to the larger society, where everyone learns to get along peacefully. For that to work, the family unit needs stabalized. These are families who have lost children and siblings very similar to Joker, Pezer, Mr. Reasonable, and Fixed Cross, either as a looser or as a seller. Other way you can go is giving eoconomia packets- aid and advice direct. It is one thing the president would never suppress. The Confucian and Aristotelian/Stoic system of virtues are very, very similar, emphasizing diffent aspects of essentially the sane thing. This is a society trying to survive the onslaught of generations of Nietzschean chumps terrorizing them from the street corner. Right now, babblefuck politically correct talk doesn’t work, just alienated the speaker. If we had any common sense, we would be focusing on rebuilding themon a society level as friends, instead of telling them they are fucked up and are disintegrating- they’ve been falling apart for generations in a society beyond good and evil. Their breaking point has been reached, they are running out in the street and stabbing their overmen listening to stupid music on their smart phones selling drugs on the street, decades of rage being released. They are reasserting the legitimacy of their humanity. It is very sloppy, very ugly, a lot of innocents will be killed, but thankfully a lot of guys like Pezer and Mr. Reasonable will be too.
Once people feel the problem has been taken care of, and they see economic increases arise, they will take the next step on the needs pyrimid. you don’t cry about Self Actualization when people are huddled scared about security needs.
Best thing you can do right now, is throw the useless feminists out the window into traffic. We don’t have to worry about that shit. You look up the needs list above security, that is Love/Belonging. You give them a sense of belonging and brotherhood, a clear path to a alternative. Those who can now will jump on board, those skeptical will join once they see results and community leaders offer alternatives. I’m serious, you can cut that down by half. That introduces new neuralchemical balances, new mindsets, new ways of thinking. Focus on rebuilding the sanity of the productive family, giving them hope. Don’t just say “your all self reliant now, look how these people did it”. People don’t know how they did it, it was cultivated over a long time, and was decaying after a while. Just tell the man and the woman “we are here for you”. This false liberal international horror isn’t doing anyone any good, this is their Bastille Day. France killed their aristocrats, still march proudly about it. Phillipines is killing it’s drug lords, exact same impulse.
Upper and middle classes will be less inclined to back this if it hurts their bottom line, hopes and dreams, but it will. We will see a lot of useless people speaking out about the horrors of their country. Is it wrong? In some sense no, in some sense yes. It is a legitimate horror, I don’t want it happening here for example, but at the same time, it distracts from the far worst horror of the average person driven to support these acts. You gotta ask yourself how accurate is the pogrom, it’s truth verification? Nazis were quite off in targeting the Jews, they got into the mess by fighting WW1 and losing bad, and not figuring out why. Their problems were fundamentally rooted in the military conservatism the Prussians installed to survive the initial onslaught of their neighbors, but unwisely kept. Made them into threatening dicks, and they ignored building themselves economically in a wise, balanced manner, so the scapegoated the only people who seemed to be making any measure of success in their system. Wasn’t the Jews fault the Germans were fucked up.
When you look at the phillipines, it is hard to argue the gangs, tongs, and Mafia aren’t exactly what fucked the nation up, corruption is extreme, not just on the political level, but on the level of the street corner. It is incredibly fucked up. What can you do, send the whole country to councrling while some upper middle class woman in a nice suit and cosmetics ask them "and how does that make you feel? " They would kill her, then continue killing the drug dealers. They don’t want to be talked down to, told they are idiots, that they don’t understand. They believe they understand perfectly well, they’ve seen it constantly with their own eyes, don’t need some clever sophist to tell them otherwise. They are at a emotional breaking point, and nothing will make them happier than too see some guy like Mr. Reasonable walk out of a court room, bragging about how he just got off again on unproven charges, take acrowbar to his ankle, taking him down on his knee, and racking him hard in the arms and ribs, checking his pickets finding drugs, screaming “what us this, what the fuck is this shit, my son died from this shit you miserable fuck” and then beating the SOBdoen brutally in the street, as he tries to crawl away, eye falling out onto the ground, till he stops moving.
Not the best situation to send out your Chelsea Clinton’s of the world to protest that sort of violence, they have absolutely no way of relating, and it will only further alienate them from progressing away from it. It is much better to just try to stabalize them and building them backup, instead of trying to convince them to give up the violence, as that is exactly the same as saying just return the the hellish Nietzschean horrors of how things were. Isolated communities might do that, but not most. They are very fucking seriously over it. All peoples eventually will periodically pass through these events. It is inevitable, but wise statecraft can prevent it from heading down that road in every generation, as well as quickening the progress once started. Phillipines needs much better control over the situation, declaring a monopoly on the process, and shoeing how they are systematically killing only the Nietzscheans, and doubling down efforts on not killing the ones not involved through accident or ignorance of assumption, and that mistakes will be investigated. India camethe closest to controlling this impulse, systematically reigning it in.