This may not be the first time most of you hear someone whining about enlisting in the military for 2 years but just hear me out because i have some points to make and i hope some of you can counter them and enlighten me instead of giving me a generic response such as asking me to skip it and get a jail sentence or imigrate overseas ( it is not that easy ladies.)
You would most likely been told since young that singapore is weak and that any country would be capable of taking it. So lets think about it , why would another country want singapore in the first place? Sure it has value as a trading post for other countries but if it was taken over , would other nation want to come and trade in it when there are other ports available that are cheaper and hasn't been invaded?
Attacking a small nation like ours would only anger other huge Nation such as USA and the UK and it may escalate into another war which won't be much of a benefit.War only brings proft the weapon manufacturers. Today companies that creates mass supplies of weapons have no competition and they could charge them as high as they could if a war is to start. This is another reason to avoid a war and invading a country like Singapore.
With the discovery of the nucleur bomb , what is the use of sending out men to do the fighting when an atomic detenator is enough to wipe out this entire city much less a battlelion of troopers.Even if all of the men that enlist in NS were to go to war , we are still probably fucking vulnerable just by looking the world map. We are fucking surrounded and if we lost all of our defense post , the battle is as good as over.There isn't a second chance to retake the land.
Defending this country for pride and honor is propaganda created by the government to brainwashed us into thinking fighting for the country for glory is what a singaporean is all about. Why risk our life , dreams ,family for some petty dispute a few politicians can't come to an agreement upon?They send the common folk , poor or rich to defend their ego and all it does is destroy the economy , jobs and lives.In this day and age would anyone living in a 1st world country want to repeat mistakes of the past?
War may be for a good cause , if there is injustice , tyranny and facism it could be worth fighting for but with today history and cultural education plus the invention of the internet , many are coming to see the down side of war and let not the colour of our skins or beliefs seperate us. If we know that war is less profitable and only bring unhappiness , what is the point of all this bullshit with serving your country and dying for it?
War is just young men killing all the other young men that were brainwash into thinking they are fighting for a honorable cause.If that what you want to do it is fine by me , go defend this country without knowing you are being use by the people that run this country i absolutely disagree with how the government force us to enlist in the military or lock us up in a cell should we refuse to join the rest of the herd. It is absolute babaric.
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I posted this topic recently and it has been moved ,edited and locked by a moderator so that no one can discuss the topic like rational people nor was i able to reedited it. I was upset and i would like to have an explanation of why you are doing this.
It seem that what i heard of how singapore censored other that have disagreement with it policys and are full of imbecile unable to reason with each other without resorting to such junvenille behaviour is true.
Originally posted by Army 21:what did those crew who perished for????war??did any ship fired upon them?fired from aircraft?struck a seamine?
actual truth is that they died unnecessarily due to an accident in navigation. or was it due to inexperienced inalert captain?had the above been eliminated they wouldnt have died at all and would have led productive lives or so today.
u should get stories of real warriors sacrificing for sporeans on real combat or super secret missions where not much combat people dared or where people actually last minute ran off from secret mission in fear in spore side.u cant go around comparing nation building with accidents.its like comparing apples with oranges.
Its ok.
I shan't explain.
After all, ignorance is bliss, and a sure indicator of how our servicemen have kept us safe and secure.
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