Brunei

The ship spent the rest of the war docked at the naval base at Singapore, where it served as a floating anti-aircraft battery.

By 8 o'clock in the morning on the 23rd, 24 hours after setting sail from Brunei, Kurita had already lost three heavy cruisers, two sunk and one sent home.

But the real bad news was that he was barely in Philippine waters and the enemy already knew his location and his course.

His fleet would face greater danger still before this mission ended, and he fully realized that.

And, of course, there's lots of little micro-nations like, of course, Vatican City, Monaco, Gibraltar, things like that.

Brunei.

Technically, Gibraltar is not a separate country, but all of those places.

Much, much bigger than Singapore.

Like a lot of these smaller islands – And, of course, there's lots of little micro-nations like, of course, Vatican City, Monaco, Gibraltar, things like that.

Brunei.

Technically, Gibraltar is not a separate country, but

all of those

So this, this was a bit of, uh, a very wild situation that was unexpected.

Um, now for those who are not familiar where Borneo is, um, if you, if you look on a global map and you look at Malaysia and you look at Indonesia in Southeast Asia, we see that there is like, uh, the, you know, uh, the island in between, which is divided between two countries and there's a third country that's in, in it, which is Brunei, okay? So the tiny little sultan nation of Brunei is up here.

And then you have Sabah and Sarawak in the north, which belong to Malaysia.

And then in the south, we have Kalimantan, which belongs to Indonesia.

At the same time, the CCP attempts to use its nuclear weapons as part of its offensive strategies to invade Taiwan and claim the South China Sea as part of China's exclusive territory.

Beijing apparently hopes that non-nuclear countries in Asia, including Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, will be intimidated by Beijing's nuclear weapons and escalation dominance and relinquish their territory and sovereignty without a shot fired.

One has to wonder, based on Xi Jinping's apparent claim in two thousand and seventeen that China once controlled all of the Korean Peninsula, whether the Koreas should be added to the list.

The longer we allow the CCP to bully countries in Asia, the more we whet its appetite, and the further its ambitions extend to other parts of the globe.