lufkin

Sleep deprived

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@bimbocalypse @rose_k01 She could have hit him back and i will support her equally.. violence towards women? No no.. Equal violence to everyone!

[lufkin @luf_kin]

Maybe Malaysia should have missile capabilities like what Iran have

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Trump’s Deal With Indonesia: Mahan at the Strait of Malacca

Hu Jintao warned China about this moment more than twenty years ago. In 2003, the then Chinese president coined the phrase “Malacca dilemma” to describe a simple, brutal fact: the country’s economic rise depended on foreign oil sailing through a narrow strait that other powers could, in a crisis, choose to close. Most of China’s imported crude and gas still squeezes through that same bottleneck between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The US has just moved to wire that vulnerability, and it is no accident this is happening on Donald Trump’s watch.

Washington’s new Major Defense Cooperation Partnership with Indonesia is being sold in the usual diplomatic euphemisms: capacity building, maritime security, joint training. Strip away the boilerplate and you see something far sharper. The agreement’s focus on maritime domain awareness, subsurface and autonomous systems, and special forces training is about giving Indonesia and by extension the U.S. and its allies, a far richer picture of everything that moves between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, and greater ability to shape it in a crisis. As with Trump’s broader Indo‑Pacific posture, this is one more move to reassert the US as the pre‑eminent maritime power of the age, and to ensure China feels that reality every time a tanker clears the Strait.

Hu’s “Malacca dilemma” was never only about a single shipping lane. It was about the geometry of China’s energy dependence. Oil from the Gulf and Africa has to arrive by sea. The shortest, cheapest route runs past India, through Malacca and adjacent Indonesian straits, and then up into waters where the U.S. Navy and its partners have operated for decades. A coalition that can see, track and, if necessary, interdict that flow holds a lever over China’s economy that no amount of rhetoric about multipolarity can wish away.

More than a century ago, Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that sea power, fleets, chokepoints and maritime commerce, would decide the fate of great powers. The Malacca dilemma is Mahan’s theory rendered in modern energy terms: a continental power whose trade and fuel move by sea lives or dies by access to narrow maritime bottlenecks policed by others. Trump’s Indonesia move is pure Mahan: rather than chasing dominance on land, Washington is tightening its grip on the sea lanes and straits through which China’s economic lifeblood must flow.
Beijing has spent two decades trying to escape this trap with pipelines from Central Asia and Russia, a corridor through Myanmar and a “string of pearls” of ports from Gwadar to Djibouti. Yet the volumes tell a less reassuring story: overland routes move at the margin, while the bulk of China’s energy still comes by tanker and still passes through Southeast Asian chokepoints. The dilemma has been managed, not resolved.

That is why Indonesia matters. Jakarta insists it is not choosing sides and will continue to balance between Washington and Beijing. It doesn’t have to do more than that for this pact to bite. As Indonesian officers train with American counterparts and integrate U.S.‑supplied surveillance and patrol systems, the operational environment quietly changes. Chinese planners contemplating a crisis over Taiwan, the South China Sea or even a clash around Hormuz now have to assume that traffic through Malacca and its alternatives will unfold under a web of sensors and partnerships that lean, in practice if not in rhetoric, toward Washington.

Another move by President Trump, in other words. From rebuilding American shipyards to pouring money into Indo‑Pacific maritime forces, the pattern is clear: the United States intends to remain a maritime superpower, and to make China live with Hu Jintao’s old nightmare instead of escaping it. Mahan would have recognised the logic instantly: in the end, it is the power that commands the sea, and the straits, that sets the terms for everyone else.

[Iran Embassy In Malaysia @iraninmalaysia]

@IraninSA We just used it for malaysian friends, and put it back again👌

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@MarioNawfal Nope, this is pretty empty by Malaysian Standards

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

🚨 Seven (7) Malaysian-owned ships (by Petronas and Sapura Energy) have passed the Strait of Hormuz safely and toll-free after direct talks between Malaysia and Iran, which the Philippines is copying.

Thank you to Malaysia for showing the way. 🇵🇭 🇲🇾 🇮🇷

#EnergyCrisis

[lufkin @luf_kin]

Mohon @tzafrul_aziz buat video please untuk educate orang kita, Dato Jo haram explanation apa pun tak bagi..

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@r230614_shin I am a Malaysian, and i urge Japanese government to arrest this guy.. It’s against Malaysian culture to have this kind of behavior if you are living in a foreign countries.. Go ahead and deport him 🫡🫡

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@drahfa Abang engineer R&D nak tanya sikit, Daikin tu kalau buat multi-split setup bagus ke untuk kegunaan rumah untuk long-run?

[Lucin K @LucinehK_]

Saudi PR right now: Trump didn’t say it, and if he did, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, it’s a sign of respect, and if you don’t see it that way, you’re a kafir

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@HothaAli Ahh.. Saudi nationalist behaving exactly like Zionist, no wonder you both are best friend.. The house of Saud can go to hell, our Qibla is only Makkah which happen to be in Saudi that is all.. K.S.A did not exist during Prophet time so don’t get over your head and shut your mouth

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@FurkanGozukara After watching how the U.S is handling the situation and how Iran effectively destroyed all 13 U.S military base in the Gulf region, they would’t dare of course, the Gulf Monarch’s ball shrunk accordingly to U.S failure

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@luciusmaximus Satu bende yang kita kena terima, SEAblings especially indon takkan nak beli proton, jenis jaki negara diorang (kecuali viet) takde kereta nasional.. produk kita mcm Petronas pun kene boikot dgn indon dulu.. business strategik, bukan kena game

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@Urgent_RussiaTV Ayuh @anwaribrahim beli minyak dari Iran, saudi nak cut oil export

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@_A_khalifa Habibi.. Why would israel attack it’s pet? Stop stating the obvious.. When you said Israel is not the enemy we already know your Qibla is no longer Makkah, go on and continue worship America and Israel, the rest of Muslim world hope Iran will teach your gulf state some lesson

[lufkin @luf_kin]

Yep, he’s either dead or on the verge of dying

[SIMPLICIUS Ѱ @simpatico771]

⚡️🇮🇱BREAKING: Netanyahu proves he's alive with authentic new address.
You fools should stop spreading fakes about his death.

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@roaneatan Sigh.. Indonesian at it again

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@mynewshub Aku rasa lokasi kedai diorang ni yang problem.. suka bukak kat row kedai yang orang jarang lalu, mungkin sebab sewa lagi murah la kot..

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@qeezfikir Fafo moment 🤣

[lufkin @luf_kin]

@FreeMsian You can stay walaun all you want but don’t be a crime enabler la..