Thread by @olliekarp

In today's #dailysoup, I'll introduce Filipino professor, politician, and pro-Kremlin adviser, Clarita Carlos.

Her pro-Russia and pro-China peepotalking are known to pave the way to her "Philippines-should-remain-neutral" advices to my country's president.

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Carlos served as a political science and international relations professor at the University of the Philippines until recently. She also served in the same position at the Ateneo de Manila University and San Beda University.

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Carlos was known to serve as Marcos Jr.'s NSA for a short time. However, she left the position, with her claiming that "she was ousted", while Marcos Jr. claimed that "there was no ouster".

Carlos is praised by other Filipino vatniks like Anna Malindog-Uy.

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According to Richard Heydarian, one of her former students, Carlos is known to be "a very considerate and generous prof" in the lecture classroom.

However, when we dig deeper, it is a different story.

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Carlos' stance is somewhere along the lines of "we should prefer the non-aligned world x Global South more cuz the West has been doing bad things".

This paved the way to her anti-West, pro-China, and pro-Russia peepotalking remarks.

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Carlos wrote a book review on Mark Gaelotti's "Putin: How the West gets him wrong", in which she commented that "...the theme of this leader [Putin] is not wanting to recreate the former USSR but desiring respect and recognition for his country because it's Russia."

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Two days before 02/24, Carlos labelled Putin as a "master strategist", peepotalking about something like "Putin will not invade Ukraine by going to Kiev contrary to POTUS statements".

Her posts were greeted with pro-Russia peepotalking from ordinary Filipino vatniks.

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Meanwhile, after Carlos' "Putin-is-a-master-strategist" peepotalking remark, she said that "she was called a Russophile", but her post was greeted with more pro-Russia comments.

A term better than "Russophile" is "vatnik". Ermmm....

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On the same day when Russia invaded Ukraine, Carlos, in an interview, spewed more "Russia-will-not-invade-Ukraine" peepotalking when she said something like "the situation in Ukraine will not escalate cuz the war in Ukraine is not in the interests of anyone". Then,...

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...she peepotalked about something like "What Putin doesn't want is NATO missiles installed in Ukraine", parroting Putin's peepotalks when he said "Does the US want Mexico and Canada to be lined with soldiers of the enemy?". Carlos added "he has the right to ask that".

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Carlos, during an interview with SMNI, a news outlet infamous for its connections with Pastor Quiboloy, she claimed that "the West, not Putin created the Ukraine crisis", adding that "since Russia and Ukraine have commonalities, the West failed to understand Putin".

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When Carlos was asked about "Putin asking the West and international community to back off", she claimed that "they [West x IC] have been present at eastern Ukraine since 2014". Then, Carlos said "How long will they push Putin until he takes the nuclear option?",...

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...scolding the West for "pushing and pushing Russia". Carlos quoted Mearsheimer's pro-Russia peepotalking remarks, while saying that "I'm on his side".

Mearsheimer will soon be "souped" by @P_Kallioniemi. Ermmm...

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Carlos claimed that "the Russian state came from Ukraine", telling people who don't believe her to "study history". She claimed that "NATO is dead".

She said "Ukraine is in Russia cuz of the Russian speakers there", accusing the West for "making an issue out of it".

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When Russia faced sanctions after Moscow invaded Ukraine in 02/24, Carlos accused the West for "ratcheting up sanctions daily".

Greeted with pro-Russia comments, one commentor shared a video of a discussion involving a vatnik from #vatniksoup, Gonzalo Lira.

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One month after Russia invaded Ukraine, Carlos spewed anti-Zelenskyy peepotalking remarks at another SMNI interview when she accused Zelenskyy for "hiring neo-Nasis at Eastern Ukraine", adding that "let us not portray Zelenskyy as if he were the brother of Mother Teresa".

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Meanwhile, Carlos spewed some anti-West whataboutist peepotalking when she said something like "why is there silence when the US invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, while the world went loud when Ukraine was invaded".

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Moreover, Carlos claimed that the US greenlighting of F16s to Ukraine is "deeply concerning".

When Russian forces recently blew up the Kakhovskaya dam at the Kherson Oblast, Carlos called it as a "collision of narratives".

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Carlos advised Marcos Jr. to "make the Philippine adapt a neutral stance on the Russo-Ukrainian war", citing Duterte's decision to "befriend Russia" and the need for the "Philippines to get Russian oil".

She also discouraged my country from sanctioning Russia.

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Carlos defended Duterte's pro-China policies, especially the shelving of the 2016 SCS arbitration, when she called them as "pragmatic" and "just right".

She stated that "it's not right to say Duterte was scared".

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Carlos is also known for her pro-China peepotalking remarks, including when she said "we allowed US/Australia a long-term lease in Subic, and why not allow China x Russia to lease Subic too?".

She once recommended a "joint fishing agreement between PH and China".

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Carlos claimed that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in 2022 "might ratchet up the temperature in the region", indicating that she bought into the "US-provoked-Taiwan" peepotalking remark.

During an interview, Carlos said something like "if the US wants to war with China,...

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...then do it somewhere else". She added "PH is doing the same thing all over again, expecting different results, in provoking China".

She called Huang Xilian a "charming man", parroting his beliefs that "joining the war against Taiwan would affect the OFWs there".

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In 2022, after her long-time professor-ship career, Carlos was eventually disowned by the UP Political Science Department, with her name not appearing anymore in the "record of professors". Speculators pointed to her political views after the 2022 elections.

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I didn't see any results on Carlos' stance on the Russian war crimes in Ukraine x Uyghur Genocide.

She may look "intelligent" and "kind", but she's a Filipino version of Connie Bakrie, but Carlos is crazier cuz of her controversial remarks like "I am Machiavellian".

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Shoutouts:
@P_Kallioniemi, @Aaron_MatthewIL, @FMangosingINQ, @LukeShiga, @outlierplanet

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APPENDIX: Carlos was present as a keynote speaker at an Association for Philippines-China Understanding seminar, in which Huang spewed the infamous "OFWs in Taiwan" peepotalking remark.

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When Gibo Teodoro became appointed as my country's Defense chief, Carlos suggested that Gibo "change the views of people around him still in a Cold War mindset", indicating a pro-China peepotalking remark.

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APPENDIX: Carlos is also known for her awkward and gaffe-filled rants in social media, including an instance when she told the daughter of a VP candidate from my country's 2022 elections to "write a 5,000-word essay defending your declaration".

APPENDIX: According to Twitter user @DictatorClass, insider evidence pointed that during Carlos' time at the NSC, her own employees, especially the unqualified ones from her think-tank and the highly-paids, were on the brink of mutiny cuz of how they were treated by Carlos.

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FYI, Carlos is also an executive director of a Filipino think-tank named "StratSearch Foundation, Inc.", in which she commented on local issues in my country like the Sabah issue and the Moro conflict in Mindanao.

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ANOTHER APPENDIX: A memo from Carlos in November 2022 contained her comments on "malevolent elements orchestrating her ouster", including an instance when she received a pick-up truck that broke down after a few days, "malevolent elements" telling top officials...

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...that Carlos is being "pro-China", in which she denied the claims as "lazy intel" while calling herself a "scholar scientist", and an instance when she was accused of "wanting to abolish the NTF-ELCAC", in which she denied the claims.

Courtesy of @DictatorClass

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Meanwhile, Carlos once praised former US President Donald Trump, claiming that "he is good for the Indo-Pacific region".

Carlos can't get any crazier. I can't wait for Trump to get "souped" by @P_Kallioniemi's #vatniksoup.

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