In today's #dailysoup, I'll introduce a Singaporean geopolitics x defence blog, Defense Politics Asia and its managing editor, Wyatt Mingji Lim.
They are known for excelling in mental gymnastics and anti-West x pro-Russia peepotalking.
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Defense Politics Asia, based in Singapore, is founded by Wyatt Mingji Lim and an unspecified "partner" in 2017. He is serving as its "managing editor" since then.
Before I discuss about Defense Politics Asia, let's briefly tackle Wyatt's background.
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During much of the 2000s, Wyatt served in the Singaporean Armed Forces, with his last military rank being a "First Sergeant".
Hence, he said in an interview that he is "just interested in geopolitics and military stuff".
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Wyatt runs multiple things at once. Besides blogging, he runs a gaming design x modding firm and co-owns the SingaCup, a Singaporean football organisation.
Moreover, he runs a "hamster-lover online community", a strategy design firm, and even a printing firm.
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Wyatt is also known for running a blog called "The Common Bad" in association with "Walking Problem", the gaming design x modding firm run by him.
I noticed blatant mental gymnastics in this blog, especially its Rumble, Medium, and Brighteon platforms.
5/27
Although Wyatt wrote a Medium article on "how to fight fake news" and "responsible journalism", disinformation and conspiratorial peepotalking are present in his "Common Bad" blog, especially those related to COVID-19 disinfo and Trump-related rhetoric.
6/27
In one "Common Bad" Rumble video, Wyatt peepotalked about the "Big Pharma conspiracy theory", as well as the claim that "a bit of smallpox is found in a Pennsylvania lab".
Contrary to his claims, the CDC debunked this claim, stating that there is no smallpox found.
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Wyatt is also known for his anti-vax peepotalking remarks, including claims that "vaccines cause diseases" and "natural immunity is better than vaccination".
He scolded the Singaporean government for "secretly going for herd immunity" and "mandating vaccinations".
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Wyatt is known for being a Trump supporter, engaging in pro-Trump stints like praising Trump for "fighting back against Hillary Clinton and those accusing Russia for interfering the 2016 US elections" and claiming that "Trump was just trying to fight the system".
9/27
During the 2016 US elections, Wyatt predicted that Trump would win. He claimed something like "Singapore is benefiting from a resurgent US under Trump" and "the anti-Trump media don't represent the realities of the USA", calling Trump a "great president".
10/27
What I noticed is that Wyatt's "The Common Bad" platforms like Rumble and Brighteon have a very low amount of subscribers and viewers.
Looks like people are getting repelled by his disinfo stints and conspiratorial peepotalking remarks.
11/27
During an interview, Wyatt claimed something like "he was motivated to establish Defense Politics Asia (DPA) as a response to growing amounts of disinfo", adding that "he doesn't trust mainstream media to report on the war in Ukraine".
In reality, it is a different story.
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Defense Politics Asia bases its situational reports on the war in Ukraine on the map used by Rybar's Telegram channel, notorious for being flooded with pro-Russia perspectives and peepotalking remarks on the war.
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Wyatt's DPA accused Ukraine for "causing the crisis in 2014 by subverting democracy and exercising military suppression".
While he called the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an "aggression", he bought into the "NATO expansion" peepotalk,...
14/27
...while claiming that "Ukraine is the same as Russia", "the war in the Donbass is a civil war", and "Half of the Ukrainians before 2014 supported Russia".
This is an episode of mental gymnastics from someone calling himself as "neutral".
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Although Wyatt's Defense Politics Asia calls the Russian atrocities in Bucha as a "massacre", he peepotalked about something like "Bucha was not that bad".
This was followed by apathy and denial of Bucha, whataboutisms, and crazy excuses.
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Wyatt's DPA showed denial of Bucha when he said that "Bucha is not convincing to me as a Russian massacre", claiming that "this was based on daily coverage of the war".
I noticed a sense of apathy from him about Bucha when he said "Who cares right?". Moreover,...
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...Wyatt's DPA said that "I largely ignore the entire Bucha nonsense", adding that "I don't cover such events". He came up with an excuse for his apathy x denial on Bucha by saying "It's a war. There won't be proper investigations". He also added a dose of whataboutism...
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...when he claimed something like "Ukrainian forces also committed atrocities". He peepotalked about "seeing an OSCE report about Ukrainian atrocities on Donbass civilians", scolding Ukraine for "failing to evacuate its civilians from Kyiv when Russia invaded".
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Wyatt called Ukrainian forces as "inferior to Russian forces", accusing Ukrainian forces for "fighting to get NATO to join the war".
This was followed by typical "NATO-blaming" peepotalks from him, including accusing NATO for "using the Przewodów Incident as a cover up".
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Although Wyatt's DPA claims to be "neutral and supporting both sides", his sitreps contain pro-Russia peepotalking.
DPA claimed that Ukraine has no chance to win against Russia, adding that "Russia has technically won". Contrary to his claims,...
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...Ukraine liberated huge chunks of territory, including Kharkiv Oblast.
During that time, Wyatt's DPA predicted that Ukrainian forces would lose when they clashed with Russian forces in Lyman.
Contrary to his claims, the Ukrainian forces did well and liberated Lyman.
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Notice that in Wyatt's DPA sitreps, he uses the word "Ukraine offensive" to make it sound like that "Ukraine is the aggressor while Russia is the victim".
When Ukrainian forces were approaching Kreminna x Svatove, Wyatt claimed that "Kreminna feels threatened".
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Wyatt's DPA called Ukraine liberating Kherson as a "Kherson Offensive", accusing Ukraine for planning to "blow up the Kakhovka dam and cause a crisis", while suggesting that "Russia retake all of Kherson".
He called Ukraine's liberation of Kharkiv x Kherson as "nothing".
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Wyatt's DPA supported figures souped by @P_Kallioniemi's #vatniksoup, including Scott Ritter and the infamous Donbass Devushka (DD), a typical Jersey woman disguising herself as "someone from Donbass".
He even got featured in the infamous Donbass Devushka podcast.
25/27
When Singapore imposed sanctions on Russia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Wyatt called it as a "dangerous precedent". Moreover, he claimed that "most Singaporeans don't care about the Ukraine war".
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Mr. Wyatt, if you call yourself as a "neutral political analyst", then why did you get featured in the Donbass Devushka podcast? Aren't you aware that DD is just some Jersey woman spreading pro-Russia peepotalking?
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