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Those who went tru Japanese occupation/WW2 will be willing to die for the country under LKY's time. We saw how LKY and all that era's leaders performed to make citizens first. Now it is nothing but make more $$$ have more foreigners, good jobs taken by foreign talent/newly minted citizens. Seriously no roots are grown deep enough to warrant 'die for your country'.

Look at pictures of blackened houses in Ukraine, and imagine for just for a moment if that was your HDB flat.  Perhaps a four room, or a five room. Never mind.  Fact is a large portion of your salary went into buying that flat, and if that is bombed to smithereens, that's it.  A flat which could ben resold for perhaps a small profit is now worth its weight in sand and dust,

And where can you run if we are invaded?

To the invader's country, right into the lion's mouth?  

Or become a war refugee in Batam?

If you don't take up arms to defend Singapore, who will?

Sure, you can argue that new citizens did not do NS, and perhaps they could still return to Malaysia, China, India, the Philippines.

I agree.  They probably have somewhere to run to, where their extended families would provide them with shelter and food.

But who cares?  Why talk about them?  Your concern should be, where are you going to run to if you don't defend Singapore?

PS:  The reason why we have so many new citizens is because of people like Sentinel, Foreveralone,  Bastardlo...they are single and made no chewren, so we need to import.  No other way.  Even those who are married made only one child. How to replace our aging population?