Tim Brian Tufuga 2022 Blogs

Interesting to see how the Tongan Armed Forces will be present at the next Talisman Saber military exercise in 2023. Samoa is excluded as per usual simply because Samoa has no Armed Forces. Funnily enough, the British had deliberately denied the  Samoans a military branch since the British Empire invaded German Samoa on August 29th, 1914. Samoa has never had a military branch. Nor does Samoa every want to. It is percieved as unnecessary. Samoa is twice the population of Tonga and yet Samoa has no military branch. The Tongan Kingdom has a military branch and police force which was deliberate by the British government in the anticipation of the Tongan Kingdom representing the Polynesian race as part of the Polynesian Kingdom, whereas Samoa was meant to be a vassal to Tonga according to the British designs with the Tonga having a Kingdom and Samoa Princedom which has now morphed into a Presidential syle of musical chairs amongst Amalgamated Cheiftains ensuring that Samoa remains a sub...