(Conspiracy Warning : Please don't slime me 🥺)
SMD is a pact composing of Several Southeast Asian nations,with Austraila and Taiwan being the respective Oceanic and East Asian nation respectively.
Indonesia always looked a little odd,some of it's former territory being under Austraila,same under Tehran,but for some reason they fight for the alliance that took it from them.
no citizen would accept this,it's profanity for the history and reasons to keep fighting for it,this isn't the work of any nationalist ,it seems like the work of neocolonialism.
(Attempt of House Impression)
You see,the europeans are intelligent ,if not the most in the world,after they had their fun across the world they promised that they would behave well and they did.
since they're intelligent they're cunning,they didn't rule all by themselves,having some local beneficiaries on the way,Imperialism 101.
So when they left,the beneficiaries didn't tag along ,they got promoted into the political leaders we know,doing things that the average citizen would never,like hating their own history and trading natural resources for diplomacy.
and when there's no underlying history to guide,history and diplomacy get written by the (new)colonial class now wearing a buisiness suit living the dream of 'free' capitalism.
while old ties and relations are simply forgotten,hidden away i suppose.
and then,when they leave, people wonder why neighbours fanatically hate each other like an kid throwing a tantrum.
Except they're here ,fighting us the symptoms were staring at us,follow the money,back to the Taiwanese official rant ,perhaps the double strike is no coincidence of two dieseases but one,Neocolonis Indica
She wasn't mad that we served under the colonist ,but rather not becoming one.