i have singaporean fiends and when they told me about the first thing that they were taught in the mandatory military service is that singapore is surrounded by big country and will fall fast. they even memeing on how they were defeated by japanese riding a bicycle. so they are paranoid about their integrity and security and rightly so.
starlink officially comes to my country a few month back. Since then almost all of the local isp stock has dropped and now they are giving mass discount and increased bandwidth.