What really happened was that the RP devolved into corruption everywhere, and dependency on the US was easier for RP than taking the route that, say, Singapore, S. Korea, or Taiwan has.
BS from the Philipinno president, let him go the Chinese and see what will happen in a few years.
Pivot to Asia. Another failure in the long list of Obama failures.
Well, that's clearly what the Boston Globe wants to believe, but it's probably quite a bit more complicated.
The Boston Globe is always very attentive when it’s someone ranting against the U. S.
A word to the Globe, think you’d get away with what you have been doing in other nations?
If Hitlery gets on I want the US to lose its global reach and influence. If we have a Hitlery dictatorship, Christians and conservatives will be enemy #1; we will be 1930s Jews.
We will need a place to escape or we will need support from a foreign power to aid in secession efforts.
If the US is to become a full on tyranny, I pray that it is a weak power in a multipolar world.
I’m not going to be a fool shouting USA!, USA! in a Hitlery dictatorship.
Another fight against globalism is what I see here. The people of the Philippines, like those of the usa, sense that the best interests of the people are not is what in the minds of the American government NOR the Phillipine govt.
Duterte is almost surely a Communist. Expect much shock from us officials who didn’t know, a la Castro.
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/147375/trillanes-calls-duterte-a-communist
The hammer forgets. The nail remembers. But I think this is a way to blame others for the problems in their country, poverty, drugs. If we hadn’t intervened I expect they would be blaming the Spanish or Japanese. They soon may be blaming the Russians. It should be noted also that Duterte has Mohammadan relatives including a parent and at least one sibling.
The US Navy left a lot of money there in the 60’s and 70’s.
You may fire when ready Gridley.
China and Russia cultivated a new puppet.
They want to boot America back to Hawaii.Thanks again,Obama-heck of a job.
My dad served in the Phillipines during the war. He said the Filis were disgusting. You had to take a flashlight with you when you went down the barracks stairs because the scumballs would sneak in and sh-t in the stairwells.
He also served with the occupation forces in Tokyo, and said that despite the incredible devastation, the Japanese were working diligently to clean up the rubble. They were not crapping on the barracks stairs.
Where is James Taylor when we need him?
The Philippines were ruled by the Spanish till the Spanish American war. If the US had not gone in the Japanese or the Germans would. If we leave the Muslims or the Chinese will fill the vacuum.
I don’t really care, one way or another.
The Filipinos can choose to work with America or be slaves of China in the Han Chinese East Asian co-prosperity sphere.
Thailand has existed as a free country for many decades because it always accommodates the strongest power, be it China, Russia or the US.
This action by the Philippines is simply a statement that the US, under The Messiah, is the weakest of the lot.
They have a choice: be friends with the west, or become part of China.