SOMETIMES, being right is painful — like now. This writer mooted as early as March 2023 that the United States, after getting access to nine bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), would oppose Vice President Sara Duterte becoming president ('To keep its bases, will the US take on Sara?' https://tinyurl.com/yr2cnys3).
SOMETIMES, being right is painful — like now. This writer mooted as early as March 2023 that the United States, after getting access to nine bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines , would oppose Vice President Sara Duterte becoming president .Sure enough, starting with the May 2023 ouster of Duterte ally and adviser, Pampanga Rep.
John Aquilino have said that if a Filipino soldier is killed, we can invoke our Mutual Defense Treaty with America. But as we noted in our June 20 and other columns, Washington is war-shy, with elections in November and the threat of simultaneous conflicts in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Hence, Marcos and defense officials keep downplaying China's roughness as not yet a reason to invoke the MDT.In fact, America has never intervened, even when we lost Mischief Reef and Scarborough Shoal.
Hand Of America: When Warnings Come True
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