Well #Trillanes isn't really wrong. #Duterte and his gang of #drugwar criminals are perhaps the most dangerous #fifthcolumn the #Philippines has faced yet since #WW2. Worse than the Japanese #fifthcolumnists in #Davao (which funnily enough is the same territory the Duterte clan has firm control of, like a fiefdom). But instead of working for the Japanese invaders they're working for the #Chinese communists this time.
The main collaborators being officials within #PNP leadership isn't really surprising either, because Duterte pampered the #police so hard (for example promising not to hold them accountable for clear-cut abuses of power in the drug war) during his 6-year rule.
It seems like #Marcos' strengthening of the alliance with the #US has convinced the #AFP not to defect to the Dutertes though. The Philippine #military is rabidly pro-American and Duterte had a hard time trying to balance having a pro-#China policy and appeasing the soldiers. :seija_coffee:
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“If not, well, I’m putting you on notice. I will level it to the ground so that there will be no more Gaza. No more Gaza to fight for,” he said in a mix of Filipino and English in a TV commentary.
During his presidency from 2016 to 2022, Duterte oversaw “a war on drugs” that left thousands of people dead and prompted an International Criminal Court probe.
Duterte: Turn Gaza into ‘world’s biggest cemetery’
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Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “crush” Hamas and turn Gaza into the “world’s biggest cemetery”.
Duterte was reacting to reports that two Filipinos working in Israel were killed in Saturday’s attack carried out by Hamas. He said that if it were up to him, he would order everyone to leave Gaza in 48 hours.
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
"#Locsin, who filed numerous diplomatic protests and sometimes tweeted expletives against #China, led the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) at a time when the Philippine leader, #Duterte, sought closer ties with Beijing. He was Duterte’s third and longest-serving foreign secretary, steering the DFA from October 17, 2018, until Duterte’s term ended on June 30, 2022." #Philippines#ForeignAffairs
#Duterte’s silence over the issue amid the #Marcos administration’s strong condemnation of a series of Chinese actions in the #WestPhilippineSea has further fueled the observed split of the #Uniteam, the 2022 election coalition that led the Marcos-Duterte tandem to victory.
"The channel of Quiboloy, who is on the wanted list of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been used as a platform to attack and red-tag #journalists and #activists, especially under the previous #Duterte administration. Quiboloy is a friend and ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte. " #ApolloQuiboloy#SexTrafficking#CashSmuggling