Bangkok Post

DUTERTE RIGHT ABOUT USA

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A Bangkok Post online report had this excerpt: “In his remarks on Thursday, [Philippine President Rodrigo] Duterte also accused the United States of ‘idiotic arrogance’ and suggested it was losing influence in Southeast Asia. Cambodia and Laos are already allies of China and now the Philippine­s is veering towards China, he added. China, he said, ‘does not go around insulting people, insisting on policies to follow them and trying to control the money of the world through the IMF and the World Bank’.”

While I am not a fan of Duterte, considerin­g him a loud-mouthed Asian version of Donald Trump, what he claims is true. The United States just cannot ever shut up or stop meddling in other government­s’ affairs, which is indeed insulting.

The Americans are getting their just deserts. The sooner Barack Obama is replaced as president, no matter by whom, the US might be better for it.

Charcoal Ridgeback

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