If I am BBM jr I should be very worry but he pretends he is not.
Is that why he uses drug?
The clock is ticking fast and soon it will be X'mas.
Even stubborn Jake Sullivan rushed to Beijing.
He has a bad premonition. He wants Beijing assurance that all will be well.
You got it bro, all this foreplay are being initiate by Manila just as you predicted, receiving $500 million is peanut, BBM didn't sign for this for such an amount, they were promise $1.8 billions of military aid and $10 billions of economic investment, we are at the bottom of a long queue with the favorite son Israel getting the bulk of the money. The reason why the AFP COS are asking for typhoon missile is where $500 million of military aid is being earmarked, not for the F16 that was original plan, they want to justify the deployment of the missile system by masquerading and labelling it as part of the Philippine armory which is not, such duplicity and hypocrisy is well known by the Chinese.
In 1959 China issued numerous warning to India after Indian special forces were caught deep inside Xizhang then 1962 came along.
This shows China is prepared to play a long game.
Once again what is BBM jr administration's endgame?
Frankly I believe he is in the dark.
Prolonging the crisis is in Beijing advantage, I don't know what BBM is thinking, trying to outlast Beijing is a very very bad strategy. I think this strategy of instant gratification that is so prevalent in the Western military thinking will led them to a disastrous defeat. Relying too much on Wunderwaffe to change the course of the war is a stupid idea and it showed with the conflict in Ukraine.