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Philippines' ex-President Rodrigo Duterte arrested at ICC's request over 'drugs war' killings

The Philippines' former leader Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on Tuesday at the request of the International Criminal Court, a major step in its investigation into thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings in a "war on drugs" that defined his presidency.

Duterte was served an Interpol arrest warrant on his arrival at Manila's main airport and was in custody, the office of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said in a statement.

The arrest follows years of Duterte taunting the ICC since he unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the court's founding treaty in 2019 as it started looking into allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings on his watch.

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At the rate the Manila elites are turning the Philippines into another Armenia or Georgia -like hostile but impotent state, I'm afraid that they might just provoke a war. If not if with China, then maybe with other adversaries like Malaysia.
 
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That's the plan, whatever bring chaos to Asia.
Do they not get that they'll just lose massive land to China? The whole nation of Philippines have less air defense than one of those Chinese islands in the SCS.

Chaos is only good if you win something during it. The Marcos regime is on an extremely stupid path which can only be explained by their colonial mentality. They see "support" from US like Muslims think Allah is behind them. At least Allah is a metaphysical concept, US is only human, human with less economy, less industry and worse technology than other humans in China. Even if US had enough air defenses, jets and missiles to cover all their needs, they wouldn't be able to give it all to the Philippines.
 

Sardaukar20

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That's the plan, whatever bring chaos to Asia.
The PH should have a higher chance of provoking a war with Malaysia rather than China. Much higher chance of winning, less risk of panicking Uncle Sam, and more land to gain by taking Sabah. But both nations have terrible militaries, so its gonna look like an ugly bar brawl between two overweight drunks, rather than a proper fight.
 
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