I don't think this is that bad a move for Marcos personally. Right now he's owned by the Americans so he has to show them that he's doing something to confront China. There's no practical way to do this of course since Philippines doesn't have a real military, but cosying up to India can present the illusion of doing something, and as we all know that's far more important than real consequential action.
Yup. Trump loves to prey on weakness and India is exuding all sorts of weakness. Also, regardless of whether India thinks that the US is their ally, Trump doesn't see India as an ally so such a complaint is just being silly.
This really pisses me off about Indian attitude. They keep talking big and daring people to hit them. When they actually get hit they start screaming and playing victim like they don't remember what they said 5 minutes ago.
This condition is not helped by the rubbish they peddle in school libraries as 'literature' these days. If you have ever cracked open one of these "young adult novels", you immediately understand why the American youth can neither write nor comprehend a sentence with more than two commas in it. These books have reduced the English language (already a simple grammatical system amongst its other European counterparts), to something close to Orwell's Newspeak.Less than half () of the American adult population is able to read English above the 8th grade level (what the US Department of Education considers "level 2" literacy):
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Though I do recall reading elsewhere that "level 2" literacy in fact corresponds more closely to a sixth grade reading level rather than an eighth grade reading level, and that's plausible as .
Regardless, the sad state of things is certainly reflected by the broader challenges and struggles afflicting the US . . .
Too bad the MEGA crowd already called out Nikki for being of Indian origin. Her support for India would probably make them even more angry at India to be honest.
Calm down bud. Why be so confrontational
The rabbit hole is deeper than it appears. Article below shows a recent emergence of an Israeli propaganda program providing funds to entities (NGO's mostly but also big corporations and law makers) to disseminate pro-Israeli, anti-Palestine, and anti-Palestine protests information. One of the aims is to target colleges and universities to redefine antisemitism (just as they had previously done by redefining Judaism as a religion with an ethnicity). And... TikTok appears again.
Maybe that explains how TikTok survived in America.
The reality is that Chinese society is hyper competitive or as one of them put it, “Darwinian.” Not everyone is going to make it and some people invariably get left behind. The economy moves quickly & the government can’t provide decent jobs for all; it’s unfortunate but it’s also why China is successful while other countries are not.