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Three bases are in the north, facing Taiwan, and one is in the South China Sea province of Palawan
Originally published on Antiwar
The Philippines on Monday announced the locations of four military bases that the US will now have access to under a deal Washington and Manila signed in February.
Three of the Philippine bases will be located in northern Philippine provinces, a move that angers China since they can be used as staging grounds for a fight over Taiwan. The US will be granted access to the Lal-lo Airport and the Naval Base Camilo Osias, which are both located in the northern Cagayan province. In the neighboring Isabela province, the US will gain access to Camp Melchor Dela Cruz.
The US military will also be able to expand to Palawan, an island province in the South China Sea, disputed waters that are a major source of tensions between the US and China. The US will be granted access to Balabac Island, the southernmost island of Palawan.
The new locations are on top of five bases the US currently has access to, bringing the total number of bases the US can rotate forces through in the Philippines to nine. The expansion in the Philippines is a significant step in the US effort to build up its military assets in the region to prepare for a future war with China.
The US expansion is being done under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Arrangement (EDCA), a deal Washington and Manila signed in 2014 to give the US greater access to the Philippines and allow it to build military facilities. The EDCA built on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which provides the legal basis for the US military presence in the Philippines.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s decision to allow the US to expand significantly departs from the policies of his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, who threatened to scrap the VFA and kick US troops out of the country over US sanctions on Philippine officials related to the country’s drug war.
Guam is fucking far……fleet gets hit they lose ressuply….They need back up logistics and may stage attacks to get back into the rapidly growing country. Fake a rebellion and reinvade. Duerte is soft forget him. Island hopping logic that the helicopter and vertical take of landing was built for. Karin rebels and the MILF are likely dead or imprisoned but you wonder……food price surge and fisheries being reditecred to battle grounds or just left to rot will rile people up…..beware those claiming to work for God….he who does not work does not eat. He aint giving out fucking coupons or welfare or extorting fisherman…
Gary glitter rock and roll (the joker)
Drug lords are fucking nobodies…..dollar value of a kill meaningless…Potential energy of a helicopter explosion is what people are looking for..
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Kasabian – Scripture Montfort Hall
The Philippines should get ready for another drug problem, and maybe a rape problem too. It seems to be what some US servicemen do to unwind. One would have thought that the good people of the Philippine’s would have heard enough from the Marcos family. The only way these US cuckoo’s could win an election is to fake it. Marcos spent most of his life in the US so he would know all about faking stuff. The only other way he could have won an election in the country his father pillaged is if the population of the Philippine’s had an attention span of a goldfish. Rodrigo Duterte is a much better and fitter person to be running this country IMO and the people will come to see that. Marcos will blunder as he takes his orders from washingtub and they don’t care.
The Philippines are idiots to invite the US back.
To zase bude dáky riťolez. USA ich majú po svete kopu ako to tak stíham sledovať. Investovali do toho zrejme nemalé finančné prostriedky. Aj u nás taký Lip_šic bude jedným s takýchto tajtrlikov.
As usual. Stupid libtards exported all the productive jobs and all industry to China, and now they will blocade themselves in, so God forbid, China would decide to repatriate those industries back to US 😆
BTW, they will have to buy ships and guns from China to get those bases operational 😆
The sooner shit like you dies a panful death, the better, one less white cockroach on this planet.
Well well well we are going back to 1945 where this Western Universe started. Why anybody talking about bribes $ about few Western Likes Elite Families taking control of the country. Guess afterall CIA made a great deal taking back Philipines to USA Gravity. Its understandible how some Army Commanders could be tempted to obtain great amounts of Power, Money, Woman if they say YES to the Military Hegemon of USA, but having hostage an entire country in the Propaganda Age… USA manufactured and created with British Empire recipees the third world countries of the World today and Philipines is one example of how you colonize a country in the XXI Century. if WWIII starts guess USA would attack from bases in Phillipines making all country a Targeting Shooting Range for Chinesse Missiles. Congrats to CIA about this great achievement of having Philipines under control! Recovering World Control under the Mighty Hegemon and the Masters of the Universe.
Congratulations to the American Neocon Jews.
They finally found a country stupid enough to be their proxy against China.
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Traitor Gov.