The not-so-unseen hand of the US

“The Philippines is a basket case again.”

The chaos in the world and in the Philippines share one thing – the not-so-invisible hand of the U.S. geopolitical, political and information or cognitive warfare in operation. It has led to hundreds of millions of people in the globe dominated by the US-Western mainstream media that covers North America, much of Asia but primarily Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer editorial of November 26, 2024 entitled “An invisible hand in Ayungin” feigning ignorance of the omnipresent hand of the Americans in the proxy-war ramped up by the U.S. which it started to engineer since February 2023 with ex-USAF Col. Raymond Powell’s Project Myusho instigating the “assertive transparency” provocations in tandem with PCG Spox Jay Tarriela and Co. pursuing the Forward Operating Base project of Pentagon.

The editorial of the Inquirer concerns the revelation that slipped out of U.S. defense secretary Lloyd Austin during recent visit to Palawan on Nov. 19 that “… some American service members deployed to US Task Force Ayungin…” revealing the existence of direct operational involvement of the Pentagon in the Philippine security forces activities in the BRP Sierra Madre “supply missions” and the surreptitious attempt to construct it into an American Forward Operating Base exposed in mid-2023.

The US. cognitive warfare hand does not remain on the level of geopolitics, it seeps down into the lower level of Philippine national politics since foreign policy and foreign relations both stem from Philippine politics.

The rising crescendo of tension and conflict arising from the internecine struggle between the prevailing political powers ensconced in the Halls of Power versus the Duterte legacy movement was never a domestic development alone. It is the U.S. hand that stirred up the conflict that has turned into a maelstrom this week and portends to worsen over the next few months and years. The main issue is the preclusion, prevention, of the return of the “independent foreign policy” that the Dutertes represent.

Consider the issues that drove the wedge between the Marcoses (for even Senator Imee is now estranged from VP Sara), the first is the revival of the EJK allegations which have no basis in fact (the 20,000 to 30,000 alleged deaths total fabrication) was raised against the Dutertes, the POGO cum Chinese spy network lies to link to the Dutertes’ consistent independent foreign relations outlook, the OVP and DepEd trials by public hearings and the impeachment campaign against VP Sara.

The dramatic personae flailing against the Dutertes have been the likes of Sen. Risa Hontiveros who’s been the star guest of U.S. proxy war handler Raymond Powell social media show, ex-Sen. Antonio Trillanes the pompous ICC employed agent provocateur, the array of inquisitors in the legislature lined up to pound on all these same issues, all identified with the political plots and cognitive warfare messages emanating from the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon.

The hand print of the American Deep State is all over the Philippine national scene, political and economic, and it is seemingly invisible only because it is all over the place and like the body polity, academe and mainstream media whistle past the graveyard of Philippine independence and sovereignty. That is what the Philippine Daily Inquirer was doing with its editorial “An Invisible hand in Ayungin”, as so many Filipinos among the chattering classes are also whistling day-to-day while the graveyard creeps close and closer.

While Bongbong Marcos in his latest public action announced his rejection of the impeachment moves against VP Sara Duterte, the situation is not improving for him. The turmoil caused by the not-so-hidden hand of the U.S. has stirred up, destabilizing his government and that does not show the best of him. Friends from abroad are asking: what’s wrong with the Philippine vice-president?”. The cognitive war of the U.S. network may be working well but all it sums up really to the outside world is – the Philippines is a basket case again.