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F-16s purchase amid hunger surge

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“The US F-16 warplanes...are a 50-year-old 4th generation fighter slated for total phase-out by 2035” THE US approved and expects the Philippines to buy 20 F-16 aircraft from it worth $ 5.58-billion (or roughly P 220-billion) following the much-ballyhooed visit of the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Philippines last week. These, amid new reports of the SWS survey of the highest yet Philippine hunger rate of 27.2 percent since...

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“The vast majority find the thought of a foreign judicial institution of...

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“The WPS gaslighting has distanced the Philippines from China by the enmity...

Trump mulling ‘pull out’ from Philippines

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F-16s purchase amid hunger surge

Backbencher by Rod Kapunan Rod Kapunan -
“The US F-16 warplanes...are a 50-year-old 4th generation fighter slated for total phase-out by 2035” THE US approved and expects the Philippines to buy 20 F-16 aircraft from it worth $ 5.58-billion (or roughly P 220-billion) following the much-ballyhooed visit of the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Philippines last week. These, amid new reports of the SWS survey of the highest yet Philippine hunger rate of 27.2 percent since...

Proxy-war preps amid DU30 fight

Backbencher by Rod Kapunan Rod Kapunan -
“China’s evenhanded response to the Duterte abduction has earned it the endearment...

Fury vs. US Deep State, proxies, ICC

Backbencher by Rod Kapunan Rod Kapunan -
“The vast majority find the thought of a foreign judicial institution of...

Sputtering WPS gaslighting

Backbencher by Rod Kapunan Rod Kapunan -
“The WPS gaslighting has distanced the Philippines from China by the enmity...
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