Rasti Delizo critically examines the foreign policy of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and its role in a globalized NATO which seeks to expand to the Asia-Pacific region in its imperial contest with China.
What do we do? how do we use leverage one against the other? if india is not going to be with us you don t just sit there and let india choose which direction they want to go. they re either on our side or they re not on our side here, and perhaps we need to start being friendlier to pakistan. oh, my god. a couple okay. first of all, india has a long tradition of, quote, unquote, strategic non-alignment. they will work with us selectively against china. they will not work with us against russia since most of their arms come from russia. it is just a frustrating, imperfect relationship. by the way, it is symbolic of the world sitting on is sidelines, they don t want to side with us or russia. pakistan, we have a history of frustrating each other. terrible. it is a country with 150, 200 nuclear weapons.