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The Philippines will not be in the current mess with China had it not kicked out the Americans from Philippine bases. It was Filipino nationalists panting to nationalist voters that sealed its fate in the South China Sea. Nationalists everywhere are among the most counter-productive inflexible irrational emotionalists. They have no sense of strategic grasp only shortsighted appeal to centuries old grievances underlined by misguided sense of national pride. The same pride is now swallowed by the Filipinos who have now offered to the Americans practically their whole country as a US military base. Tragic but totally unavoidable if you ask me (the American military could have continued to stay confined in well defined spaces in the Philippines has their bases agreement been extended in the 90s).
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