Uncle Scam Doesn't Cotton To Uppity Vassals

"A political analyst says the United States may try to “replace or destabilize” Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte after he announced his nation’s “separation” from the US. “America has lost. I’ve realigned myself in your ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to (President Vladimir) Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia. It’s the only way,” Duterte said in Beijing last week."