US State Department Hints at Anti-Duterte Coup

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 1, 2016

They thought it was a joke.

But Duterte isn’t joking.

That’s now beginning to set in.

AP:

As the body count mounts in the Philippines’ deadly war on drugs, and its combative president’s rhetoric plumbs new depths, the mood in Washington toward a key Asian ally is hardening.

Influential U.S. lawmakers are warning that the extra-judicial killings in the drug war — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday compared it to the Holocaust — could affect American aid.

And while the Obama administration maintains that its 65-year-old alliance with the Philippines remains “ironclad,” a senior U.S. diplomat is cautioning Duterte against more anti-U.S. posturing.

“I think it would be a serious mistake in a democratic country like the Philippines to underestimate the power of the public’s affinity for the U.S. That’s people power,” Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel told The Associated Press.

Russel did not draw a direct comparison, but past Philippine presidents have been toppled by popular protests dubbed “people power,” including former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted in 1986.

Of course he didn’t draw a direct comparison – it is a thinly-veiled threats.

Part of the nature of thinly-veiled threats is that they are not direct.

Ash is unhappy about Jews being mocked.

On Friday, the Philippine leader said that Adolf Hitler had killed 3 million Jews and that he himself would be “happy to slaughter” 3 million addicts. More than 3,000 people have died in the crackdown on drug pushers and users since Duterte took office three months ago.

In Hawaii to meet with Southeast Asian defense ministers, Defense Secretary Ash Carter hinted at U.S. impatience with the Philippine government over Duterte’s remarks. “Just speaking personally for myself, I find these comments deeply troubling,” Carter said. A day earlier, he had described the U.S. relationship with the Philippines as “ironclad.”

The State Department has tended to parry questions about Duterte’s outbursts. Spokesman Mark Toner also described the Holocaust reference as “troubling.” However, Sen. Ben Cardin, top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pulled no punches.

“It is reprehensible and, frankly, disgusting that a democratically elected leader is talking about the mass murder of his own people, with Hitler’s Holocaust as his inspiration, no less,” he said.

Cardin and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, author of a law that prohibits U.S. assistance to foreign security forces that commit gross human rights abuses, took to the Senate floor this week to decry the drug war. They accused Duterte of terrorizing Filipinos through his drug war and endorsing “mass murder.”

Leahy, a senior figure on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said because of the “systemic challenges” in the Philippines it may be necessary to consider further conditions on aid until the Duterte government “demonstrates a commitment to the rule of law.”

The aid Manila gets from Washington is substantial — although it may pale next to the investment that could potentially flow from regional economic powerhouse China, where Duterte is expected to visit in October in a bid to improve ties with Beijing.

The Philippines received about $175 million in U.S. development assistance in fiscal 2015 and $50 million in foreign military financing. In 2016, it has gotten $75 million for counterterrorism and maritime security. Since 2011, it has received three decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutters to bolster its meager navy.

Russel said Thursday it was no surprise that senior lawmakers were looking to monitor where U.S. assistance funds were going, given the “collateral damage” from the drug war. But he added it’s premature to impose restrictions on aid.

I think the decision has already been made.

They are going to do whatever they can to stop this man. Because this goes beyond the Philippines. One small country standing up to the US and beating them threatens the entirety of the US ZOG’s global hegemony.

I think they’re going to start making moves very soon. These Holohoax comments have spend things up, drastically. One would have to assume Duterte knew that when he made the statements.

Mr. Duterte, I’d advise you to take an emergency trip to Moscow ASAP. And it wouldn’t hurt to make a stop in Beijing on the way home.