'IN the area of foreign policy, I will not preside over a process that will abandon even a square inch of the territory of the Republic of the Philippines...'

This went definitely the most applauded declaration of President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 25, 2022. It rang loud and clear, evidently rooted out of the speaker's very soul brimming with intense love for country, and the listeners just must burst in spontaneous expression of their own sudden seizure of pure patriotic feelings.