BEGINNING from the Second World War in 1941, to the Korean War in the 1950s, the Vietnam War in the 1960s and the invasion of Iraq by the Coalition of the Willing in 2003, the Philippines has borne the pestilence of fighting wars that never had been of its own making but that of America.
Such is the historical perspective the present-day generation of Filipinos must grasp if they are to correctly navigate through these times of trouble. President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s abrupt replacement of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Bartolome Vicente Orpilla Bacarro with Gen. Andres Centino astounded the nation. Even former AFP chief and former senator Rodolfo Biazon expressed utter confusion, considering that Centino was the AFP chief that the President had replaced with Bacarro in August last year.
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