IT seems unstoppable: the nationwide campaign to hide grave risks of war devastation and even nuclear attack on our country with the United States military given access to nine bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

And the latest to claim there is nothing to worry about is President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. himself despite his own father's 1975 warning: 'If the purpose of American military bases is to strengthen American military posture... do not these bases endanger the safety of the Filipinos and the Philippines not only from conventional armed attack, but from possible nuclear attack?'