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DEFINITELY not, especially in terms of the most important field that determines whether we are independent or not: our foreign relations.

Except for the six-year (or even five) hiatus after President Rodrigo Duterte declared his policy of "separating" from the US, and when President Gloria Arroyo in 2004 refused to participate anymore in the American illegal invasion of Iraq, we have always been the American toady in our relations with the world.

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