Año and Teodoro's witless knee-jerk press blabbers must be quelled

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao

Feb 12, 2024 12:12 am

A FEW friends abroad, mostly scholars and Philippine watchers, emailed me last week to ask: 'Are things there getting really bad?' They were mainly referring to National Security Adviser Eduardo Año's screaming statement, bannered by several media outlets: 'Any secession move to be met with force.'

Not to be outdone, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said: 'The military will use its forces to quell and stop any and all attempts to dismember the Republic.'

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