The big shift: military prepares for external threat

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. It is disorienting, even jarring, to hear him, poisoning the air with his threats. Rodrigo Duterte, our former president, will not fade into the shadows especially now that he has declared President Marcos his number one enemy, their short-lived alliance turned into ashes. What's most disturbing about his rants, though, is when he plants intrigues and goads the military into rising up against the civilian government. He is a dark undertow that tries to sweep back the armed forces into its politicized past,…