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there's very little consistency with anything donald trump is but if you take a close look the one thing that seems clear is he is attacking and weakening our alliances and strengthening our adversaries let me give you another case in point with these tariffs you notice that the 25 tariffs Well, that's what our allies get hit with. But the 10% tariffs, those are for our adversaries, right?
So less tariffs on our adversaries. As some have said, the administration is demented. But I think there is something deeper going on here. You take a look at the ripple effects. For example, the president of the Philippines has now offered a deal with China. You want to talk about deal-making. It's deal-making that weakens the United States' geopolitical interests.
And I'm going to show you this first, and then I want to show you what Marco Rubio was saying about the Philippines. And you can see how China is outmaneuvering Donald Trump quite easily. But either Donald Trump is the biggest idiot ever, which may be the case, or he's playing right into the hands, intentionally,
and maliciously, in terms of our geopolitical interests, right into the hands of China. So take a look at this. The Philippines president offers a deal to China, stop sea aggression, and I'll return the missiles to the United States, the Typhoon US missile system. So the Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., offered at the end of last week on Friday to remove U.S.
missile systems from Philippines if China halts what it called aggressive and coercive action. The U.S. Army installed these Typhoon mid-range missile systems in the northern Philippines in April last year in the Biden administration to support what the longtime treaty allies described as a training for joint combat operations.
Now, however you feel about it, this was part of a geopolitical arrangement of the United States and frankly of NATO. in Asia as also part of America's support of Taiwan and in an effort to try to check the growth of China, which was also building a lot of bases in the nearby areas. This is what the US geopolitical policy was or geostrategic policy was.
But now one of the things that we're learning is that Trump's new Pentagon appointee on Southeast Asia has argued for negotiating a, quote, cooperation spiral with China, whereby the United States will unilaterally, quote, remove U.S. military forces or weapons systems from the Philippines in exchange for CCG executing fewer patrols. One of the things that's being asked, can the U.S.
and China forge a cold peace right here? Well, the interesting thing about this is that it undermines everything Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at his confirmation hearing. What's interesting, if you listen to Rubio in the clip I'm about to show you, it actually kind of echoes what the Biden policy was in a prevailing view.
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