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Pototan

(2,542 posts)

4. Well, I disagree

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:56 PM

Sunday

The Philippines is a great place to retire. If you don't participate in the drug trade, you're fine. In addition, the Marcos Jr. administration is far different than Duterte's. Marcos Jr. respects the rule of law, which some Filipinos criticize him for, because they value security over due process.

Duterte has been arrested by the Criminal Court in the Hague and is set to be tried there. That certainly will not be lost on any of his successors. The charges against him are not following the rule of law in his drug crackdown.

I just think society in general, all over the world (including Trumplandia), is not something I'm used to.