President Duterte on Thursday said that America wants wars to continue selling planes, ships, and bullets to other countries.
In a speech in General Santos City, Duterte said that the United States cannot afford for wars to cease because a lot of their citizens will lose jobs.
“Sa Amerika gabaligya’g eroplano,barko, bala. Mao ning Amerika gusto’g away (America sells planes, ships, and bullets. That is why America wants war to continue),” he said. “Kay og wa nay mamalit og eroplano, barko, bala, wa na sa’y trabaho ang mga tao. Wa siyay ikabaligya ngadto sa gawas (Because if no one will purchase planes, ships, and bullets from them, their people would lose their jobs and they won’t be able to sell any of their products abroad),” he added.
Last Saturday, Duterte expressed that despite their trade war, China and the US will never go to war, saying both countries know that it is not going to end well for anybody.
“You do not have to praise China and say that you’re going to side with America in a war. No, because America and China, alam nila that a war is the most useless thing in their arsenal. Tapos talaga ang mundo nito,” Duterte said. “When they say that, if you blow it all, it is 100 times bigger than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You think we will survive? See you in heaven,” he added.
Duterte also said that the Philippines is once again open to buying firearms from the United States after the country stopped purchase of arms in 2016. “In the purchase of arms, we have a bad experience but they have a new policy now. We’re going to reconsider,” he said.
“We’ll buy if we think we need that kind of particular. But I’d like to say to the Americans, and to the officials in Washington, when you deprived us of the arms, we started going around scouting for cheaper and better arms. And there were contracts already, memorandum of intent – intent to buy something like that. So we will not impair those obligations,” he added.
However, he said that the Philippines cannot just abandon China and Russia since they helped the country when American senators thumbed down the sale of firearms to the Philippine National Police two years ago. (Argyll Geducos)
