[If I had a nickel for every reuters article about a US-China battle for influence over an island nation in the Pacific starting with P, I would have two nickels.](https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-us-battle-with-china-over-an-island-paradise-deep-pacific-2025-04-30/) Fortunately what’s happening in the Philippines is not as bad as in Palau but it’s still rough nonetheless. For those disillusioned by the state of the US right now, do not forget that this is the sort of activity its main rival also engages in, so y’know… be a bit more measured in your glazing.
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The US literally spread antivax propaganda to radicalize the population of the Philippines against Chinese vaccines because that would give too much soft power to China
There’s nothing that can be worse than that! It was responsible for thousands of excess deaths
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[If I had a nickel for every reuters article about a US-China battle for influence over an island nation in the Pacific starting with P, I would have two nickels.](https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-us-battle-with-china-over-an-island-paradise-deep-pacific-2025-04-30/) Fortunately what’s happening in the Philippines is not as bad as in Palau but it’s still rough nonetheless. For those disillusioned by the state of the US right now, do not forget that this is the sort of activity its main rival also engages in, so y’know… be a bit more measured in your glazing.
The US literally spread antivax propaganda to radicalize the population of the Philippines against Chinese vaccines because that would give too much soft power to China
There’s nothing that can be worse than that! It was responsible for thousands of excess deaths