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Rodrigo Duterte

Geostrategy unplugged

Duterte has charted his course of action, though it will be presumptuous to aver that the initiative is intended to be a snub to the White House and Pentagon.

Khashoggi and oil diplomacy

The murder of the Saudi dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, can be seen in the context of the Wahhabi kingdom being a metaphor for the corrupting influence of oil on America’s national security policy.