Two wars

Two wars are raging in the minds of many Filipinos right now. First is the war of political dynasties.

- TONY LOPEZ

The 24-member Senate of the 20th Congress convenes in July 2025 as the Senate Impeachment Court (SIC) to try impeached Vice President Sara Duterte for seven alleged crimes enumerated in the seven Articles of Impeachment submitted by the House of Representatives last Feb. 5, 2025.

Second, the US-Iran war which began at 6:10 a.m. Sunday, June 22, our time, when US bombers dropped bombs on three nuclear facilities of Iran inside Iran – basically laboratories trying to enrich uranium to create fuel to explode a nuclear bomb.

Iran is supposed to have enriched enough uranium to build 10 nuclear bombs. In war, the US has learned after nuclear bombing Japan twice, the best weapon is a nuclear bomb, even in the age of AI and cyberwarfare.

But the best laboratory for making nukes is your brain. So when your place is about to be bombed, you run away or hide and you keep your nuke technology. The most advanced of Iran's nuclear facility is in Fordow, which is 80 to 100 meters deep under a monument of a mountain. The mountain was bombed. So Donald Trump calls the damage "monumental."

Since Iran controls a strategic strait called Hormuz where 20 to 30 percent of the world's energy supposedly passes through, the post-bombing surge in crude prices has been significant (not yet monumental), by 5.7 percent to $81.40 per barrel of Brent crude on Monday, June 23. Stock markets around the world dropped about two percent in value, including our own PSEI. Tehran says the consequences of the US bombing will be "everlasting."