US capture of Maduro compromises Phl moral ascendency - De Lima

Being a United States ally, the Philippines is now basically under a “compromised moral ascendancy” following Washington’s attack against oil-rich Venezuela, along with the super power’s “aggressor” attitude in arresting the president of the South American country, Nicolas Maduro.

- By DELON PORCALLA

“It throws the global order back to a barbaric ‘might makes right’ regime, discarding all the progress achieved by the UN, 80 years after the end of World War II,” Rep. Leila de Lima of Mamamayang Liberal party-list said yesterday.

Condemning the attack, she noted the US move “undermines the rules-based international order, thus setting a terrible precedent of heightened aggression by superpowers.”

“Tt normalizes Russia’s invasion and continued war on Ukraine, China’s expansionist aggression in the South and East China Seas and Israel’s genocide on the Palestinian people,” De Lima said.

“It is most regrettable that the US, under Trump, has once again regressed into an aggressor state not unlike China, Russia and Israel,” De Lima said, adding that Manila is now “compromised” in “protesting, condemning, opposing and fighting China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea.”