Trump slobbers all over brutal thuggish leaders - Putin, Duterte, Erdogan - but they don't pretend to love him back very much.
thediplomat.com
............. Part of Duterte’s anti-Americanism is rooted in his background. Though Duterte was born into a political dynasty, as were most of his predecessors, he is the first Philippine president to ever hail from the country’s south, a Muslim-majority area that had a significantly different historical experience from the rest of the Christian-dominated country.
Duterte’s sister, Jocellyn Duterte, told the Wall Street Journal in a recent interview that their grandmother, a Muslim, helped the president come to believe that the United States was guilty of crimes during its invasion and colonization of the Philippines during the first half of the 20th century.
Duterte is also a self-avowed leftist, a tendency that was cemented when he studied political science under Jose Maria Sison, the long-exiled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, in the 1960s. Duterte’s left turn was not just a flirtation, but by his own admission, continues to drive his political outlook till today. In an interview with Maria Ressa of Rappler in October 2015, even before he started running for president, Duterte stressed that his “dimensions in life” were with the left.
“I must admit to you now Ressa, I really belong to the left,” he said.
The anti-colonial legacy remains a source of frustration for the president. Indeed, at the East Asia Summit (EAS) leaders’ meeting back in September, Duterte veered off of his prepared remarks and launched into an emotional speech that included a reference to the massacre that took place near Jolo’s Bud Dajo volcano in the country’s south in 1906. During that incident, U.S. troops, on the orders of Major General Leonard Wood, killed over 600 Moros – including unarmed women and children – sparking outcry not just among the Moros, but even anti-imperialists in the United States such as Mark Twain. ......
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/turkish-embassy-protest-dc.html?_r=0
After Erdogan's bodyguards were sent out to beat Kurdish-American protestors, the Turkish govt bashed the US because DC police used nightsticks on the bodyguards to get them to stop kicking protestors on the ground.
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