SASS ROGANDO SASOT
DUTERTE’S defense has just began. Not just a bold move but also an appropriate one, given the nature of the proceedings against him—political, which makes the International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings against him nothing but a show. His guilt has already been established by a massive global propaganda against him. Thus, whatever the ICC does would be nothing but mere formalities to recite the ready-made guilty verdict. The grand purpose is regime change. And Duterte just nipped it in the bud with his strategy of rupture.