LET me count the ways. If grand rhetoric were to be the real yardstick, then President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. did execute a magnificent takeoff.

"I will not preside over any process that will cede even a square millimeter of Philippine territory," he intoned to the cheers of thousands during his inaugural and repeated the lines to highlight his impending policy on foreign relations during his first State of the Nation Address.

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