Is he mad, and a warmonger?

AT a security forum in Singapore on Friday, a delegate asked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr: If a Chinese water cannon killed a Filipino soldier, would he consider that a red line and invoke the US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty?

Marcos replied as if he were a president of a superpower: "If by a willful act a Filipino — not only serviceman but even a Filipino citizen — is killed ... that is what I think is very, very close to what we define as an act of war, and therefore we will respond accordingly."