Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has described a public threat by the vice president to have him killed by an assassin as a criminal plot and vowed to fight it, in a looming showdown between the country’s top two leaders
Whatever’s going on in your country, it’s probably not as bad as this.
Yes, I get your point and I agree that Marcos lost the chance to try and de-escalate things.
The thing is that these are not two random people fighting in a bar. They both have large, very powerful clans and millions of supporters each. If they start talking about who is going to kill whom first, that’s playing a very dangerous game and they both should feel the responsibility to keep things civil. Not for them but for the People who elected them
Yes, I get your point and I agree that Marcos lost the chance to try and de-escalate things.
The thing is that these are not two random people fighting in a bar. They both have large, very powerful clans and millions of supporters each. If they start talking about who is going to kill whom first, that’s playing a very dangerous game and they both should feel the responsibility to keep things civil. Not for them but for the People who elected them