Inilahad ni Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Atty. Leila de Lima na tila damay raw ang bansang Pilipinas sa hidwaang Estados Unidos at Venezuela.

Kaugnay ito sa pagsalakay ng sandatahang lakas ng Estados Unidos sa Caracas noong Sabado ng gabi, Enero 3, kung saan isinagawa nila ang pagdakip kay Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at sa asawa nitong si Cilia Flores.

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Sa ibinahaging social media post ni De Lima nitong Linggo, Enero 4, ang pag-atake raw ng US sa Venezuela ay tila pagno-normalize sa ginawa ring pagsalakay ng Russia sa Ukraine, pag-angkin ng China sa South China Sea, at ang pagpatay ng Israel sa mga Palestinians.

“It is most regrettable that the United States under Trump has once again regressed into an aggressor state not unlike China, Russia, and Israel. The attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Maduro undermines the rules-based international order, thus setting a terrible precedent of heightened aggression by superpowers,” panimula ni De Lima.

Saad pa niya, “It normalizes Russia’s invasion and continued war on Ukraine, China’s expansionist aggression in the South and East China Seas, and Israel’s genocide on the Palestinian people. It throws the global order back to a barbaric ‘might makes right’ regime, discarding all the progress achieved by the United Nations eighty years after the end of World War 2.”

Bilang alyansa ng Estados Unidos, tila apektado raw ang bansa rito, sapagkat ginagawa nito ngayon ang agresyong ginagawa ng China sa mas maliliit nitong karatig-bansa, tulad ng Pilipinas.

“As a US ally, this leaves the Philippines with a compromised moral ascendancy in protesting, condemning, opposing, and fighting China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea. This is due to the fact that our major ally against Chinese aggression uses that same aggression against a smaller neighbor like what the Philippines is to China,” aniya.

“This reflects poorly on us as well, regardless of our own faithful adherence to international law, simply because the US is our ally,” dagdag pa niya.

“This serves as a reality check on our reliance on the United States for moral leadership in the world stage and as an ally for regional security and a rules-based international order. I therefore call on Congress to conduct high-level consultations with our national defense, intelligence, security, and foreign affairs communities to draw up a comprehensive and strategic response, in terms of executive policies supported by legislation, to the impact of superpower aggression on our own precarious situation in the West Philippine Sea,” pagtatapos niya.

Nauna nang tiniyak ng bansa na ito ay “closely monitoring” sa sitwasyon ngayon sa Venezuela, at sinigurong tutulungan ang mga Pilipinong naroroon.

“The Philippines is closely monitoring the evolving situation in Venezuela. The Philippines urges concerned parties to resolve disputes through peaceful means, and to exercise restraint to prevent escalation of conflict,” saad ni DFA Spokesperson Angelica Escalona sa isang pahayag.

Dagdag pa niya, “The Philippine Embassy in Bogota, which serves as non-resident mission for Venezuela, has issued a travel and safety advisory to Filipinos in Venezuela, and stands ready to provide assistance to them, as necessary and appropriate, to keep them out of harm’s way.”

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