yup the Yanks are here

Duterte was threatening to stop the yearly joint training exercizes with the USA, and in recent weeks we have had another bad surge of Covid in the Manila area.

I had assumed that the exercizes had been  called off again  so I was puzzled why I spotted what looked like an A10 flying over three times in the last week...was there a war going on that I didn't know about?

Then kuya mentioned: Yup. The Balikatan exercizes are back on.

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/national/afp-us-military-open-balikatan-exercise-amid-covid-19-pandemic/ar-BB1fyWlK

No this doesn't mean war with China...it goes on nearly every year and except for airplanes and helicopters we never see them training.