Sword Fever used to be a US-Japan exercise. This year the Philippines entered. As a full participant, for the first time. About 45,000 Japanese and 11,000 US personnel, plus allies, across Japan by October 29. USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippine Sea. Step by step, Manila was folded into a US-Japan war machine: > Blickten.
> Japan Accession Agreement.
> The team with Australia.
>And now a passionate sword no one pointed it out. No reference. There is no debate in the Senate worth the name. This is not a defense alliance. It's the slow conversion of an archipelago into the southern wing of someone else's war plan. When the shooting starts, it won't be in Washington.