Joe Biden held a trilateral meeting on Thursday with both Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (whom he has been hosting for the last couple of days) and Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. The main talking points were concerns about China.
“The United States defense commitments to Japan and to the Philippines are ironclad. They’re ironclad,” Biden said as he began three-way talks at the White House with Kishida and Marcos. “As I said before, any attack on Philippine aircraft, vessels or armed forces in the South China Sea would invoke our mutual defense treaty.”
That sounds nice until you realize that’s the same thing he told Israel, and you look at how he’s thrown them under the bus now.
REPORTER: How can Biden’s support for Israel be both “ironclad” and need to be “reassessed”?
KJP: “We’ve always been consistent there…we’re going to continue…
