But since Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines earlier this year, he has staked out a drastically different approach to Manila's relations with the U.S.—or at least, he appears to have, based on his bombastic rhetoric. In his latest tirade Tuesday, the new Philippine president said that Obama could “go to hell” for criticisms of Duterte's vigilante war on drugs and suggestions the U.S. might refuse to sell his government weapons, although that seems unlikely. Last week, Duterte likened himself to Hitler, boasting he would potentially kill 3 million drug dealers and users in the Philippines.
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