While Filipinos are submerged in floods, the US is busy heightening military intervention in the country. Together with its puppet Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), it has used HADR (humanitarian assistance and disaster response) as cover to continuously launch war games and other military activities.

A US major ally in the Pacific, Australian troops remain on Panay Island during Typhoon Tino’s peak. They completed the one-month war games Kasangga: 2025-02 on November 7 at Camp Peralta in Camindan, Capiz.

During Typhoon Uwan, American forces were seen in Northern Luzon where the AFP was also conducting the 10-day Joint Exercise (AJEX) Sea, Air and Land (DAGITPA). The US did not openly participate in this training. However, the exercise is a US-promoted preparation and provocation of war against its rival imperialist China. The AFP chief himself declared it as preparation in case “Taiwan is attacked.” The AFP was forced to temporarily halt the training to conduct HADR, together with US troops, in several areas in Luzon.

US warships also stayed within Philippine maritime territory during this period. On November 14–15, it held the 13th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity, along with Japan and, for the first time, the Philippine Navy. They maneuvered against Chinese vessels near Scarborough Shoal.

A secret military training was held in Alamada, North Cotabato from November 11–14. Residents endured nonstop daytime firing of various types of weapons during those days. They reported the presence of foreign troops who served as instructors in combat maneuver training held on their farms and sitios.