So what, exactly, has been going on in Marawi?

He likes to play dress-up.

Okay, so The Thug stopped by to play soldier boy for a photo op with a sniper rifle and act out his delusional macho fantasies a little more.

But what else has been going on?

How, exactly, did a group of terrorists who laid siege to the city manage to quietly disengage and evacuate from a stronghold in a major mosque, with dozens of hostages, no less?

And how did the Army know this had occurred, so that they could move in to the abandoned position and “liberate” it shortly before The Thug dropped by for his costume party?

This scenario is so utterly implausible that even the Despicable Shitrag is taking notice and indirectly suggesting that it’s all a ridiculous sham to create the illusion of progress and impending triumph while actually allowing the enemy to escape and regroup to launch the inevitable subsequent attack.

Haven’t we seen this charade played out on Mindanao for decades already?  Does anyone really buy this bullshit anymore?

Are we really going to allow this face-saving nonsense to continue now that the threat level has increased exponentially?

Are we really that fucking stupid?