Dibbler

Great speech but the reality is Cambodia has been preparing for this for months with infrastructure and military assets, including mines being moved into place on the border. HS double crossed the Shinawatras causing a power shift on the Thai side and massive loss of face. Now in the short term HS will pay dearly with lost revenue from scam centres, casinos, human trafficking, timber, wildlife, drugs, and other illegal cross border business run from the Cambodia side, and lost military positions and lives of many RCAF on the border. In the long term HS wins more loyalty for his son shoring up the family position as Cambodia rulers.

Presumably TAT sponsored this competition and self nominated?? Burning during the summer, and flooding during the winter. Crowded at best, polluted and smelly for most of the year. Chiang Mai is paradise lost and no longer gets my tourist $$.

Sea level rise at the Gulf of Thailand is already well advanced with parts of Samut Prakan already heavily under water. Just go and take a look at Wat Khun Samut Chin, a temple already all but completely flooded by rising sea levels and coastal erosion. It doesn't matter whether or not you agree with the politics, the reality is that at the rate that land is sinking and sea level rising the entire central plains of Thailand will be under 2-3 m of water by 2100. https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-the-end-of-the-century-bangkok/ Nothing can stop that trend and melting of polar ice-masses and glaciers in the Himalayas will make it happen faster. Moving the capital to Ayutthaya won't escape the inundation that's coming! Better try Sukhothai or Chiang Mai. Divesting of coastal property between Rayong and Hua Hin and buying in the north would seem a sensible 20 year strategy!

The combination of sea level rise and land subsistence from erosion will lead to the ENTIRE area of Bangkok and neighbouring provinces being inundated within the next 75 years. Eventually Thailand voters may be rewarded with an elected government that actually decides to address this reality and move the capital northwards to higher ground in the central plains. Other countries already made this decision for various reasons (Myanmar moved their capital to Naypyidaw, Indonesia is moving their capital to Nusantara). After all it will be a business opportunity for the ruling government at the time so politicians will all make loads of money from land speculation. So its a wonder why it hasn't already happened!

This is what happens when business deals between Thailand and Cambodia's mighty ruling families go sour!

No need for military intervention. Just close the border for a week and Cambodia will feel the (economic) pain. Keep it closed for a month, border markets will shutter, the supply of fresh produce, electronics and household goods will stop from Thailand and they'll be on their knees pleading for reconciliation..

Thailand has good Marine National Park laws, why don't they support staff who implement enforcement of those laws! Belligerent tourists who refuse to to follow the rules should be ejected regardless of whether Thai or Farang. Also rangers need to acknowledge the limits of their remit which is kicking tourists out of restricted zones, not the country!

This needs to be qualified. Its not self harm as Trump and cronies will stand to benefit from back door deals with unscrupulous leaders of the countries worst hit with tariffs (Cambodia, Lao, Vietnam). The real loser is the American consumer. But just wait til the penguins take reciprocal revenge. Then Americans will really know they backed the wrong horse in their election.

They range from computer hard drives, machinery, rubber, pickup vehicles, plastics, optical equipment, seafood and agricultural produce. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/thailand

Do you understand what a tariff is? Its a tax paid by the buyer of a product coming from the exporting country. In this case its US consumers who will be paying this additional tax on Thailand products. Thailand is free to redirect its US exports to other countries that honour free trade. Only the US consumer loses in a trade war!

America being great again imposing 10% tariffs on islands in the Antarctic where only penguins live! Absurd! https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-heard-mcdonald/?utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ytF0nO7cxkbgKo_rKOc3UPaM2Ldecsmm2qzPAMgPA6ghW0twwAzzDqyg_aem_-maNL86LCZ3NmdDZ8r4L_Q

The only certain result of this is hurting the American consumer, and driving Thai exports to other trading partners. Making Americas Gullible Again!

The day Thailand breaks ground on its first nuclear plant is the day all subcontractors scheme how they can build a thinner concrete wall around it and pocket the change. All sensible citizens should be moving to the next country when that happens!

These are human lit fires and the objective is to expand cornfields and pasture for cattle which farmers will raise and sell to China. Unless enforcement is implemented and big agro companies reigned in there will be no forest left in a few years thus affecting water supplies across the entire north, and in the meantime people are suffering from unhealthy levels of PM 2.5.

The ship sunk in December 2022. Surely the wreck has already been dived on? It would make an excellent deep recreational dive but who else might already have been down there to take a look at equipment lying around on the sea floor? What might be left to salvage now?