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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Late-Night Airstrike: Thai F-16s Bomb Cambodian Supply Routes and Artillery Positions
Thailand is the 3rd most powerful military in S.E. Asia. Cambodia is 8th. -
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A Sunday and Monday in the US?
It would require the repeal of the 2nd Ammendment to the US Constitution. This would take a great deal of time. Also, at the present time the political party in power has no desire to start any kind of repeal. It appears you are not American so you might not understand what I am saying. Just as I really don't understand the Thai legal process as well. -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Late-Night Airstrike: Thai F-16s Bomb Cambodian Supply Routes and Artillery Positions
As in most armies or indeed armed forces of the world, the Thais too have their 'just for display' incompetents covered in ribbons, AND their tough killers. I remember my first visit to the temple ruin currently being contested in Surin Phanom Dong Rak area (a few minutes drive from my Khmer family's farm). This was mid-2012, my first visit anywhere in Thailand beyond BKK and the family farm itself which I was visiting for the first time. I was accompanied in the truck I was driving by my b/f, his aged mother, half-sister & 2 small nieces. At the ruins we first encountered 2 or 3 fairly cheerful but guarded Cambodian soldiers, to whom the family chatted away in Northern Khmer. I was very interested in the ruins & we wandered along a bit, then suddenly standing beside us & looking rather grim and SILENT was a Thai officer all in black. From my own career experience in Oz I immediately knew what he represented. A REAL soldier, a trained killer. And of course - doing his job - he wanted to know (but without speaking) what this idiot group of people chatting in Khmer & accompanied by an aging Falang was up to ... So we moved along a bit, I took photos (but not of him!), and eventually we departed & drove home ... -
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Could this be the Final nail in Pattaya's coffin ??
What is all this about: please give details! Who is .going where? -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Late-Night Airstrike: Thai F-16s Bomb Cambodian Supply Routes and Artillery Positions
If it's so far from democracy what is it then? An autocratic state? Nup. A dictatorship? Nup. A socialist state? Nup. An absolute monarchy? Nup. A fascist state? Nup. A communist state? Nup. What type of state holds elections (meant to be free and fair), has privately owned industry, has freedom of the press, freedom of movement, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly etc.? If you answer democracy you would be correct. Now tell us that the US doesn't have this.
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