Troops rolling into Bangkok – but it’s not a coup, says Army

[Dazinoz]

21 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Yeah, ok. Will wait until after midnight on the 28th. to make a final decision on what this is.

 

Ok, I give up. What happens on the 28th?

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, Dazinoz said:

Ok, I give up. What happens on the 28th?

Rama X birthday.

[Dazinoz]

1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

Rama X birthday.

Ok thanks.

[StevieAus]

21 hours ago, poohy said:

Military parades and  displays, nice...... very North Korean

Try also the UK, France, India and of course the great US.

Obviously not very well travelled.

[Megascott]

Is Trump coming to LOS? A military parade would really impress the Orange man!, At least until Trump finds out about the exorbitant Customs Duties the Thai government collects on US goods. Unfair!

[Pdavies99]

One way to cool the exchange rate!!

[poohy]

2 hours ago, StevieAus said:

Try also the UK, France, India and of course the great US.

Obviously not very well travelled.

Ha Ha Ha its called sarcasm (you may have too look it up)

Only traveled to about 80 odd countries and worked in about 7

 

so not too well traveled!

 

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[Sydebolle]

Try to imagine what it cost to move tanks from Prachinburi for a birthday celebration? A Royal salute would be more than in order; never saw any tanks on HM's Father's birthday nor at the trooping of the colours on December 2nd. Some hidden agenda or a new protocol scripted? 

[Henrik Andersen]

On 7/23/2019 at 4:17 PM, poohy said:

Military parades and  displays, nice...... very North Korean

What a nonsense comment 

Every countries does it 

 

[IAMHERE]

For a parade but like landing big jets at U-tapao, good traveling knowledge gained.

[StevieAus]

11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Why does Thailand even have an army? They appear to serve no useful function for society. And at this state of the game, they are actually moving the country backwards, and sucking its oxygen. 

Considering there is quite an extensive border with  Myanamar in the West they seem certainly where I live in the North to carry out what in other countries would be carried out maybe by a responsible police force the role of trying to stem the flow of metamphetamines allegedly manufactured by the Shan Army.

There have been quite a few gun battles up here with the smugglers a lot of which don’t seem to gain press coverage

[StevieAus]

2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Try to imagine what it cost to move tanks from Prachinburi for a birthday celebration? A Royal salute would be more than in order; never saw any tanks on HM's Father's birthday nor at the trooping of the colours on December 2nd. Some hidden agenda or a new protocol scripted? 

Look back through the archives there were many

[StevieAus]

5 hours ago, poohy said:

Ha Ha Ha its called sarcasm (you may have too look it up)

Only traveled to about 80 odd countries and worked in about 7

 

so not too well traveled!

 

Obviously on your travels you didn’t keep your eyes open

As they say the definition of sarcasm “the lower form of wit “

I will just file it under Thai Bashing.

[sead]

But today the Senate is questioning PM

[sunnyboy2018]

3rd world soviet style, banna republic nonsense. Does any tourist want to see this display of military mites? 

[BernieOnTour]

interesting,

so the Queen‘s Guard, not the King‘s Guard, is moved to Bangkok for the King‘s birth day ?

[Brigand]

A repositioning of military assets deftly done under the guise of a parade on a special occasion. Any chance The Nation on a followup report as to whether the assets are moved back to from whence they came or just quietly stay where they are now.