10 hours ago, RobMuir said:

They have always done what's best for Thailand and the Thais. 

I guess that's why Thai people are paid so well then, and earn about the same amount in a week that mcdonalds employees get paid in less than a day in the west  ????

 

10 hours ago, RobMuir said:

Avoided being colonised

Others say Thailand didn't have any strategic importance or anything else (like the mallacca staight) worth fighting for ????

Some posts using an ethnic slur comment toward the Japanese people have been removed.

 

A post using a trolling image has been removed. 

Britain took what they wanted, the southern states of Thailand which are now the northern staes of Malaysia.  The French took what they wanted ie the part of Thailand centred of Battambong which is now in Cambodia.  The French and British left the rest of Siam (as was)  as a buffer zone between the British zone of influence, Burma and Malaysia (as was)  and the French zone then known as French Indo-China.

1 hour ago, johng said:

 

Those yanks are such bad shots  they missed their target Vietnam by a whole country mile ????

Actually they didn't. They were bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail. A simple Google search would show you that.

 

The people of Laos and Cambodia didn't think it was funny then, and neither do they, their children, grandchildren and for several generations more, find it funny now.

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-jets-bomb-ho-chi-minh-trail#:~:text=The Ho Chi Minh Trail,Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail

 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ho-Chi-Minh-Trail

2 hours ago, Excel said:

Google it and you will find it is to be closed down and the activities are riddled with corruption. 

As is every project in thailand......its very sad really.

1 hour ago, JamieM said:

Others say Thailand didn't have any strategic importance or anything else (like the mallacca staight) worth fighting for ????

Like Laos.

4 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Umm, remember US bases in Thailand???

Yeah, a very good deal for the Thais.

Had the Americans building airports, roads and even marrying the single mothers.

Isaan ballistic missiles.

 

There is a similar rumor that Chinese warships will be based at a Thai naval base.

 

16 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

Translation: Thailand can be used as a base for foreign nuclear missiles by whoever pays the most. 
 

Remember, Death Railway wasn’t built that long ago. 

 

"Leave thailand alone, pay us something, don't attack us and you can do what you want to do" should have been the defence ministry's spokesman's comments. 

 

 

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15 hours ago, Amused said:

The British and French decided to not take control of Thailand even though they could have either shared or taken power individually at any time, back in the day.

 

Just down the road from my place there's a monument comemorating the victory of the Thais over the French. Are you really sure about this? 

 

7 hours ago, johng said:

 

Those yanks are such bad shots  they missed their target Vietnam by a whole country mile ????

 

Which nation invented the term "friendly fire"?

 

8 hours ago, johng said:

 

Those yanks are such bad shots  they missed their target Vietnam by a whole country mile ????

I suggest you visit the Cope center in Vientiane some day. Maybe then you wouldn't make silly jokes about the devastation of a nation. 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cope-visitor-centre

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5 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

 

Just down the road from my place there's a monument comemorating the victory of the Thais over the French. Are you really sure about this? 

 

Not sure where you live in Thailand, but maybe the French didn't like the food there.  That may account for the "victory".  Or at least the aftermath. 

"Jatupon had claimed that the missiles were brought in on a container ship and some media were aware of the story. "

 

maybe he was watching a rerun of the PBS America documentary about the Cuban missile crisis - and the subtitles were missing....

4 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Not sure where you live in Thailand, but maybe the French didn't like the food there.  That may account for the "victory".  Or at least the aftermath. 

According to Wiki this is what it was about.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Thai_War#:~:text=The Franco-Thai War (Thai,certain areas of French Indochina.&text=After the Japanese invasion of,to set up military bases.

23 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Who in their right minds would trust Thailand to handle nuclear weapons?

4  words  too  long.

On 5/12/2021 at 1:51 AM, clivebaxter said:

They were quite happy for Thailand to be a base for the dropping of the most bombs in history on a single country, Laos is still suffering from that. So I would not be surprised if they were harboring nukes here. There are still over 70 million unexploded devices in Laos dropped via Thailand from USA planes.

 

Next time, tell the Laotians to not harbor North Vietnamese troops and bases,,,,then bombs won't fall,....war is hell in case you forgot!

1 hour ago, Taboo2 said:

Next time, tell the Laotians to not harbor North Vietnamese troops and bases,,,,then bombs won't fall,....war is hell in case you forgot!

All that bombing and killing of a neutral country and the Americans still lost! War being hell is something they have yet to learn it seems, after Vietnam they did the same in Iraq and Afghanistan,  they cannot help invading people, then losing.

On 5/13/2021 at 12:14 AM, mbenson said:

There is a similar rumor that Chinese warships will be based at a Thai naval base.

These  contracts or national strategy  20 year and 25 year agreements 'chinese style' hint hint will put these countries like here, pakistan, laos etc into a far more controlled center than the EU, they will

slowly allign their laws, immigration, taxes, currency, and defence, which all means Communist China dictating power, givng billions to the top of the country to gain their control, and flood the bottom of the country with even more waves of chinese immigrants, and plenty of defence bases 

1 minute ago, humbug said:

These  contracts or national strategy  20 year and 25 year agreements 'chinese style' hint hint will put these countries like here, pakistan, laos etc into a far more controlled center than the EU, they will

slowly allign their laws, immigration, taxes, currency, and defence, which all means Communist China dictating power, givng billions to the top of the country to gain their control, and flood the bottom of the country with even more waves of chinese immigrants, and plenty of defence bases 

So all in all then, a move in the right direction for the higher echelons of Thai society.