Thai Royalists Gather at US Embassy, Petition US to Stop Intervening with Thai Politics

[sambum]

"As evidence of alleged interference, the protesters brought up US Ambassador Robert Godec’s “call” for the Thai government to promptly release the election results, which he wrote on the day after the election."

 

So what is wrong with asking for the election results to be issued promptly? That's not "interfering" - the result is not going to be altered in any way. (Unless "the protestors" are trying to get some of the results invalidated, in which case, that is interference!!!)

[Zapitapi]

16 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Brian Berletic/Tony Cartalucci will be proud of such activity....

if anyone thinks that there isnt any interference ..they live behind a rock.. interference is constant.. 

[sambum]

"As evidence of alleged interference, the protesters brought up US Ambassador Robert Godec’s “call” for the Thai government to promptly release the election results,..." 

 

Whereas, what he ACTUALLY  said was :-

"As a longstanding friend and ally of Thailand, the United States looks forward to the final results.”

 

Bit of a translation problem?

[onthedarkside]

Reported off topic posts and replies removed. This is not about Libya or Africa

[brianthainess]

Yellow mob, wants to still keep the money flow for them and him, those stupid military haircuts are a dead give away IMO.

[Snig27]

There are probably fewer countries in the world where the US hasn't interfered over the years than the ones they have, but in every case they've done so for a bigger geopolitical reason be it the Cold War or control of energy resources or an attempt to remove a government deemed unfriendly to US commercial interests. None of these are in play right now here, and, indeed, the Prayut regime has allowed the US to construct major China listening posts in both Chiang Mai and Bangkok. The military regime has bent over backwards to make the US happy and the US is very happy.

BrianB/TonyC does what he does because he's a shameless paid grifter, and these clowns likely are too, but the great mass of the people who buy into this CIA conspiracy theory here are just poorly educated nitwits who accept utter nonsense like this uncritically. 

The US has just offered the Thai military advanced F-16s and F-15s - new ones unlike the ancient secondhand stuff they currently have in their hangers - so they are hardly conspiring against them. There is no advantage strategically for the US to push a MFP government aside from a desire to see a working democracy (and the US has always been somewhat self-servingly selective in advancing that desire). 

[Rimmer]

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[Walker88]

19 minutes ago, Snig27 said:

BrianB/TonyC does what he does because he's a shameless paid grifter, and these clowns likely are too, but the great mass of the people who buy into this CIA conspiracy theory here are just poorly educated nitwits who accept utter nonsense like this uncritically. 

 

Some get their 'education' and worldview from pulp fiction and Hollywood B-fare.

 

These people also think Men in Black is a documentary.

[248900_1469958220]

Do we have a new government here yet? I have lost track and some interest.....If Thai people dont go hell for leather this time I think we may as well forget about it.  Sometimes when I check my motorcycle tire my sunglasses fall out of my shirt pocket....so I pick them up and put them back in....then I check my motorcycle tire again...and my sunglasses fall out, so I pick them back up and put them back in......so then I check my tire again....

 

Round and round we go. 

[heybruce]

6 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

Unfortunately they are right. Judging by the rather uneducated comments on here the US can't help themselves. They are serving their own vested interests. They have overthrown more than 50 government's since 1945 many of them democratically elected. You can offer all the proof in the world, like the American funded YSEALI academic fellowship that grooms political leaders in South East Asia. My only concern is the military government knew this so why just not bar anyone who has been on the fellowship from Thai politics. Why wait until after the election and why for the last ten years were they not a better government for the Thai people. I feel a coup coming on. They seem to love them in this country.

Care to tell us specifically how the US interfered in the recent election, or in any way in Thailand this century?

[heybruce]

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

They don't stick their noses in other people's business like the World police.

Unless you count land grabs, claiming territorial waters of other countries, claiming international waters, interfering with elections...

[Toby1947]

Who gives a toss ?

[Neeranam]

1 hour ago, Snig27 said:

The US has just offered the Thai military advanced F-16s and F-15s - new ones unlike the ancient secondhand stuff they currently have in their hangers - so they are hardly conspiring against them.

Free?

[Mavideol]

a group of 5 losers had time to waste... Thailand 1 step forward 3 steps backwards

[d2b2]

This group has more of fringe elements than a country western stars’s wardrobe

[Burma Bill]

18 hours ago, greg71 said:

These 3 look like undercover police / military we see at the anti royal protests .

But not wearing yellow T-shirts like one individual shown - usually black!

[onthedarkside]

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Thai Royalists Gather at US Embassy, Petition US to Stop Intervening with Thai Politics

[Bundooman]

8 hours ago, Neeranam said:

They don't stick their noses in other people's business like the World police.

Better than sticking your head in the sand regarding possible Chinese or Russian interference.

The USA is no worse than them..

[Stocky]

10 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

I guess 4 old people without an education and payed by the junta could be called a protest.

Just 3, the guy on the left is their taxi driver.

[Kwaibill]

Can’t even blame this idiocy on poor translating. The US ambassador in no way made any “call” for anything.

Smacks of desperate attempts at re-direction, IMO.

[Pink Mist]

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[billd766]

12 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Kinda glad us Brits let the USA go its own way, its a bit of a pit these days

Try to get your story correct.

 

Actually we did not let the USA go its own way.

 

There was a civil war over no taxation without representation during which us Brits lost badly and were kicked out of the USA.

 

The US were in a similar position to Thailand under the Thai military and its coups.

 

The US wanted to rule itself and so do the majority of Thais as is THEIR right. There are only a small number of rabid royalists in yellow shirts and about the same number in the military.

 

There are far more free thinking Thais of all ages and they voted against the military parties and the rabid royalists.

 

 

[MikeN]

On 5/25/2023 at 5:48 PM, snoop1130 said:

As evidence of alleged interference, the protesters brought up US Ambassador Robert Godec’s “call” for the Thai government to promptly release the election results,

The BP said pretty much the same today about the EC confirming the results sooner than the 2 months it appears to want, so is the Post also interfering ?

[Celsius]

They should have voiced their concerns to team america world police

[GreenPhoenixNRG]

They should be grateful that is all the US is doing, just be glad that Thailand isn't caught up in a proxy war like Ukraine or like Lao was. If Thailand had oil, you could bet that the US would be in Thailand setting up a different puppet government.

[Neeranam]

12 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

I guess 4 old people without an education and payed by the junta could be called a protest.

 

 

They would have to be very old to write 'payed'  ????

[MrJ2U]

49 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

They would have to be very old to write 'payed'  ????

I was using it in the nautical sense. 

 

 

"The correct past tense of the verb pay is paid, as long as the word is used in the financial or transactional sense. If the verb pay is used in a nautical sense, the correct form is payed."

 

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/paid-payed/

Edited May 26, 2023 by MrJ2U

[GinBoy2]

Last time, for those of you in Thailand long enough, prior to the last 'event' I can't use the real word, I think it was a group of 20 of Suthep's mob who were spouting the same nonsense outside the embassy.

 

I think the general belief is that the new Government will be more Western looking rather than China focused, That I'm sure in certain circles won't be welcomed.

The idea that the US, or any other Western Government gives a rats a**s about the Thai monarchy is ludicrous, but this is Thailand and you just roll your eyes. 

 

But I do hope it this isn't a sign of a repeat performance of last time is in the making!

[fusion58]

Quote

The protest followed reports from Thai conservative news outlets, which continuously alleged that the US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had intervened in the Thai election on May 14th to ensure the installation of the Move Forward Party—the party that won the election—in the government.

You went full tin foil.

 

Never go full tin foil.

[Mr Meeseeks]

17 hours ago, pookiki said:

US intervention comes after the fact, not before. If you know US history in the Middle East, Central and South America, you would know this to be true.

We are talking about South East Asia here. The Gulf of Tonkin incident started the Vietnam War.
The US supported and propped up the Lon Nol regime which led to the Khmer Rouge taking power in Cambodia. Not to mention your ‘secret war’ and carpet bombing of innocent civilians.

The US then supported the Khmer Rouge as the rightful govt. of Cambodia at the UN even after the extent of the genocide had been uncovered.