Protests Threaten Return of Yingluck Shinawatra to Thailand

[jayboy]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Lots of people gave flowers to the soldiers because they liked that the military intervened. I was there, and I remember. It was happy party time on the streets - at least in Bangkok.

 

 

Lots of middle class Thais - often Sino Thai - in Bangkok thought that way.Most sensible ones subsequently regretted the way Thaksin was ejected recognizing that it would have been better for him to have defeated constitutionally.Why? Because Thailand lost a decade and remains stuck in the middle income trap.

 

However the Thai supporters of the coup were deceived.It was not because of Thaksin's corruption (which was real) but because he threatened the interests of the elite.Paul Hewison has written eloquently and convincingly about the Network Monarchy.But please feel free to linger in your memories of happy party time.

[MikeandDow]

11 minutes ago, jayboy said:

 

Lots of middle class Thais - often Sino Thai - in Bangkok thought that way.Most sensible ones subsequently regretted the way Thaksin was ejected recognizing that it would have been better for him to have defeated constitutionally.Why? Because Thailand lost a decade and remains stuck in the middle income trap.

 

However the Thai supporters of the coup were deceived.It was not because of Thaksin's corruption (which was real) but because he threatened the interests of the elite.Paul Hewison has written eloquently and convincingly about the Network Monarchy. has written eloquently and convincingly about the Network Monarchy.But please feel free to linger in your memories of happy party time.

do you have the link to Paul Hewison about the Network Monarchy.find it interesting

[OneMoreFarang]

14 minutes ago, jayboy said:

 

Lots of middle class Thais - often Sino Thai - in Bangkok thought that way.Most sensible ones subsequently regretted the way Thaksin was ejected recognizing that it would have been better for him to have defeated constitutionally.Why? Because Thailand lost a decade and remains stuck in the middle income trap.

 

However the Thai supporters of the coup were deceived.It was not because of Thaksin's corruption (which was real) but because he threatened the interests of the elite.Paul Hewison has written eloquently and convincingly about the Network Monarchy.But please feel free to linger in your memories of happy party time.

Feel free to believe your favorite version why things happened.

IMHO there are often many reasons, and they are intervened. There is no easy "it happened because of this reason".

[jayboy]

7 minutes ago, MikeandDow said:

do you have the link to Paul Hewison about the Network Monarchy.find it interesting

 

Sorry.I should have said Kevin Hewison who is interesting on the subject.Furthermore it is really the academic Duncan McCargo who is probably the real authority on network monarchy.No link to offer - but easy enough to research online.

[MikeandDow]

Just now, jayboy said:

 

Sorry.I should have said Kevin Hewison who is interesting on the subject.Furthermore it is really the academic Duncan McCargo who is probably the real authority on network monarchy.No link to offer - but easy enough to research online.

thanks

 

[jayboy]

7 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Feel free to believe your favorite version why things happened.

IMHO there are often many reasons, and they are intervened. There is no easy "it happened because of this reason".

 

Of course there are many reasons and the matter is complicated.I identified a major issue because this is not an academic forum and not given to complexity and nuance.