Report Defence Minister Keeps Alarm Bells Ringing: Coup Not Off the Table

[proton]

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Are you really that thick? Do you honestly not understand that to go into more details would be to touch on forbidden subjects, or are you just trolling to get the poster in trouble?

 

You did not make the claim, nobody asked you about it

[Gknrd]

Miss the good old days of a good coup, Lets get Thailand back on track again.

[BLMFem]

15 minutes ago, proton said:

 

You did not make the claim, nobody asked you about it

Correct, I asked you a question.

[proton]

19 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Correct, I asked you a question.

 

BLM- Big Loud Mouth 😄

[JackGats]

A coup would do away with all the nice things coming from democracy, like taxation of remittances, re-criminalisation of cannabis, taxation of world-wide income etc. Let's hope there will be no coup for sure.

[westsail]

4 hours ago, khunPer said:

20 coup d'état since 1932 – that is in average one every 5th year – the last one was in 2014...

We are overdue, and the current PM is not the one who the people elected so they may not be too troubled if she is ousted.

[Jonathan Swift]

12 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Unfortunately Thailand won't change one coupe after another pp  should have come to power but the elites running this country don't want power to the people

Coupe? Yes, we need more than one coupe, one after another off the assembly line, give everyone a Coupe DeVille Cadillac, then we'll all be happy. 

[ronnie50]

I think it's very possible. But it would be a worse disaster than before on a number of levels. First, this time people would fight back - the disenfranchised majority - especially those who had the government they voted for stolen away from them in broad daylight have really now come to understand how the wealthy establishment, the monopolists, the royalists and their rubber stamp courts, and other pliable 'commissions', etc., are designed specifically to work against them. As someone said there is no longer a moral compass or saintly figure to cow them. Second, the economic future is already so bad that a coup would just turn this into another Burma. Third, much of the industrialized world would alienate the coup leaders. And finally, this time, a coup would risk civil war. 

[blaze master]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

Phumtham is urging all to study the past to fortify democracy.

 

Ya pal nothing says democracy like the threat of a coup. What a complete db. 

[billd766]

2 hours ago, westsail said:

We are overdue, and the current PM is not the one who the people elected so they may not be too troubled if she is ousted.

The people do not elect the PM.

 

They vote for a political party and if that party wins the most seats but less than an absolute majority it is offered first choice to form a coalition government with another party or parties.

 

If they still cannot form a coalition government after a period of time (I think it is 30 days but I am not sure) the party with the next highest number of seats is given the chance to form a coalition government.

 

If they are successful the the largest party in the coalition offers a name (or names) to be voted on by that party alone, to become the PM. 

[drgoon]

What a f#%*^@(     dreamer.

 

There certainly are some idiots in positions of authority in this country.

 

But...   maybe this is a warning of what is about to come. 

[scorecard]

23 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

Coups are always on the table in Thailand; it is just a question of who will launch a coup d'etat on whose behalf with the aim of achieving what?

 

Considering the current state of the Thai economy and growing discontent in the middle military ranks, the next coup d'etat .....

"...and growing discontent..."  Should red 'growing extreme discontent' and the PM has no idea how to handle it and has now cancelled the 10,000Baht election promise and now travelling so too busy to fix the economy.   

[Caldera]

It's pretty much time for the next one.

[Acharn]

23 hours ago, billd766 said:

There is no such thing as a "good" coup.

Oh, I don't know. I rather liked the one that happened in October, 1973. Unfortunately that led to the Counter Revolution in 1976, which the Thai don't like to talk about, but which eventually led to Prem's appointment as Prime Minister. And Anand was a very good Prime Minister.

[JAG]

23 hours ago, billd766 said:

IMHO I don't think that there will be another coup. The current army is in 2 parts and the larger part is more loyal to the King than to the army high command.

My reading is that part is smaller, but better equipped and trained, effectively a mobile powerful roughly  two brigade sized group. The rest (larger) part is made up from immobile barely trained units, manned by uninterested conscripts and equipped with Vietnam era "hand me downs".

[connda]

Just make Tony "Fearless Leader For Life" and all will be well in the Land of Smiles.

[connda]

5 hours ago, Caldera said:

It's pretty much time for the next one.

History:
A Shin runs the country.
Coup.
A Shin runs the country.
Coup
A Shin runs the country...
_____  ?

[Hunz Kittisak]

No more coups

Shared many times before as to why

Military have been out manoeuvred and rendered toothless 

Bye Bye dinosaurs 

 

[billd766]

2 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

No more coups

Shared many times before as to why

Military have been out manoeuvred and rendered toothless 

Bye Bye dinosaurs 

 

I do hope so.

[Luuk Chaai]

13 hours ago, connda said:

History:
A Shin runs the country.
Coup.
A Shin runs the country.
Coup
A Shin runs the country...
_____  ?

the reason it's needed !  

maybe one more good push to clear the field

[daveAustin]

On 5/23/2025 at 11:39 AM, ikke1959 said:

It is the question if the coup will be accepted by the people or not.. If not a second Myanmar will be here, and in my opinion I think that the Thai people will not accept a new coup. The army, and the rich have lost all their popularity already by abuse of the section 112 law, and there is a lot of unsatisfaction about the delayed 10k wallet and the incompetence of the Thaksin show and many more.. I think that the people will stand up this time... Be warned

Hmm, don’t know about that. There are a lot of upset folk regards T being allowed back, but Thais are still largely apathetic if it did happen. There would be anger and protests for sure, but beyond that don’t reckon you’d see millions on the streets. 

[sikishrory]

society slowly embracing democratic values

Overwhelmingly actually

[Felton Jarvis]

On 5/23/2025 at 4:14 PM, BritScot said:

 

Maybe head north as you seem to like dictatorship! If the people vote then the Military have no justification in taking the country at the end of a gun!!!  This General needs to be imprisoned for treason before it is to late!

At this point, I would like to see Thailand go back to an absolute Monarchy. Coups would be history at that point. Let the Monarchy run the country.  We could do much worse.

[greeneking]

4 hours ago, Felton Jarvis said:

At this point, I would like to see Thailand go back to an absolute Monarchy. Coups would be history at that point. Let the Monarchy run the country.  We could do much worse.

Any particular Monarch in mind?

[Felton Jarvis]

18 minutes ago, greeneking said:

Any particular Monarch in mind?

Any of them will do.

[Felton Jarvis]

On 5/25/2025 at 6:08 AM, daveAustin said:

Hmm, don’t know about that. There are a lot of upset folk regards T being allowed back, but Thais are still largely apathetic if it did happen. There would be anger and protests for sure, but beyond that don’t reckon you’d see millions on the streets. 

I love the Shins.  Most Thai people do, as well.