PM Prayut: There is no conflict within Thai Royal Army

[waldroj]

Just waiting for that bite! Even long life milk goes sour eventually, and Prayut is certainly not the long-life variety.

Edited October 13, 2015 by waldroj

[h90]

Interesting story in The Post last week suggests otherwise.

The report indicted that the new army chief overturned a last minute promotion and a posting authorised by his predecessor and cancelled some projects he had put in place.

Once again it's suggested that the army is split into two main factions based on loyalty / association with various ex and currently serving officers and no matter what the PM says he knows all about cliques within the military and what they get up to.

The question is what is a conflict.....Does the word conflict mean that half the army wants to make a counter coup. Or does conflict mean some some disagreement on how to share the corruption money.

[phuketandsee]

Anyone fancy a watermelon?

Huh? Something about green on the outside??

[EnglishJohn]

I would imagine that some in the army are still leaning towards the Reds as they have in the past. Only a fool would think otherwise.

The audio tape showed us that Thaksin has bought plenty of people in the Army. He was trying to buy Prayuth and the 'supreme commander' with lucrative post-retirement 'positions'.

Thai society is riddled with corruption in every service of the government. But these kind of people are greedy for position and power as well as money : they will only take any action if they are pretty sure they will succeed.

None of them will risk sacrificing any of the perks they have now for something like ethics and morals or belief in a cause. Those concepts are alien to them.

They need to see an opening before the next elections because then their chance is gone. Prayuth will be taking special care to see they don't get one.

[taiwanatoa]

I would imagine that some in the army are still leaning towards the Reds as they have in the past. Only a fool would think otherwise.

Who's the fool ?

The Military has always been staunchly royalist fascists (yellow) !!

And speaking of royalist-militarist-fascists, :

Ultra-royalist steps up lese majeste purge against Facebook and Youtube

http://prachatai.org/english/node/5539?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+prachataienglish+%28Prachatai+in+English%29

The Fascists are obviously intending to continue putting as many people as they can in prison for practicing free speech.

Edited October 13, 2015 by taiwanatoa

[taiwanatoa]

Edited October 13, 2015 by taiwanatoa

[taiwanatoa]

Also that fascist monk named Issara went to the U.S. Embassy to threaten us free people.

http://prachatai.org/english/node/5500

I would imagine that some in the army are still leaning towards the Reds as they have in the past. Only a fool would think otherwise.

Who's the fool ?

The Military has always been staunchly royalist fascists (yellow) !!

And speaking of royalist-militarist-fascists, :

Ultra-royalist steps up lese majeste purge against Facebook and Youtube

http://prachatai.org/english/node/5539?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+prachataienglish+%28Prachatai+in+English%29

The Fascists are obviously intending to continue putting as many people as they can in prison for practicing free speech.

[smotherb]

It seems rather simple; you cannot promote so many authoritarians to general and expect them to act in unison. It happens in all armies; some even get to thinking they should take over the government.