I won't call it a "war" yet and hopefully calmer heads will prevail very soon. However, they might not and right now it's rapidly headed in a very bad direction.
So I've been thinking about the situation of western expats both in Thailand and Cambodia especially if this drags on and on and gets much worse.
My opinion is that expats should be as invisible as possible about all this.
We're not Thai and we're not Cambodian.
It's really none of our business. It's not like Russia vs. Ukraine which has very specific meanings to very many westerners.
Whatever the political narratives are on both sides, it seems to me that they have nothing to do with us.
It occurs to me that NATURALLY long term expats in Thailand are going to side with Thailand just out of affinity and that expats in Cambodia will naturally do the same. Not because of believing or not believing the opposing political narratives, but just because we are here and they are there.
That's kind of an odd situation, don't you think?