More Buddhist than Malaysia or Indonesia is Muslim.

My dad told me they view their King as an actual Avatar of Holiness.

If I understand right Thailand's deal with escorts is Money coming in

"We'd stop it, but...it's a lot of money."

The reverence to their monarchy was modified and downplayed over a century ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of it stayed into the modern era.

I was grabbed by the collar by a restauranteur for asking why the King's batik shirt was so shoddy.

The late King. Not the current one.

From what I was breifed it is "Divine right of kings" and their god that put the king the thrown.

Buddhists don't have a god, but the king does pledge to support the monasteries and the monks.

Anyway, yeah, don't like Thailand.

I could be wrong, It was an army breifing

Their history, you can't rely on them to do anything good for the region.

And yeah, I'd expect the same thing to happen if you were to walk into some pubs in England and badmouth the royal family.

Or at least, that's how it used to be.

You can even see it in their actions
>Support the Japanese incursion
>Japanese retreats
>Communists come along
>Support communists

Yeah.

I would trust snake venom to not kill me before I trust Thailand to not betray SEA at the next chance.

Thailand was whoring itself out to the US during the Communist wars

You talk like there's some grand SEA coalition.

Plenty of knives in plenty of backs over the years in that region.

Yeah, but among ourselves. Thailand spreads its cheeks for any superpower looking in.

Even fucking Philippines resisted ffs

And yet somehow, remained independant when England and France took everything else.

Malaysia might have the weirdest monarchy on the planet.

You want to endorse Benedict Arnold behavior, that's on you.

I won't change it.

I don't really have an opinion on them one way or the other I got pulled from the exercise so I don't have any first hand experience.

I just find it odd that you talk like Thailand owes the surrounding nations something.

Do you owe Thailand something?

Yeah, you don't stab your neighbours in the fucking back, for one.

That's rich, coming from that area.

Like I said, it's a den of vipers.

You want to endorse that behavior, like I said, you stick to that principle.

Centuries of bloodshed and infighting.

Are you telling me that such behavior was unheard of in the lands which are now Malaysia?

Are you telling me were it to happen in your region, you'd be sympathizing with your version of Thailand and defending the behavior as warranted?

You say yes to that, I'll concede the point.

Of course. It would be grossly hypocritical of me to say a nation is wrong for looking out for its own interests.

@xorgy I’m going to be writing a whole section for intellectuals like you who are too cool for school

I wouldn't expect another nation to die by our side for the sake of principle, if they could live or even thrive by not doing so.

"Hey dude, we're just here chilling with your diplomatic allies the Brits, don't mind us"
"OK"
>Assists in the Japanese sneak attack on Penang
"MOTHERFUCKER"

"Okay World War 2 is over and we're both rebuilding, Thailand, let's let bygones be bygones and start rebuilding"
"OK"
>Houses the Communist Incursion and hides its leaders
"GOD FUCKING DAMN IT"

There's a saying "fool me twice, shame on me"