
I was on a roll with the Epstein articles and I have a really good one that was almost finished. But I was fasting and then stopped and I think I got refeeding syndrome. Terrible runs for days now. It was only a five-day fast, I didn’t think refeeding was an issue, but yeah, it turned into a big mess.
Anyway, I’ll finish the Epstein thing tomorrow or whatever, but now this Thai-Cambodia thing has blown up and I’m going to sloppily post a forum reply I wrote, just so I’m posting something.
A forum poster wrote:
You know, Anglin predicted all this.
What article was it, a few years back, where he said “we are effectively in World War 3. World War means ‘world at war’. We will see more countries acting on settling old grievances unrelated to the ‘main’ war” ?
I think it was a lot of articles. It was sort of one of my main themes the last few years.
This is basically India-Pakistan 2, though less complicated. Thailand is 100% the aggressor here. The UN and the whole world recognizes the disputed area as Cambodia, and there isn’t a moral justification in the way there is with Kashmir (Kashmir is 97% Muslim, whereas Preah Vihar is as far as I know 0% Thai, although Thai/Khmer is less defined since it’s solely a language, with the same genes/religion).
Anyway, you can argue who started the India-Pakistan thing. In this current case, Thailand just all of a sudden started mounting forces on the border then killed a Khmer soldier in May, then the PM of Cambodia leaked a phone call of the party gurl PM of Thailand apologizing and calling him “uncle,” then she had to resign and Thailand got angry about the leak and made moves last week.
Right now, the issue is Cambodia used old BM-21s to respond to Thailand and (presumably accidentally, these are not precise systems) blew up a 7/11 killing like a dozen people. Then Thais who crossed the border got their legs blown off by landmines, which Cambodia claims (at least plausibly) were Pol Pot’s mines, not new mines. So now Thailand is saying that although it is an objective matter that they started the whole thing, they have to take revenge for the 7/11 and landmines by… no one knows what exactly. Are they saying they’re going to occupy the disputed territory?

Anyway, Cambodia for obvious reasons is crawling with Chinese military, but China hates getting involved in anything, and they definitely do not care much if Thailand wants to steal a hundred square kilos of land.
But it is what I predicted, yeah, where there is so much war everywhere, everyone is like “well, we can do that too.” Thailand started this for domestic reasons, they have a lot of problems, but it seems that Cambodia escalated with the release of the call because it’s a lot better for them domestically than it is for Thailand (just basic rally round the flag), and also, they know there can’t be a real war because of the Chinese visiting forces in Cambodia. “Visiting” being sort of a euphemism. I don’t even know if the Chinese use that term, it’s an American term for the occupation of Germany/Korea/Japan/Philippines/etc. Of the American occupations though, Korea is the only one that wants it, while Cambodia wants as many Chinese soldiers and equipment in their country as is possible.
I think this is going to be solved soon, but just like with Pakistan-India, you’re putting a band-aid on a bullet hole. Thailand is going to have to back down and basically tacitly admit this was all their fault and totally unprovoked (or rather, provoked by the French 100 years ago). And at any time the US can go to Thailand and be like “hey we’ve got a bunch of planes and missiles and shit, you want to go to war with the Chinese in Cambodia?” and Thailand will say “we thought you’d never ask.”
Further Information
That was the reply, but since this is an official post on the official site, I should maybe add some background information. Preah Vihar is an ancient Hindu temple which is of course now used as a Buddhist site like all the ancient Hindu sites in Indochina. When the French left Cambodia (which they occupied while not occupying Thailand), they drew a border for Cambodia. Before the late 19th century, there wasn’t really borders in the modern sense in the third world, and a lot of these border drawings were a disaster (look at Africa or many Middle Eastern countries). In Cambodia it was pretty easy, as Khmers were a cohesive group so you weren’t forcing a bunch of different ethnic/religious groups to live under a single government. But there was never a clear border before, and both sides wanted the temple in the border region. The French gave it to Cambodia and then the UN repeatedly said the French border was valid and that Thailand should respect it.
There is a lot of stuff about the fact that the ruling families in Thailand and Cambodia were getting along pretty well until the Khmer PM (technically the old PM, father of the current PM, but still the primary authority in the country) leaked the call which appeared to show that the 38-year-old party gurl Thai PM not only admitted Thailand was at fault, but also admitted she didn’t have control over her own military. It’s hilarious he recorded this call then just immediately posted it online, and it certainly revealed the nature of the situation, but the party gurl’s father, who is arguably the most powerful man in Thailand, viewed this as a personal betrayal, and has actually stated publicly that this whole thing is now personal. Saying “I’m settling a personal score” is a weird thing to say when dozens of people are now dead. Or at least it seems weird to Westerners.
There are 72 million people in Thailand and 17 million in Cambodia, and neither country has nukes, meaning it isn’t exactly like Pakistan-India. (It was so funny when Pakistan said “we don’t have the rocket systems to send these nukes anywhere but at you – they are only for you.”) But the strategic importance of Cambodia to China (not to mention the billions in investment) means that in some sense, Cambodia has the upper hand. Despite the fact that the US frames China as “aggressive,” their last military action was in 1979 – to protect Cambodia from a Vietnamese invasion. (For the record, the US has been in dozens of conflicts since 1979, making it pretty cartoonish for them to accuse China of “aggressiveness.”)
As passive as China is, they’re not going to let Cambodia get actually invaded in a serious way by US-backed Thailand. And the fact that Thailand is the aggressor – having started it unprovoked and then literally gone around saying it’s a personal vendetta – means that China doesn’t really have to worry about optics in the way they do in a lot of other places. It’s unfortunate the 7/11 got blown up, but it’s pretty obviously an accident, and it was done after Thais had already bombed Cambodia. Further, Cambodia is saying Thailand is using cluster bombs, which is probably true (people lie in wars but in this case, Thailand’s actions are so egregious and obvious that no one on the Khmer side needs to lie – they could have said the 7/11 bombing was a false flag and didn’t, just said it was an accident). The UN will presumably investigate the cluster bomb claims as well as the claims that the mines were Pol Pot’s and not new mines. Just based on facts though, it’s really unlikely they are new mines. They were on the Thai side of the border, so the idea that Cambodia is sending special forces to mine the Thai side while the whole (relative small area) is swarming with soldiers and drones is sort of a ridiculous claim. And again, Thailand, by everyone’s admission, started this. So blaming Cambodia for anything is silly.
I mean, I’m the anti-Jew-Faggot Empire guy, so I want to do a full disclosure and say of course I support the Khmer side against the gay marriage, legal weed, US-aligned Thai side. But I’m just giving you facts here. No one, including the Thais themselves, claim that Cambodia started this. Again, there are parallels to Pakistan-India, but in that case, both sides could make claims the other side started it. In this case, Thailand had political problems, and just up and decided to mount their forces on the Khmer border and start talking about retaking territory that has been determined to be a part of Cambodia since 1907.
So, I’ll just repeat: it’s very unlikely that this will spin out of control in the immediate future. Donald Trump has made threats about tariffs, and every country responds to these, but the bitterness is not going to go away when the conflict stops, and it is yet another place on the planet where war could break out in a serious way, and definitely would break out if there was any serious conflict between the US and China.
These simmering and potentially hot areas exist all over the world. No government is really happy with their borders, and in general, the majority of populations of countries will always support their government in a war.
Finally, I just want to point out the obvious: if the US actually believed in a “rules-based order,” they would be sending infinity weapons to Cambodia to defend their sacred border and the CIA would be all over reddit calling for “volunteers” to go fight to defend the sacred border.
In actual reality, borders are not sacred in any way, virtually all of them are completely arbitrary, with the least arbitrary being those that were settled by wars that ended in serious defeat of the country with the counter-claim, such as the US-Mexico border, where the Mexicans got so wrecked that no one can seriously question the validity of the border. But borders are a new thing, historically, and they exist for purely practical reasons. The claims after the Russian invasion that “borders are sacred” was the weirdest nonsense ever, especially from the US, which did Kosovo and was, at the time Russia invaded the Ukraine, trying to do Kurdistan. And, should I even have to say it, is the biggest supporter of Israel, which is the least border-respecting country on earth. When Assad fell last year, Israel annexed a further 400 square kilometers of Syria.
A world order cannot be run by a country with no principles and no attempt at fairness in regulating international disputes. The UN, for all my criticisms of it, is a place where all countries can meet and hash out these kinds of disputes, but the US simply refuses to recognize anything they say as meaning anything. We need a new world order, where conflicts are not solved by slogans and dumb emotional bullshit. There is no logical reason that with the nature of technology and international trade that war should even exist at all anymore (with maybe the exception of really primitive areas of Africa, but even then, third parties should be able to mediate conflicts in a way that is satisfactory to all parties).
The problem is that the US is the current Big Boss and it is run by Jews who like war because they don’t respect anyone’s right to self-determination, believing that they are God’s chosen ones and therefore have a divine right to decide how everyone on earth behaves, and will therefore use both social engineering programs and violence in order to enforce their vision of a world shaped in their own image.