I was enjoying your contribution until you revealed yourself as a full-blown racist.Orichá wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 2:12 pmWhile your look at Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi is a fair analysis, V12, I think that you are a bit off with regards to the "benevolence" of Cambo's elite. Boss's daughter commanded militias to drive peasants off land she wanted to grab... lol... so much land stolen here, it defies comprehension... the family has enriched itself first and exclusively to the tune of several billions. That is a fact. Do some research, although you may be hard-pressed to find any good documentary journalism on this subject, due to the timidity of the local journalists and the lack of enthusiasm for truth enforced by the authorities. And Cambo not being lucrative enough for Western politico-type writers, etc...v12 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 10:33 amHmmm, I wrote earlier about that. I think, the NY (and "public" opinion) has a bit of a naive impression of the power in a democracy like Myanmar.
Despite Aung San Suu Kyi democratically elected, that does not imply, the government she heads does have sufficient power to lead the country. The military does have the economic power in Myanmar, so when the military does (not) want something, that is (not) going to happen............
..........Realizing, Aung San Suu Kyi does have zero control over the military, the situation around Rohingya (largely military "controlled"), is understandable. Western leaders/press/opinion don't understand the difficulties that rise from the huge diversity in people in a country without a long-standing democratic history.
We should not forget, Europe did need some 400 years to get to the democracy point it is now. And even now, we do see several EU states already significantly diverting from the "common" EU goals for people (and only being interested to hold up their hands for EU money)........
......In Cambodia, the people can be very happy to have a very "enlightened" dictator, obviously having the goal to serve the country instead of his own wallet and statue. A kind of old-style paterfamilias, serving his family in a kind of dictatorial way. So, yeah, it is very easy to vent critics
Anyway, meantime, the Chinese just build another bridge or highway to swipe their slice, too... Maybe if the U.S. actually invested in something here besides a new Coca-Cola factory, they might have more pull than empty rhetoric versus the contradictions of history. No superpower is innocent. The U.S., China, Russia, U.K., France, Germany, all equally bad and hypocritical (...btw, it took a lot longer than 400 years to pacify the brutal and murderous tribes of Europe, and some might argue that has yet to happen...as you yourself observe...)
AGAIN, two, three years ago, Cambodia proved once again that no country in Southeast Asia can ever get its head around democracy... Asians are all dumb bullies so far as I can see, like most Muslims, too... Buddha was a lazy bum, helps excuse the amoral-apathy and indifference characterizing much of the general populace...
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50920234/s ... councilor/
Do not think that behind their beatific smiles there is an empty cave, a lone bat flying lazily into a patch of sunlight, the rest fast asleep. The Khmer people know very well that the American-backed National Rescue Party would be a disaster for Cambodia, and that's why they voted for the sure hand of leader Hun Sen.