Originally Posted by
sonatine
you gotta fucking hand it to this guy.
- provoke an all out war between cambodia and thailand.
- ride back in to power on a wave of nationalism
- have his cambodian terror squads killed live on pay-per-view
Yeah I never really been one to underestimate him but I admit this was a masterstroke I really should have seen coming. He hasn't fluked this; this was pure Thai genuis from a mile away.
He's got both sides of the 'war'. This, like everything in fucking fascinating Thai 17-level politics, is pure staged theatre. Thaksin and Hun Sen are playing filthy dirty brilliant politics here, and the Yellows are spastic enough and irrelevant enough to decide they'll play the foil for him.
It's outrageous. And eerily brilliant. And scripted surely from a long time before those morans got 'lost' and 'wandered' a few hundred m over into the demarcation zone.
The bit about killing the Khmer won't happen obviously; Hun Sen is invested in this mess right up to his filthy brilliant cheeks.