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Does the Thai Prime Minister Know What Sovereignty Is?

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So this is an honest question. Does the Thai PM actually know what sovereignty is? Now let me be clear. People have been sending me some correspondence, and they are saying, "why are you getting so upset about all this?" Well you would be pretty upset too if your own country's Prime Minister was basically, not basically, was selling the country out to the not Prime Minister but the de facto Head of the country next door during a border conflict. And then they come along over the days after it happens and tried to spin it as, "oh well it was a negotiation technique." Negotiation? What? Give them everything they want? or "oh well" and then she put up some weird smarmy thing that she took down from her Instagram talking about "depression" and "be kind!” Hey, this isn't a beauty pageant all right, this is geopolitics. You're the Prime Minister; you need to know what sovereignty is; you need to know that it's not a negotiation tactic to call the guy "uncle", to sell out our own Field Commander, who is at the border along with other uniformed troops, who are putting themselves in harm's way over a matter which as I discussed in prior videos citing the Bangkok Post, where those troops were opened fire upon by the other side. I mean this is a serious thing okay and look up to now, I have tried to want to believe if you will that her actions on that phone call - which she does admit was her, so there's no question that it was her - I wanted to believe it like naïveté or just incompetence but she did seem to intentionally be trying to give the guy whatever he wanted.

Meanwhile it's also been spun as “oh Hun Sen is such a bad guy for leaking it”, - which we don't exactly know if Hun Sen leaked it but okay let's presume he did - well what does that mean and how is that relevant to her conduct, okay? Yeah okay, I guess every world leader around the world now knows when you talk to Hun Sen you need to be circumspect, but this is just ridiculous frankly. The way that this is being spun and where they are trying to politicize everything and they are talking about all of this “we need to have unity because they're going to exploit us” or they have been talking about, “we are going after scammers at the border”. Stop it, it's ridiculous. Frankly it's exacerbating the situation, the underlying situation because of your conduct. And I have asked it before and I will ask it again, “if this was a man, at what point would we be like “you need to step aside?” I mean why is this continuing? Why is this person still in office? And let me be clear, I've seen a bunch of other idiots trolling me in the comments and stuff, “you just want a coup!” No I don't and by the way that's not how this would operate in the event she steps down by the way. It will happen much the same way when Srettha left office before some roughly one year ago, basically she would step aside; there are five other people on the list that Parliament can choose from under the current Constitution to fill the role, one of whom is from her party, the so-called Core Coalition Party, so it's not like there is going to be some massive vacuum. I mean I would think in theory, this could be done in a matter of a couple of days, so stop the political chicanery.

Meanwhile, back to the point of the video and the meme we are using for the thumbnail which goes to honestly the question of ‘does the Prime Minister even know what sovereignty means?’ I thought of making this video after reading a recent tweet or it was on X, Bangkok Post on X, quoting directly: "Somkid Chueakong, aide to Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra, filed a police complaint against Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen, accusing him of threatening Thai national security. The move follows a leaked audio clip of a private call between the two leaders, which sparked public outrage and intensified political tensions in Thailand." Well it sparked public outrage and has intensified political tensions because our Prime Minister is on the phone calling our own Field Commander the “opponent”, to the counterparty, who by the way is in another sovereign country. So what are you doing filing a police report against him? What's that going to serve? Do you understand how sovereignty works? There's no jurisdiction of Thailand in Cambodia and vice versa by the way. And legality is subordinate to sovereignty. Do you know these things? You are the Prime Minister. You should. If you don't, you should step aside. If you do, your conduct is willful and it's undermined Thailand's position. I'm sorry. I don't like making these videos, I don't want to do this okay?  People have asked, “why are you doing it?” Well the same reason I stood up during COVID when virtually nobody was talking about that and people  who have been watching this channel going back all the way to that - we weren't monetized then we're not monetized now - I didn't get anything out of it. What I got out of it was the peace of mind in knowing in 30 years’ time, we had gone into COVID tyranny hell, I can at least tell my children and grandchildren that “hey dad, grandpa stood up”. The same deal with this. If we go into some World Economic Forum situation where they are going to dictate domestic policy to us so we can all “own nothing and be happy” because this Prime Minister invited them in, and then at the same time, our Border Policy is going to be dictated to us by a guy who turn-coated from the Khmer Rouge and then re-entered Cambodia at the hilt of an NVA tank, that's the person who is going to set Border Policy in the future, I at least want to say, "hey, I stood up and said that was wrong." That's why I'm making these videos because what this woman did, if it was unintentional then fine, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was. But if it wasn’t, it was wrong on an order of magnitude that, I mean I don't even have words for it; I don't want to use words for it because frankly that's for the Courts to decide honestly if there was intent. If there wasn't, we are talking about a level of gross incompetence here.

Again, I'm not being hyperbolic, and asking the question do you even know what sovereignty is? We are talking about a level of gross incompetence where this person needs to step aside. And this isn't going to cause some massive power vacuum okay. We saw this already happen once. Srettha left. There was a brief moment where there was a caretaker government and then we saw the next person step up, who incidentally was supposed to be another more senior Phue Thai person who is still on the list it is my understanding for the Prime Ministership, the sort of shortlist if you will, but she was put in, and I can't imagine why. At whose behest was she put in for?

But that said, I mean I'm really at the point where this is becoming surreally absurd that you are filing police reports and then somebody, when I kind of mentioned that to someone, a friend of mine, they said, "well it was a political move." Well it's a dumb one, because again you don't have any jurisdiction over that person. It just goes to show you don't even know what sovereignty is.