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  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    "No one in Libya is happy with Gadaffi. He's more than a bit shit. He's garbage" - some Libyan protestor, circa 2011

    I think a problem a lot of people have is that they can't imagine how worse things can get.

    The NED would watch the entire country of Thailand burn (as they did so many South American countries/Middle east/Africa/Ukraine) if it meant hindering China for even a minute

    • Papanurgel [none/use name]
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      Yeah well the Monarchy should pull its head out of its ass than. But they are to worried about being trad Thai.

      Also what resources do they have that the USA wants?

      • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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        It's not about resources it's about the Great Game

        Thailand is buying Chinese not American military hardware, doing military exercises with Beijing and is a key partner in the BRI initiative with a China-Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail link that will only further cement these ties.

        Which will inevitably mean at some point Thailand will kick out those US military bases and black site CIA torture camps

        Thailand is little more than fair game for a proxy war for US against China

        • Papanurgel [none/use name]
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          So where will this proxy war start?

          Libya Syria Ukraine you have different cultures to go against each other pretty easily.

          Where does it happen in Thailand?

          • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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            Where does the proxy war start?

            It already has - the 2 billionaires tied to Wallstreet finance and the "student led" protests funded by the CIA.

            This is the same playbook CIA does since the first colour revolution in Hungary 1956. You saw the exact same thing happen in Hong Kong - a load of CIA/NED funded "student leaders" who use violence and rioting to further their agenda who then aim to incite police violence on the protestors which would then be used as propaganda to topple the regime

            You want to see this in action look no further than TIannenmen protests which started because the CIA had a mole inside the Communist Party and Deng Xiao Peng was sick and student leader Chai Ling stating she won't go to the protests that day as she's hoping for the government to massacre the students

            You the chinese are not worth my struggle you are not worth my sacrifice.

            The students keep asking what shall we do next? I feel so sad. Becuase how can I tell them we are hoping for bloodshed? Because for the moment the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eys. only then will they be united. How can I explain all this to my fellow students?

            And what is truly sad is some students are working hard with the government to prevent it taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests they are trying to get us out of the square before the government becomes so desperate it takes action. If we allow the movement to collapse on its own then the government will be able to wipe out the leaders of the movement as well as those in the party and military

            That's why I feel so sad I can't tell my fellow students straight out we must use our blood and lives to rise up. Of course the students will be willing but they are still such young children

            Are you going to stay in the square yourself?

            No I won't

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__ESiklA1A

            Why didn't Chai Ling go to the protests and why weren't the Chinese worth her sacrifice? Because the US had already given her a green card

            If the US could get their man into Thailand and keep relations pro US for a few years they'd call that a win. If they can't they'd be happy to see Thailand burnt to the ground like Libya, Syria or Ukraine

            Either they'd consider a win

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                Hong Kong would be the most recent one which is following the exact same pattern as Thailand right now. Where student leaders were funded by CIA, were seen collaborating with US deep state people, funded in collaboration with billionaires like Jimmy Lai (who literally called for US and CIA intervention...yes he literally said CIA intervention lol) who were incredibly violent toward police and mainland Chinese people that showed patriotism to PRC or did such innocuous things as hold a Chinese flag and say that "China is one"

                https://www.mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-protest-united-states-destabilize-china/261712/

                Also Nicaragua

                In early June, Nicaragua’s leading young activists went on a junket to Washington, DC, on the dime of the US government-funded right-wing advocacy group Freedom House. The Nicaraguan student leaders were there to beseech Donald Trump and other right-wing US government officials to help them in their fight against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

                A month before the student protesters’ meetings with ultra-conservative lawmakers in Washington, a publication funded by the US government’s regime change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), bluntly asserted that organizations backed by the NED have spent years and millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection” in Nicaragua.

                https://popularresistance.org/ned-boasts-of-laying-the-groundwork-for-nicaraguan-insurrection/

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                  Once again. Hk sees it self differnt from China, so you can exploit that easily. And it still didn't lead to Anything becuase it was mostly peaceful

                  Thai people like certain aspects of the Monarchy. I guess it could get rowdy. But from students I don't know.

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                    It's encouraging that you think Thai society has no rivets that the US can stick a crowbar in

                    The CIA has put their money where their mouth is and poured millions into destabilising Thai society so hopefully you're correct

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                  Hungary 1956 was not nearly a colour revolution. No one of those kids wanted anything to do with capitalism. Rightists today still hold a grudge against the US because "they didn't come to help."

                  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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                    Yes it was - I can't believe how often I have to say this in left circles. It's like y'all motherfuckers read one trotskyist opportunist rag telling you "these people were the real communists against the evil baddie Soviets fighting for 'real' Socialism!" and go "yeah that sounds about right" meanwhile the bourgeois press confirmed decades ago what the Soviets and Enver Hoxha had been saying for half a century

                    Some of the rebels who took on the Soviet Union in the Hungarian uprising, 40 years ago this week, were trained by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

                    Some of the weapons used were American, and others almost certainly British. Mr Smith says MI6 and the CIA had buried arms caches in the woods around Prague and Budapest for use by "stay-behind" parties or fifth columnists in case of war.

                    The name of Mr Smith's main contact - a military officer working for MI6 - has been withheld under a D-notice. However, he recalled "picking up agents on the Hungarian border" to take them across in to the British-occupied zone of Austria in 1954. "We were taking them up into the mountains and giving them a sort of ... crash course. I would be told to pick somebody up from a street corner at a certain time of night in the pouring rain. Graz was our staging point. Then, after we'd trained them - explosives, weapons training - I used to take them back ... We were training the agents for the uprising."

                    In return, the British received information. Paul Gorka was one of a group of students recruited in the early 1950s to gather intelligence on Soviet activity in Hungary. "In due course we received coded messages from Vienna asking us for information about Russian troop movements ... We replied with information written in invisible ink in innocuous letters to special addresses."

                    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mi6-trained-rebels-to-fight-soviets-in-hungarian-revolt-1359599.html

                    Hungary was a fascist state for 25 years prior to Soviet occupation. The protests were quickly coopted by fascist elements who began marking doors of communists and jews for pogroms

                    https://espressostalinist.com/2011/11/29/the-fascist-hungarian-counterrevolution-of-1956/

                    Please read this book in full so I can stop being the lone voice in online left circles pointing out how fascist elements supported by Britain and US took over the movement

                    https://www.espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/the-truth-about-hungary.pdf