THAILAND AND THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRADE 🇹🇭
When the military handed power back to the civilian administration, they put in an amendment saying the military gets pretty much majority in the Parliament and the military can decide a certain number of members of Parliament. So effectively every election, the military going with the default of owning about 45% of the seats, which means that effectively the military only need to win 5% over a very fractured political process
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:05
So I appreciate this as a reminder of a larger geopolitical orientation that I want to have all the time. As someone who has purse strings I can withhold when I have the chance to. So thank you so so much
Unfortunately, this is the trouble that if you judge a government based on what they do, every government, there are some good guys out there, but most governments tend to have a lot of skeletons in the closet. And even then taking tourism money away from these countries, it hurts the people as much as it hurts the government. So it's a really difficult moral choice. And I don't know the answer for it either, because again, I feel exactly with you