WTF is Going on in Thailand: Pita Vs Thai Army?

                  (Adam Simpson’s article from THE CONVERSATION on 20 July 2023.)

Why was the winner of Thailand’s elections blocked from becoming prime minister? The Thai parliamentary election was held over two months ago and yet, the country still has no prime minister or government. While much remains in flux, one thing appears certain – the popular reformist leader of the party that received the most votes in the election, Pita Limjaroenrat, will not be the country’s next prime minister.

In demoralising, though familiar, scenes this week, the Constitutional Court announced Pita would be suspended as an MP until a ruling is made on allegations he knowingly held shares in a media company when he contested the May election.

The parliament then voted to void his prime ministerial nomination, preventing him from contesting a second vote in the legislature for the premiership. (He had already failed in one vote last week.) Pita is clearly the people’s choice for prime minister. And under a more democratic system, he would already be sitting in the PM office.

Geopolitics: Communist China in Myanmar (Burma)

                    (Based on staff articles from the MYANMAR NOW in July 2023.)

Recent surprise offensives by the Myanmar Army targeting Laiza the KIA capital on Chinese border in Kachin State might be signaling the reversal of Communist China’s long-running neutral stance in Burmese Civil War.

Despite nearly 20,000-strong KIA Kachin troops, together with KIA-trained Burmese PDF forces over 15,000-strong, blocking Mynamar Army’s advances along the roads leading to the Laiza the whole division 5,000-strong of Myanmar Army’s Myitkyinar-based Northern Command has suddenly appeared in the mountainous jungles arround the Laiza last month.

What surprised KIA was that the attacking troops have brought along with them the heavy weaponery such as 155mm howitzers and so many 75mm recoiless guns to smash heavily-fortified KIA bunkers. The rumours were that Chaina has secretly given Myanmar Army troops permission to march through China or even air-lifted their heavy weapons right back into KIA-controlled jungles.

Myanmar is Fucked: Even Yangon Airport is Dark

           (Based on staff articles from the KHIT THIT MEDIA’s Facebook in July 2023.)

Military-controlled Myanmar is back in the stone-age. Even the Yangon International Airport has no electricity and thus everyone arriving and departing have to struggle filling in the immigration forms and navigating the narrow and dark corriders without bumping into heavily-armed soldiers.

Sanctions and general economic fuck-ups caused by the Min Aung Hlaing-led military coup are rapidly shutting down Myanmar’s already-struggling economy. No power, no water, no food, and no fucking-everything is sending the people of Burma into abject poverty except the ruling generals and a handful of their super-rich chronies.

Nearly everything has stopped working in Myanmar but the twin pipelines sending Arab crude oil and Myanmar natural gas to China across the whole length of Burma. The cross-Myanmar pipeline is stil working smoothly because of Chinese troops camouflagued as Myanmar security police battalions tighly guarding it.