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Aug 07 2025 
Cambodia Invites US to Monitor Border Mess of US’ Own Creation
Brian Berletic on his TG Channel
Cambodia Invites US to Monitor Border Mess of US’ Own Creation
▪️US-backed parties on both sides of the Thai-Cambodian border precipitated the conflict, dragging the independent Thai military (the US seeks to remove/co-opt) into armed conflict lasting a week;
▪️Cambodia, after a hard pivot toward the US over the past year including… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Flush, Of Course, Without One Glance Backward
… When an Asian says the American dream is dead, you know we are in deep trouble.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Six months into the Golden Age of America, manufacturing jobs are down, inflation and unemployment are up, despite fudged numbers, foreign tourists have mostly stayed away, and there are no… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Brian Berletic: Range of updates on Thailand – Cambodia
It is time that we understand something. The destabilization is region wide, and it is not really a question of who is worse and who is better. Both Thailand and Cambodia are deeply complicit and need to do a lot of work to escape the clutches of the empire. It is becoming… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
China, Cambodia and Thailand hold trilateral informal meeting in Shanghai
From GlobalTimes
An informal trilateral meeting among China, Cambodia and Thailand was held in Shanghai on Wednesday. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, along with representatives from Cambodia and Thailand, attended the meeting, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Both Cambodia and Thailand reaffirmed their commitment to the ceasefire consensus and expressed appreciation for China’s positive role… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Sam Landing Jab Means Chinese Troops in Southeast Asia
Sweating and farting bodies are comforted and reassured by metallic extensions. Admiring a car or watch, we imagine ourselves to be just as clean and immortal.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
In 2018, a Vietnamese in Phnom Penh told me about a miraculous rescue. After being knocked over by a car, he… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2025 
Missiles Fly, Missives Tossed in Mud
… Hun Sen must be disappointed, at least, at the Middle Kingdom’s relative silence through all this, but who knows what Xi Jinping is up to. Sun Tzu’s ghost must be giving Xi an endless stream of great advices.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Consider this astounding statement, “She is not only… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2025 
Brian Berletic: Update on Thailand & Cambodia
Amid Thai-Cambodia Clash – Cambodian Military Visits US INDOPACCOM For Closer Military Ties…
Link: https://www.pacom.mil/Media/NEWS/News-Article-View/Article/4257748/royal-cambodian-armed-forces-delegation-visits-usindopacom-for-bilateral-defens/
▪️Even as the Western media claims Cambodia is “China backed,” the US has spent the last year building back influence over Cambodia since West Point-educated Hun Manet took power;
▪️This included US navy ships visiting Cambodia for the first time in years in… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2025 
Peace Breaks
With that, everything was solved, at least this morning in this drowsy city by the ocean, where corpses are no longer washed back onto shores.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
We’ll see if this ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand holds. If I hadn’t just returned from Jordan, I would take a bus… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2025 
Why Thailand and Cambodia Are at War in the Heart of ASEAN
what toxic confluence of factors has crystallized into a hot war in the heart of Southeast Asia? It starts with a family feud – involving the Thai Shinawatra and the Cambodian Hun Sen clans
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Fog of war rules. A crack Thai analyst worries about the intersection of so many vectors not making… Continue reading -
Jul 27 2025 
Until Someone Like You Bleeds
…any division within ASEAN benefits the USA, and Uncle Sam loves nothing better than any ally of China to be roughed up.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
On 7/24/25, just hours after conflict erupted between Cambodia and Thailand, a 24-year-old was assaulted in Chanthaburi, 300 miles from the actual fighting. Employed at… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2025 
Sam Backed Siam Slaps Hun Sen’s Kampuchea
As always, us fleas are squashed when geopolitical mammoths collide.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
This flareup between Cambodia and Thailand deserves a much closer scrutiny. Before you go to Brian Berletic, Danny Haiphong or, God forbid, Scott Ritter, it’s best you pay the utmost attention to every syllable, pause and mispronunciation… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2025 
Dodging Wars in Departure Lounges
A soulful globe-trotter reports from Vietnam, traveling from Cambodia, of life and timeless imperial pyrotechnics
Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Since I’ve shown an interest in her past, Mrs. Seven, a 63-year-old widow living with two dogs, keeps telling me more. In Hai Phong 40 years ago as part of a performance troupe, she was… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2025 
Update: Thailand and Cambodia
Featured Image: Screengrab of a Thai drone performing “drops” along the frontline.
Pepe Escobar posted a short note. We will also take a look at Brian Berletic’s latest update. When this skirmish broke open in our consciousness, it was initially difficult to ascertain whether it was the usual mild skirmish or if it had been pumped… Continue reading
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Jul 24 2025 
Sony Thang : Borders Thailand, Cambodia
There is no such thing as an apolitical border in Asia.
Every line was carved by a treaty we did not sign.
Every boundary etched by a war we did not start.
Every map drawn by an empire we did not invite.
And we still bleed from them.
The scars of colonial cartography are not relics.
They are open wounds.
Festering at… Continue reading
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