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...So you pick up a history book to figure out US's angle

From Peter Dale Scotts: American War Machine-Deep Politics, The Cia and the Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan

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TL:DR the US turned Burma-Laos and Thailand into a heroin growing triangle (The Golden Triangle) much like they did with the Mafia in Sicily and Marseilles.

The Drug traffickers and drug money became a huge way of CIA to implant bourgeois ideology and suppress communists and the growing popularity of the PRC. They even used ex-Nazis as agents for drug smuggling. It also gave US unfettered access to Myanmars tungsten reserves.

This enitre coalition was directed at China of course.

  • DeepPoliSci [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    His family has nothing to do with the banning of the CPT. Go find me a source in them being responsible or gtfo

    Please, I'm begging you: read what I am saying.

    I never said his family was “responsible” for anti-communism laws. They were complicit in a government which criminalized the CPT. Their specific orientation towards the CPT require further investigation. But the fact that Giles talks down to the CPT when they are banned in Thailand is informative.

    Also, this isn't a matter of "taking a different position" than MLs. The CPT was literally criminalized under the same government which uplifted the Ungpakorn family to high-ranking positions. I cannot imagine being a communist in a country where their Communist Party is criminalized, and not making that a primary issue. The only time he references the CPT is to criticize them.

    Yet here you are, slandering Giles yet saying nothing bad about LandDestroyer

    Yes. I'm criticizing the academic with a well-connected family who's aligned with my country's interests on opposing the current government in Thailand. That is an issue which is relevant to me as a citizen of a country whose government wants to overthrow the Thai government and replace it with a client state. I don't find it worth my time to criticize a random blogger.

    • ButtBidet [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Source that his family was complicit?

      The only time he references the CPT is to criticize them.

      Absolutely untrue. Are you not bored of making shit up?

      I don’t find it worth my time to criticize a random blogger.

      Yet you buy into his analysis, while ignoring the views of multiple Thai communists whom I've sourced this discussion.