I wonder if things deteriorate into a failed state China will intervene. They did that in the 1970s with Cambodia.
But who knows America and India will probably go ape shit.
I'd bet any money that while China might not go in overtly, they'd be the main silent-backers of Thai forces that could go in overtly with fewer objections from abroad. (Or, maybe it'd be more accurate to say that, the Thais wouldn't care as much about the objections from abroad as the Chinese would?)
It could even be that everyone is misjudging the asians entirely? And it's bad enough that at even the slightest provocation from the warlords, we'll see Thai and Chinese troops flood in. Consequences be damned. This would be the worst outcome for the rest of the world, but probably the best outcome for the people currently being terrorized and held hostage by these thugs. I just hope it doesn't get to that point.
Good luck to the people being held prisoner in these hubs. Hopefully they can escape the abuse and violence, and not just be trafficked to another hub.
Who would have guessed - that this is what the singularity boiled down to- AI scaming and hacking humans - which thus regresses into tribal factions. What a letdown!
That happened 17 days ago (24 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962545
I wonder if things deteriorate into a failed state China will intervene. They did that in the 1970s with Cambodia. But who knows America and India will probably go ape shit.
> They did that in the 1970s with Cambodia.
You mean the Third Indochina War? It wasn't really about Cambodia being a failed state but a far consequence of a Sino-Soviet split.
I'd bet any money that while China might not go in overtly, they'd be the main silent-backers of Thai forces that could go in overtly with fewer objections from abroad. (Or, maybe it'd be more accurate to say that, the Thais wouldn't care as much about the objections from abroad as the Chinese would?)
It could even be that everyone is misjudging the asians entirely? And it's bad enough that at even the slightest provocation from the warlords, we'll see Thai and Chinese troops flood in. Consequences be damned. This would be the worst outcome for the rest of the world, but probably the best outcome for the people currently being terrorized and held hostage by these thugs. I just hope it doesn't get to that point.
If China does anything it will be in support of the Tatmadaw, either overtly or covertly.
> the Thais wouldn't care as much about the objections from abroad as the Chinese
That is absolutely not how Thailand works. If Thailand does anything, it’ll be exclusively on the Thai side of the border.
Good luck to the people being held prisoner in these hubs. Hopefully they can escape the abuse and violence, and not just be trafficked to another hub.
What a horrible fate to be abducted to one of these hellholes.
Who would have guessed - that this is what the singularity boiled down to- AI scaming and hacking humans - which thus regresses into tribal factions. What a letdown!
Gut Ding will Kurzweil haben.
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