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US F-16s lose out as Thai air force seals US$600 million deal for Swedish Gripen jets (www.scmp.com)
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[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Finally it'll no longer be American aircraft being used to bomb Cambodia. Are we happy about this?

For those not in the loop, Thailand has had an extremely unstable government for decades now. There's been a change in leadership because the previous Thai PM (who was basically the Thai version of Ivanka Trump) was being too obsequious to Hun Sen (who technically isn't leader of Cambodia, but still runs the country). There's a ridiculous amount of corruption in the governments of both Thailand and Cambodia and some of that corruption transcends national borders.

The Thai military wants to flex it's muscles, possibly in an effort to to build up to yet another military coup.

There is a dispute over ownership of a temple. The ICJ ruled that the temple belonged to Cambodia in the 1960s and Thailand left the ICJ because of this. The territory in dispute isn't really worth much, it's mostly an excuse for Thailand to bully Cambodia when it's politically expedient. Cambodia is an incredibly poor country and is not a match for the Thai military.

But someday it'll be European made weapons being used in this mess instead of US weapons, is that a good thing?

[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Silver linings man, silver linings.

Tmone way or another, those jets are coming, be it from the US or elsewhere, might as well be Sweden. At least this is had for the US which, again, is not much more than silver linings, but it's something

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So countries that supply weapons to other countries are in no way complicit in how those weapons are used?

[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Not saying that at all, that's why I said "silver linings"