It doesn’t matter what America’s publicists, or apologists, or blatant promoters are trying to say. The superpower country is that school hunk well-known for all the wrong reasons.
The world before the US and Israel wiped out the Iranian leadership was very different from the world after the smoke cleared and supreme deaths were announced, and the world today will be nowhere near the world in which the last bomb has been dropped and last missile launched.
March 3, 2026: It’s not his departure from the People’s Party, but “how” he left it.
To get a good idea of the current Thai political situation, think of the latest iPhone ad, where they slide an iPhone face-down down a long meeting table to prove its screen has amazing endurance.
Trying to plant doubts about the election, which the People’s Party lost rather humiliatingly almost two weeks ago, may be a smart tactic, but it has to be under other circumstances, not the current national atmosphere.
A viral online post mentions that a Bhumjaithai candidate “remembers every vendor’s name in the market”. That is probably one of the reasons why the Blue tide swept most of Thailand on Sunday.
Electoral politics, while necessary, is like unhealthy football fandom. It turns people who otherwise would have loved one another and cared for one another against one another, all for the sake of those they don’t really know and who don’t even know their names.
Ever since the beginning of human history, this period is showcasing the blurriest lines ever between heroes and villains. It’s because the world is getting more fractionalised like never before, although it remains an exaggeration to say that cult-like portions will soon dominate the earth like in the “Mad Max” movies.
Call it Clash of the Female Titans if you like, although Suphajee Suthumpun and Rukchanok Srinok are not old-guard heavyweights who have been in the political arena for a long, long time. The latter is young and the former, while older, is also a new face in politics.
January 17, 2026: Rukchanok Srinork is correct in saying that Thailand has been plagued with a great ill fortune.
Latest pre-election polls confirm one thing, that the previously-massive group of ambivalent voters is getting ever smaller. That natural development is good news for every political party, yet all the findings of the popularity surveys can also hamper the minimal optimism that ballots cast can change Thailand this time.
While it can be hard to explain why bullies do what they do, it’s safe to assume that if a bully fears condemnation, or downright scolding, or getting kicked out of school, he or she would not become one in the first place.
