Why Thailand so scared of Cambodia?

Chase said:

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Chase said:

I would think that Thailand had a far superior military to Cambodia. Yet the Thai PM got to plead with Hun Sen in a leaked phone call.

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Chase said:

I would think that Thailand had a far superior military to Cambodia. Yet the Thai PM got to plead with Hun Sen in a leaked phone call.

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1. Singapore still holds a comfortable lead over all other countries in the region.
2. Indonesia is not (yet) the military power that it's often regarded as although it still certainly has a capable military.
3. Myanmar, and to a lesser extent, Cambodia, have seen their scores drastically increase due to their large amount of very old equipment.
4. The Philippines suffered a massive fall in rank and is surpassed even by Cambodia.
5. The nations in the region can be divided into 2, the first group containing the more capable militaries from rank 1-5 and the second group with weaker militaries from rank 6-9, wherein the gap between the two groups is almost worth 2000 points at their closest points (Thailand and Malaysia).

Chase said:

I would think that Thailand had a far superior military to Cambodia. Yet the Thai PM got to plead with Hun Sen in a leaked phone call.

The coward Thai Military went on to threaten to overthrow the PM INSTEAD OF whacking Cambodia because of this embarrassment. Indeed, Thailand has to many useless generals, the highest general-soldier ratio in the world.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/19/asia/thailand-cambodia-border-dispute-paetongtarn-intl-hnk

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laksaboy said:

Historical bad blood. Thailand (Siam) was raped by Cambodia (Khmer) and Myanmar/Burma.

Siem Reap, the Angkor Wat place, literally means 'the defeat of Siam'.

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