If Yingluck is impeached this could easily spark snowballing sympathy for Yingluck and a resurrection of pro-Thaksin and pro-democracy sentiment that could give way to the potential beginning of demonstrations, military repression of these demonstrations could increase sympathy for them, and the longer the military remains in power, the less likely it can sustain societal approval for doing so.

Paul Chambers

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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

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There could be a stable government coming out of it in the short term, but that kind of coalition is not going to last that long.

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It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators, the use of crony senators to win would also make Prayut's electoral victory illegitimate in the eyes of most Thai people.

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2019 is the first time in Thai history that young people have organized a political party( Future Forward) with a chance of really capturing a number of seats in parliament.

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The political culture of Thailand finds that royalty can not be challenged and for anyone to politically challenge this royalty, well that's simply not acceptable through the political culture, i doubt any other candidate would dare run against her.

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This is historical, i think that it's part of a plan by the current sovereign to increase his personal power across the country.

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Holidays throughout the year praise Thailand's king, education and state emblems, virtues, slogans, also place the king at the center of the nation.

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The Thai king's image is ubiquitous, that is also true of leaders in Brunei and North Korea. Perhaps Thailand differs from those cases because the cult of personality leader in those countries rules directly.

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For a number of years, people have been speculating whether the elements involved in the insurgency in the south will be hitting other targets beyond the southern provinces, but we've never seen that happen. And it would be intriguing, if indeed there is any link, why this would happen now. almost all of the insurgent groups have been involved in a dialogue with the military government, so it's illogical for Paul Chambers to want to have a bomb.

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A possibility is it's Uyghur terrorists, or Uyghur people upset at the regime for deporting many Uyghur people to China -- after all there were Chinese killed in this attack. But I think this is very unlikely.

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