The New Dark Age

Thursday, 24 July 2025 — New Atlas

▪️Following Thai soldiers injured by Cambodian-placed mines along a disputed border and downgraded diplomatic ties, Cambodia has launched Grad MLRS strikes on populated areas causing indiscriminate death and destruction;

▪️Thai forces are responding with greater but still measured force against Cambodian military targets near disputed areas – Thailand’s military is several times larger in size than Cambodia’s and possesses vastly greater capabilities than Cambodia calling into further suspicion Cambodia’s provocative actions;

▪️Western media is pretending not to know who started the shooting and is deliberately trying to link China to Cambodia and its actions – however – Thailand has a by far larger relationship with China than Cambodia and by far greater amounts of modern weapons from China than Cambodia including a Chinese main battle tank fleet, long-range precision guided rocket launchers, drones, APCs/IFVs, and Chinese air defense systems;

▪️This border dispute has erupted into violence over the past years (2008 and 2011) – at both previous junctures US-backed client regimes were either struggling to stay in power or were attempting to get into power – and now fighting has begun again as a US-backed client regime is likewise hanging in the balance;

▪️Cambodian PM Hun Sen, while having a growing relationship with China and having been targeted by US-backed regime change himself, has systematically aided US-backed sedition in neighboring Thailand for 20 years – Cambodia also maintains the US as its largest and most important export market – an outlier in Southeast Asia which mostly exports to China and others in the region;

▪️Like every other conflict around the globe, people need to be cautious about accepting Western news reports at face value – this will NOT be the “first” conflict they report on honestly and without ulterior motives;