Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump’s peace agreement hangs in balance

[Old Hippie]

2 hours ago, bust said:

Trump must have been a huge Mark Twain fan.

I have it on good authority that he can’t read…

[bust]

For the cryptic minded 😊

[Coss]

12 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

I have it on good authority that he can’t read…

UNESCO Standard

UNESCO defines a functionally illiterate person as one unable to use reading, writing, and basic math for effective participation in community activities or personal development. This includes challenges like interpreting a medicine label, bank statement, or job application.

Real-World Examples

Common scenarios involve reading a food label but not grasping nutritional details, following road signs yet misunderstanding a community flyer, or taking an hour to read one page of text. These limitations impact daily life in modern societies reliant on written information.

They also develop a gut understanding  of politics

[Coss]

What better way to use up yer bombs, than obliterating a peasant village?

Thailand bombs a village in Cambodia even as both nations hold border talks to end armed clashes

Thailand and Cambodia were engaged in combat along their border on Friday (local time), even as the two countries held talks to try to put an end to armed clashes that erupted in early December, breaking a ceasefire that had been reached five months earlier.

Cambodia’s Defence Ministry said that Thailand deployed F-16 fighter jets to drop around 40 bombs on a village in the northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, but the ministry said that houses and infrastructure were destroyed...  LINK

 

[bust]

Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire, ending weeks of clashes

• Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War

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File footage shows smoke rising following what Thailand said were air strikes carried out in Cambodia along a disputed border area.  (Reuters: File)

In short: 

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to halt weeks of fierce border clashes, ending the worst fighting in years between the South-East Asian countries.

The ceasefire ends 20 days of fighting that has killed at least 101 people.

What's next? 

The ceasefire will take effect on Saturday at noon, local time.

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to halt weeks of fierce border clashes, ending the worst fighting in years between the South-East Asian countries in an exchange that has included fighter jets sorties, exchanges of rocket fire and artillery barrages.

"Both sides agree to maintain current troop deployments without further movement," their defence ministers said in a joint statement on the ceasefire, to take effect at Saturday noon, local time. 

"Any reinforcement would heighten tensions and negatively affect long-term efforts to resolve the situation."

The agreement, signed by Thai Defence Minister Natthaphon Narkphanit and his Cambodian counterpart Tea Seiha, ended 20 days of fighting that has killed at least 101 people and displaced more than half a million on both sides.

The clashes were re-ignited in early December after a breakdown in a ceasefire that US President Donald Trump had helped broker to halt a previous round of fighting in July.

Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Seiha with his Thai counterpart Natthaphon Narkphanit.  (AP: AKP)

For more than a century, Thailand and Cambodia have contested sovereignty at various undemarcated points along their 817-kilometre land border — a dispute that has occasionally exploded into skirmishes and fighting.

The latest ceasefire would be monitored by an observer team from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc as well as direct coordination between both countries, Mr Natthaphon said.

"At the same time, at the policy level, there will be direct communication between the minister of defence and chief of the armed forces of both sides," he told reporters.

Simmering tensions between the two countries came to a head in July this year, when the neighbours clashed for five days along some parts of the frontier, leaving at least 48 people dead and 300,000 displaced before Mr Trump intervened to bring about a truce.

That ceasefire broke down in early December with the two sides accusing each other of moves that led to clashes.

Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire deal 'rushed' for Donald Trump

 

Bangkok says the two countries will return to the negotiating table this week amid claims the initial peace deal was rushed for Donald Trump.

Since the conflict restarted, neither Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim — currently ASEAN chair — nor Mr Trump were successful in stitching together another ceasefire, as fighting spread from forested regions near Laos to the coastal provinces on the Gulf of Thailand.

The renewed parleys came after a special meeting on Monday of South-East Asian foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur, followed by three days of talks between the warring sides at a border checkpoint, where the two defence ministers met on Saturday.

In their joint statement, the ministers agreed on the return of people displaced from affected border areas, while also underlining that neither side would use any force against civilians.

Thailand will also return 18 Cambodian soldiers in its custody since the July clashes if the ceasefire is fully maintained for 72 hours, according to the agreement.

Thailand has undertaken more air strikes on Cambodia in recent weeks. (AP Photo: Wason Wanichakorn)

Saturday's pact, however, made clear that it will not impact any border demarcation activities underway between both countries, leaving the task of resolving disputed areas along the frontier to existing bilateral mechanisms.

"War and clashes don't make the two countries or the two people happy," Thailand's Air Chief Marshal Prapas Sornjaidee told reporters.

"I want to stress that the Thai people and the Cambodian people are not in conflict with each other."

[Old Hippie]

We are a few hours or more into a cease fire…let’s see how long for this Hard to get accurate reports, but all indications are, it is still all unresolved…Thai media releases very little and Khmer media (almost entirely owned or controlled by Hun Sen and or the government) is nothing but propaganda and lies. I can recall a year or more back, going into the jungle wife my wife’s family to forage and seeing Cambodians and Thais, civilians and soldiers just kind of mingling around, no issues. The world was Thailand had allowed many Cambodians to settle along the border and they just sort of stayed there, now they think it is their’s…as in Cambodia’s. In any event, they have allegedly stopped, so we will see who does what first/next. I honestly think they need impartial border observers to monitor the situation. Just glad it is over for our trip coming up…

[Coss]

I was just looking at the map and noting how proximate Surin (2nd wife's family) was to Cambo and also southern Laos - Pakse etc...

I'm thinking that like most "Wars" they're driven by politicians, rather than incursions of villagers.

 

 

[Old Hippie]

4 hours ago, Coss said:

I was just looking at the map and noting how proximate Surin (2nd wife's family) was to Cambo and also southern Laos - Pakse etc...

I'm thinking that like most "Wars" they're driven by politicians, rather than incursions of villagers.

 

 

Struve, but in truth, I’ll blame Cambodia the last 2 times, too many eye witnesses. Hun Sen and his regime are in trouble, a sinking ship and needed a distraction…remind you of another “leader?”  We, as in our house and dog, are about 20 minutes from 1 of the Disputed areas Cambodia now says is theirs…I am tired of people getting in the way of my retirement and happiness…

 

[Coss]

Thailand's army has accused Cambodia of breaching a newly signed ceasefire deal reached after weeks of deadly clashes that forced nearly one million people from their homes...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w7wgrk01do

[Old Hippie]

On 12/29/2025 at 11:34 AM, Coss said:

Thailand's army has accused Cambodia of breaching a newly signed ceasefire deal reached after weeks of deadly clashes that forced nearly one million people from their homes...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w7wgrk01do

“Scambodia” likes to cry victim.  The Cambodian POWs that were held by Thailand are now free after 155 days in confinement. This was supposedly Cambodia’s  complaint and Thailand was delaying the release until 72 hours of no bullshit had past.  Their was a brief delay when Scambodia allegedly flew drones into Thai air space, but now all seems to be on the mend…