Posted on 12/08/2025 10:43:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Thailand said its fighter jets struck Cambodia on Monday in an attempt to cripple its military capability, as a re-eruption of border hostilities derailed a fragile ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Each side blamed the other for starting clashes that broke out during the night and intensified before dawn and spread to multiple locations, with one Thai soldier and four Cambodian civilians killed, according to officials.
Cambodia accused Thailand of "inhumane and brutal acts" of aggression, stressing it had not retaliated, while Bangkok said it carried out air strikes on military targets after its neighbour mobilised heavy weaponry and repositioned combat units.
"The objective of the army is to cripple Cambodia’s military capability for a long time to come, for the safety of our children and grandchildren," Thai army chief of staff General Chaipruak Doungprapat said, according to the military.
The fighting was the fiercest since a five-day exchange of rockets and heavy artillery in July that marked their heaviest clashes in recent history, when at least 48 people were killed and 300,000 displaced before Trump intervened to broker a ceasefire.
Some of the mines that have wounded seven Thai soldiers since July were likely newly laid, Reuters reported in October, based on expert analysis of material shared by Thailand's military. Cambodia has denied laying the mines and Thailand has said it will not implement the ceasefire terms until Cambodia apologises.
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Peace is hard
Better to try than not to try at all.
It was a “Big Beautiful Truce”.
Proverbs 17:14 - The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
I realize that this is a thread of a different topic but do the Ukes heavily use mines to stop advances by the Russians? If not why not? Couldn’t that be a low cost effective way to stymie advances deeper into Ukraine? Are mines so easily “swept” and removed or de-activated to make them pointless?
I would think the West has LOTS of mines that could be given/sold to the Ukes, no? And if they make them of mostly plastic and design to last years/decades in the soil, they would be very annoying to move over.
A truce always lasts until it doesn’t. Those looking to blame Trump are simply stupid.
Ask all the folks in former warzones how they like the use of mines everywhere. New ones are supposedly better because they can be deactivated, but those aren’t cheap. Cheap mines kill for decades on end.
You are correct; it is a terrible trade off. However, if nit was they only thing helping slow the Russian advance, would they gladly deploy all the mines they could, of whatever variety?
The countries governments were dragged into the conflict by powerful family interests on both sides of the border. and it was clashes regarding those interests that ignited the conflict.
The recent border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand has been largely influenced by a bitter personal feud between two powerful political dynasties: the Hun family in Cambodia and the Shinawatra family in Thailand.
While the conflict has historical roots in unresolved territorial disputes, the personal rivalry between the leaders of these families in mid-2025 became a primary catalyst for military escalation
Now accusations are flying from both sides again. Someone on one side or the other has not gotten their cut of the deal.
The Ukes have minefields. The Russians just blow them in place with artillery. It’s the ones that aren’t blown up and bypassed that are the problem.
I wonder why we never seem to hear about the use of IEDs over in Ukraine
Why do we never hear of those Iranian-made style IEDs being used in Ukraine? The ones the insurgents in Iraq used against our boys...You know, the big copper disc ones where the artillery shell explosive melts and hurls the hot copper everywhere. Why wouldn’t they bedevil the Russians if they were given to the Ukes to use?
IEDs are primarily an insurgency weapon. Why make improvised explosive devices when you can buy the real deal that’s easier to deploy and use?
Thank you. I guess the question becomes now, if the Ukes have been so short of artillery shells since the beginning of the invasion, why has the West not collectively launched a massive space-race style program to out manufacture the Russians and their Nork friends? It could only be because the West is not that serious about really helping the Ukes?
Yeah but I have heard that a significant part of landmine maimings is post-war neighbors sabotaging neighbors.
Scambodia is even more corrupt than Ukraine. It is scam call center capital of the world with massive campuses full of what is basically slave labor forced to the calls or else! Lots of honest videos on YouTube about it. Cambodia will never keep a truce. It is not in their best interest. Their leaders need low level conflict to stay in power and will string conflict out continually by breaking their treaty obligations. Scambodia clearly started all this and their limited attack this morning is a sure sign that the international pressure has been cranked up to shut down the massive scam industry (which is mostly operated by chinese crime syndicates). This escalation follows the recent liberation of a massive scam center so was expected.
By the way, these Scambodian criminals have been suckering young foreigners to travel to Thailand for good jobs and when they arrive at the airport get them into a car and kidnap them across the border. Well known.
Yes and some never want it kind of like the middle east.
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