hdgh29 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:01 pm Talk about save the planet...the best thing for the planet is if the human species is drastically reduced, China and India gets my vote. Call me racist if you want...I have no valid response to that.

Racist ? You dint even mention Africa.

Lost50 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:54 am My understanding is Vietnam still has a hold on Cambodia.

Perhaps one day Vn will just annex Cambodia. I know many well educated Khmers predicting it. Although they expect Thailand to grab more land then Vietnam to just step in & control the majority.

I know most will say this is nonsense but I'll go further & say if Vn stepped in, China would absolutely not go guns blazing.

Nobody wants to mess with good ole Vietnam. Vn running Cambodia? Has some bwnefits.

Also never forget history, HCMC was once apon a time a part of KOW.

Yes, until King Chey Chetha II heeded his nagging Vietnamese wife and signed over Prey Nokor to a retreating Vietnamese army that just lost a war in the North. The Kampuchea Krom provinces were empty, remote and neglected at the time. Then more Kinh arrived, then more....the rest is just numbers, history and geography.

Look at a map of Cambodia's eastern border. Green on the right (irrigation, 2 or 3 crops per year), brown on the left (Samnang is laying in his hammock for 6 months, praying for an early wet season).

Khmer Surin and Khmer Krom are a whole lot better off than the Khmer Kandal. Ask them which economy they'd rather work in.

Each time I hear a dumb Khmer man (some clever ones too) bemoan the loss of Khmer Surin or Kampuchea Krom, I gently remind him that the Khmer empire wasn't created with soft power and diplomacy. It was created by extreme violence and theft of other people's lands. Then those people got stronger and took it back. So f'kin what! The Khmer have faired better than the Mon or the Cham, despite their fuckwitery and disunity on multiple occasions in history.

Vietnam does not run Cambodia.
Vietnam runs Laos. Every senior officer in the Lao military and police must go to Vietnam, learn Vietnamese for a year, then do his training and degree. I drank with these cadres. To a man, they all despised and resented the Vietnamese and hated their time there.

Not so Cambodia. Cambodia is getting closer to China which will ensure that Vietnam never gets a hold on Cambodia again. Not while there's a Chinese Navy port here, anyway.

'The Vietnamese plant the rice. The Khmer watch it grow. The Lao listen to it grow.'
French summary of Indochinese.
Addendum: The Thai harvest it. The Chinese mill it and sell it.

The human species is reducing. China has falling population rates, down half a million or more. So is Japan, Korea, and most of the world.

The problem is it’s an unequal reduction that’s causing havoc. Increasing number of elderly, with fewer working population to support them and even fewer births to support the working population.

There is a growing consumption of resources with a decreased output.

This is playing havoc with nations and economies.