លោក ហ៊ុន សែន កែតម្រូវការអត្ថាធិប្បាយរបស់លោក សុខ ទូច ជុំវិញជំហរការបរទេសប្...

by Khmer Circle: 

Both men - Hun Sen and his royal academy counselor Sok Touch - are speaking nonsense, of course! In fact, the latter's argument that Cambodia voted to condemn Russia's Ukraine invasion rests upon the notion that the country would not be able likewise to withstand external military aggression from a neighbouring power - say Vietnam - is a regurgitation of the former's frequent offers of "free coffins" argument whenever the issue of territorial violations and defense of national sovereignty vis a vis Vietnam is raised. 

Var Kim Hong - the man Hun Sen places in charge of sorting the common border demarcation work - has also resorted to this line of cliched riposte about the need to placate a stronger neighbouring power by means of endless, piece meal territorial concessions to the said power. Kim Hong himself is known to have deployed good neighborly gestures like giving a small plate of dish to your next door neighbour for the sake of building good relations, whilst neglecting to mention that Kampuchea Krom alone [the Mekong Delta also known as Vietnam's important "Rice Bowl" due to its agriculture-rich, flat terrain and making up almost one-third of the entire land mass of that country] is already enough to feed the entire population of Vietnam of almost a hundred million!  

Anyone with any interest in Cambodia's recent history - let alone a scholar or researcher of Sok Touch's official standing - should know that the best defense against more powerful neighbours or the threat of external military aggression and manipulations is to have a strong 'national home defense' forged upon strong, open national institutions that are sustained through a mechanism of checks and balances: democracy. Taiwan and Israel are just two nations that come to mind.

One of the reasons why Putin's invasion of Ukraine has not gone as he had anticipated despite Russia's overwhelming fire power in relations to the invaded country's military capability is believed to be the reality of corruption that pervades and bedevils all facets of Russian bureaucracy, including the military. 

Afghanistan and even Laos - an even smaller country population-wise than Cambodia - have their natural deterrence in inaccessible mountainous terrains and thus better shielded from external military aggression or long term armed occupation. Cambodia, by contrast, is mostly made up of flat agriculture, timber-rich terrains relatively sparsely populated by her 15 or so million population. The country's forest cover [an important natural sanctuary and defense for the home side's military in an event of the fight against foreign military invasion or occupation] is virtually gone - as planned. The country is ruled, moreover, by an ill-educated former KR commander with a despotic thirst for blood and power, backed by a thoroughly incompetent, incurably corrupt bureaucracy. 

You do the maths...   

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