Old article but I have never read it and it’s good.
Thai politics is unlike anything this modern era has seen.
Sometimes it is not clear the motives or that almost everyone is to blame for the current debacle.
This article explains it all pretty well and is still quite relevant.
Richard Lloyd Parry · The Story of Thaksin Shinawatra: Class War in Thailand · LRB 19 June 2014
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