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The Rulers of SEA - No leaders among them

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The Thais choose to believe in the god-king-ruler doctrine and are gluttons for punishments dished out by old bangkok elites.

The Brunei oil sultanate, living on borrowed times and courtesy of the brits is indeed a riddle within a joke in this part of the world thanks to the free spending princes. Indeed their father was much wiser leader who refused to be hoodwinked into joining Malaya and had the balls to quietly stand up to Sukarno. With his waylay brothers, the present Sultan had no choice but to rule the sultanate and placate his peasants with $$$.

Macros used to rule pinoys before they wised up and got rid of him but the system remains mired in corruption with the barely reformed catholic church who often complicate matters.

It took the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis for the indons to realise Suharto's family and cronies are treating the nation's coffers as an ATM. They got rid of him with the Yanks blessings who then ended up with the rather honest SBY after a brief flirtation with a naive technocrat, housewife and religious teacher. Incidentally SBY is still the least wealthy half leader/ruler of the indons.

Umno used to rule bumis, chinks and nehs before the bumis realised the crony-patron politics has little trickle down effects despite their pious faith. The problem is after the rulers are disposed, none of the throne pretenders could effective lead the nation who people spend more time on by-elections and wielding parangs.

The viets are still attempting to crawl into the 21st century after decades of misrule by the commies who usually managed to doublecross the bigger global powers. They certainly pleased Karl Marx as in poverty and backwardness, they had equality.

Burma or Myanmar, whatever they decided to call themselves are certainly blessed to live in a land, untainted by capitalism's excesses. The Junta has done well to rein in a people who for much of the 19th century was the terror of the thais and could give the viets a good beating whenever necessary.

Peasantpore, despite her wealth has no leaders, only rulers of a vast electorate who are unable to vote. These leaders are pals of the rich industrial nations who love her docile cheap laborers. MNCs used peasantpore as the jump-pad to sell and plunder (aka trade) the vast SEA hinterland. Lately the regime staged a dynasty succession and her latest ruler had to grapple with economic slowdown, near ruinous overseas investment misadventures and resorted to opening casinos to keep the buzz from dying.
 
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