The long-standing warnings that Thailand is a nation plagued by systemic decay and teetering on the brink of collapse—if not already a failed state—have never rung truer than in the current “Cambodian crisis”. 

WASHINGTON - By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president - and the coronavirus the enemy - the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.