Unilateral America
Re: "Thailand's responses to Board of Peace", (Opinion, Jan 27).
When I speak with my American friends, many of them express the same unsettling sentiment: "America has lost its morality."
The authority to define this morality seems to have been usurped by a single person, President Donald Trump, who declares that his personal code alone will guide the United States, all the while offering up his version of US democracy as the best model of governance for the world.
So far, he has failed a morality check spectacularly. While he allows armed ICE officers to roam and kill on the streets of America, he is sending an armada to try to force Iran to bend to his will.
If more proof of this loss of morality is needed, just days ago, on Jan 7, President Trump ordered a massive, simultaneous withdrawal from 66 international organisations.
The withdrawal from these world organisations indicates that the moral treachery of the United States runs deeper than just trade wars. The United States is the architect of the modern "global order" -- it built the UN, the WHO, and the frameworks for international law -- structures it has now placed itself above. Now, it is systematically burning down the house it built.
By withdrawing from the 66 organisations in a single stroke, America is sending a chilling message to the global majority: rules are for you, not for us. This is not just isolationism; it is a return to the law of the jungle, where "might makes right". For smaller nations like Thailand, the game has gotten very dangerous.
ML Saksiri Kridakorn
Cosmic escape
Re: "Stars gone missing", (PostBag, Jan 28).
Just to back up today's "stars gone missing" letter from Heiner. I also look forward to reading horoscopes much more than seeing what's on TV.
Jerry F
Streaming struggle
Early this week, I was looking up the Australian Open on Google and saw that Carlos Alcaraz and Alex de Minaur were playing a live quarter-final match. The stations that usually broadcast this event were listed as the FIA Rally Championship.
Knowing better, I checked the station and did find that the match I was looking for was being broadcast at the proper time. Of course, this was after I was besieged for adverts for ANIME and ONE, Japanese stations, that aren't carried here in Thailand.
And of course, there is the daily note of "no information found" on many stations, including AXN, Warner, TSP1, CNN, TPF4, TPF3, and all EXP channels, to name a few. You can close your menu selection on your remote and then open it again, and you will find the current listing. And I still mourn the loss of NASCAR, all NCAA US Sports, NBA basketball and NFL football. Can't wait for the Olympics in February!
Now I know the naysayers will ask why I continue, after 15 years, to put up with this monopolistic entity, but I already pay for Netflix, Disney, Apple TV+, DAZN sports, ESPN and HBO/Max and had hoped that TRUE would at least offset some of these expenses.
Oh, and let's not go into the TRUE online fibre fiasco, which has been promised here for seven years, and I still can't even get them to reinstall my ADSL service they discontinued last year.
Fred Prager
