
In Denial Against Democracy: Thailand’s Royalists see Putin as a ‘Decoloniser’
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
Thai royalists’ online narratives echo the line that Russia’s war in Ukraine is succeeding. There are indications that this rhetoric is driven by anti-western anti-democratic sentiment, especially against the United States. The royalists are using the debate over the war as a proxy fight with opposition movements, whom they see as being supported by western pro-democracy forces.