Thaksin: The Thai Monarchy’s Savior?

Only if the opposition led by Suthep continues in its attempt to destroy it

Suthep in full cry

Could Thaksin Shinawatra become the savior of the Thai monarchy? It may seem a ridiculous question at a time when the Bangkok elite of ultra-royalists continues to accuse the former prime minister and his sister, the current prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, of undermining that institution to increase his own influence.

But the extrem…