Hook:

Let’s be honest—your precious borders are fairy tales with bloody teeth. Each time Thailand slams its land crossings shut over a petty territorial tantrum with Cambodia, thousands of lives are sabotaged, and nobody blinks. Why? Because we worship the mad god of nationalism more than we value human dignity.

Conflict:

You’re told to revere the sacred concept of “national sovereignty,” to treat lines on a map as holy scripture that must not be questioned. But let’s rip off the comfort blanket: border closures are little more than state-sanctioned collective punishment. Children are stripped from schools, families are severed, and livelihoods vanish—over a dispute that means nothing to anyone except bored politicians and armchair patriots. The hypocrisy? The people cheering these closures are the same ones who weep about global unity and economic interdependence until “outsiders” threaten their fragile sense of order.

Fuel:

Borders don’t ‘protect’ you—they chain you to fear and feed you a diet of division. Millions of cross-border families in Southeast Asia, forgotten street vendors, migrant workers—these are the casualties of your flag-waving. When Thailand locks down a crossing, it’s not just about “security.” It’s about flexing power, virtue-signaling patriotism while local economies crash and black-market smugglers celebrate. But do you care? You’d rather share memes, send thoughts and prayers, and ask Siri for travel restrictions before stepping back into your echo chamber of xenophobic comfort.

Let’s be brutally honest: if this was Europe, if white Westerners’ vacation plans were disrupted, the world would be burning with outrage at border closures. Instead, Southeast Asia’s pain is abstract background noise. You scroll past, numb, never asking who profits when a checkpoint becomes a weapon.

Impact:

Are you comfortable with a world where borders—a system designed by colonial nostalgists—mean more than a human life? Where land is protected, but children are left to starve? Next time you cheer a border closing in the name of ‘safety,’ admit it: you’re just as tribal as the politicians you claim to hate. So, I dare you to defend your invisible fences. But don’t pretend you care about people. You care about being on the right side of the line. Remember: the only thing dividing us is your willingness to kill for a line in the sand—and to sleep through the suffering it causes.

This article was inspired by the headline: 'Thailand closes land crossings during border dispute with Cambodia - BBC'.