On January 18th, 2017, The International Republican Institute (IRI), in partnership with U.S. Embassy Bangkok organized the second of six sessions of “Young Women Lead!” (YWL!). YWL! is a program created to bring together promising Thai young women to participate in interactive workshops that explore the themes of women’s civic engagement and economic empowerment in Thailand.
The second session featured two amazing speakers: Olympics skeet shooter Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit and boxing promoter Pariyakorn Ratanasuban.
The next session will be a panel discussion with the female Ambassadors to Thailand from Canada and Bangladesh, along with the Ministry of Commerce Perm Sec of Thailand, and will be hosted by the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Glyn T. Davies.
Throughout this series of articles, which began a month and a half before the war in Ukraine, I have been developing the idea that the Straussians, the small group of Leo Strauss followers in the US administration, were planning a confrontation against Russia and China. However, in the tenth episode of this series, I related how the Azov regiment became the paramilitary pillar of the Ukrainian…
