Muto wacho haudyiwe uchipisa kana wadyiwa. Izvi, zvakaturikirwa zvisina tsarukano, imhinduro yevakuru vemauto kunhaurirano muAmerican House of Representatives nezve kutamiswa kwechiuto chegore negore cheCobra Gold.
MuImba, Scot Marciel wedhipatimendi reUS State akataura neChipiri kuti Washington iri kufunga kuita chiitiko ichi, umo dzimwe nyika dzeSoutheast Asia kuwedzera kuUS neThailand dziri kupinda mune imwe nyika gore rinouya. Kuita chiitiko muThailand kwaizoreva kutsigira izvo zvinonzi "kudzvanyirira" hunhu hwemauto.
Mutungamiriri weAir Force, Prajin Juntong, mutevedzeri wemukuru weNCPO, haafunge kuti mikana yakakwira zvakanyanya. Kwete Thailand chete, asiwo iyo US yaizove isina mukana. Anotaura nezvezvinobatsira zvichazovapo kwenguva refu: 'Kutamira kune imwe nyika kunoreva kurasikirwa nezvinhu izvozvo. Nyika mbiri idzi dzakagara dzichifarira zvakafanana uye izvi hazvifanirwe kutorwa sekutamba.'
Cobra Goridhe yave ichiitwa gore negore kubvira 1982. Kekupedzisira muna Kukadzi pamwe, mukuwedzera kune kutora chikamu mauto kubva kuUS neThailand, zvakare mauto kubva kuSingapore, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia neMalaysia. Gore rino, China yakatora chikamu kekutanga. Vese varwi ve13.000 vakadzidzira: zviuru zvina kubva kuThailand uye vamwe vese kubva kune dzimwe nyika.
Sekureva kweCongressman Steve Chabot, sachigaro weSubcommittee on Foreign Affairs Asia, kubata chiitiko muThailand "kwaizotumira pachena meseji isiriyo [...] maererano nekudzvinyirira" kweNCPO. Akadana hurumende kuti iite chiitiko muAustralia, uko 2.500 US Marines akamiswa.
Prajin anoti danho rinogoneka haringambokanganisa mauto emuchadenga, nekuti anogara achidzidzira nenyika dzakavakidzana, kusanganisira Singapore, Malaysia neIndonesia. Zvakadaro, anotarisira kuti US nedzimwe nyika dzichachinja maitiro avo uye vopindura zvakanaka sezvo hurongwa hwejunta hutatu hwekuyananisa, kuvandudza uye sarudzo huchatanga kushanda.
Mushure mekunge mauto atora masimba musi wa22 Chivabvu, Bazi reHurumende reUnited States rakazivisa kuti raibvisa madhora mamiriyoni matatu nemazana mashanu ekubatsira. IUS yazivisa kuti ichamisa imwe madhora 3,5 miriyoni (4,7 miriyoni baht) murubatsiro rwemauto. [Mimwe nhamba inotaurwa kumwewo mumeseji, asi isu tajaira izvozvo Bangkok Post.]
Prajin's not-so-hot soup inobva pane zvakaitika muna 2006, apo mauto akadzinga hurumende yeThaksin. Pakutanga, Thailand yakadzvinyirirwa, asi dzvinyiriro iyoyo yakaderera zvishoma nezvishoma gore rakatevera racho pashure pokunge nhamburiko dzakakomba dzaitwa kuvaka kunzwisisa.
Iyo junta iri kuedza zvakare kuita izvi mukupindura kumisa kwakaziviswa kwerutsigiro rwemari neUS neEU. Prajin nezuro akataura nemumiriri weChina nezvehukama hwepedyo hwehupfumi. Zviitwa zvekutengesa zveThai-Chinese zviri kutangazve, mumiriri akadaro, mushure mekumbomira nekuda kwekusagadzikana kwezvematongerwo enyika.
Nzvimbo yeMauto haioni nhaurirano yekongiresi senjodzi chaiyo; zvimwe akanga asiri kupfuura bluster (kuzvirumbidza). Sekureva kwake, iyo US inobatsira zvakanyanya kubva kune maekisesaizi kupfuura Thailand. IUS yakasarudza Thailand senzvimbo nekuda kwenzvimbo yayo yakarongeka muSoutheast Asia, akadaro.
(Chinobva: bangkok mail, Chikumi 26, 2014)
Photo: Cobra Goridhe muna Kukadzi gore rino muHad Yao (Sattahip). Masoja eSouth Korea kuruboshwe, maAmerican kurudyi.