200,000 Displaced Overnight: The Forgotten War of 2025

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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While the world watched other conflicts, Thailand and Cambodia went to war in July 2025. In just days, over 200,000 civilians were displaced, temples were bombed, soap operas were banned, and accusations of chemical weapons and war crimes were thrown around. Yet coverage in the West was almost nonexistent. In this episode of Bro History, we break down how an ancient temple, nationalist politics, and decades-old colonial borders triggered a five-day modern war — complete with fighter jets, landmines, propaganda battles, and a fragile ceasefire that solved nothing. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Two Governments, One Border Clash 01:41 Thailand vs. Cambodia: The Forgotten War 09:00 The Emerald Triangle Ignites 12:00 Ancient Temple, Modern Dispute 18:00 2008–2011: The Prequel War 26:00 Leaked Calls & Political Chaos 33:00 July 24: War Breaks Out 41:00 Propaganda, Fog of War, and War Crimes 52:00 Trump the “Peacemaker” & Ceasefire Talks 59:00 Why This Conflict Isn’t Over Links to our other stuff on the interwebs: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@BroHistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://brohistory.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #335 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the voyages
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0:20.7	adventures from throughout history.
0:22.8	Go to Explorespodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app.
0:27.0	That's the Explorers Podcast.
0:29.8	So you have two governments and one is trying to prove its new leader isn't weak.
0:41.1	And the other one is still trying to prove its new leader isn't weak. And the other one is still trying to prove that its old leader is, you know, still the top dog. Yeah. Yeah. Big dick swinging
0:48.7	contest. We got disappearing diplomats, soap opera blackouts, minefields reactivating. I mean, it's, it's like,
0:55.9	it's, it's pretty hot, you know, and, and by late July, it's not a question of if there's
1:00.7	going to be like an actual war, but just where and how bad it was going to be.
1:07.3	What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of Bro History at Henry Zimoda and Danny of Delgabar.
1:12.6	What's up, man? How are you?
1:14.2	Tell it, man. As per usual. How about yourself?
1:16.7	I'm doing good, Danny. I'm doing very good. Now, let's get straight down the business and do the episode.
1:22.2	No bantering this time, right?
1:23.9	No bantering or no touching the microphone. I'm sure I will screw everything up again. Okay. So we are going to talk about something that I really don't know anything about. So you are going to be filling us in, mainly you, because I have very little context to add to this topic or historical knowledge.
1:48.4	And honestly, the whole event kind of just flew right past me. I only saw it in like Twitter posts or ex post.
1:57.2	And I was like, huh, how about that? There's a war breaking out and between Thailand and Cambodia.
2:03.7	I'm sure it will be over soon.
2:07.1	And I saw a couple of rockets, maybe a couple of videos.
2:10.7	I'm not even sure because there's multiple, there's so many wars going on in the world that I may have just confused them.
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