Thailand

So, a mostly-democratic country stages a (admittedly bloodless) coup and goes from having an elected-but-unpopular Prime Minister, to having a military dictator who has the support of an (unelected, for all I know entirely uneducated) monarch. 

 

Meanwhile, the US, the UK, the UN - everyone who's all up in arms (literally) over the lack of democracy in Iran/Iraq/etc, sits back and says, "Huh, interesting".  Then the new Thai military dictator threatens to shut down the media if they broadcast anything that comes close to expressing a dissenting political opinion.

 

Uh, am I missing something?  What the hell?  Sure, Mr. Dictator is saying he'll step down in two weeks and they'll have an election in a year, but the dude's got the Thai military behind him and now control over the entire country.  Somehow, I won't be surprised if two weeks come and go and there's no change.

 

Meanwhile, we don't really care, because we haven't yet set up any Halliburton contracts in Thailand.