A foreigner passed by. Make me a bit chuckle to read you comment. Decades paseed still you have no clue? It's politicians. One way to gain support from others is to set an "enemy" so people would think they have been threatened in whatever aspects from culture to economy to security to etc. Hence they have to support their leader to fight against this "enemy" It's a card all over the world know Cambodian poiliticians love to play. Think for yourself whenever there was some downward trend with the popularity of your poiliticans they will always set some "patriotism". It's an easy way called "Wag the Dog" yet it seems like your people still have no idea. That's a sign it would go for ages. Because you can only change something if you question and search for truth, but Cambodian don't. You listen and believe everything as long as it goes with your bias (which created and accumulated for decades again by those politicains so it would be very hard to change), hence they will always be in their positions unless you change your way of thinking.