Like, it's almost like neither side wins, and the average American voter is like, again, I care about loads of other stuff, like the economy...

For now, as the conflict enters its second day, neither side appears to be willing to back down.

And so you can sometimes have these standoffs where literally neither side is willing to put their head of state onto the phone until they hear that the other head of state is on the phone.

Only three such places exist today. Bir Tawil, a barren stretch between Egypt and Sudan that neither side wants. Marie Bird Land in Antarctica, left untouched by international treaties.

And groups or people, like if you're thinking about politics, if you're thinking about certain parts of the world, you have two parties that are always fighting each other, neither side is willing to reciprocate any sort of actions, okay?

I think it'd be accurate to say that neither side is winning nor is either side losing.

Now this is the very basics of the story since the story is kind of still Developing and I kind of give you a 30,000 foot overview here Essentially both sides of Cambodia and Thailand have been fighting over their border neither side actually wants war But they can't stop the fighting Funny thing is that is the exact plot of my novel The Last Republic, which is an alternate history book about Brigham Young founding the nation of Deseret instead of the territory of Utah and how 170 years later kind of blows up in America's face and And you know in a lot of ways this current conflict between Cambodia and Thailand goes all the way back to the French who didn't exactly draw lines correctly when kind of mapping out Cambodia and both sides are very interested in these temples that are in a mountain range on the board between Cambodia and Thailand and You know, it's kind of interesting is that there's been violence on the border and over these temples for Wow, almost over a decade and I think there was even one conflict in 2009 to 2011 and currently both leadership On Cambodian side on the Thailand side.

This was the off-ramp, but neither side wanted to take it, neither is ready yet to back down.

This way, neither side is stuck with only whatever the market price is when they want to buy or sell.

But interestingly, like Marvel's upcoming Civil War, neither side will be presented as clearly right or clearly wrong, leaving it up to you to decide where your loyalties lie.