Thailand Sex Tourism Made in the USA – USS Lincoln Docks in Pattaya

[u/Green_Ideas7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYTUxvekn9s&list=TLPQMDUwOTIwMjZgdS7nkXCtSw&index=1

"Pattaya’s sex tourism industry didn’t emerge out of nowhere: the city was built into a major US military R&R destination during the Vietnam War. Rania and Zoe unpack the longstanding, documented links between US troops abroad and sexual violence against women in countries like Thailand, the Philippines, Korea and Colombia. And they respond to Fox News' Jesse Watters's jokes about the "wild animals" that would be created by the Pentagon's push to put troops on testosterone in July, including his warning that women on base and in port cities should "watch out" — normalizing US military culture’s toxic masculinity and the sexual assault it engenders as a punchline."

[u/Green_Ideas7]

Today, the city of Pattaya is perhaps the largest site of sex tourism, of imperial rape, in the world, thanks entirely to its history of accommodating the American GI. The war machine docks itself to the structural legacy of American neocolonialism, a legacy of plundering Thailand into a site of sexual exploitation, and a legacy of femicide, where the state and capital work hand in hand to systematically render women’s lives as expendable in the name of profit and US geopolitical hegemony.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/02/the-uss-lincolns-leisure-trip-to-thailand-a-port-call-of-us-neocolonialism-and-femicide/