'Monkeys' Seriously? If you'd written a polite note, in Thai, then you'd have stood a better chance of getting what you wanted. I don't feel your imperious attitude would have gone down too well in any country to be honest.
He's right not to be optimistic. It will take a long time to occur, if ever it does. But I think, in the end, we will have to rejoin or face total ruin!