Thailand is a caste society based on family and patronage.
Marriage, as in all caste/class societies is a means of connecting families and patronage.
Love has nothing to do with it at the higher levels.
Rgs once wrote of how in a room, Thai will have sussed the rank of all within seconds.
Women in Thailand indeed have considerable power and status, female status. It too is based on rank, family, patronage.
That, no insult here, the mon are at the bottom of the pyramid.
Certain tattooed, beer swilling farangs are easily recognised and are below the lowest in Thai ranking. The key nok, bird shit white.
Any thai woman marrying a farang is well aware that she has married out of the patronage system.
A divorced woman likewise is forfeit.
Thus for her to marry a farang is indeed a means of wealth and a different form of patronage. 
She will return to the family fold as a woman of means. But her status in Thai society is forever lost.
I mentioned a lady of highest rank, who married an american.
Disowned by Thai society, slowly, carefully re established after her divorce, but still of lower rank than her position of birth.
Grog or not, my views are based on years of experience in Thailand.

I notice no replies to this obviously provocative post.

Is that all you can muster?

Probably because none are required, the man is quite correct in his observations and comments.