beautifulthailand99

You are a good and not greedy man I'm sure many on here will wish to follow your lead.

I've got no Muslim problem nor does anybody I know and it's a typo bro but don't winge if he takes away the cash Kool Aid so Elon can get to Mars.

In Britain we had a lot of EU based expats that voted for Brexit to stick it to the man and then found when it happened a lot if them had to leave their retirement nests. But it felt good could on vote day. "We didn't vote for that , we didn't vote to include me" . But that's exactly what they did. MAGA expats can probably experience similar blowback in due course. Donald loves the uneducated after all.

That's a given from the off. Plus it's a net outflow of US funds to a foreign state.

Elon wants to cut $2 trillion - US retirees living abroad - looks like low hanging fruit to me. Just look at frozen Uk pensions. From Gemini ; The exact number of votes cast by US expats abroad in a specific election isn't immediately available. However, we can provide some information: Eligible Voters: There are approximately 2.8 million eligible US citizens living abroad. Historical Turnout: Historically, turnout among US expats has been relatively low. For example, in the 2016 presidential election, only about 7.8% of eligible expats cast their votes. Increasing Awareness: Efforts are being made to increase voter turnout among US expats, and it's possible that the number of votes cast could increase in future elections. To get a more accurate picture of the number of votes cast by US expats in a specific election, you would need to wait for official election results to be released.

He will see the Thai model of social security (ie virtually none) superior to the US one - if you're a retiree getting something from Uncle Sam I wouldn't bank on that moving forward. He want to cut $2 trillion off the budget.

Kyiv Independent not glossing over the implications of a Trump victory.

No money ,resources or tectonic plates of a superpower to bounce off. Hegemons only worry about threats to their authority not charity.

The NK deal transactionally speaking for the parties is mutually beneficial. https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241103050116

There's a lot of 'noise' about DPRK some of it a concerted attempt to promote escalation from the west which sadly for Ukraine is falling on deaf ears as the Ukrainian Ambo to the UN spoke about in my post upthread. This looks like one of those "fun" articles designed to seed the media landscape. Just my "hot" asian babes take.

Andrew Marr - New Statesman https://archive.ph/AgISu I spoke this week to Sergei Markov, the former advisor to the Russian president, and well-connected Moscow politics professor, he said he expected Trump almost immediately to call Putin and Zelensky to demand an immediate ceasefire, followed by talks which would recognise the Ukrainian conflict as, essentially, a civil one between Russians rather than independent states. There will be demands in London for European countries, particularly Britain, to take the lead in fresh military moves to protect Ukraine, urgently sending more long-range missiles and allowing the targeting of Russian sites. But without US support, this becomes incredibly dangerous for Western Europe. Of all the urgent debates coming now, this is the most urgent one of all. There are no good answers. Unless he dramatically changes his mind, a Trump-imposed settlement, giving Putin the eastern third of Ukraine, would surely result in the fall of Zelensky, further Russian advances, and then Russian – and now, North Korean – troops pushing against Nato’s borders.

Trump's team apparently praised god with a hymn.

Owen Matthews - Donald Trump’s win marks the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war - THE SPECTATOR https://archive.ph/Aa6Fa Donald Trump’s election victory heralds the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war – and is likely to leave Vladimir Putin in control of most, if not all, of the territory he has seized in nearly three years of bloody conflict. To many Ukrainians, such an outcome will be a betrayal of their struggle, a stab in the back by the West that will sow decades of anger and resentment. To others, though, a swift end to the conflict before more land is lost and tens of thousands more young Ukrainians die represents the best hope of actually salvaging a decent future for their country before their infrastructure, economy, and an entire generation are annihilated completely.

I'm absolutely no fan of Trump but with Trump we have the best chance of swerving that and the US just stops being the world's policeman and let regional issues sort themselves out. We should stay in our lanes - after all no-one really cares about Africa which is a basketcase in many places ruined by colonialism and wars.

He's now won 3 elections a historic event like no other.

For Ukraine, Trump Victory Signals a Shift. To What, Is Unclear. As U.S. president, Donald J. Trump will inherit a role as Ukraine’s chief benefactor. But he has been skeptical about continuing aid to Kyiv. NYT https://archive.ph/pdBZh#selection-5191.0-5195.141 Mobilization in Ukraine, which picked up over the summer with men being pulled from rock concerts or out of cars at roadblocks, has tapered amid deep reluctance to fight in the trenches, military analysts say. Desertion is a mounting problem. From January to September, Ukrainian prosecutors recorded about 51,000 cases of soldiers being away without leave. Some of the army’s best troops were committed in August to an attack into the Kursk region of Russia in the hopes of diverting Moscow’s soldiers. But Ukraine has since lost about 40 percent of the territory it occupied there, and Moscow did not redeploy troops from the Donbas.

My intro to the link should have been in italics to highlight the title was his and not my inference. Anyway you lose Ukraine but get Israel with Trump - take the win.

The writer of that article - follow the link.

For all his huge faults Trumps promises to end this war and I ,only in this instance, for one fully support that.

Talk about talks - good things are moving in the right direction. https://archive.ph/FYThG Kyiv was seeking to resume Qatar-mediated negotiations that came close to agreement in August before being derailed by Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk, said the people, who included senior Ukrainian officials. “There’s very early talks about potentially restarting something,” said a diplomat briefed on the negotiations. “There’s now talks on the energy facilities.” An agreement would mark the most significant de-escalation of the war since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.

Trump’s running mate JD Vance has suggested that a Trump administration would aim for Russia and Ukraine to freeze the fighting along the existing front lines, with the line of demarcation becoming “heavily fortified so Russia doesn’t invade again”. Such a deal would be deeply unpopular among Ukrainian leaders. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected making territorial concessions. But officials in Kyiv fear Trump would cease all military aid, forcing them to capitulate on Moscow’s terms. https://archive.ph/n1L5f#selection-2397.0-2411.257

The west only listens to what it wants to hear from Moscow - Putin is in no hurry to negotiate the end of conflict in Ukraine https://archive.ph/cRMe7 I can detect a version of “talking to a mirror” in the west’s approach towards Moscow today. We listen only in order to hear what we want to hear, namely that Putin wants to negotiate the end of the conflict in Ukraine. But does he? Like many analysts and most Europeans, I believe that the war will conclude in a negotiated settlement. Kyiv will be forced to trade territory for meaningful security guarantees. Yet even if negotiations are inevitable, I am not convinced that we are as close to the end as many others hope.

Ukraine aid US funding for Ukraine will almost certainly be at an end in a GOP-controlled House. Republican hardliners in the chamber have been among the most vociferously opposed to large-scale funding packages for Kyiv. While Trump has suggested he will be able to broker a swift peace deal with Moscow, whatever the outcome, Republicans are unlikely to continue approving US dollars to defend Ukraine. https://archive.ph/jyoX7