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Be fair, could you imagine the court scene, "Would you point to your assailants in in the court room please" "Ermmmmm" "The plaintive cannot identify the accused my Lord"

I agree, what they want is a strong leader but they really don't want Trump.

I don't have any religious affiliation, I would take any peaceful country and would be grateful and assimilate as far as language was concerned, as I have done in Thailand, I certainly wouldn't try to change their society or go around stabbing people.

Well I used to deal with a lot of Islamists while working in Germany but they were Turks, so the civilized kind, they would drink beer and eat pork saying Allah doesn't look in Germany, nice guys and hard workers but they didn't assimilate and even 3rd generation Turks spoke German with a Turkish accent even though they all attended German schools, there were exceptions of course. They would all tell me that Turkey was the best country in the world but went silent when I asked them why they didn't live there then, even when they retired with a good German pension which made them well off in Turkey they didn't go back. The teenage Turks were a cheeky unruly lot with a chip on their shoulders, they didn't feel they belonged in Germany but as 'foreigner Turks' they were despised in Turkey, a powder keg waiting to go off. They are Islamists and anti-western propaganda was preached in the mosques (which they all attended) until the polizei started raiding and closing the worst ones. I generally had friendly relations with the older ones but not with the younger ones, contact wasn't wanted. German companies didn't care about nationality just as long as you could do the job you were accepted but it did cause some amusement, once a large group of Turks who worked on the BMW production line wanted to stop work three times during the day during working hours to pray, they all had their little mats with them. The head foreman spoke with them and said OK but don't come back tomorrow, they all backed down.

So ask other Muslim countries for help.......why don't they?

That's certainly a reason for stabbing children in Germany or using a car to kill innocent shoppers......a better idea might be to attack those soldiers responsible...Oh wait, they did and won so why come over to those devils in the West, don't like the Islamic way of life perhaps?

Yes certainly. Not all Muslims cause terror but where there is terror there is a Muslim, why take the chance.

Anything in that Geneva convention that says its OK to stab and drive over the very people that gave you aid and comfort? Fact is it's got out of hand, it would appear there are more economic seekers than asylum seekers and many more Islamists with a chip on their shoulder than we can handle, they won't be content until they have dragged us down to their level.

Perhaps it would be easier to check the bank accounts of the officers who conducted the 'investigation'

The local village clinic treats me for free for such things, last time I used them I had burnt my stomach and arm from burning cooking oil (kitchen accident) the dressings were changed every day for a week, nobody mentioned payment, they knew that I lived in the village.

That's actually cheap

Special relationship? Like the special relationship that I have with my dog. I realize King Charles must demean himself to this man who has no dignity due to political concerns, a man who as the president of the USA still sells $Donald Trump crypto coins like a market vendor at a fish market.

A very good post, most people have a relaxed personal view towards political opinions and don't express radical views, it's always a vocal minority that tries to radicalize public opinion and with some success. The cancel culture was initiated by such minorities, receiving support from spineless big names fearing a backlash. The gender discussions were initiated by the same shrill voices attempting to squash public opinion, forcing people to hypocritically acknowledge that there were more genders than the alphabet could accommodate which shows a general lack of civil courage. This subservient attitude sickens me, it allows the UK government to harass people with police visits for a tweet expressing a personal opinion when there should be an uprising of anger.

That doesn't matter, he has money and he has already bought Trump, he wants his Mars mission, that's what all this is about and they'll get the working class to pay for it while Musk and chums get tax cuts.

Thaksin will in future only appear in public with a neck brace

Maybe, but I don't care.

bad boy!!

Yes fascism is possible, not just in America, when times are hard people look to strong leaders, it always ends badly but most people want simple solutions and are ready to believe lies. Nothing is forever, Germany, Japan, Italy, all rose from the ashes of such ideologies and their examples will serve to make sure it will never be as bad as that again. Certainly injustice will occur but eventually the human spirit will demand freedom from oppression.

Like what? watch him die? I haven't seen him since he was a child and have my own family here who need me. He has had several prison sentences (armed robbery being one of them) to his name which caused my parents to wash their hands of him. I wont judge him for that but I have no emotional contact to him, I wouldn't know him if he passed me in the street. I have a brother in the UK who will visit him but Birmingham is a long way from London, it's even further from Thailand.

I don't know, Nazism arose from deep poverty, excessive restoration payments and deep national humiliation after WW1. I don't think Trump or Musk can deliver in the same way Hitler did shortly after gaining power which turned the financial well being and psyche of the nation around 180 degrees. Trump is a last gasp of a failing empire, the world has changed but Trump refuses to accept it even though reality constantly raises its head. Musk is in it for the money and prestige (as if he didn't have enough), I don't see him having any ideology, good or bad....it's all about Musk. Americans are often viewed as naive with a limited view of the outside world, I think it's fair to say that the average American can't match the sophistication of European citizens and are easily led but they are a fair people and apart from the red necks they are an empathetic and tolerant people. The coming months and years will be harsh and people will voice their anger and dissatisfaction fueled by Trumps lies but although lies run halfway around the world before truth has got its boots on, truth eventually catches up.

The AfD is a result of the massive immigration to Germany, more than in the UK, people are fed up but the traditional parties aren't listening, (it's an EU problem). Take away the immigration problem and the AfD would collapse. I lived in Germany for almost 40 years and can say that the experience of the Hitler regime has left deep emotional scars of shame, even among the youth who had no part in it, unlike in Japan, the war crimes and the holocaust are taught and dissected in schools and in the media to the point that I as an Englishman said, "hey! enough is enough." Despite Musk Germany is the last place that Nazism would raise its ugly head, even patriotism is viewed with suspicion.

My brother thought the same way, he lived a hedonistic life style with alcohol and drugs and now lies in a Birmingham hospice waiting to die, his liver has only a 10% function. He was never one for introspection and had no guiding philosophy, I can only imagine that he is now lonely and frightened, 50 is too young to die.

I disagree with your last line, Trump is an extremist without any conscience, he is most certainly a sociopath and narcissist with no respect for the law, it is only political checks and balances that hold him back along with the fact that most Americans still have a desire for democracy.

That is an exaggeration, the political pendulum swings to the left and the right to extrapolate the swing to the right with Nazism is ridiculous, yes there will be cases of extremism of the right wing faction just as there was in the left wing faction but we didn't become communists. That isn't to say that such events can't happen in the future but it would need extreme financial turbulence and poverty within the vast majority of the population and we are a long way off from that yet.

Isn't this normal? The sun rises and sets, birds fly, corruption abounds and Indians get their gold necklaces stolen by lady boys.