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If Trump lasts another 3 years they probably won't need to. Usofa is becoming less and less relevant to the rest of the world every day the idiot child is in the White House. The world is constructing new economic & security systems to dodge the daily flack and absence of coherent policy from Washington. It's a hard job because people foolishly thought the post-1945 system would keep on keeping on. Even Oz is edging away, taking little steps enforced by the unpredictability of an 80-years ally.

With Thaksin it's a case of: Believe it when you see it.

Anyone with half a brain can work out that the quickest way to end the war is to deploy NATO troops in the 2nd- & 3rd-tier defences of Ukraine, fully armed & equipped to fight if necessary - both to defend themselves & to prevent further seizures of Ukrainian territory. This would release many many Ukrainian troops to go on the offensive to regain territories already seized by the invader. Putin would run a mile..

If I were Usofan I'ld be barracking for Pete Buttigieg. Sane, sensible, intelligent ...

Um, well you could always try Australia!

Part of the tourist attraction with the streetcars navigating the very steep hills ...

At least as important - if you saw the daily shots over the last few weeks of crowds milling around and cheering him on - he has been anointed by The People. While his comments as reported above may have been smoothed out by AI, his denials & his support for political solutions do seem a bit tepid.

Perhaps Thailand could become the hub of the leather industry.

Given a choice between Anutin or Prayut to lead this great nation, I think suicide might be preferable.

Goodness me. The Viets are learning from the Thais! Now there's a revolution!

Welcome to the future! A new experience for Thailand.

Be careful what you wish for. Plenty of worse options out there for the fascists to play with.

An obvious question relating to this little debate: If it's still 3M฿ etc for O/A-derived stay, how come the OP above says it's only 400K฿ etc?

PP could attempt to go back to the 'agreement' that followed the last election: PP in charge with majority of seats & Prime Ministership, PT in cabinet as minority ally. (Yes OK, just dreaming.)

These highly scientific surveys of opinion - including a large number of voters across a wide range of Thailand's socio-economic & geographic groups - look to me like a crass attempt to preempt votes for the People's Party (or its successor acronyms).

Obviously there needs to be a link between Hang Dong and Mai Rim.

OK, well you may be right. Every website says one or the other. None of them gives the history over the last several years. My current coverage with Pacific Cross (3M baht total) falls due end of October. In the leadup I shall ask them the question over the next 2 or 3 weeks. At age 76 & healthy I'm not inclined to pay for too much more than the minimum required to continue renewing my OA-derived stay.

Here is another example, from thaiembassy.com:

For example, here below is what Pacific cross has to say:

Yes, I understand but there are many different websites with contradictory information. I think I'm right on the (fairly recent) reduction of the requirement for OA visa renewal. May possibly be different for getting a new OA visa? Best to check carefully before you proceed.

If you read the OP above you'll see that that's now out-of-date information. Now 400K & 40K baht.

So much for the endless chatter about what the Shinawat shekels could achieve.

True but both parents may be illiterate or otherwise undereducated and blissfully (until now) unaware of the relevant Thai laws. When I look at my b/f's Khmer parents - or indeed his multiple brothers, sisters and half-brothers & half-sisters, and cousins - the notion of obeying the laws is mostly laughable. To take just one example: His oldest full-blood sister & oldest brother are officially the same age (48 this year). In fact the brother is only 45. How come? Because "the government never does anything for us so we didn't register Mit till Pae came along & we did them together". And thus they remain on the government's books for ever after ... Lesson: There's no point in lecturing poor un- or under-educated people about what is right and proper for them to do. They do the necessary to survive from day to day.

In the absence of a justice system worthy of the name, sensible well-intentioned citizens would take matters in to their own hands. Couldn't be all that difficult to organize an appropriate outcome.

So on what basis do others get Thai citizenship? eg enthusiastic Falangs? And the Cambodian now-Thai builder I mentioned earlier?