Hakuna Matata

Now Thailand is a member of the BRICS block of countries (including Russia, India, Brazil, China, South Africa, Indonesia and some other countries). Who cares about the so-called "Western Democracies"! Europe is on decline.

He is definitely exaggerating, isn't he?

Absolutely, there is no smoke without fire!

Not everyone in power in Europe has gone mad: an encouraging bit of news from….Belgium In the past several weeks, GD has written a couple of essays on how Belgians are viewing Russia and its war in and over Ukraine. In one article, he put the spotlight on the newly installed Minister of Defense, Theo Francken, who a decade ago was bold and exposed the government and media lies about the illegal migrants who overwhelmed Europe, including Belgium, in 2015, but now has been promoting the government and media lies about ‘democratic’ Ukraine struggling for its life against its aggressive neighbor, Russia. In another article, GD discussed how not only Belgian elites but also Belgian middle classes have been brainwashed by official anti-Russian propaganda to the point where they say they approve the introduction of the military draft and are ready to send their sons to fight the Russians on the front lines. Now, based on today’s news in Politico, which surely many of you read, GD wishes to leaven our thoughts about how much Belgians want war by calling attention to an article that may have escaped you: https://www.politico.eu/article/seizing-russian-frozen-assets-act-of-war-belgian-pm-bart-de-wever/ It appears that the Belgian Prime Minister, Bart De Wever, Theo Francken’s boss, has commented to journalists following yesterday’s gathering of heads of European governments here in Brussels, saying that ‘seizing frozen Russian assets is an act of war’ and should not be considered at all. In actual fact, confiscation of the enemy’s assets usually follows rather than precedes a declaration of war, but that is a minor detail. Perhaps the link between the two is the reason why Russia never formally declared war on the United States and on certain EU Member States after identifying them as de facto co-belligerents last summer over their targeting assistance to Ukrainian long range missile strikes within the Russian Federation. Why would a Belgian PM have anything to say on the subject? Because of the 300 billion euros of Russian Central Bank assets that countries in the West have seized, 200 billion is sitting here in Euroclear, a financial institution based in Brussels. De Wever went on to say that confiscation of the Russian assets would endanger the entire global financial system, and it would prompt counter measures by Russia that should be avoided. And so, as it turns out, not all of the European leaders who gathered here yesterday have lost their minds, even if the biggest loudmouths – including Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Ursula von der Leyen and the now ubiquitous Kaja Kallas are good candidates for padded cells in mental institutions. ©GD, 2025

Oh, how many of those crazy farangs live in Thailand! Mental health issues is not what you can immediately recognize in your friend or neighbor, isn't it? Beware!

U.S. control over Ukrainian nuclear power plants? Today’s news on the Ukrainian front centers on the one-hour telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday during which Trump suggested that the USA take ownership of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants. The BBC’s commentators could make no sense of this. Let’s give it a try below. Most of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants are within territory under its own control. However, the largest such plant, indeed the largest nuclear plant in all of Europe, is in Zaporozhye under Russian command. Because of repeated Ukrainian missile and drone attacks which damaged the generators providing electricity needed to control the plant and also damaged administrative facilities, the Zaporozhye plant is not operating presently, but it could be restored in relatively short order. Now why would the USA be interested in taking control of those plants? For one thing, these are tangible assets of considerable present and future value. In that sense, they are easy to claim as partial reimbursement for the cash and war materiel that Washington poured into Ukraine over the past three years, much easier to quantify than the much touted rare earth deposits that were first identified as potential compensation to the USA but are likely a chimera. Secondly, US ownership would, like the imagined rare earths mining, provide a focus for long terms American presence in Ukraine and thereby would be a ‘guarantee’ against possible future Russian ‘aggression’ without the need for boots on the ground. This would knock down entirely the British-French initiative for a coalition of the willing to position so-called military peace enforcers, which the Russians categorically reject and which could be a trigger for the start of WWIII. Thirdly, US ownership would prevent the more insane groups within Ukrainian civil and military elites from using the nuclear waste buried just around the power plants to create ‘dirty bombs’ to attack Russia, as the revanchists surely have been plotting. What surprises me about this proposal is that it found an author within the Trump entourage and was quickly taken up to the level of The Boss. There were plenty of smart assed Yale and Harvard educated lawyers in the entourage of Joe Biden but all they cooked up for their boss was sophomoric level ideas that lacked any grasp of how the real-world functions. Not so the people around Trump. Bravo! How would the Russians take this idea of U.S. ownership of Kiev’s nuclear power plants? I think it will go down very well in Moscow. This kind of adult analysis of the situation and preparation of constructive tentative solutions has not been seen on the U.S. side for decades. If I may here complete the thinking process that I opened yesterday in my chat with Judge Napolitano, I think the essence of the reset Trump is proposing to Putin is for a new Russian-American alliance, as per in WWII, set within a reconfigured understanding of who are the Allies and who are the Axis. The Axis today is Britain, France and Germany! If I am right, then it is essential that progress be made on the Ukraine settlement post haste so that Trump can join Putin, Xi and Modi in Moscow on 9 May. ©GD, 2025

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Oh, what a shame for Great Britain. Those criminal Brits in Thailand are hitting the news headlines almost every day! Deport them from Thailand and send them to the Ukraine (as Keir Starmer is proposing).

On a suicidal mission Impossible? 😮 Kamikaze! Probably, he was simply drunk. Is Russia to benefit from this? I don't think so. Might have been orchestrated by British MI 6. What do you think?