John Drake

Almost every change in that region is always for the worse. Things were more stable under the Ottomans. Same for central Europe and the Balkans with Austria-Hungary.

And the bankers and billionaires know this as well. That's why they have built all those billionaire bunkers and taken over old abandoned missile silos in remote areas. That's why they wiped their online profiles after this incident and increased their security. They're running scared.

Thailand has nuclear reactors?

Well, he'll just need to get in line behind everybody else.

Lots of British on this forum are always talking about cheese. Maybe the UK could export cheaper cheese to Thailand.

Agree. GWB had the most disastrous presidency in American history. He, along with the Clintons and daddy Bush, enabled China's rise, began the debt fueled bailout of the bankers, didn't have the sense to go in and out of Afghanistan in a month or less, and mired the US in the MIddle East for two decades of expensive, immoral, bloody occupation.

Biggest conspiracy loon on X has to be Syrian Girl. Her profile picture, btw, is from about 50 lbs ago.

I used to buy gold coins. Liked the feel of them. Enjoyed having them in my possession. Then became fearful I might be holding counterfeit tungsten filled gold coins. Bars are somewhat safer, but buying gold coins is like purchasing a handgrenade. And the closer you are to China, the better the chance of counterfeit coins. I think there are a lot of people out there who have stacked up their gold coins with a smirk on their face who are going to be in for a real bad surprise when they try to sell.

Usually look for all my financial messaging on Stocktwits. Not many seem to care here.

You're beginning to sound like Peter Schiff.

200K. Maybe more. Maybe a lot more. He can still get on the boat and enjoy the ride if he wants to. I buy a bitcoin ETF. My wife buys a few thousand baht worth of bitcoin every month on her bitkub account.

Are you Syrian Girl from X?

The Turks could still dominate it. But I will bet anything Erdogan moves into the Kurdish zone and annexes it, while wiping out all possible Kurdish resistance. Is there a chance the overall map is radically redrawn? Putin may have something to fear from the Turks now. I saw videos on X of the Syrian rebels already broadcasting into Muslim areas of Russia, urging them to topple their occupiers.

Partition? Israel creates a Druze dominated buffer state? Turkey occupies the Kurdish zone to the north? Syrian rump state left in the middle?

Saddest man in the world right now, after Assad and Putin? Jackson Hinkle?

I see some claims that the plane he was in crashed and he may be dead. All the fog of war, of course. Will need to wait and see how things shake out. One thing for sure, Erdogan and Turkey are jubilant. They were behind this.

Assad gone? Maybe dead? The Russians are fleeing. And the Iranians have already evacuated (in both senses).

This is how Xi consolidated power in China.

I provided the link above. Here it is again. https://www.yahoo.com/news/murdered-insurance-ceo-had-deployed-175638581.html

Hunter Biden still has him beat.

Because the claimant is in the morgue?

Even if they get the insurance, they're still in virtual financial slavery for the premium and co-pays, so that whatever life saved can be ruined as well. That's why you encounter people who would rather die than put their families in debt slavery to the health care system.

Good point. A closed system, where the money if funneled directly from the government to the "system."

You wonder why Medicare wouldn't do the same. And agree to pay for medical treatment for expatriates in Thailand rather than have them go home and drain the system in the US.

Do that. I favor it. But Medicare Part B requires a premium too, along with a 20 percent copay. People would still go bankrupt. You're only going to solve the problem by reducing the number of administrators and the pay of doctors, nurses, and staff.