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Yah, that's a steaming pile of caca de toro, unfortuantely. You see every single country in the western world is in the same position, overspending and going to the capital markets to fund its spending. However, the US is different. Unlike other countries, the US is not dependent on exports, it has its own giant domestic market. Yes, it also chooses to fund spending by using the capital markets, like any sane country would do, however, the USA is significantly richer than any of these countries. Its currency DETERMINES the value of other currencies. As you can see now, live and on TV, the US can restructure global trade at will. The economic power of the US is unparallelled in human history. Not just its economic power, of course, its military power too, if the US were so inclined it could loot and pillage any country it chooses. It just doesn't need to do so yet because its economy is so unspeakably powerful. All this nonsense of "oh the us economy can't go on", where's the evidence for it? Stock market worth 111 trillion. Real Estate worth 50 trillion. GDP 29 trillion every single year. Some homework for you, discover how rich the USA really is.

I know what you mean, a bit like children sometimes. My Ex is at the beach now, a horrible beach close to Bangkok and she started complaining about it. To tease her I said "Yeah, I know, you're used to Ko Samui and Phuket beaches, aren't you", as she'd gone to Phuket to cheat on me, and to Ko Samui to cheat on the guy before me. She of course blew up "Not talk like this! I go now"...Hahahaha, I don't care anymore either.

The place to go now is Phu Quoc in Vietnam. They built a dream tourist island, a la Nusa Dua, but a whole island.

This is so infurating, my Thai ex was the same. Always keeping the facts secret, what she thought to herself, never engaging in real conversations, afraid of confrontation. They are culturally wired to avoid confrontation, and there's the female aspect, women too are hardwired to avoid confrontation. Why do you think she hates you though?

I brought the ex-wife over with the 2 kids. I figured it'd be nicer to have the kids close. The kids are thriving in international schools and feel much happier than back home. Should have been dead? What happened?

This is correct I think .Yes one may feel life is boring, but it is your life, you made it so and you can make it more interesting. If hotsun now feels he settled and is not happy with life, then more because he thinks he settled, that he could have done better. Clearly, this girl is not making him happy for some reason, and yes, it does seem like personality or intelligence may be the issue.

I was with a Thai 10 for a year. They do know they are beautiful of course. But the hardships of family life, the poverty, the struggle for life, can stop them from being completely selfish. However, they know they are beautiful of course. I agree they can be very smart however.

There is no debt problem. The US economy is comfortably able to service the debt it has, as it creates 29 trillion USD in GDP every single year. The total market value of the US stock market is another 111 trillion USD. The total value of US real estate is another 50 trillion USD. In short, the US is so rich, nobody even knows exactly how rich it is. But it is richer than God, and easily able to service its debt.

But why? Why not just let the Japanese, Germans and the rest of the world finance the debt with IOUs? Why is it a problem now? The US economy is still creating 29 trillion USD of wealth every SINGLE year! I mean aggregate this over 20 years.

This is nonsense of course. The US economy is considerably larger than 36 trillion USD. The US creates 29 trillion USD of GDP in wealth every single year. But this figure does not account for many other existing assets of the US economy.

The reason is Germany. Germany declared its intention to rearm and warned the markets that this will entail a massive debt orgy. As a result the prices of bonds have fallen across the board as investors dump assets that have lost value. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/germany-defense-government-spending-boost-bund-yields-global-bond-selloff-2025-3

No, it is because the US does not have a debt problem. The strength of the US economy is why people biy US Treasury bonds. Not because they like America so much. In effect the US could easily wipe out its debt. Yes, 36 trillion USD of debt sounds like a lot, but when you factor in that the US creates wealth of 29 trillion USD GDP EVERY SINGLE YEAR, you quickly realise that the US debt is not a problem. If the US wanted, it could pass a tax and wipe out national debt in a few years. However, there is no reason to do so. It is not a problem.

Yah, he has been saying that for the last 5 years.

Amen to that. But you know what I mean. Dating apps suggest this endless ocean of women. But actually the very vast majority of these women are garbage. Pure and simple. You would never even want to date them. Now, do diamonds exist, yes of course they do, but I think you maybe get only 5 or so girls in your lifetime that truly reach the depths of your soul in a way others cannot.

Well, one of the clear aims of Trump is to devalue the dollar to make US exports more competitive. His tariff policy is very coherent with all his aims. If you have 400 billion USD and then someone takes it away, would you want it back? Would you acceed to some demands to get the 400 billion USD back. You probably would. Let's see.

No, Trump has a giant lever. China's 400 billion share of the US market. The Chinese want to be in the US market. Desperately. It's worth 400 billion to them. To say this doesn't exist is just closing your eyes to reality. You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of reality. If you read the New York Times article above, it is clearly of the view that China is hurting now, and will be happy to take a deal from Trump, if he offers one.

As homo sapiens we are one step removed from Bonobos, so we are a highly promiscuous species. Both men AND women, will always be attracted to other people. It's not like we're the only attractive people on the planet, let's not fool ourselves, Rumak. There are a few others. So yes, will your girl be attracted to other guys, of course. Will you be to other girls, of course. The thing is, if you have a partner that is really crazy about you, is a 10 and on top has the relationship skills to work out issues, you'd have to be very foolish to risk that for a temp. I think the first part, they got older and as a man gets older he will settle for that woman, because he knows his days in the sexual market place are over. Neither fame nor wealth is an insurance against a woman's disloyalty as Johnny Depp, Cary Grant, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Tom Brady found out.

Well, the chase can be fun, but let me tell you why it's a problem for me. When I search on Thaifriendly for 18-29 year olds and I see "Oh her, I've done her", "Yes, her, I've done her"...that's priceless. To see the profiles of girls that you've actually mounted. However, my problem with it is that there is soooo much garbage out there. Entitled girls, fat girls, boring girls, narcissist girls, sociopath girls, stupid girls. If you wade through the garbage as much as I have, eventually, you do get tired of wading through garbage.

You generally should always choose a partner who is a 10 to you, because in time this 10 will become an 8. This is just how it works. So if you start with an 8, you'll have a 6 in due course. Women don't get better looking. They don't age like wine, but like bread. Even with a10 of course the relationship will become boring. At some point. Both parties need to understand that they trade the thrill and adventure of the chase, for the shared story, the building of something together, for trust and loyalty. This is the trade off. Boredom and loyalty plus trust or adventure and disloyalty on both sides.

Relationships are deception for a large part. Especially on the part of the woman, who will fake lovey dovey. It's usually fake. We men also fake a lot, let's be honest. However, in your case, the fact that you felt you had to "settle" indicates that you really believe that. So in other words, you think you could have done better. Perhaps you just prefer the chase and adventure, to relationships, there are people who are just not suited to relationships.

Relationships do become boring eventually. However, if both people want to be in that relationship they will find ways to address this issue. The problem we have in Thailand is the language issue, in that meaningful conversations become difficult or impossible. Also because the Thai girl generally is too lazy to do the serious work such relationship maintenance entails. For the most part they want to avoid confrontation and disagreement. Indeed, the easy way out, for both parties, is to seek other partners. However, this would not be a solution, as the process would just start all over again. For the man I don't think it's a good solution, because if you want loyalty then you have to give it yourself. Unless she cheated of course, then all bets are off.

Why does it feel like you had to "settle"?

The thing is, I don't think Trump is "bluffing". He would have no problems to leave giant tariffs on China or anyone else. None at all. However, these countries that depend on exports, unlike the US, such tariffs are major issues for them. Japan has already set up a taskforce to negotiate, Vietnam is offering to stop Chinese passhrough exports. Yes, this is trade piracy, much like British colonialism back in the day, but without the need for invasions, it is still piracy nonetheless. However, most nations have no other choice but to submit, if they don't the losses will be substantial. Maybe smartphones, laptops will be given very minor tariffs, but this would be for domestic US purposes. Indeed, the Chinese can source imports from other countries and will do so of course, however, they cannot substitute a 400 Billion USD market for their export surplus so easily.

Well, it would be 400 billion USD less. Do you think with an economy in trouble suffering from unemployment and real estate scandals this is insignificant to the Chinese? Even without elections Xi knows that he can not risk widespread unemployment and discontent. Chinese are very sensitive to this.

I understand. Plus you like the adventure part, maybe more than the relationship part?