Jingthing

Alex Jones is one of the worst people ever. However, he is a right wing icon popular with many maga cultists. He is now saying yes he called Biden's cognitive decline, and is now calling Trump's cognitive decline. He predicts a Trump total mental meltdown within 12 months. A reasonably good chance of being true prediction coming from anybody. This is only noteworthy because it's possibly the start of maga people going there about Trump.

That kinds of pales in comparison to Trump repeatedly claiming drug prices have gone down thousands of percent. With a straight face. The man dictating an insane tariff policy because he knows numbers better than anybody.

Maga types are definitely the experts on clownery.

Yes, he's a narcissistic moron. Normally people might say, yes but he's OUR moron. But in this case, it's more like he's PUTIN's moron.

Seems to have a dull personality compared the super playful Moo Deng.

For whatever reasons you're right. Putin can always count on his poodle.

Yes and no. The war at this point is not ready for talks even though the narcissist in D.C. is pushing them for the sake of his bizarre thirst for a Nobel Prize ASAP. At a macro level neither side is going to win with their military. Both are trying and waiting for the other society (economy, infrastructure, morale, new recruits, etc.) to fall apart and not be able to continue to sustain the war. Trump could crush Russia with secondary sanctions and really help Ukraine to win but he won't because he's Putin's poodle. Even if the timing ends up with Russia winning, Russia will still be paying a big long term price for the mistake of invading in the first place.

Trump has been clear that he wants to be FEARED by his own people. He's succeeded in that. Very un-American.

Putin's maximalist goals haven't changed one bit -- to make Ukraine not a country. Your posts smell of you agreeing with that.

If there ever are more fair peace talks, most likely Ukraine will end up needing to accept some occupation of their lands without ever acknowledging that as legal, final, or legitimate. That gives them hope of reversal 50 years from now which isn't unheard of. But they'll never give up lands that Russia hasn't already occupied. But we're nowhere even close to Russia offering a fair deal.

Russia won't agree to any real security guarantees. This peace "negotiation" is basically finished already. Trump's idiotic mistake was pushing for talks prematurely before doing what needed to be done to further weaken Russia with more arms aid for Ukraine and crushing secondary sanctions. That's the only way Putin will ever enter talks fairly. He needs to be forced. Instead he has a poodle in Washington.

He will if he thinks he'll get away with it. A Russian missile deep into Poland yesterday. Poland responds with a stern toothless letter. That's weak and Putin is all about exploiting weakness.

That's absurd. Putin doesn't want peace. He wants surrender. For Ukraine to give up large parts of land Russia hasn't even occupied would be insane and they won't do it. Russia has gained about 1 percent more land in 1000 days! On the other hand Ukraine is rapidly chipping away at Russia's oil refining capacity. There is much more to this war than the front lines. Ukraine has cards.

Your disdain for Ukraine mirrors Putin and Trump.

He may indeed be a "bad" f-rang but I think as expats we should be favoring fair treatment for all involved in such "international incident" tragedies. Obviously justice for the victim and her family but also reasonably fair and equal to Thais treatment in the justice system for the accused. It seems as if he's probably be going to be treated worse just for being a foreigner. No foreigner here should think that's a good thing.