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I'm easily amused but Mexico is my current top backup option.

No worries.

Conspiracy theory.

I did. Long ago corrected if you had read the thread. Bye.

Isn't Airbnb in decline because people are sick of being expected to do cleaning and maintenance unlike fun hotels where you can trash the place with impunity?

Welcome to Thailand. Everything and Everybody is Wonderful!

That would be The Russia led by The Putin.

Actually it is for Americans but more like older country as a huge chunk of the US was previously Mexico. Americans buy more hot salsa than ketchup these days.

Very true. Could have been much much worse. Imagine if they had deported some or all of them to Russia. It would have instantly become big news internationally and Thailand would have looked very very bad as far as a safe and friendly place for foreigners. Russia already looks very very bad so no worries there.

Alternatives are still there. Thailand is excellent but still has the huge drawback of no path to perm residency via retirement status. Ecuador did get high crime quickly due to cartels but I'm hearing most expats are not leaving as they don't live in the hot spots. In Colombia, mmurders have spiked in Medellin and Cartegena mostly of men getting drugged while dating. Places like Armenia, Manizales, and Bucaramonga still offer safer and lower cost high quality options. However Colombia retirement visa became much more work to get even though financial requirements still very low. Costs have gone up in Mexico even in Merida. Financial requirements now very very high but still doable probably for most with a retirement nest egg. Panama remains top rated for good reasons and permanent retirement residence only 1k usd per month needed. However rents in Panama City, Coronado, even Boquette way beyond low budget level so people are moving to more local places like Chitre and Las Tablas. Personally if I had to leave Thailand my current list would include Cambodia, Philippines, Mexico, and Panama.

Fair point. Thailand wouldn't care either way. They seem inclined to keep on the good side of Putin.

Great that Europe is stepping up. A horrible stain of treasonous shame on the rasical US isolationist maga party led by adjudicated rapist Trump for blocking the US aid to Ukraine.

If Putin wins they won't be Ukrainian men anymore. He hopes to swallow up Ukraine into Russia.

Misinformation

It's great news that they weren't deported back to long prison sentences to Putin's Russia but this still smells fishy. If it was an Irish band with no political message with the same alleged permit violation would they have been deported? I doubt it.

Total bull. There are a lot of anti Putin Russians in Thailand now so there is a market for anti Putin bands.

Adjudicated rapist Donald J Trump.

In your opinion.

The Magas are shooting themselves in the foot with this insanity. Swift will continue to encourage her Swifties to register to vote and when the time comes she will actively endorse Biden over the adjudicated rapist maga fascist buffoon. That was going to happen anyway but now they've magnified the impact. What new support do they get by dissing Swift and the Swifties? Zero. They just massage their bizarro cult. That will not lead to a happy ending for them.

Your rhetoric is just like Iran and Hamas. The Israeli experiment?!? Israel is sovereign nation state. It's not an "experiment" any more than Australia is an experiment.

They're not conservatives. They're maga cultists. Most of the republican party is now maga but old style conservatives still exist, some republicans, some indendents, and even some democrats.

As maga man said himself -- he loves the poorly educated.

Yes plenty.

He made it clear he was not saying collusion didn't happen. You can trumpy spin that however you like. The Kremlin's man was Trump and still is.

Bangkok has good pho.