AndreasHG

Not by the Iranian people. They are in no mood to forget anything done by the regime. But your comment will surely be forgotten, and you with it.

It's time for the EU to wake up to the new reality, and the dangers arising both from the East (Russia, China), and the West (Trump and the electorate supporting him). But together the EU countries can and will fend off any aggression to its territorial integrity and independence.

RIP Jamshid Sharmahd. You won't be forgotten.

Russia can only lead among the EAEU nations, i.e. five post-Soviet states located in Eurasia (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, plus Russia). Its place in the world is 37th.

I worked here for an American Fortune 500 company twenty years ago. My job brought me elsewhere again and again, but I knew a time would come for me to come back here and settle down. It's far from perfect but there are too many things to love about Thailand, starting from the food and its people.

I hope the Thai government makes something out of this proposal. It seems sensible to me. similar to what is done in many other countries, starting with the Netherlands and the Bahamas, where public owned land is available as leasehold.

Add an appreciating Thai baht and the zero import duties on BEVs from China and the recipe for disaster is completed.

It has been extended quite some time ago. Electric Vehicles | Department of Energy

Any evidence supporting this statement? Because reality points to a different direction.

Usual Trump's bombastic rhetoric, while perfectly knowing which side his bread is buttered on. No worries: Tesla will keep on making profits on regulatory credits (31% of Tesla EBITDA from 2016 to the end of Q3-2024), federal EV tax credits ($7,500 per vehicle), Space X will keep on entering into profitable supply contracts with NASA and the Pentagon, X Corp. and xAI Corp. will still benefit from a lenient regulatory environment. A win-win.

If you know the Millgram Experiment, you surely also know that each experiment lasted 50 minutes only, but you conveniently decided to ignore this fact. If it has proved easy to push a person to obey for 50 consecutive minutes, in an unexpected and unusual situation, to antisocial orders, the decision of consciously having children takes a long time, sometimes a decade or more, and it is usually a decision taken by two people. And it really takes a lot of idiocy to stick to a decision, we would otherwise reverse, for such a long time based on brainwashing only. Said this, I acknowledge there are a lot of idiots around, for the simple reason that the idiots' mothers tend to be pregnant all the time (grasping contraception is beyond their ability). But I doubt they are so many to cause a demographic crisis, in Thailand or anywhere else for that matter.

I experienced firsthand the benefits of Thailand ASEAN membership and of the organization's evolution. One example is export of electric/electronic products from Thailand to Indonesia. Due to the now abolished Indonesian high import duties on Thai products, all trade was done through smugglers located in Singapore. Legitimate businesses were cornered and effectively pushed out of the market. The situation was such that some products were even smuggled back into Thailand, due to the way the tax was structured in the country, damaging legitimate businesses in both Thailand and Indonesia, to the sole benefit of Singaporean bootleggers. Just like in the EU, the elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers among the ASEAN members has served as a catalyst for greater efficiency in production and long-term competitiveness. True, for most of the farang living in Thailand nothing apparently changed. But if today we can buy a television set, a computer or a washing machine at affordable prices in Thailand, this is due to the lower tariffs ASEAN countries agreed upon. 20 years ago this was not the case.

And Trump is taking care of it...

I never doubted that, in democracy, candidates faithfully reflect the qualities of the voters. And from what I can see America is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The result of an educational system that is failing the country and is incapable of 'making citizens'. On the bright side, tirants ar usually much worse than their subjects. A good reason to stick to democracy no matter what.

I heard they are classified as "threatened" on the endangered species list, dangerously veering towards extinction.

Generally speaking, smart people do not allow anything to be pushed upon them, nor to be "instructed" with regards to how they conduct their lives; especially on how many children they have. Smart people choose. Idiots are "instructions" takers (and usually become serendipitous parents when proper "instructions" are not timely given). When it comes to Thai people, they tend to be in average pretty smart, and perfectly capable of deciding by themselves what's best for them, with or without 'the "save the planet" crap'. But I understand this is a very subjective matter: who you are, what you do or have done in life, and who you spend your time with, determines whether you believe people are only meant to passively execute the "instructions" coming from the high above, or to consciously choose how to conduct their lives. In my opinion, most of the people choose.

One of the too many bloodthirsty nutters Russia produced in its not so long history.

20 years ago, this thing was unknown. Today it is ubiquitous, and one serving can add 300 to 700 calories to the daily diet, depending on serving size, flavor and topping. Daily intake required by a woman 160cm tall, little or no exercise, weighting 50 kg and aiming at maintaining it, is around 1,500 calories/day.

XI Jinping and the CCP are also good reasons to leave China or, at least, take some money out of it and build a comfy nest out of their reach. China is currently losing wealthy individuals and families by the thousands (https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/henley-private-wealth-migration-report-2024/crazy-rich-moves-breaking-down-asias-millionaire-migration-flows). The richest Chinese prefer the US, Canada, Singapore, but also Australia, Europe or wherever there is no extradition to China. Middle class Chinese have fewer options and that’s where Thailand comes into the picture. From shoe-box apartments in Bangkok to villas on the Thai coast line, these investments are insurance policies against anything that can go wrong in China. And things went very wrong many times in China, as the Chinese diasporas around the world prove.

A loser who could sit in the White House for the second time. A clear sign that the Constitution is aging and failing the American people. Gerrymandering and the presidential election are the two issues that need to be resolved.

But the forces who shall support Harris are dependent on the perceived qualities of the Dem candidate...

Do you mean this one? It isn't named and shamed for obvious reasons.

Unfortunately, many farang are just wrecks standing on their last leg here in Thailand, especially in Pattaya and Sukhumvit soi 11. A real embarrassment to all the decent farangs out there.

Jail is surely the place to which Trump belongs, but 14 days before elections? That sounds like desperation to me...