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  1. How long has Trump been president now? Like 5-6 months? So much for his promise to end the Ukraine war on day 1 of his presidency. And just to show how useless Trump really is, Russia launched a massive drone strike on Kyiv just minutes after his lengthy talk with Putin. Must have been Putin’s way to tell Trump to go back to the kiddie corner, where he belongs.
  2. Trump spoke to Putin for 1,5 hours, without any result. What a shocker. And right after their talk, Russia launched a massive drone attack on Ukraine. Seems to me that was Putin’s way to tell Trump to go eff himself.
  3. More like Trump spoke and Rutte continuously kissed Trump’s @ss.
  4. I bet there is at least one. His avatar starts with frank and ends with 83628.
  5. The latest election was in November 2023. It took a long time of negotiations to form a government, which was finally installed on July 2 last year. Other than cutting budgets and quarreling endlessly, they accomplished very little to nothing. On June 5, the leader of the biggest party pulled the plug. New election will be at the end of October this year.
  6. I assume this was the idea of the (then) government of The Netherlands. Like other (far) right wing governments, they decided to cut foreign aid, close down half of the embassies and cut the budget of foreign affairs and the diplomatic corps. Fortunately, though, that government has recently fallen, and there will be new elections. Hopefully there will be a more moderate and stable government then, and they will cancel the decision to sell that iconic embassy. Fingers crossed.
  7. Whatever, dude. Even if The Netherlands were ‘just’ the world’s fifth largest exporter of agricultural products, it would still be quite the accomplishment for such a ‘small and unimportant country’.
  8. Maybe check your facts first before posting rubbish. The Netherlands may be a small country, but it’s hardly unimportant. For one thing, it’s the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural products.
  9. And MAGA keeps pushing the ‘Biden crime family’ lie….
  10. Trump wanting to force out every last Palestinian, wanting to build hotels and resorts there, creating a new ‘Riviera’ and making billions and billions of dollars wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with this ‘warning’, right?
  11. “Soft power option are available.” At the risk of seeming even more ignorant than you apparently already think I am: what is a ‘soft power option’? Because I have no idea what that means. I do appreciate your input, though.
  12. I will be in Thailand for 6 months, from October until the end of March 2026. If I like living there, I will be applying for a non-O retirement visa when I get back home. Applying for a non-O now is not an option, since I am not retired yet. I don’t think I qualify for a DTV, since I am neither a digital nomad nor a remote worker. Or does anyone know a way around this? Apparently they don’t do Special Tourist Visas at the Thai embassy in The Netherlands (I’m Dutch), so that doesn’t seem to be an option either. I guess what remains is the ordinary 60-day tourist visa, which I then have to extend twice while in Thailand. Is that possible, or would I have to do a visa run? Would really appreciate your input and/or advice.
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