https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenIsrael sees Trump’s deal a ““diplomatic Oct. 7” Israel Can’t Believe Trump’s Total “Capitulation” in Iran Deal Trump’s memorandum of understanding has left those in Israel gobsmacked. Malcolm Ferguson The New Republic: 18 Jun 2026 “Iran came out stronger, and I believe is now the regional hegemon,” former Israeli deputy national security adviser Chuck Freilich said. “They stood up to the U.S., the global superpower. They can have missiles, and there’s nothing in the agreement about the nuclear issue except [that] we’ll talk about it. This is an Iranian victory over the U.S. and Israel.” Ensuring Iran is defenseless and economically crippled has been a priority for Israel for years. Trump’s recent deal all but assured that won’t happen. In the last 48 hours alone, the president has defended Iran’s right to have ballistic missiles, suggested that they should have the right to use nuclear power just like its neighbors, and criticized Israel for its deadly strikes in Lebanon—all which are points within the deal. And while it’s still unclear whether this is a temporary rift or a complete heel turn, this MOU endangers Israel’s long-term goals of a disarmed Iran and an occupied Lebanon.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:48:01 +0000Jonny, you're losing it now. Every day getting more and more irate and more and more outrageous and aggressive and nonsensical.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:41:33 +0000[Opinion. No wonder Israel loves him!] Trump Seriously Compares Himself to Hitler The president made the comments after signing his memorandum of understanding with Iran. Malcolm Ferguson The New Republic: 18 Jun 2026 Trump shared this post on Truth Social, attributed to “Presidential Historian Dave King.” “Donald Trump is, without question, the most powerful man that the planet has ever known- by a long way. Historically, powerful people were characterised by brutal conquest and the fear that they instilled in the populations that came under their influence. Common names that would come to mind are Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Tamburlaine, Napoleon and, more recently, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin,” read the letter. “The overwhelming difference between each of the above when compared with President Trump is their lack of global reach. Their power was limited to restricted local areas (even though some of these areas were quite large in a local context). They had nowhere near the control over modern logistics, manpower, technology, and the global economic muscle that President Trump can enforce. “Hitler repeated Napoleon’s mistake in Russia. Mao and Lenin had access to immense power within the Chinese and Russian populations and some of their satellite states. They maintained this power through fear and authoritarianism. But, they lacked the economic and technology resources of the new industrial power, the USA, which resulted in the Cold War and prevented them from ever having a meaningful global reach,” the letter continued. “Additionally, President Trump is the first leader to be willing to use that power on a global scale. That makes him by far the most powerful person that has EVER walked this planet.”Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:39:52 +0000He didn't lock her up. She pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred. You'll never ever let that get through your skull though. Too inconvenient a fact.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:38:24 +0000Thank you.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:32:58 +0000A bunch of Germans in front of my condo walking to a matchSat, 20 Jun 2026 17:32:34 +0000Ceasefires mean nothing to Israel, a rogue state.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:18:10 +0000Iran needs to write in compensation to the families of each of the families, nilled to Israel. Their war. They started it.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:16:49 +0000Even warmonger Bibi wouldn't be that stupid! He lost the plot before he lost the war. Did he have any idea at all that Iran was just as determined at warmaking as Israel?Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:15:14 +0000Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:13:13 +0000Seriously, this is Iran. Does anybody think regime change would be bloodles and, more importantly, change anything. Stop spurious charges and executions, human rights, rights for women. Even the Iranian Jews aren't support Israel, particularly after they bombed a synagogue.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:11:40 +0000I have adopted a similar approach to resisting any attempt to migrate to BBL's mobile app until such time as BBL tell me that I can no longer use their internet service (which, I hope, will be never)! Back on topic, neither do I have any immediate plans to download and install the THIM app.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:08:53 +0000You know where he had that thumb, right? Up.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:08:06 +0000The BS is your political sloganeering and repeat of intentionally false information. The false claim is that tens of thousands have died in the Lebanon war. You have doubled down on that claim. The statements of involved parties do not support that claim. Even the anti Israel media outlet the Qatar News Agency on 18 June 2026 cites 3,912 total deaths. More than 1/2 of those deaths are Hezbollah fighters. Hezbollah admitted last April that over 1,000 of its military personnel had been terminated. This was public knowledge and was confirmed by Arab media outlet Asharq Al-Awsat https://web.archive.org/web/20260418053239/https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5263615-hezbollah-tallies-its-dead-israel-war-estimates-exceed-1000 Israel says 2500+ Hezbollah military personnel have been terminated. The group launching missiles against Israel are Hezbollah. and it is an illegal military force occupying Lebanon. You are not concerned that Hezbollah has rejected the legal order of the sovereign Lebanese government and operated with near impunity. It was armed and financed by Iran and Syria. You appear to embrace Hezbollah, the same group which kept Assad in power and operated the torture and rape prisons. The double standard you display oozes from you and drips onto the electronic pages of this forum. Iran has done its utmost to block the Lebanese government from disarming the Hezbollah military, and that is what you support. What part of Lebanon being a sovereign country occupied by Hezbollah do you not comprehend? Hezbollah operates as a state within a state. it is a cancer, and you are its defender.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:06:53 +0000It might be wise of somebody muzzled this clown before he makes it worse. Is he tweeting much?Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:06:44 +0000Released and next he'll be stabbing Zionists!Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:05:24 +0000It's always fun when somebody tells the nimwit with the emotional development of a 13-year-old how things really are. She was begging, she was begging, she wanted a picture with the king so bad! Meloni soon responded, saying in a statement to Trump that “these constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless.” “As for my popularity, being your friend certainly has not helped it, nor does it depend on my relationship with you. My popularity depends on my ability to defend Italy’s national interest, and that is exactly what I have always done,” Meloni said in a post on Instagram. She added that “in any case, my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-meloni-nato-italy-g7-photo-ab350c75202462f5da33a1eb0a761dd1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:01:46 +0000As I said, Zitron is fine, but he’s very one dimensional as I already pointed out. More importantly, the issues he focuses on do not address the full spectrum of concerns surrounding AI. He is primarily fixated on Altman, which seems to align with your own preoccupation with Altman’s lies and potential downfall. That, I suspect, is why you place so much importance on Zitron. He reinforces your fixation on Altman, but that does not make him as significant as you portray him. I do not share that fixation, nor do I think Altman is all that important at this stage. Frankly, Altman is no longer the central issue. Whether Zitron continues shouting from the mountaintops about him is unlikely to alter any of the major outcomes one way or another. He is a critic, and sometimes a useful one, but criticism alone is not a solution. What concerns me is the bigger picture: the functional obsolescence of jobs, the risks of AI controlling dangerous systems and weapons, the concentration of power, and the broader societal consequences that could emerge as these technologies become more capable. I cannot hyperfocus on a single individual when he has become only a small piece of a much larger puzzle. For that reason, I would rather listen to people who take a broader view of the situation and spend more time examining what is actually at stake. Eric Schmidt, Roman Yampolskiy, Scott Galloway, Tristan Harris, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton all offer perspectives that I find considerably more valuable than Zitron. If you are genuinely interested in the future of AI beyond your fixation on Altman, I would suggest seeking out interviews, lectures, or podcasts featuring those individuals. What they have to say, and the warnings they are raising about the dangers of AI, strike me as far more significant. By comparison, Zitron seems largely focused on economics, Altman’s shortcomings, and the possibility of OpenAI’s collapse. That is a relatively narrow lens through which to view a challenge as complex and consequential as AI. The future of AI will not be determined by the fate of one executive, and reducing the discussion to Altman risks missing the far larger issues that deserve attention.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:00:05 +0000I blame this on that leftist democrat cult! It's all their fault! It always is. Damned commies...Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:59:31 +0000The holocaust is ancient history? Have you gone insane?Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:58:42 +0000Before taking this any further, in the "search field" in most search engines, when you enter "Moses" (Moshe), you will find plenty of mythology but no proof that Moses ever existed. Modern day archeology has found no evidence that 2 million of jews have laft Egypt wondering around 40 years in the Sinai, before knowing where the "promissed land" was located. Moses would have loved GPS. Although he never reached the "promissed land" during his lifetime. Scholars find it hard to believe that 2 million people can wander around for 40 years with little water and little food. Leaving no archeologigal trace at all. No matter how hard they looked and digged. But it's allright. Christian believes are based on such old testamentary believess, written down by some mid-eastern tribal chiefs, not wearing head protection in a very hot cilmate. Inevitably leading to "hallucinations". We have taken over those "hallucinations". The Catholic church has taken over those "halluscinations" for 1500 years. Knowing well, that the God of Israel would never be the God of the "rest of the world". So it is hard to understand, that the rest of the wold is worshipping the universal "God", when it was clear from the very begiining, that God was only interested in the Israel Tribe, and being totally disinterested what the rest of the world is concerned.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:57:37 +0000Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:57:24 +0000Thank you. 👍🏼✌🏼Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:56:53 +0000Sure....Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:56:45 +000018:4 It's a ratio the Muslims will accept, as the global ratio is 2000:16 Keep it up, speed it up. 🙂Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:55:25 +0000