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USA immigration and customs enforcement ,protecting the homeland…News
A continuous story based on arrests & from the the ICE MISSION -
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Canada looks to Germany to offset Trump tariff agenda
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Trump: The Big Beautiful Failure
Anyone who believes that toxic nut job woman is nuttier than she is, -
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Accident Brit Now Faces 10yrs in Jail After Pattaya Crash Death
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Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025
These are my own words and thoughts, based on observation, historical context, and current events. I referenced Medicare and Social Security because most of the (now very few) members of the Thai Visa Forum are American, so I thought the analogy would resonate. The statistics I used came from ChatGPT, sourced after reading an article in the New York Times discussing China’s growing military supremacy especially in shipbuilding. Yet my central point remains largely unaddressed, except through dismissive abuse: the world’s direction of travel is shifting, fast and not in the West’s favor. And that’s without even bringing climate change into the discussion. Russia, for example, stands to gain from a warming climate, while southern Europe quite literally burns. Western democracies are weighed down by the political necessity of keeping voters happy, even as the economic "cake" shrinks and rapidly. This limits long-term strategic thinking. The populist right is increasingly divided between "Country First" isolationism and movements actively stoked by Russian psychological operations Brexit and Trump being two clear examples. Many on that side are now openly questioning why we’re spending our declining resources and weapons stockpiles supporting Ukraine in what they see as a Slavic civil war. As for Russia, Churchill once described it as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” That still holds. But what’s clear is that we are standing at an epochal inflection point: Western values, and the ability to project them on the world stage, are in retreat. If you can’t see that, it suggests a failure of strategic analysis. And frankly, I can’t help you with that. Oh, and by the way tanks are basically dinosaurs. A £5 million Challenger can now be taken out by a £500 drone. Another “Wunderwaffe” that was supposed to change the course of the war but didn’t. Just like the rallying cries to “unleash the Leopards” or send the F-16s. Where are they now? Oh and I forgot the Bradleys and the M1 Abrhams and the rest of the menagerie of western kit that didn't deliver in theatre but then wise souls always said they wouldn't. -
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