Well the thing is that he does have a point. Since the end of the cold war in the early 1990s, many European countries have subjected their militaries to an endless series of budget cuts. That wouldn't have worked without relying on Uncle Sam coming to their rescue, unconditionally and in a heartbe...

I would love to be involved in a YouTube channel about true crime stories in South East Asia. That would quite interesting. I only know of one serial killer in Thailand. Years ago I met a young man in Taiwan. He came to study Chinese from Seattle. Within a year he could read novels written in tradi...

Putin is kind of like Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Dugin is like the leader of the church of Scientology.

bigoted racist Putin is "racist"? The leader of a heterogeneous state? The heterogeneous-ness of Russia would qualify as a Soviet-Russian concept in line with the old mythology Putin continues babbling about... It's all in his mind. So, I should say, he's a typical solipsistic narcissist ...

Yes, I took a couple of Couchsurfers there just for the view a few months ago... Finding the entryway was quite fun. I asked a woman working at a kiosk on the side street where it was, and she pointed up the alley there behind... But it is a long long walk up a lot of stairs, haha... Fabulous view o...

I am tired of Putin. Liar, murderer, bigoted racist, idiotic fantasist... Charlie Chaplin knows the way forward... https://youtu.be/RBPtYGV205Q?si=oignpYgjS7xozPuc https://i.postimg.cc/m2J3sF82/Screenshot-20240210-1139182.jpg free photo host If Spain invaded Portugal and said, "Oh, 800 years ag...

So... Typical ...go for the small fish... There are thousands of Chinese mobsters right now in Sihanoukville, lol ... Same old, same old ... Nobody cares If you have money, that's enough to buy the appearance of middle-class respectability... If you are poor, you're just a scum-bum and a whore-monge...

Nobody else notices this phenomenon?

I am in Sihanoukville this weekend.

...on the beach north of town: OMG, just fresh breeze, clean air and it makes me want to move back to a cheap room and who cares if there are no women here not controlled by Chinese shysters...

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Nowhere is safe. Period. Cambodia on its own of course feels safer than many places around the world, especially in comparison to big UK and American cities. But feeling safe and being safe is not the same thing. Anything can happen, even if one is cautious. On the global scale. Nothing is to stop C...

The article below pretends the government is doing something about the environment. The air in south Phnom Penh is much less good than this article purports... https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501433989/cambodia-thailand-vow-to-prevent-environmental-pollution-to-protect-public-health/ " The Ministe...