bradiston

She'll never be her own woman, just her father's puppet. Unlike her aunt who had some balls.

What's 500mg? Miligrams? And a CPU can't search for anything. It's a chip. But you can search on your friend Google or ask around for IPTV services. But even then there may be problems. I'm on 3bb with in theory a 300 Mbps download speed. I get about 170 most of the time. Recently I get endless buffering. 3bb say it's the streaming service. They say it's my ISP. Could be my TV box. But it's nothing to do with my TV.

That was then. This is now. We're talking about the current situation, the invasion of Ukraine. I've laid out my feelings about it and Putin. I don't get the guys who shout out for Putin because they don't like NATO. Or the US. Or some other feature of western civilization (the Uffizzi? Rome? Mozart? Shakespeare? The Grateful Dead? Democracy? Whatever!). It's irrelevant unless you're really prepared to back up your point of view and go and join the Russian army. Playing devil's advocate is just a counsel of despair. There's everything to fight for. To hell with Putin. He's a frigging menace.

Not a single cut and paste there. I was alive throughout the post war cold war. You don't know your history at all. There can't be many people around now who were alive during WWII, certainly not to write about it, so that's a silly remark. Were you in Europe during the cold war even? You still have faith in Russian leaders? Why? I know why people argue the Russian side. Because they hate their own country's, or America's, politicians/politics. That's not the same thing as a vote for Putin, at all. Putin is a menace. I don't think there's anyone else on the planet, apart from the North Korean nut, who comes close.

What Russia did was to invade Poland alongside Hitler under the guise of the Molotov/Ribbentrop non aggression pact. It was only because Hitler got it into his insane head to invade Russia later on that Russia even ended up fighting against him. Russia didn't liberate eastern European countries from Nazism. They occupied them and merged them with the Soviet Union. Churchill and Roosevelt sold out eastern Europe to Stalin, and it stayed that way until 1991 when the Berlin wall came tumbling down and with it, the USSR. Twice Russia reinvaded eastern Europe, in 1956 in Hungary and in 1968 in Prague. And remember Lech Walesa and the struggle for liberation from the hated soviets? The Stasi in East Germany? Ceaucescu in Romania? The utterly corrupt puppet central Asian states? You have no idea.

Look, I'm sick of the "what about the US". It's irrelevant. It's Putin. He's wrong. End of. If you can't see that it's pointless arguing.

You don't say what the deal was being offered. In fact, I don't think there even was one. Johnson outs any bum deal, not any one in psrticular. And why should Ukraine accept "a deal" from Russia? They are, and were, a sovereign nation. Putin seems to be operating behind his new imagined "iron curtain". Pining for his KGB status. Surely the most despised man on the planet.

Women are voting with their eggs.

Their revenue comes from paying passengers, not from themselves. But it's very revealing what you say about KL. That must be a huge blow to Sreetha's hub fantasy. And tourism in general. But what's so appealing about KL? Landing fees? Slot fees? Connectivity? Hubsworth? BKK really was a hub at one time. Fly in, fly out anywhere you chose. And amongst the cheapest long haul destinations. Remember the good old days? Lot, Aeroflot, Tarom? 6 hours in Warsaw airport? Overnight in Moscow with a city tour included? Fags, booze, no phones. Just adrenalin!

My daughter usually visits from the UK at peak season, but as we're selling our property here, I'm working on meeting halfway or thereabouts. Maybe Turkey, or Central Asia. This place has had it!

Do you have a shred of evidence for any of your statements above? What deal? What visit? What textbook are you reading from?

I disagree. None of those alliances include military support. BRICS is just a trade agreement. Russia's on its own. Their actions in Ukraine are and were unilateral and unsupported. Russia has great mineral wealth so all those countries pay lip service for cheap oil etc. It's an utterly corrupt kleptocracy. And does anybody really understand why Putin invaded? The result, after 2 years of appalling bloodshed and destruction, is pretty much as it was. Except now Ukraine for sure will join NATO and Europe. It's cost trillions, taking into account the world wide impact. Sheer lunacy.

Could be embarrassing if they find the governors are up to their necks in it.

This is not about him.

No they're not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War Everybody has their own widely differing estimates. But it seems both sides have suffered huge losses, anywhere from 300,000 to 450,000.

It's not just the defence of Europe. You want to live under a putinesque regime? No, nor do I. He can't have many years left. Maybe 5? Then what? Sure, Ukraine's running low on armaments. Not the point. Russia takes on virtually the whole world? I don't think so. The threat would be enough. Send him packing. He's not going to drop any bomb. He's got his billions stashed. What does he care? Can't take them with him. Same with Kim. He's only interested in maintaining his family's control of North Korea. If it gets blown to kingdom come, so does that.

Well, everybody's talking about WWIII, which I think is highly inappropriate. Russia has no military allies, except maybe North Korea. China's not interested. Japan and South Korea are totally western aligned, and could launch attacks in the east of Russia. Can't see any African or south American states getting involved. With the whole of Europe and the US, Japan, South Korea, Australia, new Zealand , Canada, Turkey's NATO so wouldn't have much choice, then various central Asian states who've had enough of post soviet domination, that's a lot of fire power. India? Forget it! And as for nuclear, I never believed Putin's threats. MAD. Hardly a world war. I can't see Putin taking on that lot. His army's and armaments almost exhausted. Now would be a good time to kick his butt to hell.

Nah. Just looking at various scenarios. I'm fascinated to see how this plays out now. Sure, I was incensed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine but now? What can I do? Let the European politicians deal with Putin.

And the Baltic countries who have been screaming at the rest of the EU since way before this war broke out about the Russian threat to their borders. They suffered under soviet communism like central Europe. Fortunately their memories are longer than Hungary's, for instance.

Their western borders were already secure. This is just a land grab and total destruction of Ukraine. Securing their borders my ass. And what was Medvedev shouting about recently? The whole of Ukraine is Russian? Anybody that cant read Putin's real intentions is blind. Expansion and control. Europe is paralysed with fear. Caught in the headlights. Terrified, in short. The most shocking post WWII capitulation to the old soviet bloc.

Met a girl last night who lost her baby after her Thai bf punched her in the stomach. The most the girls can hope for is a no show.

Wow. That's some encroachment. Forget about a couple of steps and kickbacks, or kicks in the back.

So where will they stop Russia? Calais?

They've been outed along with every land office in the country. Nice little earner with backhanders galore. Now the wheels have all come off and for foreigners, it's man the lifeboats. We're going down! Apologies for the mixed metaphor.

What gives you that impression? Sunak? Huh? Leyden? Seriously? Seems like you have the mentality, not them. Pure projection. They wouldn't even send troops or air cover to Ukraine let alone nuclear weapons. Never called Nukin's bluff. Now he's rehearsed for a full on European invasion.