beautifulthailand99

He's served in the armed forces and you ?

Probably adeptly balancing east and west and not letting extreme nationalist forces push the Maidan 'coup' egged on by the US and the EU. Realpolitik when you live next door to the Bear and the US is a poor friend when they are done with you. Which is where we are now, a ruined Ukraine and a ruined Ukrainian economy with a demographic time bomb - the millions who have left will probably never return and a West edging their way to the exit smiling with a good luck and a wave. As Milley said in an interview with the FT last week America is done with forever wars. That Boris was sent to scupper a messy peace deal brokered in Istanbul and persuade Zelenskiy to crack on is a criminal act in my book it's not as if the west didn't know what Putin and Russia were capable of. Just look at Grozny, Allepo and the like, and he did them whilst he was our 'friend'. The real obstacle to any deal is not so much domestic support as finding a trustworthy negotiating partner. “For negotiations to work, you need a tango,” the senior government official said. “War is actually quite successful for Putin. What is his reason to stop?” A Ukrainian military-intelligence source suggested that current rates of equipment and ammunition use might force both sides to a temporary ceasefire some time next year. But it would be only a pause, he says: there is little confidence in a lasting deal as long as Mr Putin is alive. “We know he hates Ukraine and our freedom. We are a bad example for his society.” For Ms Manukhina, the suggestion of waiting for a change in the Russian leadership brings her to tears. She says the little people, like her, are being forgotten. “If we are going to wait until Putin dies, all of our guys will perish. If nothing else is working, we must negotiate.” https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/02/22/after-two-years-of-war-ukrainians-are-becoming-pessimistic

In the UK now we knew a lot of Thai families and most can't afford to go home any more particularly those still working so when you factor in all the families that have their handouts when they land.

So today, every human being can add two new reasons to end the war. Today, the number of Gazans killed reached 30,000. And Palestinians in northern Gaza fought over aid trucks – some were looters, others were probably starving, or maybe the looters were starving. A stampede ensued, killing some; IDF forces, in a related or discrete event nearby, felt threatened and killed others. As of this writing, at least 112 Palestinians are dead, over 700 wounded. Social media can battle out which side killed how many, but I know the truth: the war killed all of them. It has to stop. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-02-29/ty-article/.highlight/30-000-dead-a-stampede-of-the-starving-hostages-dying-the-war-in-gaza-has-to-end/0000018d-f621-d72b-a18d-f7f12cd10000

Simon Jenkins absolutely nailing it here. Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of Ukraine. As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process. Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/nato-ukraine-russia-germany-military-leak

Looking like the Houthis may have cut internet cables and have certainly sunk a British ship. The US coalition seems to be deadly quiet. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/stricken-ship-attacked-by-houthi-rebels-sinks-in-red-sea

The media often fails to mention the time Donald “Buddha” Trump became a wandering ascetic and religious teacher in South Asia during the 5th century BC. His teachings and writings would even lead to the foundation of Buddhism.

Donald Trump and the Pilgrims take to the shores of Plymouth - 1620, colorized. He has been a pivotal figure at the great moments in history.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html The destruction of cables in the Red Sea comes weeks after the official Yemeni government warned of the possibility that Houthi rebels would target the cables. The Iranian-backed militants have already disrupted global supply chains by attacking commercial vessels in the crucial waterway. An F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet parked on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. Related article Inside the US Navy’s frontline fight against the Houthis in the Red Sea Reports last week from Israeli news outlet Globes suggested the Houthis had been behind the damage to the cables. Yemeni rebel leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi denied the allegations. “We have no intention of targeting sea cables providing internet to countries in the region,” he said. The Houthis have since blamed British and US military units operating in the area for the damage, according to a report Saturday by the rebels’ official news agency.

https://archive.is/L6JrZ

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/04/german-leaks-british-troops-at-risk-tip-of-iceberg/ German military leaks that have put British troops at risk could be the tip of the iceberg, Berlin’s former intelligence chief warned on Monday night. August Hanning said more Nato secrets may have been compromised after Russia intercepted and published a video call disclosing military information, telling Bild newspaper: “This leak could have been just the tip of the iceberg.” On Monday, sources claimed that Russia had identified Germany as the “weakest link” in Nato and was using Olaf Scholz as a “useful idiot”. The German chancellor was under major pressure on Monday after the German air force accidentally leaked details of British “troops on the ground” in Ukraine in an unsecure video conference call. Meanwhile, security experts warned that Britain was not ready for a “high-casualty scenario” if a wider conflict broke out in Europe. Experts from the Rusi think tank said contingency plans were “ill-suited” to dealing with returning injured soldiers and the possibility of attacks closer to British soil.

Or more accurately, they are all genocides in the eyes of reasonable people. It's not a race to the bottom.

whey should he !

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/un-watch/ Overall, we rate UN Watch Right Biased based on information and political positions that favor the right and Mostly Factual due to the use of poor sources that have failed fact checks.

Off topic deflection.

I had thought she was useless, but israel's horrific genocidal war crimes are sticking in the craws of their most fervent backers. Stop arming israel that would be a good start - that and a ceasefire and humanitarian aid.

Just imagine Russia was doing this and what are leaders and press would be saying. Just imagine because they aren't doing that but Israel is. For many folks, this is a real mask off moment where the hollow words of democracy and justice and civilisation stick in the mouths of those uttering them so much so that those they would have us believe them no longer do.

Scholz may not be the ideal person to handle this issue, but it is qualitatively different to that of France and the UK. Aside from the historical legacy of the 20th century, not only the German public but German industry are wary of upsetting the bear. It would take a Bismarck to resolve this. Schroder and Merkel may have gone too far in their cosy relations with Russia, but at least there was a dialogue which the UK at least appears not to entertain at all. And sooner or later there will have to be a negotiated solution or continue the needless slaughter in both sides and the prospect of a Trump win. The tragedy of Ukraine was to put their trust in the west and believe their "promises" of as long as it takes, which Biden has now changed for as long as we can.

Hamas speaks directly to Channel 4.

Times Radio pundit saying it might be a Trump landslide in November. Also known as the Putin/Netanyahu put - both of whom are praying for that result. It would seem both have spent wisely to game that result. Democracies nearly dead. "83% of people who voted for Biden in 2020 said they would vote for him again in 2024. If that's the case. If that's true, then you are looking at a Trump landslide."

Is Douglas Murray in the room with you at the moment, or the millions of Muslims slaughtered under Western bombs and bullets in the last 30 years ? These events are the bitter fruits of devil seeds planted by ourselves. Never mind the million Algerians killed by France to boot. It's Europeans who slaughtered Jews in their millions in death factories, not the Arabs. They just lost their land.

Some no doubt are, I do, but it would be crazy to try and turn back the clock to what has happened, and it was in a different moral era. That doesn't excuse the terrible, casual racism and victim blaming that many Australians seem to exhibit towards them, though. Israel's problem is they didn't go far enough, and in the living memory of many who were violently affected by the founding of the state.

Yup, pretty much so - except the white, mostly criminal colonial settlers genocided the indigenous people and subsequently gerrymander their own land rights over those that lived there before. In the case of Tasmania, it was 100%. If you are to successfully colonize a 'new' land, then genocide and ethnic cleansing seem essential to achieve that goal. Taking the Zionist logic and applying it to other countries, surely Israel should be fighting for justice for the displaced native people of all lands, not just their own. But they're not.

Agreed, and he has posted from that before as well. I do unlike many others bother to read the links. And I should add other sites I frequent that would be an instant perma ban. Period.

Forgive me for questioning the veracity of the survey, it wasn't done by an independent survey company but directly by the Campaign Against anti-Semitism about whom there are doubts to their independence from advancing Israeli foreign policy. From the link you provided In common with the NJCS, the samples were self-selecting, and respondents were required to self-identify as Jewish and confirm that they lived in the United Kingdom. Like the NJCS, they were contacted primarily through ‘seed’ organisations, including religious bodies, Jewish online networks (including targeted advertising on social networks), and community welfare organisations, among others. It was not possible to use a random probability sampling approach for this study because a suitable sampling frame for the Jewish population is not available in the UK. So rather like those Twitter polls representative of those that bothered to put themselves forward. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/04/uk-charities-watchdog-assesses-concerns-about-campaign-against-antisemitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Against_Antisemitism In January 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism wrote: "We were somewhat disappointed to note that not all of the messages from that group [CAA] have been in line with CST's stated approach of seeking to avoid undue panic and alarm." They added "it is important that the leadership do not conflate concerns about activity legitimately protesting Israel's actions with antisemitism, as we have seen has been the case on some occasions."[46] That same month, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research said that a CAA survey about antisemitism was "littered with flaws", and "may even be rather irresponsible".[47] After criticism by CAA of Shami Chakrabarti over her 2016 report into antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, a number of British Jews wrote to The Guardian dissociating themselves from what they described as "the pro-Israel lobbyists of the Campaign Against Antisemitism".[48][citation needed]