beautifulthailand99

I'm feeling bigly covfefe , thanks for asking !

The storm is coming prepare well.

As a British taxpayer I paid towards those - for the expat Thai armchair generals cheering on from their bar stools moaning about Thai tax I will receive donations.

This Economist article I've just read aligns with my general thoughts on the subject. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/01/12/the-houthis-have-survived-worse-than-americas-and-britains-strikes It could also strengthen their hand in peace talks with Saudi Arabia. A few years ago the Saudis might have cheered Western strikes on the Houthis. Today they are in the awkward position of calling for calm, lest the group decide to expand its campaign by targeting Gulf states with missiles or drones (as they have done hundreds of times in the past). The events of the past two months will reinforce to the Saudis why they want to cut a deal and end their war—even if it leaves the Houthis as the dominant force in Yemen. America does not want to be dragged into another long Middle Eastern conflict. The Houthis have no such qualms. They outlasted Mr Saleh, who fought a series of brutal counter-insurgency campaigns against them. They exhausted the Saudi-led coalition. And now they are no doubt pleased to have drawn America into its own open-ended operation. ■

It was a sarky comment but with an element of truth. He has hundreds of Trump 2.0 power brokers who are coalescing around him to share the spoils and keep him from breaking too much but they want blood. Woke marxits dems will do and will need to watch their backs should he win. The Biden administration reversed the Trump administration’s order upon assuming office in 2021, but Trump has vowed to reinstitute an expanded version of the Schedule F order if he is reelected in 2024, converting as many as 50,000 civil servants into political appointees and stripping them of the career protections that they currently enjoy. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/20/trump-civil-service-00132459

That would be the woke Marxist Democrat controlled civil service. Trump 2.0 sorts all of that out.

I love foxes - indeed I feed them back in the UK. Much misunderstood creatures.

Yup remember the Taliban that the US was going to get rid of and usher in a new Afghanistan - that worked out well. The Houthis look like them crossed with North Korea.

I wouldn't have put it so bluntly or framed it in the way you do but your heart is in the right place. I have no time for Islamic terrorism but in the same breath no time for Israel's belligerent posturings in the Levant. If they want to fight and jews internationally want to support them financially and morally fair enough. But many of us in the west have had enough of open ended commitments that bring blow back to the home front. ... I note that all the armchair generals in Thailand want us in their home countries to fund these endless wars when we have problems enough of our own.

You may have mistaken Jeremy Corbyn's magic money tree for economic reality - it's all about money in the end. If you are effectivley bust as a country you don't get to do what you want. The news that Britain's armed forces are woefully understaffed and underfunded should be no surpise to anybody and this is where we are. Russia/China must be loving this drama unfold as it threatens to pull in western forces into a regional conflict.

Actually Britain's ability to sucesfully prosecute a war in the seas is a key point in understanding and predicting the response otherwise the debate is just fatuous postering. From that article ; However, the former head of the Navy cautioned that there was a “general lack of understanding of the capability of an aircraft carrier” in response to the recent strikes.‌ “It’s extraordinary that when things started hotting up in the Red Sea region there wasn’t the immediate move to send an aircraft carrier there,” Lord West said. ‌“If we had an aircraft carrier there we could have had 24 aircraft only 100 miles from Yemen ready to go at any moment and reattack.”

What a farce Britain can't send it's aircraft carrier due to staffing issues and yet Sunak just announced 2.5bn for Ukraine - this is how countries die. There have been calls to send HMS Queen Elizabeth, the UK’s £3 billion aircraft carrier to the region, as part of the Carrier Strike Group (CSG), which is made up of a ring of advanced warships, submarines, helicopters and fifth generation fighter jets.‌ However, The Telegraph understands that RFA Fort Victoria, the only Solid Support Ship capable of providing the CSG with the amount of ammunition, aircraft, spare equipment and food required for a full deployment, is unable to sail owing to a lack of sailors. ‌In normal times it operates a crew of 100, but is understood to currently be working with a skeleton crew. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/12/aircraft-carriers-not-ready-red-sea-navy-recruitment-crisis/

He got a broken heart when he was exiled from his beloved country by dark forces. It has never healed.

They always know to disable the recent visitors on the profile as well..........

Get well soon Mr Thaksin - your country needs you.

So you say but a good enough guest to be interviewed by the redoubtable Andrew Marr who will along with his team have done appropriate due diligence before inviting him onto the programme.

Turns out that Israel has an 'interesting' relationship in the round with South Africa. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/07/southafrica.israel For decades, the Zionist Federation and Jewish Board of Deputies in South Africa honoured men such as Percy Yutar, who prosecuted Nelson Mandela for sabotage and conspiracy against the state in 1963 and sent him to jail for life (in the event, he served 27 years). Yutar went on to become attorney general of the Orange Free State and then of the Transvaal. He was elected president of Johannesburg's largest orthodox synagogue. Some Jewish leaders hailed him as a "credit to the community" and a symbol of the Jews' contribution to South Africa. Israel was openly critical of apartheid through the 1950s and 60s as it built alliances with post-colonial African governments. But most African states broke ties after the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the government in Jerusalem began to take a more benign view of the isolated regime in Pretoria. The relationship changed so profoundly that, in 1976, Israel invited the South African prime minister, John Vorster - a former Nazi sympathiser and a commander of the fascist Ossewabrandwag that sided with Hitler - to make a state visit.

This legal expert in conversation with Andrew Marr thinks Israel will lose.

They probably missed an apartheid state being mostly white.

I've had enough - spent the last few days in Bangkok with the air basically a toilet. Nobody with choices would choose to live like this and it won't get better but worse. Democracy died forever with the gerrymandered last election - so don't hold your breath.

I would say at 40.5k comments they have too much time on their hands they can add me while they're at it.

Vt2a has just replaced all 3 lifts thanks to our committed and competent farang committee but a few years ago we bought when it could have gone either way with a corrupt committee and management company. Caveat emptor big time.

Crikey Rolf Harris was innocent vibes here one thing I didn't think I would live to see on a public forum. An 8 year old girl who was a friend of his daughter lest we forget and proven in a court of law.

It is illegal in the UK to have sex knowingly with trafficked people and the legal age for prostitution is 18 where the person of their own free will and is not controlled by another. It has been legally proved that both Epstein and Maxwell were heavily involved with trafficking minors for sex. VG has testified under oath that this happened to her. The photo now establishes a connection between her and Andrew a connection that he has said he doesn't remember and anyway I was at Pizza Express. I will repeat ad nauseum it would appear the FBI wants to interview him and he has in the past said he would. That's all we want, you meanwhile continue to deflect with spurious bad faith asides seeking to obscure that salient point!