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However, he cautioned against an idea from French President Emmanuel Macron to consider sending NATO troops to Ukraine to join the fight if Russia's Vladimir Putin achieves a breakthrough, saying that such a move would be a "dangerous escalation". "I don't think it is right to have NATO soldiers killing Russian soldiers," the foreign secretary said in an interview in the western city of Lviv on Friday, having met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top ministers in Kyiv on Thursday. https://news.sky.com/story/uk-plans-to-ramp-up-weapons-production-for-ukraine-and-western-defence-as-lord-cameron-reveals-envoy-will-oversee-national-priority-13128072 Not sure if sky news is a credible source. If not, kindly remove.

Post of the year! Well done! 👏 👏👏

Interesting. Yes, I would definitely classify this as a car fire as a result of a big accident. I wonder if it was an ICEV, would there have been an explosion? What’s also interesting is that someone, presumably the fire fighters turned the car over to fight the fire. Also, if I understand correctly, the fire was put out within 3 hours. If it was a thermal runaway situation, could it have been put out as quickly?

Thank you for the clarification.

Wow, I will sleep better knowing that no western countries ever violates UN regulations. Oh, wait…

Wonders never cease. I actually gave you a thumbs up.

Sad to hear that you don’t consider me credible but it’s ok, I’m sure I will still be able to sleep at night. All of us, as thinking individuals (except for a couple), have our opinions. They may or may not be supported by facts. Just because a claim is made by a journalist or an unnamed individual on the condition of anonymity etc etc doesn’t make it a fact. I answer posts that I feel are substantive. I don’t normally bother with boring matters. Yes, I spotted the spelling mistake. Of course it should have been the Dalai Lama instead of Dalam Lama. Dalam means inside in the Indonesian and Malay languages, one of the 7 that I speak. Spelling mistakes can happen to the best of us. Not knowing what proper nouns are is not a mistake. Peace.

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are trying to say. Which obviously rules you out.

As for making you look stupid, I’m just going with the flow here. I noticed a lot of posts that insults the other poster gets a lot of likes and thumbs up and trophies whereas I seem to be getting only confused looks. Not sure if my posts are confusing or whether some people are easily confused. I speak 7 languages. What’s your point? The whole meaning of NATO is very well documented and published and it is very clear that NATO is not going to expand by force,never! NATO was set up as a defensive alliance against possible aggression by the Soviet Union. With the demise of the latter, the raison d’etre for NATO ceased to exist. As a defensive alliance, what were they doing in Yugoslavia? Why were they in Syria? Why are they thinking of opening an office in Japan? Do they not know what the acronym stands for? I don’t know what you mean by “not going to expand by force, never”. They should never have expanded, period. So by attacking the Ukraine the Russian themselves are moving closer to the NATO border. Russia went into Ukraine to stop NATO coming closer to their borders. That shouldn’t be too difficult to understand. Yes, the west has been very stupid to rely on Russian gas for their heating.Putin was going to use this as leverage to influence the West,it backfired on him big time! The west, in particular Germany relied on cheap Russian energy. This helped their industries tremendously so much so that they wanted to double their supply via NS2. It was America that didn’t like this. It would make Russia stronger, probably made Europe more dependent upon Russian cheap energy. America, being the worlds’ bully, couldn’t accept this, going so far as to say that they will stop it (interference in other sovereign nation’s internal affairs, as always). Miraculously, the pipelines exploded, stopping the supply of gas. As a result, Europeans now have to pay more for their energy requirements, major German carmakers and other industries are pulling out of Germany into, surprise, surprise, America. Blind is he that does not want to see. It hasn’t backfired on Russia but on Europe. The west could have relied on cheap Russian energy for many many years without interruption but for that hegemony across the ocean.

I don’t claim it, it’s merely what was reported. True or not, who can say. However, by virtue of your last sentence, you have painted yourself into a corner. In your view, no leader can have such popularity unless they are either a dictator or a tyrant. In the political system that I presume you are used to, that is western democracy with elections every few years, either 2 party state like the US or multi parties like Germany, it is practically mathematically impossible to gain much more than 60% popularity for obvious reasons. The electorate’s political mindset fundamentally does not allow them to deem the opposition’s leader as popular. I do not know but I wonder what Mandela’s popularity rating was. Singapore on the surface is a democratic country and you can claim that LKY was a tyrant and/or dictator but he regularly polled above 90%.If, for the sake or this argument we consider Tibet as a sovereign nation, would you dispute that the Dalam Lama would have greater than 88% popularity among Tibetans? How about when it comes to monarchs? I don’t think anybody would dispute that a certain ex-monarch was popular with almost 100% of the population. Tyrant and/or dictator? Finally, and this is naturally controversial and contentious because most westerners are opposed to it due to their education and govt propaganda, China is a one party state. If 88% of the population is happy with their government, by extension, this means they are happy with the leader, Polls by IPSOS or Harvard, I forget which, has found China to be the “happiest” country in the world with over 90% satisfaction rating. I can already hear the words rubbish, nonsense, gibberish in some posters heads. What some westerners don’t realise is that for many Asians, democracy, the right to vote, freedom of speech, all the intangibles that the western world cares so much about that they are willing to kill others for it, many Asians don’t really care. What they care about most is to have a good living and the opportunities to do so and this is something that the likes of LKY and XJP has provided them. Thank you for reading and hopefully we can have an intelligent debate without the usual posters who only insults, demands for links and are full of themselves.

Maybe Rishi thinks that by sucking up to the US, they will interfere in the coming elections and help him get elected, for the first time.

The interior looks like a Japanese made car lol

Like I said, b o r I n g…

I’m so glad my daughters and their friends have been travelling around Asia for the past year, not needing to pay back their student loans. The British government obviously don’t need the money.

Whether I get it or not, you are more boring than a broken record.

I haven’t watched the video but I’m wondering why you would link it in this topic. Are you not aware that LFP batteries don’t contain cobalt?

Actually, I don’t care about making Putin look good or whether he is good or bad. What I believe (and you can have your own beliefs as well, that’s fine with me) is that this conflict could have been easily avoided but was instigated by America to weaken Russia. It is well documented that NATO expansion eastwards was a red line for Russia and previous European leaders had been against it. But as America holds sway in NATO, the expansion continued right up to the borders of Russia. You surely can’t be so blind as to see that Russia won’t consider it a threat. How do you think any country would react if an adversary were to station troops and weapons next to their borders? Try not to be hypocritical when answering, although I doubt you would as it would show your narrative to be flawed. Were you in Russia to see how the sanctions are affecting normal Russian people? Or are you relying on western media reports? Surely you are not that naive and gullible to accept everything you read as the gospel truth? Let’s revisit this claim that Russia will run out of money by the end of this summer. I doubt it very much, especially coming from you as you don’t even seem to know what proper nouns are, much less world economics.

It is reported in western msm therefore it’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I get it. How foolish some of us were to think that only the west have the good guys and all Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans are bad and evil.

No no no TBL. If there’s a link, then it MUST be true.

Needless loss of innocent lives on both sides, because of a particular war mongering country (hint: not Russia lol)

You clearly don’t know much about economics. Gazprom’s major source of revenue was gas sales to Europe. Some dastardly evil nation blew up the pipeline that this gas was flowing through thus stopping the supply and sales. Naturally, Gazprom would then suffer a big hit on sales and profits. This however, will not put GP out of business. The gas is still in the ground and will be sold to other newer markets. In the meantime, the poor old buyers of this cheap energy is now forced to buy their much needed gas at significantly higher prices from other sources. Anyone with any intelligence can add 2+2. Incidentally, sanctions had nothing to do with the above story. Lots of western countries, including America are still buying lots of stuff from Russia, including uranium. As to the impact of sanctions, Russia grew faster in 2023 than most western countries. Despite several rounds of sanctions levied by Western powers over the war in Ukraine, the Russian economy registered strong growth in 2023 after a recession the previous year. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240316-after-two-years-war-ukraine-russian-economy-resilient-sanctions-putin-but-how-long

Strange how is it, for one side, everything that Russia says, true or false, is propaganda whereas everything their side says is the undisputed truth. Biden tripped going upstairs- Russian propaganda Putin does not have cancer - Russian propaganda Bolshoi Ballet Academy is one of the oldest and most prestigious ballet academies in the world - Russian propaganda Russian are fighting with shovels invented in the 19th century- absolute truth. It reminds me of a cult, like EV-angelists If the situation wasn’t so tragic for Ukraine, it would be funny.

The latter but he didn’t manage to graduate.

Actually, there are many WESTERN economists, analysts and experts who says that Ukraine will lose. But of course, their personal characters (and not their expertise) will be demeaned by the pseudo experts on here.

From your link above: Previous predictions that Russia was about to run out of missiles or other weapons have not always proved correct. Also from bbc: Ukraine war: Russian reservists fighting with shovels - UK defence ministry https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64855760 and War in Ukraine: Is Russia’s stock of weapons running low? 14 October 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63247287 Note the date. Forgive me if I don’t pay much heed to “links” as some so desperately needs. One other thing you might like to consider. Do you honestly believe that the west will say that Russia is winning even if that’s the truth?