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Like the only time an aircraft's wheels are not braked or locked, and it's being towed? When the aircraft carrier is like this?

You choice of the words 'given back' says it all.

This is not a "belief". This is the reality of the world. Just as the USA gets to determine how other sovereign nations conduct themselves, witness Panama being invaded when they sold secrets to Cuba, if those sovereign nations are in the US sphere of influence, so does Russia get to determine how other sovereign nations conduct themselves, if they are in the Russian sphere of inluence. And Ukraine conducted herself abominably, jumped into bed with hansum man America and then did a gangbang with Europe on top, when its boyfriend Russia was paying her energy bills. Cheating is an ugly betrayal, and Ukraine now pays the price. No. This is neither belief nor reality. It is a choice. One the West and free world must make. History, especially that of Russia and Vladimir Putin, has recorded the peril of allowing Putin to drag the world back to the gory glory days of slaughtering cultures and territorial conquest. Not viable with nukes. How does the West have the ability to chose? Because of NATO's 50 trillion GDP combined with other freedom loving countries. Putin is peanuts.

Sorry, didn't watch the whole video, It's not a legitimate interview. A: How do you know? B: Because we killed 13,000 Hamas terrorists. A: How do you know how many? B: Because we counted them. A: How do you know they were terrorists? B: Because they were shooting at us. A: So, you have no proof. (turns off video) Honesty, did you not watch the video before posting? ... and do you have proof?

See above. Russia has officially confirmed that their denials were, as always, as predictable, as shown by evidence, just propaganda, again.

Few condos were built exactly 25 years ago just after the 1997 financial crisis, which froze Thailand's construction industry. Skeletons of frozen construction projects dotted Bangkok's skyline for many years. However, some of the strongest condos were built before 1997 during Thailand's great financial boom, which also saw a flood of foreigners. Money, steel, and concrete were cheap as developers focused on strong Western designs like the Sukhumvit Classics, and my own 20 story condo along Chaengwattana near the government complex. My top floor penthouse shook like hell for 3 minutes, getting worse as subsequent waves hit. At one point I had my doubts, but our building suffered no damage. In addition to lots of concrete and steel, many of these older buildings were braced with steel reinforced beams often lacking in newer buildings. We just had an engineering team do a full inspection. The senior engineer was a retired associate professor with a PhD in engineering. He told me that Bangkok buildings were built to survive (not fall down) a 7.3 earthquake. He also said these older building were built much better. Most damage he had seen was in new ones. He also agreed there's no reasonable geological model whereby Bangkok would experience a significantly stronger quake. In Bangkok, "mass evacuations and safety checks" above translates to just two new government non-condo buildings evacuated, The new revenue department building and, wait for it, the immigration dept tower in Muang Thong Thani. Much of the concern in Bangkok may be due to the novelty of a real earthquake. A Japanese fellow in my building shrugged it off.

In a surprise technical leap, Russia develops drone-man, able to fly like a quad drone by extending arms and legs. Launchable from vehicles. Controllers under development.

Surely Z-Putin feels shame acknowledging Ukraine held significant Russian territory for 9 months, and needed N Koreans to free it because Z-losses were so high.

I don't see it. I know Putin started pushing "Ukraine lost" propaganda hard when some in the US pushed for negotiations. As if Putin ever abided by negotiations. Here is how Ukraine has lost, not to mention Russia lost 100,000 tons of weapons yesterday.

The day you discover Russia's 150+ years of weaponized propaganda, designed to maximize harm to enemies. History has no parallel. Russia weaponized whataboutism as a cold war weapon. Like when someone criticizes Russian propaganda, they say: "When will you finally wake up from Western MSM lies and misinformation."

By ‘most’ you mean 250,000 Ukrainians who opposed Stalin outnumbers 4.5 million+ who battled Hitler’s occupation? Nice math. But your logic's not so good. Times were real tough in those days, especially for Ukrainians.

Much of the ammo dump exploded and is now on fire according to NASA FIRMS 100,000 tons (100 kilotons) of assorted ammunition could contain 10-15 kilotons of explosives, roughly the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but slower. This is 10X the recent Beirut blast. There are many videos but this wins the 'gasp' award. Listen.

(to the tune of '16 tons') A hundred thousand tons and what-a you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to Vladimir's show This occurred in the Vladimir region 60 km from Moscow.

America can not start a war with China by China invading Taiwan, not possible.

... and both Putin and Lavrov stated that Russia will not invade Ukraine the day before they invaded. Maybe not trust Z-rulers too much.

On their own, Europe table decides to send Taurus missiles and OKs bombing Kerch Bridge. Testicle fear drives Putin to issue empty Z-guy threats. Look, even chair is afraid!

Putin may soon 'win' a new submersible bridge. Incoming German Chancellor Merz has OKed Taurus missiles for Ukraine and hitting Russia's Kerch Bridge lifeline, "in coordination with EU partners". What do EU partners say? MSM Link: EU ministers back possible German Taurus missile delivery to Kiev https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-ministers-back-possible-german-154339974.html

The rest of the story: I finally got an appraisal. UOB Bank, where a relative works, agreed to do it for 8500B. Rejecting the crazy price we contacted the bank's private appraiser directly in Buriram who said he normally charges 2500B. So we broke the UOB arrangement and had him do the appraisal. The appraisal was a bit low as I expected because of its location in an older Thai muban. But the estimator said the house itself was very nice and offered to adjust the appraisal if we wanted. It wasn't important as I wanted to know a realistic price for that location. But we had him boost it 10% for good measure. Next, my condo. I started this thread before Bangkok's first and possibly only serious earthquake. Timing is everything. Again, thanks to all for useful input.

That's good because my girlfriend's name is coffee.

What Thailand is now selling in Nescafe boxes, at higher prices, isn't real Nescafe. It's powdery like old time instant coffee. So will they lower the price if real Nescafe comes back? Real Nescafe:

Two true items of different degrees equals one is false?

LOL, and who just said this above? But the room's elephant is that I provided facts and reference that both parts of the Chinese tech were based on prior tech worked on by the US and other countries. Which you fully ignored! You've got nothing!

That is my both are true point. Again you fall into the ol' black and white trap. Do you believe one political party is good and the other is bad?

As I said, I do have high regard for Chinese scientists and know some. Not all issues are black and white the way you like. The Chinese government has literally vacuumed the US and other countries' high tech. Both are true. I also tend to blame US politicians.

With high regard to Chinese scientific and engineering skills, especially the ability to copy build on stolen borrowed technology, "stunning display of ingenuity" is a MSM soundbite from your article. They provide no background or references but the author does note "I remember a time when I was working on a tech project, and we were constrained by both material costs and availability." For clarity. It's a 3 layer system with aerogel then an ultra high temperature ceramic UHTC layer on stainless steel. These are all technologies previously worked on by NASA’s Hypersonic Materials and Structures research and DARPA. A 2020 paper in Progress in Materials Science (“Thermal protection systems for hypersonic vehicles,” DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2019.100573) discusses global TPS designs, noting that UHTC and insulation layers are universal strategies, adapted uniquely by different nations. Undoubtedly, the Chinese work to make unstoppable nukes is good but not unique and not stunning.