candide

How is it "desperate"? It's all spread in his social media activity. The guy is likely nuts, as you suggest, but he's been provided causes on a silver plate by the MAGA world.

Apparently, Ukraine used underwater drones. Russia claims no damage. Sorry, It's from the Daily Mail, but they show interesting pictures. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11367993/Explosions-hit-key-naval-port-Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia-claim-major-Ukraine-drone-assault.html

Right, but still evoking force majeure as a cause. “Of course. The very sanctions that prevent the maintenance of units, which prevent them from moving without appropriate legal guarantees, which prevent these legal guarantees from being given, and so on.” “It is precisely these sanctions that the Western states have introduced that have brought the situation to what we see now,” Peskov added." Officially, Russia is not cutting supplies, It's forced to do it for technical reasons! ????

It's about control, That's how they are. The CP cannot stand not having control of anything and It's even worse with Xi. That's why they cracked down on Alibaba and other digital giants. They could not stand having this sector flourishing without controlling it. The issue is that they have bragged so much about having stopped the diffusion of Covid that they would lose face in case of a large epidemic in Thailand. And It's a quasi impossible mission. The recent variants such as Omicron can diffuse more easily and faster and cannot be eradicated. It will be a continuous assault. Unlike other countries, they don't have a large share of the population which is at least partly immunized by prior infection, the most at risk people have not died already, and their vaccine is not very good (at least up to now). In other words, they are screwed. It's either a large epidemic leading to a very embarrassing loss of face, or an unending succession of lockdowns.

Well, not fundamentally different from what we can read on this forum!

I guess It's a long story, starting with religion. It's the same people who believe the world has been created in 7 days and the apocalypse may be coming soon. I can imagine what these people may feel. They actually believe children are raped and killed in a pizzeria. They are horrified! The poor little kids! Same about elections! They are convinced they have been screwed by the deep state!

Another example of the "madness" inspired by Trump and MAGA heralds. As rightly formulated by Kinzinger, when people are convinced that elections have been rigged and politicians drink children's blood, it is not surprising that such assaults happen.

Good news. Comes a bit too late

So, if I understand well, gamblers have been robbed in an illegal casino and ultimately complained to the police. Instead of arresting the casino owners and managers for illegal activity (on top of robbery), they just negotiated with the casino to give back some of the money stolen. ???? All this now exposed in the media, apparently without any consequence.

With Trump fighting like hell to prevent his tax returns from being disclosed, there must be something interesting in it! Nothing to hide, nothing to fear! ????

And in any case, they won't get the votes from the 250 appointed senators, so it is a rather theoretical discussion.

That's more accurate.

From what I recently inadvertedly found out, it seems that these "new" drugs such as ketamine (I am old school, so I knew about coco, snow , ecstasy, crack, etc...) are quite popular among young Thai people. I would assume a raid in any Thai style disco may lead to numerous arrests.

False equivalence. The Russian interference has been proven true, and acknowledged even by the GOP led Senate commission. The 2020 election fraud conspiracy theory has been debunked since some time, including by several Republicans (I.e. Barr).

He was permitted to have a gun. Not surprising knowing the recent law introduced by the TOP in this state. "In 2021, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act into law, which states "that all federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders... and regulations, whether past, present or future that infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution... of the Missouri Constitution must be invalid in this state." https://abcnews.go.com/US/missouris-gun-laws-wake-st-louis-school-shooting/story?id=92140341 You reap what you sow, Parson.

Well worth reading the article!

With all the MAGA morons excited by Trump's endless Big Lie campaign, it will be a mess!

As far as I know, they did not claim they had proof of who did it. On top of it, if it would result in a legal case, as you mention, it may not be wise (or even legal according to Swedish law) to disclose information before the trial.

*Deleted post edited out* As I mentioned in a previous post, Gazprom cannot cut supply without having to pay contractual penalties according to international law. That's why they can only do it in case of "force majeure". Officially, there is no conflict, so war cannot be evoked as force majeure. It can only be a technical problem (as previously), a refusal to pay with Rubles (Finland), or an "accident" (this case). It is possible that Russia could make a law allowing Gazprom to cut supply. However at a time Russia is looking for new customers, who would contract with Russia knowing that it may just cut supply in case of disagreement?

The population decline was around one million in Russia in 2021. They need to compensate for this decline.

After the 2006 coup, the army dropped all charges and investigations into army misconduct related to the Tak Bai incident.

As far as I know, there have been cases in which local politics were the cause of killings, but Thaksin has not particularly targeted his opponents. If you make a claim, you have to back it, and not ask other posters to waste they time finding sources for you (in case there were any).

The trick being there's officially no war. Only a special operation!

I don't know. Did Gazprom file a suit?

There may be plenty of reasons other than your conspiracy theory, I.e. they don't want to disclose a source, they don't want to disclose how they are able to investigate, etc....