candide

Actually, the pandemic never stopped as the excess deaths numbers are showing. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

Boris Johnson leaves world's fifth biggest economy in crisis https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/07/economy/boris-johnson-resignation-economy/index.html

Joining the common market with a Norway type status would be easier and faster to implement, it would just be another type of Brexit.

Right! Why didn't "All lives matter" protest? Why didn't you protest? BTW, it surely has to do with the fact that the case has been kept hidden for long time. and the Dallas police blocked the release of the bodycam video for 3 years (it was released in 2019 only). In the Floyd case, bystanders made videos with their phones, which were quickly diffused in social media.

China, same as UK, US or Thailand. It's ridiculous. The CCP controls everything.

You just confirmed you have no idea of how it is in China.

You obviously have no idea of how things work in China.

Probably not as large as expected, but they did decline in 2020 and 2021. As you rightly mentioned, there was also a pandemic, so It's difficult to draw conclusions from it. Anyway, as I mentioned, the report is prospective.

I have a better idea! ???? Let's have two currencies. One, called the peso, would be used only by locals, and foreigners would pay in dollars. The value of the peso would be a fraction of the dollar's value, but the price number would be the same: when foreigners pay 1 dollar, locals would pay one peso! ????????????

So according to you, hotels should charge a competitive market price to foreigners, which currently is around listed price -30%, and then do an extra discount to Thai customers (ex listed price -50%). What would be the hotel profitability and your stock value? What about high season, when capacity is scarse and hotel make the most profits? Will the hotels refuse full-price reservations in order to keep rooms for discount customers? Or discriminate and serve foreigners first in order to maximize profits?

The report was also prospective, looking beyond the current period. Anyway, no need to be a genius to find out that if your region's economy is significantly relying on exports to the EU, Brexit may not have a positive impact on it..

In particular in the North East. Shooting themselves in the foot! The reliance of North East firm’s on exports to the EU means the region’s economy will suffer the most https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/north-east-set-take-hardest-24289986

Mitt Romney likens Trump's false claim that he won in 2020 to the 'delusion that leads people to feed money into slot machines' ???? https://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romney-likens-trumps-false-182140793.html

So what are the GOP policy proposals to decrease global oil prices? I don't remember having read any?

On top of it, even if a peace treaty is signed, it will be necessary to further arm Ukraine to make sure Putin won't breach it.

So Russia is breaking international laws by invad8ng Ukraine, but calls for protecting international laws! ????

Ahem.... China seem to disagree with you Beijing accuses United States of creating 'anti-China' alliance as it lashes New Zealand and US for 'hype-up' over Pacific https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/china/beijing-accuses-united-states-of-creating-antichina-alliance-as-it-lashes-new-zealand-and-us-for-hypeup-over-pacific/news-story/57a23c3bd704a0c533a2e73e43245136

You forgot pizzagate! ????

Come on! The best thing which could happen to the Dems is Trump candidating in 2024.

And some conservatives feel worried about it! ???? Trump 2024 launch before November midterm elections could become a problem for GOP https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trump-2024-launch-november-midterm-problem-gop

And Trump is going to help the Democrats on this matter: ???? Trump told allies he's considering announcing 2024 presidential bid early, sources say https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2024-presidential-campaign/

Grab them by the .. ahem! ????.

What a dumb bitch! "Marjorie Taylor Greene baselessly claims Highland Park shooting was caused by antidepressants" https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-baselessly-claims-143256984.html

For the reason I just explained. By accusing Ukraine (rightly or not), the Russian government hopes to rally Russian public opinion for this war. The main distinctive advantage of Ukraine is that it's soldiers are motivated because they feel they defend their country. Russian soldiers don't. On top of it, Putin would use it to justify committing more atrocious killings.

Striking Russia would likely increase the support for this war by the Russian people. A support which is currently rather low (I.e. Russian soldiers were obviously not very motivated).