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58 minutes ago, bob smith said:
yesterday I went for a walk in a major tourist hotspot.
All I could see around me were empty bars, restaurants, pubs etc..
Not to mention all the boarded up buildings, for sale signs, call to rent signs etc.
Establishments seem to be closing just as fast as they open!
This place is famous worldwide and it is on it's knees.
The Thai economy must be in dire straits at the moment.
I was on the blower to a pal of mine who lives really close to another famous tourist hotspot and he said it's the same there too.
I have also noticed a steep increase in the prices at certain establishments.
170 baht for a large local beer!
the retail price is between 55-60 baht..
what is going on??
The touts also seem extra pushy at the minute.
one tuk-tuk driver tried to physically usher me into his car for a ride.
you can see the worry and angst in their eyes.
maybe some days they don't make anything..
It almost makes me feel sorry for them, but then I remember how they treat foreigners when the going is good so it's no wonder they aren't coming back!
about the only place in Thailand that seems to be doing well is Phuket.
but for the life of me I can't figure out why!
bob.
what tourist spot were you n your mate in?
Koh Tao is busy, was rammed all throughout mid Dec until May, it quietened slightly but certainly not deserted like what youre seeing.
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35 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:
Perhaps, but the rightful owners of Diego Garcia would be happy to go home at last.
i didn't write that, its was the dude with better intel than Putin regarding Ukraine. not sure why its got my name on it
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1 hour ago, Lacessit said:
Liar.
Supply was suspended in early September, the last of a series of suspensions dragged out over preceding months.
The pipeline was destroyed on September 26, 2022.
LIAR.
read the link Placeholder gave, on the last page
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2 hours ago, Lacessit said:As another poster has said, Putin shut off the gas to Europe well before the destruction of the pipeline. And Gazprom was facing huge penalties for breach of contract as a result. Perhaps you have not heard, Putin owns half of Gazprom.
The "cancer of the planet" enables world trade, both in a reserve currency and ocean security.
Please tell me who the hell wants yuan, rubles, reals or rands.
Do you realize China would be stuffed if the US withdrew its navy, abandoned Diego Garcia,and allowed unchecked piracy in the Indian Ocean?
Be careful what you wish for.
well Saudi are no longer using the $ for oil..so there's that
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2 hours ago, Lacessit said:
Can you post any media which states "so many" nations want to join BRICS.
I suspect this is another product of your fervid imagination.
you claim to have better intel than Putin himself, so i'm sure you will have better info than any link i can give you.
i guess Walker88 isnt the only spook o. this site. its amazing how many ex SAS snipers, navy seals, cia special forces have joined this page
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4 hours ago, placeholder said:The point is Russia had cut off supplies of gas to Europe via Nordstream long before the explosions.
no, 3 days maintenance id not cutting off supply.
you brush over the fact there was an international act of terrorism purport rated by the USA, which affected the german economy and has led to the UK and Eu having a 3x rise in fuel costs, but you claim Putin is a tyrant
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2 hours ago, Lacessit said:Not really, it is more accurate to describe it as self - sufficient. Its production cost is also higher with shale oil and gas than conventional wells.
Venezuala has by far the most oil reserves of any country. However, its only big customer is China, due to sanctions by the US and EU.
Venezuala is another country under attack by cancer USA
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3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:
So Trump is wrong saying US is not energy dominant and need to drill drill drill 😊
blowing up the pipelines to sell their LNG to Eu at triple price does not mean they are energy efficient.
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2 hours ago, Lacessit said:I suggest you post proof of that assertion.
A more likely scenario is Gazprom itself blew up the pipeline after Putin banned exports of gas to so-called unfriendly countries. Gazprom was facing billions of dollars of penalties in breach of contract. With the pipeline gone, it became force majeure, under which no penalties applied.
Most contracts are written in US dollars, how many do you think Russia has after being shut out of the world financial system?
yeah right, blatantly obvious when there is so little investigation into such a huge act of terrorism who is responsible!!
Trump wanted it stopped, Biden said they put an end to it, so did Nuland...and oh look, it got blown up!!
yanks weaponised the Dollar, everyone can see that, hence so many wanting to join BRICS....bye bye USA, cancer of the planet!
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2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:
So US is energy dominant in oil and gas under Biden.
by sabotaging the opposition... mafia like tractics!
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2 hours ago, placeholder said:
Whether or not the gas pipelines were blown up, they already were non-functional. Nord Stream 2 never entered into service. Gazrpom shut down Nordstream 1 for repairs "indefinitelu".
Putin thought he could make the Europeans knuckle under by cutting off the gas supply. His gambit failed and Russia became its victim instead.
Nord Stream 1: Russia switches off gas pipeline citing maintenance
https://www.theguardian.com/business/202
2 hours ago, placeholder said:Whether or not the gas pipelines were blown up, they already were non-functional. Nord Stream 2 never entered into service. Gazrpom shut down Nordstream 1 for repairs "indefinitelu".
Putin thought he could make the Europeans knuckle under by cutting off the gas supply. His gambit failed and Russia became its victim instead.
Nord Stream 1: Russia switches off gas pipeline citing maintenance
2/aug/31/nord-stream-1-russia-switches-off-gas-pipeline-citing-maintenance
they just exploded by themselves i guess. nothing done about an act of international terrorism done by the USA. imagine if that had been done by and 'enemy' country!!
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4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
BTW, Russia has oil and natural gas and loads of natural resources, so it will survive.
they used to Supply gas Eu, but the yanks blew up the NORD pipelines so they could muscle in with their LNG, and is the reason the EU energy costs have risen.
news coverage of that act of international terrorism by the USA fell off the radar pretty quickly too!
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55 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
I suspect it would be preferable to being a Russian of conscriptable age,
Trump can only end the Ukraine war by giving Putin everything he wants. You'd have to be as thick as two planks not to understand that.
Giving Putin everything he wants includes winking at the genocide of Ukrainians. Which doesn't sound like a good thing to most people.
you understand the word 'negotiation ' right?
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1 hour ago, Lacessit said:Actually, I am better informed than Putin. I get information from a number of sources. He only gets his from his intelligence apparatus, who are terrified of giving him bad news. It's a feature of all autocrats.
Putin's former KGB cadre told him the Ukrainians would welcome the Russians with open arms, and the "special military operation" would take a week. How's that for fantasy information?
He's compared himself to Peter the Great, and says the fall of the Soviet Union is the worst thing ever to happen to Russia. Draw your own conclusions.?
hahahahahahahahaha...... can you hear yourself, do you have direct line to the whitehouse?
yes, the 'spo' was going to take 2 weeks, if it were just Ukraine it would have been, but it's not is it, US,UK and all of nato, just dragging on longer than it needed to be. but you're ok with that because you're not there in the firing line
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6 hours ago, Jingthing said:No I'm for comprehensive Immigration reform. Sane humane policies recognizing that tearing apart families should be avoided, easier faster paths for legal immigration, not disrupting industries that citizens don't want to work in. America needs immigrants. Always has and always will. America would be aging like Japan without immigration.
There is no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Why do the maga fascists like draconian measures?
White nationalist Christian centered racism. Simple as that. Very ugly stuff.
They would thrilled to welcome more immigration if it was Swedes who were coming.
legal immigration...not illegal, you know the difference right?
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1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:
Did you forget his Peter the Great talk where he compares himself to Peter in a territorial push?
so thats a 'NO' then
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6 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26769481
IIRC you were saying eastern Ukraine is radioactive and bullet-riddled.
In terms of arable land, it's the jewel in the crown. It has fed Russia and the world for centuries.
Putin is concentrated in those areas because the Russian war machine has to. The combination of military corruption, terrible logistics and lousy morale of undertrained and underequipped troops has seen to that. There is a serious disconnect between what is actually happening at the front, and the information Putin receives. All autocrats only get told what they want to hear.
but you're got your ear to the ground and are getting better info reading online articles than Putin himself.... ok then!
is Putin quoted directly saying he want's to restore the Soviet Union?
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3 hours ago, Tug said:Ahhh we are using less than 5% of our defense budget to give Ukraine the means to stop your putin + most of the money stays here employing folks and when are you volunteering to go fight for the Russian federation?
and lining the pockets of the war machine CEO's.
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4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
Even if Biden won, the west is running out of money to spend on bullets for Ukraine when their own economies are devastated, and the citizens get restless. Starmer has made expensive promises,
the french might take to the streets but the British wont, they will just moan about it but do nothing..unfortunately
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9 hours ago, Lacessit said:Putin has repeatedly said he wants to restore the Soviet Union to its former glory. That means all the way to a divided Germany, and the whole of Eastern Europe under the Russian yoke again.
You are in fantasy land if you think he will stop at Ukraine. Any temporary peace will simply be used by Russia to rebuild their war machine.
do you have a quote of Putin saying he wants to restore the soviet Union?
if Putin wanted to take Ukraine why has he only concentrated in those certain areas?
'Any temporary peace will simply be used by Russia to rebuild their war machine'...you mean like those signing the minsk only to allow Ukraine to re-arm? as said recently stated by Merkle
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4 minutes ago, animalmagic said:War is an armed conflict between two or more groups of people. The war started when Russia invaded Ukraine. You have already stated that Zelenskiy campaigned on the basis of peace with Russia; it seems that Russia did not want peace. Russian attempts to undermine other independent governments in various 'ex-soviet' states also cannot be classified as war until such time as war is declared or one attacks the other.
so nothing happened over there prior to feb 22?
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3 hours ago, tgw said:
Ukrainian destiny without Russia's involvement is exactly the point !
And also the reason why Putin in ready to kill millions.
how about without US involvement
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6 hours ago, Eric Loh said:
People revolution in 2014 and kicked out traitor President Yanulovych who choose closer ties with Russia and reneged political association and trade agreements with EU. The people kicked out the corrupted government and abuse of power.
Zalensky was an elected President and the elections were recognized as free and fair by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Ukrainian law does not allow presidential elections to be held during martial law which was enacted due to Russia invasion.
The majority Americans and Congress support sending weapons and military aid to Ukraine.
*CIA backed coup, ousted a democratically elected government.... just was pro Russia, not Pro USA...
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7 hours ago, Lacessit said:
You think Putin is going to give up Eastern Ukraine in any peace deal?
What are you smoking, I want some.
how will you know if you don't got to the negotiating table? i'm guessing you're happy to send yourself, your kids and other family members to fight for Ukraine if needed..you know, seeing as you feel so strongly...
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It's grim out there.
in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Posted · Edited by frank83628
good, nobody invited you.
, you're probably too old to come anyway, there isn't much in the way of hookers either, so nobody for you to mix with