Bkk Brian

If you'd like the facts then these are what they are taken from a UN report that was issued on 27th Jan 2022. pdf download source "Conflict-related civilian casualties in Ukraine" and which is the source of wiki data "10,900 victims were soldiers, of which 4,400 were Ukrainians and 6,500 pro-Russian combatants of or on behalf of the separatist pseudo-republics, civilian victims were between 3,400 and 3,500, the latter were in turn not all victims of attacks and of drones and rockets launched by Ukraine against the pseudo-republics, in fact, a part died in the portions of the oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk that remained under Ukrainian control during attacks by separatists, 1,589+ killed in Kyiv & at least 55 of the war-related child deaths were from the Kyiv area and another 34 were from Kharkiv. The U.N. report also notes that 8.8% of all civilian victims come from a single incident, which happened on July 17, 2014, when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot by a missile." In addition most deaths occurred within the first 2 years of the war, in 2021 the amount of civilian causalities was 110: 25 killed (16 men, two women, three boys, one girl and three adults whose sex is not yet known) and 85 injured (56 men, 21 women, six boys and two girls), a 26.2 per cent decrease compared with 2020 (149: 26 killed and 123 injured), and the lowest annual civilian casualties for the entire conflict period.

Couldn't put it better than this............................ President Zelensky has described Iran's supply of attack drones to Russia as "collaboration with evil". Apparently there's more: Iran has secretly agreed to send surface-to-surface missiles intended for use against Ukrainian cities and troop positions. President Zelensky's reaction to this morning's attacks: "All night and all morning, the enemy terrorises the civilian population. Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine. The enemy can attack our cities, but it won't be able to break us." 'Kamikaze drones' pictured flying over Kyiv moments before city struck - as Iran 'planning to supply Putin with ballistic missiles' “Iran must stop waging its proxy war in Ukraine. Iran seems willing to wage its war to the last Russian soldier.” “Iran providing Russia with weapons will only prolong the war”

Vladimir Putin’s disdain for Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky reached its apex on February 25 in a bizarre speech, where he referred to the leadership of Ukraine as “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”. Putin also spoke about his desire for a new regime in the country.

you've been sipping too much vodka Vlad

Ok but as mentioned: "A major blockage has been Russia’s insistence that it is not a party to the conflict and therefore is not bound by its terms."

I guess the Russian industrial military complex wasn't as strong as they said it was. However they're doing a great job at supplying Ukraine for free, Moscow is by far the largest supplier of heavy weapons for Ukraine, well ahead of the U.S. or other allies in sheer numbers https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-s-new-offensive-is-fueled-by-captured-russian-weapons/ar-AA12CIDc

Alleged by who that "Putin would have been satisfied with a cessation of hostilities based upon Ukrainian agreement not to join NATO"? Surely you're not referring to Pepe Escobar the Brazilian journalist who serves Russian propaganda on RT regularly as well as the infamous Russian state run "strategic-culture.org" He's so prolific a warning was put out by the US gov on him. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia’s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf Article from before the invasion 17th Dec 2021: Putin actually wanted NATO to roll back almost a quarter-century of expansion by withdrawing forces from eastern Europe and halt further growth, an unprecedented challenge to the U.S. and its allies that could derail efforts to end a standoff over Ukraine. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/russia-demands-nato-return-to-1997-in-security-treaty-proposals Your reference to Boris Johnson "Boris Johnson went to Ukraine and informed that nation it wasn't going to happen. They were going to fight till the last Ukrainian for Russian regime change." Is equally full of misinformation and lacking context, a couple of weeks before Boris went to Ukraine Putin had already publicly stated that peace talks were dead: Putin says peace talks with Ukraine are at dead end, goads the West https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-flies-into-russian-far-east-ukraine-talks-with-belarusian-leader-2022-04-12/ Here's some added facts for you: As war began, Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal recommended by aide But, despite earlier backing the negotiations, Putin made it clear when presented with Kozak's deal that the concessions negotiated by his aide did not go far enough and that he had expanded his objectives to include annexing swathes of Ukrainian territory, the sources said. The upshot: the deal was dropped. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-began-putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-recommended-by-his-aide-2022-09-14/ President Zelensky: 'Ukraine won't join NATO to stop the war with Russia' In order to find peace with Russia, president Zelensky is willing to reject NATO https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2022/03/23/623a883fca47418c4d8b45f6.html The rest of your post being an off topic rant that again is fueled with your own homophobia

Don't need this.............. Washington Post: Iran plans to send ballistic missiles, drones to Russia The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed U.S. and allied security officials, that Iran is preparing the first shipment of Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles for Russia. Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar are Iranian short-range ballistic missiles capable of striking targets at distances of 300 and 700 kilometers, respectively. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/washington-post-iran-plans-to-send-ballistic-missiles-drones-to-russia Iran used this missile to strike Kurdish dissidents in Iraq in 2018 and to carry out the attacks on US military bases in Iraq after Soleimani's death in 2020 If Iran can provide Russia with ballistic missiles, surely the West must be able to provide Ukraine with ATACMS?

Europe's gas prices retreat as storage almost full at 90.5%

ooops "Despite the success that the races had, Trump reeled back because of the Trump Organization's financial issues at the time."

That's exactly what I did, read my post again Did I mention it being a major issue? I was giving one example in response to a similar post, if I had wanted to make it a larger issue I could have given many more. No, do you? Whats that got to do with my post and double menus?

Never been to Pattaya. Last 15 years in Phuket https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-restaurant-caught-charging-foreigner-prices-83818.php

The problem was 2 separate menus as I described and as experienced by many others in Phuket. Plenty of links around to prove that

Maybe Trump was listening to his advisor Roger Stone who said '<deleted> the voting, let's get right to the violence': CNN obtains documentary clips of Trump ally A Danish documentary film crew has shared multiple pieces of footage with CNN and the House select committee investigating the January 6 attacks at the US Capitol that show Roger Stone leading up to Election Day.

I've experienced this personally, first time many years ago in a Thai/Korean barbeque restaurant here in Phuket that had dual menu's, one for local Thai's and one for foreigners. Went in there with my wife and young daughter, were given the local menu first but the waitress quickly came back and changed it for the alternative and more expensive foreigner menu. My Thai wife complained but to no avail, in the end we just decided to walk out as it was just so blatant.

You may want to follow the string of posts I was responding to before accusing me of being off topic rather than trying to bring in "Chechnya, Kosovo" into the mix. As for your opinion on Thailand's decision, good for you. I would expect nothing less based on your previous posts.

You agree with it after you are faced with evidence, before that you claim something else. The rest of your post is off topic unless you want to also bring in Russian support for separatists in other countries as well?

Oh please, 2014: Russia took advantage of them to launch a coordinated political and military campaign against Ukraine.[64] Russian citizens led the separatist movement in Donetsk from April until August 2014, and were supported by volunteers and materiel from Russia.[65][66][67] As the conflict escalated in May 2014, Russia employed a "hybrid approach", deploying a combination of disinformation, irregular fighters, regular Russian troops, and conventional military support to destabilize the Donbas. As for the rest of your thoughts, you provide just that, thoughts and no evidence, I stick to facts and opinions based on those. Feel free to ask me any opinions based on those and I'll gladly respond.

You need to sort out what my topic was, then you may have some idea of what I was responding to, ie the bio labs conspiracy which is indeed laughable: It was a lurid and difficult to believe claim: that Ukraine was developing biological weapons with the assistance of the U.S. government, in fact, U.S. assistance to Ukrainian biological labs has been targeted at strengthening public health measures, both the U.S. and Ukraine have also signed a treaty vowing never to produce or use biological weapons. But unlike most Russian efforts to spread false narratives justifying its invasion of Ukraine, this one found a receptive audience in the United States among far-right social media channels, Fox News and followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Biological Threat Reduction Program https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/ Russia has accused Ukraine and the US at the UN security council of a plot to use migratory birds and bats to spread pathogens Russian lawmakers have accused Ukraine of using “mutant” soldiers, supposedly created in a U.S. operated biological laboratory, to fight off Russian soldiers Russia even brought these claims to the UN Assembly with no evidence: No evidence Ukraine has biological weapons, UN says following Russian accusation | FULL The UN Security Council met at Russia's request on Friday to discuss what Moscow claims are "the military biological activities of the U.S. on the territory of Ukraine." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrYwtS-ENps Your video by the way shows nothing of the situation back in 2014 aside from what the reporter said, filmed and witnessed which was the Ukraine military going to engage "terrorists" but were blocked by a group of civilians so stopped & no that's nothing like 24th Feb in Kyiv.

All I see are the Ukraine military not hurting civilians and nothing to do with the bio labs points I took up with the poster. Maybe you can share a video of the mutant Ukraine soldiers or the pathogen infected birds ready to fly over the borders to Russia?

Saw that on yahoo too, brilliant!! They called it the result of a "two-man referendum" on "annexing" the spot for Ukraine. On Thursday the city announced it would not paint over the impromptu protest. https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-finnish-guys-annexed-russian-084922132.html

That's not how Russia see's the Minsk Agreement though: A major blockage has been Russia’s insistence that it is not a party to the conflict and therefore is not bound by its terms. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/what-is-the-minsk-agreement-and-why-is-it-relevant-now

Or another version: Thainess or the Thai identity (Thai: ความเป็นไทย, RTGS: khwam pen thai) is a conceptual identity regarding the quality of being Thai, i.e. characteristics seen as distinctive to the Thai people, their culture, and those belonging to Thailand as a whole. It forms the central identity upon which discourses on Thai nationalism have been constructed, with main contributors including King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) during his reign from 1910 to 1925 and Luang Wichitwathakan during the early post-absolute monarchy period (after 1932). Though poorly defined, it is often expressed as devotion to the three pillars of "nation, religion, king", a concept first popularized by Vajiravudh. It was used as a tool by both the absolute monarchy and the People's Party governments to build political hegemony over the country through the process of Thaification, as well as in the anti-communist effort during the 1960s–1970s. It has also become a form of promotional representation by which images of the country are presented to international visitors, especially from the late 20th century. The concept has continued to evolve in various directions, and has been increasingly questioned by scholars since the 1990s and into the 21st century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thainess

They're all nut cases and now turning on each other, when Roger Stone asked Trump for a second pardon for January 6th he threw a fit. In new exclusive footage obtained by The Daily Beast, a yet-to-be-released documentary captured Stone’s meltdown after learning no post-Jan.6 pardon was coming. Can't repeat here because of the swear word filters but the vids in the link along with transcript.................lol https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-threw-a-fit-after-not-getting-pardon-bashed-ivanka-trump-as-abortionist-bitch

Trump solicits cash right after the January 6 committee votes to subpoena him and tells supporters he's fighting for their 'heritage' https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-january-6-committee-money-fundraising-solicitation-2022-10