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An interesting topic, Fairly sure some Thai teens are more mature than the toxic old codgers on here.

Doubt it but they're both c*nts although Starmer can be voted out. Not so for Putin. That would need a revolution.

A good question. The time for NATO expansion took some time. This IMO has been planned for quite some time. Have to wait for conditions to be right. There are books and PhD's being worked on about your very question I'm sure. This is global politics. Extremely high level stuff and very complex.

Have I ever said the west wanted to attack Russia? No I haven't. This is a proxy war. Do you know what that means?

There is absolutely no possible way you can extrapolate this from what I posted. Your reply is simply emotional, not rational.

Only idiots fall for the Trump is on Putin's side line. If you notice my above post it was past tense. The US has a new administration and a new President that is trying to bring the war to an end.

IMO the US and the EU via NATO expansion bated Putin into this invasion and he took the bait. The goal was to severely weaken or destroy Russia's economy and military. A protracted war of attrition was the aim and that's what they got. The drip feeding of essential weapon systems to Ukraine early in the war is a good indicator of this. Ukraine had the invading forces on the back foot and could have pushed them back across the border into Russia. Why didn't this happen? Ukraine was merely a pawn in this game of global power as are all those killed.

Beautiful blue eyed women is the 1st thing that sprang to my mind.

Good question. If the idiot Harris won it would be a long time from now.

Heavily protected? One destroyer and a landing ship. This is the landing ship Alexandr Shabalin. Journalistic license is one thing but heavily protected by one destroyer and this is just pulling the pis.

Extrajudicial killings greenlighted by Thaksin. If you don't know what extrajudicial means look it up.

I have already pointed out your pedantic argument. No need to do it again.

Had them all thanks. Tradesperson, higher education, training and plenty of experience. Decades worth.

Your opinion as you say. My qualifications, however, do not end with my degree.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2004/07/07/timeline-thailands-war-drugs February 2004 The U.S. State Department reports that Thailand’s human rights record has “worsened with regard to extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrests.” The report states that “[t]here was a significiant increase in killings of criminal suspects” in 2003 and that press reports indicated that “more than 2,000 alleged drug suspects were killed during confrontations with police during a three-month war on drugs from February to April.”

You obviously haven't got a degree. My degree was from 30 odd years ago. They still meant something back then. BTW Ordinary means Ordinary as opposed to an Honours Degree. Thank you for showing your level of education to all and sundry on here.

Amazing. An article about Tesla but pic is the RR Spectre. Unbelievably lazy.

I think this adverb is NOT the way most think about this coup leader. Another fluffy propaganda piece.

This is true but said opinions IMHO should be supported and discussed in an adult manner.

Report me for highlighting in bold part of your post which is essentially a correct comment.

It's ok. We're all different. Thing is we're adults but sometimes it sure doesn't seem that way with some members on here. Some of course are simply nasty rsholes that troll and never answer questions. Not you @MikeandDow. At least your willing to engage. There are a few on here that don't. Some never answer any challenging questions put to them and are just simply toxic. Not often I use emojis. Shame really. Guess this forum is a bit of a reflection of the expat community a few of which I'm very glad I don't know..

The way Ireland is same as the UK is I reckon the blokes in with a good chance. I said after Trump got in the radical woke left dominoes will start tumbling. Let's see if I was right. Quite amazing how the left which was once about supporting and protecting the working class has abandoned and pushed those very people to the right. Maybe this is all by design.

Another gem of a post. You do understand that war crimes can also happen on the battlefield? This is war mate. Both sides are out to kill each other and are after victory whatever it takes. If that means for example dropping poisonous gas into the trenches of either side then so be it. It's happening. Both Ukrainian and Russian drones operators are doing this. HELLO! Reality mate.

Spend, spend, spend, borrow, borrow, borrow and eventually it catches up with you. My non-economist POV.

Highlighting a section of someone's post is not altering it.