JBChiangRai

Russia was part of NATO until they invaded Crimea

I’m happy to commit 1,000 pounds to a go fund me page …. to anyone who assassinates Putin

Actually, nobody mooted the idea of fastening the seatbelt behind them to stop that irritating alarm bleep. Someone suggested that could have been what happened. Myself, also a Taycan owner. You insist on jumping to conclusions when a better man would simply accept he made a mistake and apologize his error.

Also, supercars like The Taycan save weight by fitting thinner glass than your average saloon. The body is all carbon fibre and composites too.

You could put the seatbelt behind you to avoid the annoying alarm that increases in intensity. I have a Taycan too and it pesters you to death if any of the occupants fail to wear a seat belt, additionally, one of the 5 digital instruments goes red and displays a warning message instead of 4 or 5 driver selectable options like HV battery charge, HV battery temperature, LV battery voltage, compass, track playing on the stereo etc. It’s impossible to ignore the warnings. Looking at the damage, the 2.1 ton Taycan probably didn’t decelerate enough when it hit the motorbike to trigger the airbags. Shortly followed by the motorcyclist hitting the windscreen. My money is on the driver wearing his seatbelt and suffering only minor scratches (if any) from the accident. The Taycan is a very heavy car and probably weighs at least 20 times more than the motorcycle and the bike would have been catapulted forwards with the car driver not feeling much deceleration, the shock being the rider hitting the windscreen which probably entered the drivers space and that would likely be the scrapes he got, if any, maybe flying glass chips from the drivers side of the laminated windscreen.

That might be the only option with supply chain issues thanks to the Russkies.

It’s a Taycan, a battery electric vehicle, I own one myself. The dealer will be able to read the speed at impact from the cars very sophisticated computer.

Thailand Tourism may be neutral, but I’m not. Our 2 tourism adventure businesses and property business is no longer accepting Russian citizens. PERIOD. Whilst I have nothing against the individual Russian, I do agree with sanctions, and we are applying sanctions to Russia through its citizens.

No, they got their payback when they elected carrot top.

A quick check on the emirates website shows plenty of availability on flights to Moscow. Go on, bye bye!

Not so many, none at all if we have our way. We have just refused to work with any travel agent handling Russian customers, currently that will be all of them.

This is called “sanctions”. Bringing pressures to bear on a nation’s peoples because of the actions of their leader, which incidentally are “taken in their name”. Nobody is saying individual Mr Ivan is bad or Mrs Olga is bad, but we have to bring pressures to bear through them and hopefully change the actions of their leader. We ALL have a duty to do that. Remember, all it takes for evil to triumph is good people to do nothing.

What absolute rubbish. Emirates are running a normal schedule to Moscow, any Russian can easily get home. As for Ukraine, that’s a different matter. I’m appalled by the tourism industry here, especially the 5* hotels run by Western General Managers. Zero statements supporting Ukraine and condemning Russia. Organisation’s like SKAL are conspicuous by their failure to even mention the genocide and war crimes going on in Ukraine. As long as the Russians have money, they are welcome everywhere here. Except my businesses in Chiang Rai, we’ve taken a stand and banned Russian citizens. what a complete lack of morals we are seeing in the Hotel Industry, appalling!

I’m on holiday in Khao Lak and I had some stitches removed at Takua Pa government hospital yesterday, it’s a very small hospital, tiny in fact, they said they are getting more than 100 new Covid diagnoses a day, I think the real figure in thailand is >100,000 new cases/day perhaps more than double that.

NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) is a non-combat mission that aims to strengthen Iraqi security institutions and forces so that they are able to prevent the return of ISIS, fight terrorism and stabilise their country. It was at the NATO Summit in Brussels in July 2018, following a request from the government of Iraq, that Allied Leaders launched this advisory and capacity-building mission in Iraq, which was established in October 2018.

Putin started out wanting $20-30M for his retirement pot, it didn’t take long for him to want to be the richest person in Russia then the World. He can’t spend it anywhere except Russia and is at risk of losing everything if he loses power - which is what must happen now to restore peace and dignity to the Russian people.

Not quite the right analogy, NATO is a defensive pact, it’s more you going to sleep in a bulletproof vest or stab vest.

Pressure on the Russian people is a good way to pressure Putin. Russia is a kleptocracy with the average wage lower than India, it’s scandalous what’s been going on for the last 22 years.

Do the right thing and tell the Russian's they are no longer welcome.

They couldn't be PoW if caught because according to Russia, there is no war, only a Special Military Operation, in which case they can be employed by Ukraine as peacekeepers, using reasonable/lethal force to keep the peace.

You could pretty much guarantee that the moral vacuum that calls itself “Government” here would not do the right thing. It’s down to those of us with businesses here to lead the way. Russian citizens are no longer welcome in my businesses in Chiang Rai. We’ll review that as time goes by.

Nobody should be doing any trade with Russia currently. Putin is not afraid of NATO, or military build up, but we can cut their economy off at its knees and stop their citizens traveling and bring him down that way.

Life has a way of rewarding “Doing the right thing” Is the right thing “Business as usual” with an aggressor invading a sovereign nation? I think not.

Time to ban Russian flights to Thailand.

Let's start by making racism illegal, then we can claim to be a multicultural society.