Lacessit

It's a miracle you are still alive after so many confrontations. No doubt being ex-SAS has helped.

I want to live as long as I have quality of life, no more.

I've already dealt with it, thanks. I've written off America for the next 4 years.

Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, In Too Deep. Unfortunately, it is evident Mr. Child has run out of plot ideas, and is now churning out potboilers. It happens to the best of authors.

This argument would not have happened in Indonesia. There, every bus has a belt of hot-rolled steel all the way around it, about 2 mm thick, at fender level. Every other vehicle gets out of the way.

You may be right, Russia won't give in. It will come at a terrible cost to Russians. The Russian demographic is collapsing. There are only 87 men to 100 women, which is not a recipe for a growing population.

The ones out here are dodging being drafted for the meat grinder. People in the video probably could not afford a one-way plane ticket.

It's clear older people in Russia are brainwashed by Kremlin propaganda, but now are really seeing the consequences for them in a ruined economy. 14,0000 rubles a month is USD 140. That's living in penury.

Interesting history, thanks. However, the original photo was of double tram tracks, which would not have fitted in Bourbon Street.

The usual garbage of a Trump apologist. Perhaps you have forgotten Stormy Daniels. Or where his first wife's grave is. Trump uses women like tissues, as he does his dumb supporters. Welcome to the cult.

You think that matters to Trump?

Please. Not while I am having lunch.

You deport the illegal immigrants who are criminals, or a drain on the economy. You let the illegal immigrants who are picking America's crops slide, because they are keeping food prices down in US supermarkets. Legal immigrants will not. Is this making too much sense for some?

If it has happened twice on the same model, I would suspect a design fault.

A bank interest rate of 21% tells me Russia is not strong. Having to import 10,000 North Korean troops to fight at Kursk tells me they are not strong. Having their vaunted tank fleets annihilated on the battlefield by $200 drones..... Food inflation at 10%........ They sell next to no gas, the main pipeline through Ukraine is closed. The oil they sell is at a steep discount to world prices. They send their troops into battle with two weeks' training and bullet-proof vests made from cardboard....... Their main customers, China and India, refuse to pay in rubles. The ruble forex trade has been suspended to prevent shorting. Yes, I am telling you Russia is not strong.

I have to wonder how you can say that with a straight face, considering Trump's crimes.

Comparing Biden's slips with a person convicted of sexual assault, and called a rapist by the judge, is not embarrassing. It's obscene. The only person you are embarrassing is yourself.

You have some statistics which support your opinion?

This event will give legs to Trump wanting to ban Muslim immigration.

It's true the Russians have made some progress recently, at horrendous cost. 15,000 Russians were killed in Afghanistan over the space of 9 years, which resulted in the downfall of the Soviet Union. The current butcher's bill dwarfs that in only 3 years. Now we have the Russian Federation, where Putin is drawing troops from satellites. He has shied away from conscription in Moscow and St. Petersburg. History repeats itself.

The support in Eastern Ukraine comes from Russians who were transplanted there by Stalin, after he killed off about 6 million Ukrainians in the 1932 Holodomor. Putin did the same thing in Crimea after invading in 2014. Why do you think Ukrainians are fighting so hard? Answer - they know Putin wants to finish what Stalin started.

What they say on Russian TV reminds me of Hitchen's razor. " What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".

My GF plucks her armpits, must hurt like hell.

I can't say I have noticed leg hair on any Thai woman I have been with, my back would have felt it if they were shaving.

Really. The Russian economy is a basket case, with the official bank interest rate at 21%. The ruble has lost 40% of its value since the war began. You need to wake up yourself, tovarisch.