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I think you're oversimplified the situation in Ukraine, as western observers have a tendency to do. Rather than being a homogeneous place demographically, it is split into Russian and Ukrainian camps, analogous to demographic splits in places like Ireland, Malaysia and the former Yugoslavia. As a nation, it really should have stayed neutral, but it was seduced by NATO expansion, while treating its ethnic Russians as second class, and the rest is history. It has now been carved into two pieces.

No need to be so condescending in your tone mate. We're having a debate here. Now tell me of one single case since WW2 where western meddling in foreign wars ended in any other way than total disaster, misery, death, displacement and destruction? Korea? Vietnam? Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Libya? Laos? Yugoslavia? Cambodia? Central America? And now you support Western meddling in Ukraine based on feed from the same corporate media that brought us nonexistent WMD.

So why do these peace loving people field an army where it's allowed to wear Nazi insignia?

The Western world may well end up with the Western half of Ukraine only. The industrial and resource rich Eastern part is gone. Either way, the Western world meddling in wars it doesn't understand has led to one catastrophe after another. Thailand is right to stay out of it.

Wise decision. The Ukraine war is none of Thailand’s business, so why get involved? It's none of the Western world's business either, but the West never can resist preaching and meddling.

True. A suit bought here in Australia is better quality and looks the part.

The woke Johnson government hates pensioners. The woke opposition hates expatriates because they vote for the woke Johnson government. Nothing will change.

Cum again??

I knew someone who set up and ran a Bangkok tailor shop. The vast majority of them aren't tailors at all - they just take your measurements and send them to vast sweatshop factories to get the suits made up by itinerant workers. None of the fabric comes from where they say it comes from either.

You don't have to be triple vaccinated.

I wish they'd abolish the moronic water fighting every year.

A long time ago, before the moronic water fighting, you mean.

Why is it too late?

Thailand has sense, in other words.

It's very sad to see what's happening in Ukraine, and any other war zone. War is hell, and it's sickening to see how the media and Hollywood glorifies it. That said, Ukraine really has nothing to do with Thailand. I don't blame the Thais for not engaging in direct action, or taking sides in ways that go beyond concern and calls for talks that lead to an end to the fighting.

It's not so much a question of do we believe. It's just that we no longer care.

Any phone call, email or SMS that you're not expecting is a scam. It's that simple.

Forget about Bank Australia. All they care about is green dogma, have archaic systems, and impose ridiculously tiny limits on transferring your own money. I tried them out once, then went back to Commonwealth Bank.

I got my international certificate by downloading the Medicare app. The certificate can then be accessed as a PDF and printed out, regardless of where you are. Easy.

Agreed, and I'd add evil as the main another reason why people perpetrate these terrible crimes. Terms like power dynamics and emotional stuntedness are rather mild and implies that nobody is at fault.

My stuck meter was good while it lasted - aircon on all the time. I did have to pay the monthly rental on the meter though, which irked me a bit when I found out it had been stuck for so long. I didn't get a refund on the rental, but they didn't charge me for the electricity either.

For several years I marvelled at how cheap electricity had become in Thailand, until one day the electricity company replaced my stuck meter with one that worked.

Why not use the full name and have a laugh at the queues at travel agents?

Nothing much has changed then.

Agreed Philippine food is probably the worst in the region. Most of it is vile. It's why you see hardly any Philippine restaurants anywhere else.