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Ukraine is trying to drag the whole world into World War 3. Because they know they will lose at the negotiation table. And on the battlefield too. Their only hope is to drag the rest of the world into this war. They hope Putin will strike Ukraine with nuclear weapons. However, I doubt Putin will not see through this.

You should try to read the news, Germany has agreed to "develop" long range weapons with Ukraine, which effectively means Ukraine will get the Taurus technology from Germany. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw7vllepx7o

Clearly you lack the capacity to understand what this means. The more Russia has to give blood the more the likelihood rises Russia will unleash tactical nuclear strikes on Ukraine. Germany lifting Taurus strike ranges has further escalated matters. Thankfully you are wrong, as always. One only has to recall the Cuban missile crisis when Russia acted very reasonably. Hopefully Putin will retain a cool head like his predecessors in the face of this cowardly drone attack.

Terrible news. Ukraine has escalated the war. We can only hope that Russia will be as calm as it ever was when faced with crisis.

When I asked my gf to do me a toast for the first time she did not know how to use a toaster. Took her only one day to learn, thankfully.

I went to Big C yesterday and the bill was 7790 Baht. Boy did I wish I had kept track of the shopping. Lol.

Yes, I saw that on the Ukraine war thread as well, posters openly calling for Russians to be unalived.

For the same reason the women will sleep with you for 2000 Baht.

Nooo! You are doing the right thing! Light blue is the best. Those dark tiles make the pool ominous and depressing.

I've seen Japanese eat American toast for breakfast. Lol.

You can think whatever you want to think, American culture is the dominant world culture. Chinese, Thai and Japanese, Norwegians, Germans and Brits ape American music, film and literature. That Australian gal putting on a southern US accent when rapping is hilarious. American social media, AI and consumer electronics rule the planet. Koreans and Chinese copy American TV and cinema. The whole world wears American clothes, jeans, baseball caps. They eat American food. American culture is the world's dominant culture. You deny reality, but you can't deny the effects of reality.

My Samsung cost 1000 USD. Back in 2019. A Samsung Note, at the time the best phone on the market. I used to think that I would only buy the best, only buy Samsung. However, then it turned out that these Chinese phones that cost just over half can charge twice as fast. Their pictures look better too. My next phone will be a Realme. Simply because I like the ultra fast charging times. That it's cheaper is just a bonus. But I can't pay 1000 USD for a Samsung only to find it charges half as fast as the competition.

Actually China is squeezing its allies mercilessly: "Tanzanian President John Magufuli said the loan agreements of BRI projects in his country were "exploitative and awkward".[258] He said Chinese financiers set "tough conditions that can only be accepted by mad people," because his government was asked to give them a guarantee of 33 years and an extensive lease of 99 years on a port construction. Magufuli said Chinese contractors wanted to take the land as their own, but his government had to compensate them for drilling the project construction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative It's just the way the big dogs do business. There are no friendships among nations anyway. Only mutual interests. And America's market and military create a lot of mutual interest.

Oh trains look great in the movies. Cary Grant could make you want to take a train anywhere. The sad reality is pretty much everyone who takes a train does so as a couple or even worse, large family groups. You'd be more likely to meet Jill if you join a mixed basketball club.

Well, let's take a look at this. The whole world eating more and more American food. Everyone one dressing more and more like an American. The whole world listening to American music. The whole world using or copying American AI. All commodities transactions are in USD. America currently single-handedly restructuring global trade. What other country has the power to do this? By far the most advanced and powerful military the world has ever seen. A GDP that is the largest in the world, as large as the GDPs of China, Germany and India combined. Yah. Obviously America's on the way out. Lol.

Can you imagine what would have happened if, say, Trump had been photographed doing that to his wife? Or Boris Johnson face palming his wife? World outrage. But Macron gets a face palm and everyone nervously laughs it off. Totally normal if your wife is 25 years older. I am telling you those two, there is something very not normal about them.

But did you not hear what he said right afterwards, that "default" would be nothing new, that a lot of countries have defaulted on debt before? He's just concerned about the world economy, what would happen to the rest of the world if a default happens. A lot of his talk is based on a misreading. For instance he castigates the presidents for accumulating the deficit. But then when Trump cuts spending he's "Sheriff of Nottingham" because he's cutting medicare and food stamps. Sorry, didn't you JUST say, that the deficit was a bad thing. But cutting it also a bad thing. He also fails to understand that the tariffs on China were a tool to get China to the negotiation table to give the US a better deal on trade, which is happening now. Obviously the issue is that other countries have gotten stronger. China has become a military and economic power house, so it's natural that it wouild flex its muscle in the South China sea, it's not a symptom of American decline, but rather of Chinese ascent. Similarly Russia was revitalized and is flexing its military muscle. By the way it's also a misreading that Ukraine happened because Russia thought America was weak. That was never an issue. Since Russia knew the US could not unleash or risk a nuclear war with Russia. Rather the Ukraine war was caused precisely by the imperial ambitions of Biden and Johnson who killed off a peace deal Ukraine could have signed and seduced them to fight. Not to mention imperial misreadings of their predecessors who thought they could ignore Russia because she was finished now and enlarge NATO. It was too much imperialism by the US that was the problem, not too little. As for the reserve currency status it is absolutely safe, there is no other contender whatsoever. And Niall Ferguson has been wrong more times than I can remember. His paper was just designed to get the US spending more on the military and making the world safer for capitalism. Read what Ferguson wrote previously "‘Let me come clean,’ he wrote in the New York Times Magazine in April 2003, a few weeks after the shock-and-awe campaign began in Iraq, ‘I am a fully paid-up member of the neoimperialist gang.’ https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man What Ferguson wants is for the US to spend more on its military and to get more involved in world affairs to make the world safe for the hedge funds which pay Ferguson for his services now.

Even after taking on China in a full on trade war only 2 of the 3 rating agencies changed the ratings. One from AAA to Aa1. Do you seriously think US based rating agencies, owned by Americans, who make their money disproportionately from US investment banks would issue ratings that are absolutely terrible? I somehow doubt it. And even if that happens it would just make interest somewhat higher, sure. But nobody is going to storm Washington to demand any money back. It's not like if an individual owes money where someone comes to collect your furniture. Plus the US can radically reduce its expenditure on unemployment benefits, medicare, and government operations, as indeed has started already.

So? The US assets, value of all companies, real estate, GDP which comes in each year, dwarves it. The US could pass a tax a wipe out the deficit in a few years. But there is no need because the deficit is not like a private individual owing money, nobody is going to knock on America's door and demand money back.

They have been calling out the end of the American Empire since the 1980s. Francis Fukuyama claimed the end of history. They were all wrong. How can it possibly be the end of America when America is rich beyond belief, has a military that is stronger than ever and its culture is more dominant than ever?

I don;'t think it did him justice. Trump the Movie would have to be a court room drama, a gangster movie, a war movie perhaps, a political drama of course, and obviously a love story with super models.

I think even in the days of Jesus, Elvis, the Beatles and Muhammad Ali, not every single thing was reduced to one person. It's really extraordinary how magnetic and compelling Trump is as a pro or con, that everything ends up about him. Maybe the only other person who managed this was Adolf Hitler, but of course I was not alive then. I can imagine he's the only one who possibly topped Trump in this regard. Charlie Chaplin made a movie about Hitler, maybe Sasha Baron-Cohen will make one about Trump.

It's understandable, not everyone has a Virgin Upper Class toiletry bag.

I think Nietzsche explains this best. People take pleasure in hurting and torturing others. He was talking about women, but it applies across the board. There is a certain pleasure for those who inflict pain. It's just the way it is.

It seems those who "hate" Trump like spoiled children seem to have trouble controlling their feelings, they are a somewhat feminised men, note the comment of the person who served for years handling sensitive information. He said he worked for decades on secret data and it would never have occurred to him to put his nation's interests in danger because of his feelings. However, this traitor, like so many Trump haters clearly let their feelings take them over. They are like spoiled children. No emotional self control. Now he can ponder how much he dislikes Trump for ten years in a prison cell. Poor emotional self control is always dangerous.