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No. But why try to digress from the subject? Just discuss the actual subject. But I guess you have run out of any intelligence and so need to deflect on to the abstract.

I need to ask you....is that about it? Please link to anything that I have written, indicating that I hate Trump. That's just another illustration of you projecting your own hate and imagining that everyone feels the same. A mental issue that you try to project on to others. I just discuss published information. Show me otherwise.

Because I didn't post an anonymous source, but an editorial from a Russian news agency linked to the Kremlin, released prematurely and then removed hastily. This tells me that it is accepted Kremlin policy or it would not have been allowed to have been released in the first instance. Of course you can wait for Putin to say it to you 😊

Military aid could be peace keeping forces, medical, training. It's only dunderheads that try to convince that military aid means war.

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No. But that is the/your mental illness. If there is a Leftist media, that is their perspective. If there is Right wing media, that is their perspective. I don't swallow everything I read hook, line and sinker. I check, if I care enough. Your issue is that you have predetermined the outcome, in deciding that only left wing media is unreliable....and that is DUMB. Are you happy to be seen that way? I wouldn't be. Wherein I can check left, right and middle and then make a determination for myself. You are stuck in some weird world in which you have to hate and mock anyone who doesn't think like you. You are literally ranting at everyone, leftist or not. That is how you are seen here. You think that you are in a club of right against leftists, but really you are in a club of ranting nutters that no one here takes seriously. I don't even need to name names. Every normal poster knows who they are.

Standards of everything, judging by the quality of their posts.

No. Perhaps in the U.S.A, but not here. They might contact the payment processor, not the merchant. The merchant will deal with the payment processor.

So not only do you admit to making things up, but you demonstrate an unpleasant side too. Impressive.

Are you mentally ill? Why the obsession with leftists? It's like you cannot make a post without imagining Reds under the beds. How did you get from Russian news agencies being no better, to ranting about leftists? Intelligent people take their news from as many sources as possible, in order to glean the truth, rather than spin from one side or another. So people like yourself, seem totally deranged and obsessive, ranting about leftists and socialists. We get it, but don't assume that is to whom you are speaking. It just makes you seem like a madman to be avoided. Please, try to behave like a normal balanced person. No need to scream about leftists in every post. I'm not your enemy, but only comparing information and making a decision for myself. I don't need to see your obsessive behaviour alongside that. It's okay for you to have your own perspective on current affairs, but discuss that, rather than ranting on about leftists and what not.

We are discussing policy, not words.

What if those media sources are Russian news agencies? Would you be more inclined to believe them than the BBC?

What kind of nonsense is such a reply? Do you imagine that Putin sits alone in a room and thinks it all up by himself? A leaked report from anonymous sources? When the Special Military Operation began, an editorial was published by RIA Novosti, proclaiming victory and discussing the subject that @simple1 has highlighted. Only, when it didn't go to plan, the article was hastily removed. Thank goodness for the Web Archive. Since this is an English language website, I'll link to the syndicated version, in English and also the original version in Russian, https://web.archive.org/web/20220303080635/https://thefrontierpost.com/the-new-world-order/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html For me it's not about taking sides, but simply discussing the facts as we know them.

Are you not able to put a simple question together? What is that?

Sometimes the bad guys present themselves as the good guys and the good guys are presented as the bad guys. You write that going into Iraq was where everything went wrong. But of course it didn't start there. This is all about resources. Think about the first Iraqi invasion. That was about Kuwait drilling into Iraqi oilfields. Now why would such a tiny country provoke a much larger country in that way? Second Iraqi invasion was because Saddam Hussein didn't want to do a resources deal with them. So the old playbook comes out and he becomes dangerous enemy number one who needs to be taken out. From their perspective, they see these unjust things happening and chose to fight against it. I prefer to have a balanced mind than to blindly swallow what one side is trying to feed me.

Greenland should stay far away from his fake version of wealth. The real wealth is in resources, not made up figures valuing this and that at billions and trillions. FAKE. Then of course they keep all the money they owe you in their banks for safekeeping, so now they have control over you. Don't do it.

Seems to me you are just posting 💩

Taliban? Are you sure? Osama bin Laden; Saudi Arabia Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; born in Kuwait, but parents from Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Mohammed Atta; Egypt. Most of the other eighteen of the operatives were from Saudi Arabia.

Solid accomplishment? They aren't getting them for free. Blackrock are acquiring all CK Hutchison's ports apart from the ones they run in China. US$23 billion just for Panama.

He did it before. The Republicans withheld aid in so the Russians could take Adviivka. It was meant to put Ukraine in a weaker position, in order for them to capitulate and sign the minerals deal. What none of the Trump fans dare mention is the parallel between Ukraine and Greenland. Ukraine onside, is/was good for Europe and the U.S.A. The minerals looked good then too. But it was painted as evil N.A.T.O. moving east. Now Trump is doing exactly the same thing, but in cahoots with Russia and it's all good. Now eyeing Greenland, Canada.... and his fans go wild. Hypocrisy at it's worst. If the Democrats did the same thing they would be shouting from the rafters and painting it as hegemony.

It doesn't work that way. I think you just made that up. Card providers don't call individual shops and individual shops don't have contracts or even contacts with card providers.

So according to you, it could also be a Villa issue, since you've used it many times at Friendship with no issue, but just once at Villa. You might want to modify your thread and topic, since you really have no idea as to whether it has anything to do with Friendship at all.

This is not particularly good advice. Credit cards are safer than the products you mention and your assertion with regard to the bank rate being 10% lower is horribly inaccurate. A simple example. Fraud on your CC, it's either blocked until you confirm or you report it and you don't have to pay that part of the CC bill. Fraud on Revolut or N26, your money is gone and you have to fight to get it back. Exchange rate. Your assertion that it is the official rate is erroneous. Revolut state: Spend with your Revolut card Use your Revolut debit card abroad and we’ll automatically exchange your money at competitive rates in 150+ local currencies. No mention of mid-market/spot/official rate. The N26 card uses the Mastercard exchange rate, which may be perhaps 0.5% off the official mid-market rate. CC use the same or VISA. So you are looking at 0.5% to 1%, not 10%. Dependent on the CC, they may or may not be extra fees on top. But many CC do not charge anything extra for spending. Credit cards win every time.

Are you dreaming? You live in Phuket and imagine that any taxi there charges as little as 100 baht for a ride anywhere? It obvious, without me having to look at the article, that he was wanting an extra amount.

Are you so conceited that you need to make a topic about Trump, all about you? The point is Trump's definition of dating. Perhaps his included "grabbing 'em by the pussy!"