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Thai Immigration office used to staple my 90-Day report slip on a page in my Belgian passport. They stopped doing that some time ago as stapling a page is materially defacing the passport. Very minor damage, indeed, but I understand the rationale that the passport must be intact 100%. Now the 90-D paper slip is just attached with a simple paper clip.

In the UK some speak Welsh, not English and many many more now speak exotic languages. Not very polite to treat me, a fellow AN poster as a "useful idiot".

Yes, I'm a born Belgian. I wanted to make my nationality very clear in my post. You and other Russophobes in AN forums are only too quick to designate those of us pro-Putin and pro-Russia as "Russian trolls". And no need for the Kremlin to pay for my opinion about this US-Russia war by proxy Ukraine.

I'm Belgian. True blood. Not naturalized. I'm 100% pro Russia and pro Putin.

I use a 10" tablet only for reading books. I've had two 10" CHUWI. Very good. A couple months ago I wanted a new one and I checked all 10" tablets available for buying in Thailand on the Internet. The XIAOMI Redmi seemed the one best for clear reading outside daytime and I bought one at their shop in Central Ubon. Extremely satisfied with it and I recommend it. https://www.mi.com/th/product/redmi-pad-pro-5g/

You and all the Russian people haters like you think it would be nice to see China taking over Siberia. You guys fail to see that a China disposing of the Siberian mineral, energy, etc. resources would be a world dominating power. Not quite what the US Hegemon wishes for. Already the US-Russia Ukraine proxy war has had the unplanned collateral inconvenient result (for the US) of bringing Russia and China in closer cooperation.

My Thai wife is on TikTok Thailand. Very useful and entertaining for her. She has also bought things we needed on TikTok. Me, I'm on the Chinese Rednote. Very entertaining and interesting. No criticism of the CCP allowed on Rednote. So what?

The wife is on TikTok Thailand. For entertainment I'm on the Chinese Rednote (Xiaongshu). I do not post or correspond on RN. Just surf. Many Americans (US TikTok "Refugees") post clips on RN about ICE activities and other current US political news.

I find Facebook extremely useful. I can't understand people denigrating it and even bragging of refusing to be a member. Beats me! My Embassy has a page, So do my Belgium hometown Town Hall and Police Dpt. My favorite restaurant in Ubon has a page. Great to check for promotions. And I got contacted on FB with very very long ago acquaintances. And I correspond on FB Messenger with faraway friends. Almost daily with my stepsister in my home country. I just do due diligence with whatever perso info i share on my page.

Ubon Rachathani. I was already on the 800k extension for many years when I married in 2020 and i just stay on it. Like you say it's less hassle.

I am a Belgian. Belgium govt is firmly in favor of the Kyiv regime but Mr. Bart De Wever, a fervent Russophobe himself doesn't want Belgium to have to repay the stolen Russian assets and go catastrophically broke in a certain future court case if the assets are stolen by Mrs. Ursula. So far only Germany has agreed to support a share of future potential court case financial claims by Russia. Very disgusting to see these EU leaders gesticulating so hard to find a "legal" cache-sexe to camouflage what is just a plain bank robbery. Myself I'm pro Russia and pro Putin 100%.

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Please check the Belgium pensions new 2025 rules more carefully before hostile posting. I'm loosing with indexation. Belgium has not generally skipped an index increase for all pensions. Instead, the government has introduced caps on the indexation of the highest pensions (those over approximately €5,000 gross per month). My pension is over 5k gross a month. Get it?

Yes, Russia, as the successor to the Soviet Union, has repaid the Lend-Lease debt, with the final payment made in 2006. After years of negotiation and several agreements, the USSR and later Russia agreed to pay a final amount of $674 million, a fraction of the original debt, which Russia ultimately paid off. Initial debt and negotiations: The United States initially billed the Soviet Union for about $2.6 billion in 1947 for goods that were not civilian-related. After lengthy negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed to pay a significantly lower amount. The 1972 and 1990 agreements: A 1972 agreement set the total at $722 million, but payments were halted. In 1990, a new agreement was made for the Russian Federation to pay $674 million by 2030. Final payment: The Russian Federation, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, assumed the debt and paid the $674 million in full in August 2006.

I'm contributing economically to the war. My govt has used some of my income tax and diminished my pension to gift one billion Euros to Zelensky this year alone.

I'm sick ?? No, no, I'm doing great !! LOL !!

Yes. Sorry about the mix-up. I meant Bagration... Operation Bagration, large-scale Soviet offensive against Nazi Germany that occurred from June 23 to August 19, 1944, on the Eastern Front during World War II. It was launched in support of the Normandy Invasion.

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Yes. I remember that the Soviets broke the back of the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, The Soviets lost some 27 million people and soldiers fighting off the Germans. Stalingrad, Kursk, Bagram, Berlin made the Normandy landing possible. I acknowledge too the bravery of the Allied. I remember too that Patton wanted to go all the way to Moscow, taking advantage of an exhausted Soviet Army. And that some Wehrmacht units that surrendered to the Allied were kept fully armed for the purpose of joining forces with the Allied to go on fight the Soviets. Russophobia goes a long way back...

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I feel sorry for myself too as my Belgian state pension has already been diminished to buy 45 kill-switch US F-35. To protect Belgium against the evil empire-building Putin my pension has to go. So said Mark Rutte. Belgium has also given one billion Euros to Zelensky this year and promised one billion a year every year. Belgium will also enrich the US MIC by buying weapons from the US to give to Ukraine.

I'm pro-Russia, pro-Putin. 100% I'm a Belgian.

A couple months ago I bought a Xiaomi Pad2 tablet. Best tablet I ever had.

Either Russia is a weakling military federation with miserable subs. To be mocked and not feared Or it is a frightening hostile enemy preparing an assault on Europe next year. And thus forcing Europe govermins to gut pensions and social to redirect $$$ to buy American weapons. If Europeans don't want to have to learn Russian. Like Mark Rutte has said repeatedly. Raytheon, Rheinmetall and the whole MIC are doing well, very well these days.

Tks to all. Wise seems the best option.