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jayceenik

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  1. 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.

  2. 18 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

    Lenin is popularly considered to have referred to "useful idiots" (he never did), but we know what is meant by that. When you stay you are "100% Pro-Russian", that says a lot about you.

    You complain about being called pro-Russian, but then say you are pro-Russian.

    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".

  3. 18 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

    I think your 'true blood' statement tells us everything we need to know about you.

    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.

  4. 19 hours ago, liddelljohn said:

    Russia is now a paper Tiger bully boy ,, soon China will grab most of Siberia and Western half will crumble ,, The povery levels outsidde Moscow and a few big cities is pitiful ,,the population is broken ,,

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. 16 hours ago, johng said:

    European central bank,   Euroclear and Belgium government 

    are worried that the illegal confiscation of frozen Russian  assets

    to give to Ukraine  will ultimately be declared 'illegal'   and they will have to pay back the monies..they want assurance from all other European members that they will help with the payback   but....for some reason the others are reluctant to give those assurances..they know its an illegal move  and so  will not back their words with actions  just let Belgium take the hit  when it comes.

     

    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%.

  7. 10 hours ago, Schoggibueb said:

    I have checked that. It's not only bs. It's totally lied.

     

    1. Belgian pensions will not be reduced, there are significant changes for certain groups in 2025, such as: raising the statutory retirement age to 66 and limiting the annual pension increase for civil servants to 0.3%.

     

    2. Since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, Belgium has provided 2.2 billion euros of military and civilian support to Ukraine.

     

    Please stick with the facts and not russian propaganda sh.t.

     

     

    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? 

     

  8. 19 hours ago, Hellfire said:

    It is also worth noting that the aid provided to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program ultimately turned out to be free of charge (as a good will gesture of the Americans). Nevertheless, in Putin’s Russia, it has become customary to downplay the significance of this assistance and to remain silent about its crucial role in the victory over Nazism.

     

    At the core of Soviet - and especially modern Russian propaganda - lies the myth of the West’s, and especially America’s, unquenchable desire to destroy Russia and seize its vast resources. No factual argument can sway those Russians who have absorbed this myth with their mother’s milk.

    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. 
  9. 18 hours ago, JAG said:

    I have no wish to be pedantic, and I do realise that the Belgian perspective on the Second World War may differ from other (combatant) nations, but Bagram was a Soviet and Later American air base in Afghanistan, and the Battle for Berlin took place 9 months after the Normandy Landings!

     

    Let us assume that you are actually thinking about "Operation Bagration. That was indeed a severe defeat  inflicted on the Germans by the Soviets, but again, was after the Normandy Landings.

    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.

     

     

  10. 21 hours ago, transam said:

    Were you not saved at great expense paid by others from Hitler, or did you forget.....🤔

    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...

  11. On 11/7/2025 at 9:11 AM, transam said:

    I feel sorry for you.........🥴

    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.

     

     

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