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Putin won’t like this very much: “Vladimir Putin was never the Soviet super spy he'd like us to believe. He was merely a KGB 'errand boy,' report says” https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-was-not-soviet-super-spy-stasi-report-2023-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T

Don’t get too cocky. Just look at what happened in Myanmar. I’m sure the junta there will be very pleased to help out their Thai colleagues if needed. The people can want whatever they want and have elections and whatnot, but if the military decides otherwise, the people won’t get it.

You have to learn from the past, and punish those who have abused their power, otherwise history will keep repeating itself.

Removing Putin and his kleptocracy is going to be a hell of a job. Besides a few years of democracy, Russia and Russians have known nothing but tyrants and dictators. Autocratic leadership has been ingrained in Russian society and in the Russian mindset for centuries, it will be very hard to change that. Removing the kleptocracy would also mean removing the oligarchs, and they’re not going to let all that money and power be taken away from them without a huge struggle. If Prigozhin can have his own private army of tens of thousands of fighters, so can other Russian billionaires. It’s probably just a matter of time before Putin is either ousted or killed, but when that happens, I expect things to become very chaotic and violent. There’s just too much at stake, and people are willing to do crazy things to hold on to what they have, or take a stab at getting their hands on a sizeable slice of the loot themselves.

Yeah, they really should start screwing with that nuclear power plant. I’m sure the fallout won’t reach Russia…..

You would be foolish to send a package worth 200,000 baht, or have it sent, and not have it insured. This is especially true for Thailand, where many valuable items sent by post seem to magically disappear.

Jeez, and it’s probably also their own fault when women wearing short skirts and tight shirts get raped? Nice piece of victim blaming. But then again, I’ve noticed that quite a few members of this forum are a little empathy-impaired, to say the least.

Exactly, we don’t know the ins and outs of the situation. I took care of my mother for over 7 years while her dementia got worse and worse. There were times I would have loved to strangle her, or leave her somewhere, just to get away from her for a while. It can be very tough to take care of someone you love, but who is also - through no fault of their own - becoming a huge pain in the @ss. So please stop judging the daughter before you know the whole story.

Swiss Parliament Votes To Block Indirect Arms Exports To Ukraine https://www.rferl.org/a/swiss-parliament-blocks-arms-exports-ukraine/32440097.html The main reason for blocking the indirect arms export to Ukraine is because they are afraid it could jeopardize their ‘neutrality’. Bit hypocritical, isn’t it? I mean, their banks take and guard the money (billions if not trillions of dollars) from every dictator and criminal Tom, Dick and Harry, and they make a sh!tload of money that way. Heaven forbid they should stand the tiniest chance to possibly lose some of that business because they allowed arms exports to Ukraine.

Barrister Catriona Murdoch has been leading investigations into whether the Russian military has been deliberately targeting Ukraine’s food infrastructure in an attempt to starve its civilians: 'Russia's vile crimes in Ukraine give me nightmares – they bombed 14 waiting for food' https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/investigating-russian-war-crimes-ukraine-30135613

Like I said in a post a couple of days ago: that man is dumber than a bag of rocks. God help Russia if guys with his ‘intelligence’ are in charge.

I’m not holding my breath, but if they actually manage to go after the police commanders, that would be a very good first step. But how about the rest of the police force? You don’t have to be a police commander to be corrupt, just look at Joe Ferrari. And while they’re at it: how about all those rich generals? And how about all those rich MP’s? The list goes on, but how about checking their assets and bank accounts? There are lots of people in Thailand who are ‘unusually wealthy’, and it would be very good to go after them and confiscate all (or most) of that ill-gotten wealth.

I hit her on head 17 times with a sledgehammer. How was I supposed to know that could be fatal? Jeez.

Exactly. Business as usual, I would say, so why the uproar? Wel all know that most taxi drivers will screw over anyone at the drop of a hat.

Hope he gets extradited and has a long and very miserable rest of his life in a Thai prison.

Couldn’t agree with you more. All Russian embassies in the West should be closed, and all diplomats expelled. The embassies are just hotbeds for espionage anyway, and the diplomats spread nothing but lies and propaganda.

Used to be Burma, changed to Myanmar in 1989.

“Phuket Launches Intensive Operation to Crack Down on Foreigners Breaking the Law” Quite so. Breaking the law is an exclusive privilege for corrupt and/or criminal Thai. Especially on Phuket, I might add.

Interesting new CIA tactic: “The CIA Is Now Trying to Recruit Russian Spies On Telegram” https://time.com/6280190/cia-recruit-russian-spies-telegram/

And yet another pearl of wisdom from this shining beacon of moderation and intelligence, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev: "There are irreversible laws of war. If it comes to nuclear weapons, there will have to be a pre-emptive strike," Medvedev said. This man must be dumber than a bag of rocks, as he keeps threatening to nuke the West. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russias-medvedev-warns-west-underestimating-072836149.html

I think most jade comes from Shan state, so the Myanmar junta has no say in that.

“Protesters Call on Senators to Listen to the People’s Voices” They never have, and I don’t expect them to start doing that any time soon. Most senators are there just for one reason: to get their snouts in the feeding trough.

There are countless hiso’s who have a very obnoxious ‘don’t you know who I am?’ attitude, and demand a preferential treatment just because they’re rich and powerful, and they expect to get off light no matter how badly they screwed up. IMO, it’s quite okay to come down hard on those people, harder than on some poor schlob who’s just trying to get to work in time.