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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.

Of course the penalty should not be the same for anyone. Sometimes it’s ‘just an accident’, and sometimes it’s an arrogant d*ck who’s speeding and undertaking while texting on his phone. Circumstances do matter.

You make it sound like it’s perfectly okay to do a hit and run or kill someone with your car. Just pay the 50,000 baht fine and be on your way again. Happens all the time, so what’s everyone getting to worked up about. PS: you don’t happen to own a white Aston Martin, do you?

My thoughts exactly. Police have probably already tracked down the owner of the car, a big fat brown envelope has changed hands and everything will be swept under the carpet, with the police claiming they can’t find the car of the owner.

Russians getting crazier by the minute: New hallucinatory message from Moscow: Russia wants 750 billion dollars in compensation from Poland for “Soviet reconstruction” Viacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian legislature, said in a press release that Poland must be punished for “betraying the historical memory” of the Soviet Union’s liberation of the country from Nazi Germany through a series of hostile acts against Moscow . In statements that are sure to deepen the row with Warsaw, Volodin claimed that Poland existed as a state only “because of our country”, said that Warsaw should pay Russia more than $750 billion to compensate it for Soviet investments in the country after the Second World War. https://romania.postsen.com/world/243838/New-hallucinatory-message-from-Moscow-Russia-wants-750-billion-dollars-in-compensation-from-Poland-for-Soviet-reconstruction.html

They are really getting desperate in the Kremlin ????????????

Of course it is, that’s how Thailand has been run for centuries. The military is an instrument of the elite, and many generals are also an integral part of that same elite. They have absolutely no interest in democracy. Why do you think there have been more military coups in Thailand than in probably any other country in the world? Why do you think Prayuth staged a coup in 2014? It’s all to protect the interests of the elite, and the interests of the generals themselves.

This is what Zelensky tweeted after arriving in Berlin in the middle of the night. Ukraine to receive a 2.7 billion euro package of military equipment.

Ukrainians, Zelensky awarded Charlemagne prize for services to Europe. This very prestigious award will be presented to Zelensky this afternoon in the town of Aachen, Germany. In your face, Vlad! https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2022/12/16/ukrainians-zelensky-awarded-charlemagne-prize-for-services-to-europe

Ukraine Eurovision act's city Ternopil attacked just before performance. This just shows, once again, how petty, vindictive and straight up evil the Russian regime is. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65586701

Russian bases are no more safe, as Britain delivers long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.

Marina Ovsyannikova: “Putin doesn’t have enough Novichok to kill his growing number of critics.”

The hypocrisy and double standard of Thai authorities (and many citizens as well) keeps amazing me. With everything going on in Thailand, like the rampant corruption, the terrible education system, the air pollution, dangerous traffic that kills tens of thousands every year, and so on and so forth, and they get their panties in a bunch over something like this?

Victory Day parade a huge success. Or maybe not, as panicky Putin rushed through his speech to open a diminished parade with far fewer troops than usual and a solitary rusty tank. Apparently Vlad was scared there was going to be an assassination attempt on his life. Pity that didn’t happen, though. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22293633/putin-prepares-victory-day-parade-kremlin-drone/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

That guy is all over the place. I just read that he had asked Ramzan Kadyrov to send his Chechen army to replace the Wagner fighters in Bachmut.

Gee, who could have seen this coming: