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Another one of your if’s. Do you see any indication that NATO is about to cut down or stop the aid they’re sending to Ukraine? I mean, other than the Republican Putin fan boys and their counterparts (i.e. Victor Orban) in Europe? NATO knows very well that Ukraine is fighting a very important battle for them, and that if they stop helping Ukraine, Russia will probably win and then have its hands free to find another target. Russia needs to be stopped and Ukraine can do it, but only with NATO’s help.

Apparently Putin fell down the stairs and soiled himself. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11494595/Vladimir-Putin-fell-stairs-home-soiled-himself.html

I wish Putin’s daddy had ‘pulled out’ about 71 years ago. Then there would be no Putin and maybe we wouldn’t have this problem right now.

You could very well be right. Whoever it was, this is probably their idea of “subtle”.

Putin fan boys/trolls/shills/FSB (take your pick) apparently have nothing better to do: “Ukrainian embassies receive ‘bloody packages’ containing animal eyes” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-embassies-receive-bloody-packages-containing-animal-eyes-kyiv-2022-12-02/

Russia’s shortage of munitions (exacerbated by logistic challenges) is likely one of the main factors currently limiting Russia’s potential to restart effective, large scale offensive ground operations.

Kremlin’s internal polling shows that more than half of Russians now favor negotiations with Ukraine, while only 25% still support the war. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/11/30/make-peace-not-war

Russians are not learning from their mistakes. Hope they continue down this path and keep sacrificing huge numbers of troops on insignificant objectives.

You’re absolutely right. Over the years, I have lived in Chiang Mai a few times. At first, it was still possible to ride a bicycle there, even on busy roads. Now I don’t do that anymore, it’s way too dangerous, even if you are constantly cautious and have eyes in the back of your head. Having said that, it is still possible to ride a bike on quiet back roads not far from Chiang Mai. There’s not much traffic there, you don’t feel like you have a bull’s eye on your back all the time, and it’s really quite enjoyable to ride between the green rice fields. Until the burning season starts, that is.

How should I know which weapons they used? But suppose they used western weapons, you said to expect an unpleasant response. Hence my question: unpleasant for whom?

“Methanus apologized to Palmer, saying he was unaware that the victim was a foreign tourist.” What difference does it make that the victim was a foreign tourist? Had the victim been Thai, he wouldn’t have apologized?

‘Every second felt like an eternity’: inside the torture chambers of Ukraine’s occupied northeast. Horrific stories of survivors of rape and torture in Russian prisons in occupied territory. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-torture-balakiya-izyum-kharkiv-b2221357.html

Wagner group recruits prisoners in Africa to fight against Ukraine. They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Dozens of men held in custody by Central African Republic’s army and police for crimes such as rape and murder have been recruited by Wagner’s local wing of militants, commonly known as “black Russians”. And Russia accused Ukraine of hiring mercenaries….. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/media-russias-wagner-group-recruits-prisoners-in-africa-to-fight-against-ukraine

As far as I know, Ukraine has never expressed any intention to invade Russia. But nothing stops them from giving the Russians a taste of their own medicine, destroy a few power stations and gas and water mains here and there, so they start feeling the same pain they are inflicting upon Ukraine. Maybe it will helpt to create a bit more discontent among the Russian population about what Vlad is doing and the consequences it has for mother Russia and its inhabitants.

Looks like your wish is coming true: “Ukrainian forces struck a power plant in multiple attacks on Russia’s Kursk region on Tuesday, causing some electricity outages, a local governor said.” https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-kursk-strikes/ukraines-forces-strike-power-plant-in-russias-kursk-region-governor-idUKL1N32P2OZ

There should be a warning when you enter Thailand, like those warnings on cigarette packs: “Traffic in Thailand is deadly!” But wow, that idiot car driver didn’t even slow down one fraction. Hope they catch him and throw the book at him.

A real bank or money transfer service would NEVER ask for that, so beware. I use Wise as well and last time I sent money to Thailand I also got questions, for instance if I had actually met the person I was sending money to. If I get any more question, I’m going to switch to another service.

You don’t seem to understand that Trump is the rot.

What God would be with a proven traitor, liar, adulterer and fraudster?

Very sobering video.

So what? They still received $180 billion worth in today’s currency and I’m quite sure it helped the Russians defeat the Germans on the eastern front in the end. Without that aid I’m not at all sure the Russians would have been able to do that.

Even if ‘we’ inflamed the situation by a few misjudged decisions, that doesn’t give Russia the right to do what it is doing now. And perhaps the problem is that not enough people see yet that Putin and his cronies (especially that creep Prigozhin) really ARE the devil incarnate. Didn’t you get what they wanted to do to Ukraine and its people? Ukraine had no right to exist anyway, and Ukrainians were subhumans who needed to be eradicated. Think ‘the final solution’ from WWII (or ‘die Endlösung’ in German, if you will), that’s pretty much what Russia wanted to do with the Ukrainians. What the Russian army and its allies are doing in Ukraine is absolutely horrendous, committing the most vile and disgusting war crimes on a daily basis. And this is not done by an out of control army, but very obviously because the soldiers have been ordered to behave like thugs, and to rape, torture and kill indiscriminately. So yes, Putin really is the devil incarnate, and the sooner everyone starts to recognize that as a fact, the better it will be.

China invaded Tibet. Do you see any signs that Tibet is about to get its independence back?

That is indeed the official CCP party line. Fortunately, not many outside of China buy into that obvious BS.

Of course it is. But that won’t stop Trump saying he doesn’t know who Fuentes is. He would deny knowing Mike Pence. And his MAGA crowd would believe him.