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Right back at you.

Not to mention lots of money to convince those coming after them to stop coming after them.

Putin wasted precious (and very expensive) missiles likely just for Russian state propaganda purposes.

If they did, almost the entire RTP would have been sacked and prosecuted by now. The whole cabinet, including Dear Leader, would have been fired and prosecuted. The list is endless, Thailand is corrupt to the core. These 116 corrupt immigration officers are just a tiny, tiny tip of the huge iceberg of corruption. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re doing this now, but it’s going to be a very long and uphill battle to go after the bigger fish, higher up in the food chain.

Kidnapped Ukrainian kids are being sent to sinister "re-education camps" by Putin's evil child snatchers in a bid to turn them into "Russian zombies", according to a report. Children inside the camps are said to have been put through the process of "information zombification" to rid them of their Ukrainian heritage and make them "pro-Russian." https://www.the-sun.com/news/7557496/child-snatchers-ukraine-kids-russia-zombies-camps/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

More dissent among Russian troops: “A group of Russian troops sent to Ukraine to fight for the Kremlin’s “new” territory is threatening to raise absolute hell over what they describe as pointless suicide missions—and they’ve made clear they’re willing to turn their weapons on members of their own team if necessary.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-soldiers-filmed-threatening-to-turn-weapons-on-commanders-in-ukraine Hope lots more will follow this example and tell their commanders to go **** themselves.

How do they still have access?

If you meant ‘do you have a link to the survey’: if you had bothered to click on the link in the OP: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-war-woke-most-americans-100008176.html And then in that article click on the link for the survey: https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-divided-whether-woke-compliment-or-insult Not too difficult, is it?

Turns out in this case 56% of Americans (which is a majority, and not just the loony left) disagree with you: “Fifty-six percent of those surveyed say the term means "to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices." That includes not only three-fourths of Democrats but also more than a third of Republicans.”

That’s the problem with right-wingers/conservatives/evangelicals: they think their own view represents that of the vast majority. But it (almost)never does…..

Thai minivans remind me of the ‘taxi brousse’ in West Africa. These cars (often old Peugeot 504 Familiale) usually have one driver and nine passengers. They also have a disturbing nickname: “neuf morts, un blessée’, which means nine dead, one injured. Accidents often result in all passengers being killed and the driver more or less seriously injured. I’ve spent quite a few hours in both, almost always with tightly clenched buttocks. I’m still not sure which is worse, the Thai minivan or the taxi brousse in West Africa.

That’s all they ever do: they sit in their air conditioned offices, with the air purifiers probably on full blast, and they talk and discuss, and then they say they will closely monitor the situation, which means they will do absolutely nothing (because there is nothing in it for them, no money to be made) and then they go home and complain about the air pollution. This has been going on for years, and will continue to go on for many years to come.

So knee-jerk reaction it is, then….

Jeez, do you guys actually read the things you post before you post them? Or is it just your knee-jerk reaction to anything having to do with Islam? Kill them all, of course. That includes killing millions of innocent and well-meaning people, including children, who just want to have a normal life and mean no one any harm. Or did you mean just kill all the insurgents? In that case, how do you distinguish between a ‘normal’ citizen and an insurgent? Must be nice to live in a black and white world without anything in between. And China has the right idea with how to handle Islamic separatists, seriously? Just rob a couple of million people of their freedom and put them in ‘re-education camps’ because they oppose the Chinese wanting to stamp out every last bit of their culture? Like they have been doing, and are currently still doing, in Tibet?

Wildlife trafficking is a multi-billion dollar business with very little risk involved, especially for the guys at the top earning the big bucks. If someone gets caught, it’s almost always the guys doing the actual poaching or trafficking, never the big cheeses who control the trade and make a fortune.

Just another example of the evil that is Putin/Russia and its barbaric war in Ukraine: Russian soldiers execute Ukrainian PoW after he says "Glory to Ukraine". https://news.yahoo.com/russian-soldiers-execute-ukrainian-pow-135000255.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLm5sLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB9WvbhnKuF1zWz6pMbP7m8fx5FbarcoDvxzP4l9JBDmhOhOMOxTs25DRNuMhB7mtuSgZHEhqsCZQW8RlygMoOlg3Y7rGu4e9pzl9EIn6hEar0BxhH61rXVbx4yoWXsOIK3uul8BNgsiyX-oAI4mZsmLCCZQdesksHoIznUS5j6P

Russian army forced to deploy 60-year-old T-62 main battle tanks. Russian BTR-50 armoured personnel carriers, first fielded in 1954, have also been deployed in Ukraine for the first time.

Russia has “wasted huge amounts of human resources, armaments, and materials” during the war in Ukraine, and it will likely run out of offensive potential by late spring, Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said in an interview with USA Today published on March 5. Budanov said “a decisive battle” is set to take place this spring, and predicted that “this battle will be the final one before this war ends,” USA Today reported. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/budanov-russia-likely-to-run-out-of-military-tools-by-end-of-spring

‘Doomsday plane’ landed in Iceland recently. Probably a sign to Putin/Russia to not get any crazy ideas….

Calling them spineless cowards is an insult to spineless cowards. This is absolutely the lowest of the low. Sometimes I can see the need for corporal punishment. These four would definitely deserve it.

More like undercover kickbacks gathering….

The only thing there is no question about is that RT is a Kremlin propaganda channel that spouts the most outrageous nonsense. I’m willing to bet my last dollar, euro and baht that that video is fake.

Bangkok is indeed a great city, but they must have forgotten to factor in the abysmal air quality most of the year, otherwise it could never have landed in 30th place.

LOL. Past performance is no guarantee of future results…..

????????Must be a nice view for the staff of the Russian embassy in Berlin: German peace activists park rusty tank outside Russian embassy. Activists protesting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine parked a destroyed, rusty tank directly in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin on Friday, bringing a piece of the battlefield to the centre of the German capital. "The broken tank signifies downfall. Ukraine is going to be Putin's Stalingrad," said Wieland Giebel, curator of the Berlin Story Bunker museum, referring to Germany's defeat in a major battle in World War Two. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-activists-park-destroyed-rusting-tank-outside-russian-embassy-2023-02-24/