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So is Former legally elected Prime Minister and far more truthful.

quote "If it expands to 7 countries ( where did that come from anyway ) that's on Israel." That came from the Guardian report which was the first post on page 1 of this thread.

What they may be short on and their enemies will be long on is most probably people. Plus since those 2 wars their Arab opponents will also have learnt their lessons from it as well. All those large stocks of stored equipment in reserve - hundreds of tanks, several thousand armoured personnel carriers, hundreds of artillery pieces will not be of much use against Iran or Yemen and to use up their person power will shut down a lot of their industries. I have no doubt that Russia, China will also be beefing up the weapon stocks in countries who are, or could be against Israel. Iran can shut the Gulf to all vessels which would screw up the oil revenues of all the Gulf states and also screw up all the countries reliant on the Gulf oil states. Yemen could play havoc with the Red Sea shipping routes as indeed they are now. Even the US military cannot be everywhere all of the time to protect everybody. If you take them from Asia, the Chinese can always take the advantages offered by their absence. This takes me back to the elastic band again.

Thank you for the information. My wellies stop at the knee and I think (and hope) that if a snake does get around to biting me the fangs will get caught in my jeans first, following that the wellies, following that the socks before it actually get to me. At 79, with a knackered left knee and a buggered up back, I move slowly enough for any snake to sneak away from the noise and vibration of the brush cutter.

I got that from the Guardian report on page 1 of the thread. quote Israel is engaged in a “multi-front war”, its defence minister has said, hinting at military operations across the Middle East as the war in Gaza showed new signs of a dangerous regional escalation. Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, Yoav Gallant said Israel was “coming under attack from seven theatres: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria [an Israeli term for the West Bank], Iraq, Yemen and Iran”. I may have read more into that than there really is but my take is with Netanyahu's war minded cabinet I wouldn't rule it out. IMHO the IDF is running on past memories of the 1967 war and is relying almost entirely on the USA for funds, weapons, ammunition and logistical support. If that is stopped then, again IMHO, they will have to rely on their not spoken about, nuclear weapons and that, I think would certainly spike of a regional war which may trigger a larger conflict.

I use nylon cords on my brush cutter which hopefully will slice a snake into shreds, I also wear jeans, rubber welly boots, with a steel toecap and soleplate, and football socks for lower body protection. The guys that cut the scrub sometimes use the steel blade and that will chop snakes into mush

People, especially politicians, need to look at their countries military as an elastic band. It can be stretched and stretched a fair amount but the band gets thinner at every stretch. Eventually the rubber band will snap and be lost to its purpose. Fighting any war on a single front is not too hard, on 2 fronts you need to split your forces and all the logistics that go to keeping your military supplied. Both the Allied and Axis forces in WW2 found that out. Fighting seven enemies at once is madness.

IMHO more unnecessary deaths to satisfy and old mans ego? Not for me, it wouldn't. Even one more death or injury to either side is one more too many.

We used to have the smog maker come around every making his anti mossie stink but I haven't seem him for several years.

Thank you for more even more information. AFAIK we don't have ticks in the house, or at least I don't think we have, as I haven't seen any, but they are very small. I don't remember seeing beetles indoors either or I would do my best to stamp them out. Very small black ants in the house, yes, nasty biting red ants that lurk in the trees or grass, plenty of them. The odd snake or two and flies by the zillion. Lots of (wasps, bees or hornets) as well, but no honeycombs. Just a normal part of rural living, that you don't notice them after a while.

Probably much the same as trying to divert the post that you are replying to. Now I was responding to a link in a thread by another poster and I am AFAIK on topic. How about you? Do you have any thoughts of your own about the topic, or the link or is it that you don't like my response?

Great plan, opening a war on 7 fronts. I think that if the USA and defending Israel they may well be looking at US troops coming home in body bags. That would not be a good idea as the US forces are already heavily extended in Asia with Taiwan, the Philippine's, China and N Korea, in the Arab Gulf, and the Red Sea with Yemen, with NATO and Russia (but no troops on the ground and the Ukraine, as well as their normal commitments. I addition 2024 is an election year in the USA and the Democrats have the gop with Trump (and all his court cases) snapping at their heels. Many younger voters who would have voted Democrat are unhappy and have nowhere to go, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67808808

Thank you for that very interesting link. Sadly it will not matter to a lot of posters on these forums who believe that Israel, right or wrong, is always right no matter what. They are the ones with the closed minds who truly believe that every Palestinian man, woman and child is a Hamas terrorist, (especially in the case of children and babies) are terrorists in training. and should be exterminated at all costs by the good, scrupulously honest, trusted worldwide by everybody, IDF and Netanyahu's Israeli government. Their are persons on this forum and thread who will vilify me for this post, as they do you.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67821515

Thank you for the information, I think.

Perhaps they should not have sold off the old one so quickly.

So why are the local unemployed Brits not taking up these jobs was the question that I asked, that you have not answered.

So why are indigent British people not stepping forwards in their millions to do these underpaid and overworked jobs? It would decrease the number of foreigners who are willing to do the work for less pay than a local Brit, or is it because they are better off on benefits and not working. And if local Brits don't want to do the work, who do you think will do the work?

I agree with you there. President Biden is in a cleft stick. If he chooses to act and stop Netanyahu, he will bring a lot of young Americans to his side and a lot of unhappy Arab and Arab states worldwide. However the Arab states have no votes in the USA though they do have a degree of influence. If he does nothing to stop Netanyahu he will be condemned by many people and countries worldwide, and all the time he has Trump and the gop snapping at his heels, slavering to get into power. He certainly has my pity and mu sympathy. I hope that he can work it out very soon without any more senseless and pointless deaths.

But nowhere near as tasty. For me, if it takes 3 hours for the bread to be baked, only about 30 minutes pf that time is actually spent on making the bread, with the rest of the time spent on the bread rising a couple of times and the bread actually baking.

What a load of rubbish I suppose that I was an economic migrant according to you. I have lived and worked in 38 different countries in 50 years, including 4 different jobs in Thailand, 3 in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and a few more I could look up if I was bothered. I was an expat in all of those countries and sent there to live and work for a salary, so how was I an economic migrant. You really ought to understand the term expat before you blather off again. I retired to Thailand in 2001 to live but worked offshore as well. I lived in Thailand between jobs with my Thai wife and son. Does that qualify me as an economic migrant according to you?

You could always make your own and fiddle about with the recipe until you get what you want. You can make it in an ordinary oven, a table top oven, a convection oven, an air fryer or even in a wok. It is cheaper and better for you, and once you get the recipe to your taste, you will never run out. You can slice it and freeze it for when ever you need some. There are many recipes on the internet for you to choose from. Once you have made it you will never want to go back to the shop made stuff.

IMHO only President Biden is in a position to stop Netanyahu continuing this pointless was of revenge and destruction. Sadly if he uses the US military power and influence to do so, it may cost him the Presidency, the Democrats the next election and let that maniac Trump and the spineless gop back into power. Trump, again IMHO, would immediately reverse President Biden's decision and encourage Netanyahu to destroy Hamas, every Palestinian man woman and child in the region and plunge the whole area into a war of destruction. President Biden and the USA are screwed up one way or the other.

Thank you. I know it is 20 baht out of the province, but in some places that can be just a few hundred metres.

It depends on how often it happens and for how long. Once every 6 months or so is no big problem if it is only down for an hour or so. If it happens every day for long periods, then changing banks may be a good idea. I you desperately need money from the ATM at the branch, and there are other Banks ATMs close use one of them. I think it costs about 20 baht.