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If it has to be explained to the person in charge that if you get rid of all the experienced staff at the same time, then you are talking to somebody who is in the wrong place, the wrong job, the wrong time, and who should never have been given the job in the first place. to use an Irish epithet, the men is a <deleted> eejit. He was however, put into that position by an even bigger <deleted> eejit.

At 3 am on an empty 2 lane highway, he must have been going quite fast to demolish a Som Tam shop and bury the car into the house next door. Looking at the 2 photos he seems to have been very lucky and just missed the power pole and light as well.

Probably less than the USA.

Thank you for posting that video. I found it very interesting that the Israeli spokesman either could not or would not provide any proof of Israel's claims. It has not changed my opinion of the Israeli government or the IDF at all.

If he has negotiated 200 trade deals, and he has spoken to President Xi in the last few days, he would be shouting it from the rooftops. OTOH if he won't talk about that then it is a fair bet that he has not, because there is no confirmation of anything, other than his word, and by now the world, other than MAGA know what that is worth. I have just done an internet search and all except 2 show the same as the OP. However ABC news 19 hours ago has a report from China refuting this, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/donald-trumps-says-he-spoke-with-china-xi-jinping/105218400 and NHK news from 11 hours ago say much the same. thing. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250426_N01/

Why must the Ukraine give up on the territories annexed by Russia? Because YOU say so. It is NOT your land, territory or people. Because Trump says so? It is NOT his land, territory or people either? Nor does it belong to Russia either. It belongs to the Ukraine. Perhaps the USA should give ALL its territory back to the native Americans and the Mexicans that they stole it from? That would be equally fair though I doubt that you would agree with that.

What a shame that you still cannot or will not define the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is, nor do you ex[lain who decides between a terrorist and a freedom fighter. When you can come back with a reasonable answer, I may be bothered to respond to your post, or not.

Poor try at a diversion. The question I asked was how many countries has Iran invaded?

This is what happens when you stand up against a bully, and the bully decides that you are the stronger. The bully folds and scuttles away to look for weaker victims to prey on. Now if all the countries that Trump is bullying stand together against him he loses completely and everybody except the bully wins. Even the population of the USA win. Only Trump and his sycophants lose, which is how it should be. As for the Trump supporters here on AN, they are shrieking louder and louder and making more and more preposterous claims, in a vain attempt to turn back the tide to their masters version of winning. Oddly enough there doesn't seem to be so many of them lately.

Who says that they can't have nuclear weapons, and why? Israel supposedly has at least 90 nuclear weapons and they have already invaded Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Iran within the last 2 years. How many countries has Iran invaded. There was a treaty, signed, sealed and working, but Trump 1 tore it up.

Just another dumbass US politician shooting his mouth off about things he knows nothing about. Will he stop being a politician, enlist in the military and be in the front of the action? There is an interesting Wikipedia article about him here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman That is of course if people wish to read it all.

AFAIK AI needs a human input to generate an image, again AFAIK AI also needs a human input to access any website, MSM or social media to add the image and to post the image, because at this point, AI is still inanimate and it is unable to actually generate a post itself. If anyone can be blamed. it is the person who posted the picture and the moderators (if any) who allowed the post to be sent in the first place.

Says who? That is NOT true in the slightest, and if YOU believe that, then post the links and the proof of tour claim.

So now you have become the ultimate fount of knowledge all about the constitution of the Ukraine?

What he conveniently omitted to mention was that was actually passed earlier and extended in July 2923. The full text of the link is here, and I have emboldened what I think are the relevant parts On Sunday, Zelenskyy stated that he would step down if it would secure peace for Ukraine, adding that he would also resign if it guaranteed the country’s NATO membership. However, the Ukrainian parliament emphasized on Tuesday that Zelenskyy was elected in a legitimate vote and remains the country’s lawful president. The body further confirmed that national elections will not be held until martial law is lifted following the establishment of a “comprehensive, fair, and sustainable peace.” Ukraine’s constitution prohibits the holding of elections during martial law, which was extended in July 2023, one year after Russia’s full-scale invasion. The resolution underlines that neither the Ukrainian people nor the Verkhovna Rada question Zelenskii’s legitimacy and states that, under the country’s constitution, he must remain in office until a new president is elected. A clever move which only works, if people accept his word and don't bother to open the link and read the full text.

Because Trump/Vance/MAGA supporters will always deny/deflect and ridicule anything that Trump does not like or approve of. There are none so blind, as those who refuse see.

Same old, same old lies and BS from Trump. Well the world did watch, and most of the world didn't believe that BS either.

Yet when the USA needed help other countries in the world stepped up to assist without hesitation, putting their own men and women, regardless of race colour or creed on the line to help. They were. and are, called allies. The fat, useless, orange blob is throwing all that away, stabbing allies in the back, tearing up treaties and treating old allies as enemies, and old enemies as "new" friends. The sad thing about all this, is that people like you are helping him and NOT helping the people of the USA who oppose him and all that he stands for. People like you have elected a convicted criminal, a sex offender and a serial liar into becoming POTUS, and yet you show no shame or remorse.

Whose are "theirs"? Here is a list of robots used in manufacturing (since you seem to lazy to add a link). https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-growth-of-industrial-robots-by-country/

I see that the whiners and moaners are out in force again. What a pity that they didn't comment on Trump's Easter photograph. Then again, I haven't seen one so perhaps he couldn't be bothered to have one made.

As she was overthrown by an illegal military coup, IMHO she has a right to her voice, whether you like it or not, She is Thai, and has a voice and a vote in Thailand, which is more than farangs have.

Perhaps the Thai government did its own research on the current US government and decided that the Gripen was cheaper to buy, cheaper to fly, cheaper to maintain and a better buy all around. Not to mention, that the current US government under Trump is far less trustworthy than the Swedish government.

I fell in love with my Thai wife within a couple of months but it was 7 years before we married. I was working in Thailand during 1993 and 1994 to 1997, with a side trip to Indonesia in 1994. So I guess it was a couple of years. I got sent off to other countries in between jobs in Thailand and elsewhere, and it was a long distance affair for a while, though she did come to me for a month in Sri Lanka and also to France, Germany and the UK.

Not really. You can use the Open With function in MS and it works vert well. That is how I open any MS document into Libre Office. You can also save the document into MS by using the Save As function.

Rubbish. I used to take the National Transport Company bus from the local village to Bangkok. some 350 odd km, for years and had no problem. That was either the lower deck of a 1 1/2 deck bus, or the single deck bus without any problems. How many times have you taken an inter provincial bus?