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Just to prove their ignorance, do a simple search on the internet for Ukraine.
here is a history lesson for both @Yagoda and @Harrisfan.
Location:-
Ukraine is located on the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
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It borders Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, and Russia
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The capital of Ukraine is Kyiv
History:-
Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.) from 1922 until 1991
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Ukraine gained independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Ukraine helped found the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Government:- Ukraine is a unitary semi-presidential republic
- The current president of Ukraine is Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- The current prime minister of Ukraine is Denys Shmyhal
Language:- The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian
Economy:- Ukraine has wide, fertile agricultural plains, with large pockets of heavy industry in the east
There is a lot of information contained in those links, which of course will be decried as "fake" by the ignorant amongst some posters.-
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2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:
Casinos offer the poor a chance to become filthy rich.
They are only a problem if you lose.
And remember, the more you bet, the more you win.
Or the more you lose.
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2 hours ago, Zack61 said:
Casinos are yet another tool to enrich the filthy rich whilst they only offer the poor a life of further misery and destitution.
Casinos are a cancer and I wish the protesters well in their endeavours to put a stop to them.How many poor Thais will be allowed into the casino?
Rich Thais, yes
So if only rich Thais and tourists will will be affected and lose money, why does if matter to you?
BTW rich Thais rarely spend time gambling and losing, that is one reason that they are rich.
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3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:Prove he said that he would end it within 24 hours of becoming president.
All I recall was him saying he could stop it in a day. I'd say the day Zelensky lost it in the W H was that day.
Your posts are getting more frantic and sillier every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fEbGppH86M
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1 hour ago, ExpatOilWorker said:I don't think any of us would last long on the front line, especially not in a brutal war like the Ukrainian conflict.
That said, I have lived 2 years in Russia 🇷🇺 and yes I have had a couple of kalashnikovs pointed directly at me. What insights does Frankie have?
He has the knowledge that HE also is safe and anonymous behind his keyboard, plus the fact that the greatest dealmaker in the world prophesied that he would end the war within 24 hours of becoming president.
bear in mind that he became president on 20th January 2025 and the war is still going on 45 days later.
Both of them lie.
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1 hour ago, jvs said:
No, the betrayal is all on Trump.
Refusing to call Putin the aggressor and saying The Ukraine started this war is a knife in the back of
Zelensky.
The US lost the respect of the rest of the free world.
Of all the weapons send to the Ukraine only 25% came from the US.
How could Zelensky ever go to the White house knowing he was betrayed before he got there.
Shame on the US and Trump.
Slava Ukraine!
Snip from your post.
Shame on the US and Trump.
IMHO, the shame is on Trump and Vance alone, and not the majority of the US people as they have little choice in what is happening in their name.
Slava Ukraine!
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2 hours ago, watchcat said:
Who looks at 10-12 year old girls?
Anybody who delivers and collects their children from school, especially when the children are crossing the road to get to buses on the other side. They don't only look at girls, but at ALL the children, so they don't run the children over.
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1 hour ago, Aussie999 said:Trump hasn't actually taken over the canal, only 2 ports
Trump actually hasn't taken over anything.
Black Rock has just bought the ports at each end of the canal.
Black Rock also has a major shareholder who comes from China.
Win, win for trump? 🤣
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1 hour ago, SMIAI said:Solid accomplishment? They aren't getting them for free. Blackrock are acquiring all CK Hutchison's ports apart from the ones they run in China.
US$23 billion just for Panama.
And all that money will be leaving the USA, bound for China.
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33 minutes ago, watchcat said:
Sounds like nice parent's Not
Not really.
You have NO idea who the parents are, their ages or even if they were married.
It might have been a teenage schoolgirl whose boyfriend abandoned her and her unborn baby and ran off before the baby was born.
Why could you not wait to comment when further information becomes available, instead of jumping to a conclusion?
Perhaps the mother is in urgent need of help and has nobody to turn to. She probably needs hospital attention which she cannot get.
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1 hour ago, proton said:
Are they as bad as in the UK now?
They are much worse off than the UK, even now.
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1 hour ago, hotsun said:They would each get a million dollars. Jealous?
And then where would they buy somewhere to live with that $1million.
Are you truly that stupid?
Oh wait!
You are a rabid Trump supporter.
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5 minutes ago, Purdey said:I doubt NASA can do much without a paper trail. If Elon has no evidence, what he says doesn't matter.
Sadly for the USA and the world, it does matter.
Unfortunately he is one of the lunatics running the asylum, called the USA nowadays.
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At the same time Thailand will be wasting billions of litres of irreplaceable water.
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"the initiative highlights Thailand’s rich culture and New Year traditions, reinforcing its position as a top travel destination during the festive season".
Songkran in its current manner actually bears little or no commonality with the real culture and tradition of the original Songkran.
It is simply a way of making money.
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36 minutes ago, connda said:I wouldn't doubt it.
Of course you wouldn't doubt it.
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Does anyone, other than Trump supporters believe anything that Musk says?
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5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
How many of the US wars around the world since 1948 has that country provided troops for? Korea, nope, Vietnam, nope, Iraq- nope, Afghanistan- nope. Not much of a friend then.
Try researching before you post.
Europe is NOT just one country, but 50 different countries including Russia.
Here is a link for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
Europe covers approx. 10,186,000 square kilometres (3,933,000 sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states, of which Russia is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population. Europe had a total population of about 745 million (about 10% of the world population) in 2021; the third-largest after Asia and Africa.
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She reminds me of an old BBC radio show broadcast from 1946 to 1960 called
"Take it from here"
That is what she is doing. Take it from Here and put it there, then take it from there and put it somewhere else.
It is not new or extra money, just reshuffled money.
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54 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:
Move Farward was the winner of the elections, but as they were a threat for the current leaders and army they were made impossible to make a coalition. You forgot that Pita was unable to be PM? All kind of tricks were used to prevent that he would be PM and nd the managed to ban him . PHeu Thai was the first party that saw their chance and formed a formed a government with their friends to keep the power, so not an elected Government in fact but a Government that was formed to keep the people in power who already were there. Everybody wrote enough about it.. The same parties in another Government. But with the return of Thaksin it seems that there would be changes,,, but untill now they are only working to get Yingluck back and nothing is achieved yet, as we all know that it is the same as in the last decade. This is not the US nor a democracy..
How would you know whether or not I forgot Pita? Was he standing for election? If you have read and understood the constitution, you would know that the PP were given the option of forming the government.
That they could not and the reason behind it are nothing to do with the legality or not of the current government. As they could not form a workable government, the party with the next highest elected was given the option, in line with the constitution and the law. If that party could not form a government, then the next party in line would have been given the option. I am not sure how many times that can happen before a new election would have to be called.
Strangely enough I had noticed that Thailand is not the USA.
However I was responding to another poster @spidermike007 who may not be aware of the rules.
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1 hour ago, James105 said:Seriously? Ukraine is quite famous for being corrupt. Here is some pre-proganda news for you from a leftist outlet.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine
If you really think that most of the money being sent to Ukraine is being used to actually fight Russia then perhaps we can have a chat about a beautiful bridge I have for sale that you might want to purchase. The reason this un-winnable war is still going on is because people are making a lot of money out of it.
Ukraine knows it cannot win, it knows NATO will not send forces due to the small technicality that Ukraine is not actually a part of NATO, but as part of the monthly "Zelensky begging for money worldwide tour", the corrupt politicians can make a ton of money by keeping their cannon fodder on the front lines dragging this on for as long as possible before eventually agreeing to re-draw the boundaries on a map. This will not happen until the cows (other countries taxpayers with weak leaders) have been thoroughly milked of course.
Seriously? A;; you need to do is to is to provide serious links and proof of what you claim. If you cannot, why should I believe you?
You, like me, and all the other posters here are simply an anonymous voice on a small English language forum in Thailand.
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4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:
First of all this is not a democratically elected government and Thailand is not a democracy. Secondarily this Administration has done absolutely nothing for the people and all they're doing is representing the interests of the army, the autocrats, and the billionaires. The young pm has always been completely out of her element, and her level of ineffectiveness is only match by the Goomba overseas.
Actually it is a legally elected government.
PPP which had more elected MPs, was given the first choice of electing a majority coalition government. Unfortunately together with their partners they still could not form a majority government. After a period of time (30 days I think) the option to form a coalition government went to the party with the next highest number of elected MPs, (as laid down in the current and previous constitutions). In this case it was the PTP who could, and did form a majority coalition government.
In Thailand, and in many other countries it is not necessarily the first past the post party which forms the government, nor is it, as in the USA that the electoral college decides who is the winner.
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2 hours ago, James105 said:Its a loan.. yeah right. I'm sure lending money to the most corrupt country in Europe will get paid back sometime never. It's money that could have been spent on better things but instead just more money spaffed away on an un-winnable war that just ensures thousands more will die.
Good for warmongering keyboard warrior idiots who believe whatever propaganda they are being fed and must enjoy people being killed on the frontlines whilst they themselves are nice and safe, bad for normal folks that don't believe in the BS that is fed to the masses and see it for what it really is. Corruption and money laundering.
And of course you have the proof of all this and you will publish it when?
It is easy to make allegations whilst being an anonymous keyboard entity, but actually backing things up with actual verifiable proof is not quite the same thing.
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3 hours ago, Tug said:
Do not trust trump I repeat do not trust trump .he and putin are birds of a feather they will do whatever suits them and will promise the moon then break their word.
TBH I don't trust either of them as far as I can throw the Royal Albert hall left handed. However that is just my opinion, and I am sure that other posters will agree or disagree with me.
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18 minutes ago, OJAS said:
Whilst this is, indeed, the case provided that the amounts involved do not total more than the UK personal allowance (currently £12,570) as already said, it would appear that her widow's pensions might, however, be deemed assessable income for Thailand taxation purposes, because of Article 19(2) of the UK/Thailand Double Taxation Agreement, which states:
(2) (a) Any pension paid by the Contracting State or a political subdivision or a localauthority thereof to any individual in respect of services of a governmental naturerendered to that State or subdivision or local authority thereof shall be taxableonly in that State.(b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other contracting State ifthe recipient is a national of and a resident of that State.But, given your subsequent statement that the amounts involved won't exceed the current UK personal allowance, she might not, in practice, have to pay any tax in Thailand either because of the various allowances and exemptions currently in force.That all said, things could, of course, change at both UK and Thailand ends between now and when your wife claims her widow's pensions!However as a Thai national (she will be 60 in October) she will also be entitled to the standard 150,000 baht exempted income, and probably the age allowance of 190,000 baht.
Ukraine is not a Country
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And those are just some of the reasons he is on my ignore list.