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Do you have a link for that? Yet there are US main battle tanks pre positioned in several NATO countries already. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1294391/nato-tank-strength-country/

Tell that to the person and the country that started the war in the first place.

One could reasonably ask if anything has been accomplished in the past 8 years.

But AFTER the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and not before.

The ONLY Prime Ministers not properly elected by the population were those who came from military coups. This includes the current 250 members of the senate.

Please define your version of the term terrorist.

But he was removed from power by a military coup, which in itself was illegal. He was found guilty in a court and a justice run by that same coup government, so, if the coup was illegal, so was the court sentence.

What crimes were they? The ones who charged him were the junta who pulled the coup against him. If their coup was illegal then the charges are illegal as well.

What invasion would that have been? There was none when Trump was POTUS and he has been out of power for over 2 years. Are you claiming that the was started before Trump was in power?

Please don't feed the troll. It makes him carry on all the more.

Says who? A farang who, like me has no voice in Thai politics?

Well if you were to follow that through there have been 17 military coups in Thailand since 1932, NONE of which were carried out by the Thai electorate. So would that make it 17 times bitten, and 17 times shy? My apologies. I missed a coup somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Thailand#:~:text=As a result%2C there have,most of the political parties. Every time a coup was staged, scapegoats or excuses were found to justify it. Eventually, the ensuing junta government would hand the government back to elected officials. As a result, there have been 18 coups and 18 constitutions in the history of Thai politics. From 1932, bureaucrats, generals, and businessmen have run most of the political parties. While the grassroots are always the target of the political parties, no grassroots party has ever led the country. Money seems to be the major factor in gaining power in the country.

There is actually a lot of difference between the two of them. Thaksin was legally elected for 4 years, stood for re-election and was re-elected with an overall majority in Parliament. Of course that was back in the bad old days when the members of the Senate were also elected by the public. Thaksin was removed by a military coup. Prayuth OTOH stole power from a government legally elected by the Thai people. He has never stood for election, had the 1997 constitution scrapped and the 2014 constitution rewritten in his favour and the senate composed of unelected people chosen by himself and his cronies 5 years after he stole the country from the Thai people. quote from your post. "If the truth were to be known, there's really not much difference between the two." Perhaps you believe that truth but there are a very large number of Thai people who do not.

Why and where would NATO be trying to start a war in Europe? You may have missed the one in Ukraine that is already running and that was started by Putin and Russia.

Thaksin was not found guilty of any civil crimes but he was found guilty of some political crimes by the the military who committed a coup against a legally elected civilian government, That is why no civilised country would extradite him back to Thailand.

That would be OK if you are young to middle aged or live on a regular bus route. If you are older or a pensioner, riding a bicycle is not that safe and bus routes have been cut back everywhere and I are getting very expensive as I understand it. Having said that, many older people do know how to cook proper meals rather than convenience foods.

My outlook email is OK as of 2 minutes ago.

IMHO it depends just how far the Thai military are willing to go to steal the election vs how far the Thai people are willing to go to stop them.

More than the standard British handful is a waste.

A rhetorical question? Are they really so lacking in common sense and that stupid?

Perhaps it is close to the time that the approval for country to join NATO be changed from all the members to a majority of perhaps 90 or 95%? https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/29/middleeast/turkey-nato-erdogan-mime-intl/index.html

I have no real idea as my state pension was frozen at the 2009 rate as I live in Thailand' Having said that, then this.... https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/pensions/state-pension/new-state-pension/#:~:text=The full rate of the,paper statement if you prefer. How much State Pension will I get? The full rate of the new State Pension will be £185.15 per week (in 2022/23) but what you will get could be more or less, depending on your National Insurance (NI) record. You can check how much State Pension you could get on the government website or, you can request a paper statement if you prefer. That comes to around £9,627.80 for 52 weeks of payment currently.

It will depend on your total annual income, https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-63635185 You should pay no income tax on your state pension provided that it does not exceed the £12,500 threshold. The difference between the two is applied to any other income you may earn. Between the £12,500 and £50,271 you will be taxed at 20% etc.

I sed them every day for a month or so in Bangkok back in 1993. I had an ingrowing toenail that had to be dressed every day. The condoms were a perfect fit for my big toe to cover the dressing when I had a shower to keep the dressing dry. The company wouldn't sign them off as legitimate expenses though.

Thank you for the video. The warning lights were flashing before the pickup turned onto the road. but when he turned in they had stopped. They started again just as he was on the line and were still flashing after the train hit him. I agree that if he was going faster the train would have missed him.