thaibeachlovers

Has Britain got any aircraft carriers that work now? Do they even have enough sailors if they do work?

This topic lost me right there.

We'll all be better off when an AI can run the country and politics is banned. IMO politics is more toxic that second hand cigarette smoke. For a very good reason political discussion was banned in the military when I was in it.

If those two are allowed on here it will be like every other thread on the subject and become all about them, IMO. Perhaps someone cares enough to start a thread just for them, but it's not me. I get enough of that on most of the threads on world news.

I didn't know the thread was only about leaders. I thought it was about any politicians. I voted for one last election, but there weren't any others I'd vote for, but only for those of the least bad party, so voting against all the politicians in the other party. Bit sad that politics is so bad that I only know one politician on the entire planet I'd vote for.

Do we unconditionally support the incompetent warmongering maniacs that run certain countries of the world, or do we want their crimes exposed for all to see? Hmmmmmm.

I certainly agree with that. We only need watch the fiasco in the US presidential race to see it. Not just there of course. In a few other countries that I'm acquainted with it's the same, IMO. When I have to think very hard to remember some good politicians and can barely get enough to use one hand to count them on, it's a sad day for western democracy. IMO politics has become so toxic that only a certain sort of person wants to be a politician, and I won't describe them on here now

Other than Al Jazeera I don't watch any main stream tv news from any country. Haven't done so for many years. I wised up to the propaganda, and in any event being lied to constantly didn't improve my disposition. Watching the news just made me angry and I finally woke up and realised that was their intent. It's why they only use bad news and disasters. When asked why they don't ever report "good" news, the usual response is that it doesn't make money, which is a despicable reason for not doing so.

I wonder how many of the warmongers used to love Lennon's song "give peace a chance" and vow to make the world a better place when they grew up?

I'm sure they are quaking in their boots, given the response to the ICC arrest warrants for citizens of a different country involved in a different conflict.

Tedious? of course you are.

IMO Putin already won. All he has to do now is wait till the west runs out of money ( and the west is already broke - how much does the US owe already? ), and it's all over for Ukraine, whoever wins in November. He's seen it all before when the US and it's puppies allies go to war in "defense of freedom" ( and massive profits for the 1% ), and after wasting billions of $ and losing thousands of lives they give up and leave. Apparently Russia is gearing up for a long war, but the west certainly isn't. They can barely afford to raise their military spending to the previously agreed amount, and didn't spend enough for decades. One only has to look at the British navy to see the result of that.

Seems we have a lot of armchair warriors demanding more deaths in Ukraine while at ZERO risk of being involved in the conflict itself. There are probably enough of them on here to form a platoon to serve there. One wonders why they didn't volunteer to fight for Ukraine 2 years ago. They could be flying their flag over the Kremlin by now had they done so.

and Ukraine for 2 years has had everything the west was going to give them, and they have not been able to drive Russian forces back across the border. Tell us how it's going to get better for their chances short of getting NATO directly involved? They are running out of men wiling to fight, and conscripts are not the best troops to use. Money will not win this war, and even the foolish leaders of America and the UK do not have an actual money tree. Eventually western money will stop. All Russia has to do is hold in place till then. Zelensky should negotiate now, while he has something to negotiate with.

He could go Dresden on a few Ukrainian cities. He only has to send enough drones to use up all the air defense missiles Ukraine has and then it's open season on any Ukrainian target. Other than going to war with Russia what else could the west do about it other than what they already have?

I bet you can't prove any of that from a reputable source, but you have no problem repeating it. Gowdey is correct. They may be able to fluff Joe enough to carry it it off long enough. In politics, expect the unexpected. However, Joe has more to lose than Trump. We all know what Trump is, so he is less likely to lose his base over any unfortunate mistakes, but Biden has to preform perfectly or lose in the court of public opinion. I will not be surprised if some emergency occurs that requires Biden's attendance.

Ah, when you have nothing, bring out the fearmongering. Sad world we live in. Had he done a better job it would not have come to this.

He won't be safe till he stands on Australian soil, and even then he needs to be careful, IMO.

He won't be safe till he stands on Australian soil, and even then he needs to be careful, IMO.

Lap dances in Nana? Say it isn't so. That sort of American rubbish should never be allowed to sully Thai farang nightlife.

Sooooo, you have studied a lot and from those studies you conclude that the climate is changing. I could tell you that without reading anything. It's obviously warmer now than in i972 when the winter snow level in NZ was hundreds of feet below where it is now. A lake that froze every year now doesn't freeze at all. Frankly I don't care if the climate is changing, always has, always will. What I care about is using climate change to bring in loony tunes policies that would never be accepted by the sheeple if they didn't fear the unknown. Our last government brought in all kinds of barking policies under the guise of climate change mitigation. Of course none of them would actually do anything about it. It's all about power, and money, IMO. Hopefully most if not all will now be relegated to the dustbin of history.

I do wish your lot would stop trying to make people they disagree with the topic. BTW your question was not reasonable, as I do not have to justify my opinions to you. By all means disagree with them and put up your reasons why I am wrong. Insults are not the way to get a positive response. If you know so much, why are you unable to put up any solutions ? You can run around saying the sky is falling as much as you like, but don't expect to be taken seriously, unless you have a solution or two. So far all I see from your side is fearmongering, but that only works on the easily impressed.

Thailand is being entirely sensible. Ukraine is nothing to do with Thailand, other than as a tourist destination.

I do not disagree with that, so let them do so without involving countries not under any threat by Russia. If western countries are going to start getting involved in wars on behalf of countries that have no treaty obligations with western countries perhaps they could lend a hand to get rid of the murderous military in Burma. There is an enemy that is acknowledged to be evil by most. Tibet could do with an assist to rid itself of Chinese occupation as well.

The Swiss don't have a problem with referendums, so that's your argument shot down right there. While it would be impracticable to hold a referendum on everything, sending billions of the taxpayer's money to fund a war that is nothing to do with one's own country definitely should be approved, or not, by the citizens. There was no attack on the US or the EU so they had no reason not to do so. Do they have anything to contribute? Nah. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No culture. Nothing. Seriously? Some great composers and writers came out of Russian culture. The Russian Ballet is world renowned. Culture didn't begin in the 1960s, by the way. They beat the US into space, beat them to put up a space station, have an Antarctic base on the coldest part of the planet, run the largest country in the world, but of course you are correct, they have nothing.