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LOL. Many NATO countries can't even spend 2% on the military, so where is the ability to outproduce Russia coming from, other than the US, and the congress may stop or reduce US support? https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/07/07/number-of-nato-allies-spending-2-of-gdp-on-defence-to-jump-this-year Estimates released on Friday by NATO show that at least 11 allies should reach the target set by the transatlantic military alliance. Only seven are believed to have reached the target in 2022. Poland isn't going to give anything from now on. ( link in a different post )

You might come to regret saying that. Poland is no longer supplying anything to Ukraine ( link posted in different post ), the US congress may restrict funds and other supporting countries are broke. I'm surprised it has gone on so long, but if the Ukrainians do not break through before winter, IMO the west isn't going to fund a never ending war.

None. I lived in Pattaya because of her work, and in Chiang Mai after I got divorced because it is cheaper than Pattaya. I wanted to live on an island beach, but too expensive.

Took a couple of years before she forgot to "lubb me long time".

Just arrive on a leaky boat and they'll see you right.

I'll accept that a lot of lip service is being given, but the reality seems different. If they want to stop the boats they could send patrol boats to prevent them entering EU waters, but instead they pick up the boat people and transport them to the EU, rather than returning them from whence they came. I'm really disappointed with the Italian PM as she seems to have bottled on her pre election promises.

Indeed, and what chance do you give them when they outnumber the Jewish Israelis of changing Israeli policies towards Palestinians? I give them zero chance of that.

Having rights in law does not mean that they get them in reality.

When it comes to bias, I put western pro war media on the same level as RT. Ergo, I don't believe much that they say.

Oh dear, seems the end may come sooner than expected. As seen on Al Jazeera, the GOP is starting to be against a blank cheque for Ukraine, and Poland has stopped supplying Ukraine with war material. They say they have given all they can and that's all that they are giving, In response Zelenski threatens to sue Poland, which is probably not a good idea. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/21/what-us-lawmakers-have-said-about-ukraine-aid-as-zelenskyy-urges-more Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington comes as Republican opposition to more US aid for Ukraine grows. https://apnews.com/article/poland-ukraine-weapons-russia-war-trade-dispute-5e2e7a194b5238b86c160f0f4848b4f3 Poland is done sending arms to Ukraine, Polish leader says as trade dispute escalates

Stupid question as I was against the war when it started. Why on earth would I go fight in it?

No I can't, but I don't see what that has to do with anything.

Time. Western countries are not on a war footing, so production is not expidited.

In that case you should be good to go. The device is RCA to HDMI and any good computer shop should stock them. If you don't have the RCA cables should be easy to get some. For an idea of what to get just google "rca to hdmi". Plenty of options out there.

I don't see much prevention going on. It's usually boats picking them up and giving them a free ride to the promised land.

Are you a robot?

My wife worked for her money, but it wasn't enough to pay 50% of my life style, so I paid the bills and restaurants etc ( but never paid for her alcohol ). I was quite happy to pay the bills so long as she had fun with me, but when that ended so did we. She must have realised what she lost as a year later she tried to make me go back, but that was never going to happen.

If you had done that on day one your life in LOS would have been soooooo much better. At some point farangs have to stop banging head on brick wall and complaining that it hurts.

15 in LOS. So low in farangland as to not register. Haven't seen a pretty feminine female since I left LOS, and the prices of things are outrageous, and don't get me started on rents.

Perhaps that is the plan???????

I've seen interviews with them on Al Jazeera where they openly admit they are trying to enter the EU to have a better life. Wonder where they got the idea that they are entitled to anything if arriving on a leaky boat?

Glad that you agree with me on something. Have a nice day.

If the west stops sending the bullets what choice will they have? If, as seems likely, there is no breakthrough before winter, it'll be another year or two or three of conflict. I'm not psychic, but I reckon the chances of the west continuing an indefinite support costing billions is zero. BTW, the west has already ( apparently ) used up it's excess supply of munitions ( at least that's the reason Biden gave cluster bombs to Ukraine, isn't it? ) so that'll be the end.

See my reply to another poster further down. If it's a full size VDO tape you just use an adaptor to convert the signal from the VCR machine to digital and save to computer hard drive or external storage. I used to own a tape to digital machine but foolishly gave it away years ago. Now I regret doing so.

Don't need a DVD drive. Just record to a flash drive.