thaibeachlovers

Anyone that underestimates the Russians has not read their history, and is destined for a shock.

A revolution against the revolution! Unfortunately, as with all countries now, the elites have the militarised police to protect them. The days of the village bobby that was friends with everyone are long gone- think Thatcher's police force with guns, and prepared to use them. Even the French revolution didn't bring a better society for the peasants, just different masters and years of war.

I suspect that many of the posters that are offended by women making money by having sex have the same in mind, not realising it's a completely different scene. I reckon that not many actually checked out the Thai scene to know, as they make so many errors in their posts.

Those subs have been threatening the US for MAD since they existed.

All of them, including social media.

Unfortunately I think you are 100% correct. Trump needs to be "persuaded" to accept his defeat and not try again.

I've said it before, but IMO good people won't stand in US politics because of the media trashing anyone not of their choosing.

Yes.

So, if Russia does launch another offensive, what will it try to take? IMO they will try to break the Ukrainian front line to prevent them launching their own offensive, and build a defensive line on strategically important features. Think Hindenberg Line as an example. I very much doubt they will try and take more of Ukraine than the east permanently.

To not like the way it is now, they would need a better past to compare with. Sooooo, the million $ question is "has there been a better time in living memory for the average Russian"?

I wonder what the Europeans will do when told that their "investment" in the war has achieved no win for Ukraine? I doubt they will go it alone.

You may be right, but short of war, or Putin being replaced by another Gorbachev, what can be done about them in the real ( MAD ) world? The world stood back while Stalin and Mao killed millions of their own citizens, and neither had a nuclear deterrent.

IMO both situations created by Britain running away from it's obligations. They abandoned Palestinians to the fate the UN imposed on them and the partitioning of British India was handled in haste and very badly, IMO.

Making peace usually works. Israel would have to make concessions like leaving the occupied territories, but if they don't make peace their great great grandchildren will be living in fear of the Palestinians- is that what they want?

Errr, is that sarcasm? Don't know about Canada or B C, though NZ and Australia have the British monarch as head of state, they are otherwise independent and make their own laws. Britain is not "in charge".

Hmmm. Exactly how would they stop the Palestinians existing? Methinks you exposed a bit more than you intended there! Israel has no ( legal ) rights to the west bank or Gaza, other than by conquest and the US veto in the UN. Given the outcry against another country trying to seize land by conquest, IMO it's a bit hypocritical to be excusing a similar situation in Palestine. IMO, one of these days the Israelis are going to go too far and even the US will not be able to cover for them.

I've seen a few documentaries about that on Al Jazeera, but of course those that support Israel right or wrong will ignore that.

Disregarding that IMO Britain lied to the Arabs in return to getting their assistance, by running away after a bit of Irgun terrorism the British abandoned the problem and opened the way for the new UN to take away the land from the occupants and give it to the Jews. I believe that Jerusalem was supposed to be separate. Since then despite many UN resolutions against Israel the US always covers for them with the veto. Get rid of veto power and IMO Israel will feel the brunt of international sanctions for what they are doing to the Palestinians.

Since the glory days of the 90s, it's been getting harder to visit Thailand frequently on tourist visas or visa exempt, presumably because people are abusing the system. Makes me wonder why I bothered ensuring all my visits were legal. I don't have any sympathy for those that do break the law and get caught.

LOL. If you are working on a tourist visa you can expect a visit from the plod to arrest you, for working illegally.

Given the thrashing the Russians have taken already, IMO they may be able to achieve stalemate and negotiate to keep the east and Crimea ( assuming Ukraine keeps getting weapons and munitions, though I can't see that happening indefinitely ), but I can't see them being able to do what you claim. If the west runs out of political will to impoverish it's own citizens to support Ukraine, IMO it's game over for Ukraine and they'll be lucky to keep what they still have. BTW Poland is in NATO so that's not going to happen without MAD.

I really wish people would stop saying "save the planet" when we are busily destroying it. What they really mean is save us from destruction, as the planet will thrive without humans devastating it.

Not if they knew how to handle it safely. However, if some idiot did so on the spur of the moment, perhaps. I'm going to be really interested to know how it supposedly fell off a truck, given the regulations for radioactive devices. The devices I am familiar with were much less radioactive than the ones in the OP and had to be stored in a sizable lead container. I can see the item falling off a truck due to incompetence, but surely it had to be in a lead container, so why was it not in one? BTW, if it was stored in a lead container it would not have been found by the radiation.

Hopefully no NATO member is MAD enough to send troops there. The negotiated peace will happen when the US stops supplying the arms and ammunition, which could be sooner than expected if the GOP won't cave on raising the debt ceiling without a cut in military spending.

Yes people were there before Israel was created by the UN in 1948 and most were not Jews.