JAG

Sometimes your "slip shows"!

But there again very few world leaders have as extensively documented and publicly demonstrated "enthusiasms and proclivities" as Mr Trump!

The Geneva Convention does not cover internal repression ( other International Law may do, and was applied, in my view half heartedly, to the Khmer Rouge) and it certainly does not apply to commercial scam centres! Thailand however is a signature to the Conventions, which expressly forbid the use of Prisoners of War from being marched through areas to detonate landmines. Are you suggesting that commercial scam centres, or the savage actions of the brutal Khmer Rouge some 5 decades ago should remove those provisions and justify what would be a war crime? "Whataboutery" taken to remarkable heights! We could perhaps consider in passing the irony of the Thai military (or more accurately it's supporters) including "scams" as a justification for military action! A couple of really silly posts, in a thread which is sown (like landmines) with silly posts!

Umh, Third Geneva Convention.

" Standard patrol routes" are not really a good idea in areas where you expect the enemy to place mines! They are an invitation to mines, IEDs, snipers and ambushes.

These small rural towns and villages often have a remarkable underground communications network. Perhaps the message went something like this: " if you fancy a laugh get down the pub, that chap from last night is back in there again, frothing at the mouth and banging on about how Trump is sent by God to save us! Buy him a pint and he is off like the Duracell bunny!"

A peculiarly binary analysis of public opinion...

I seem to recall that at the time Yingluck was being held incommunicado in an unknown location. She was very popular with the electorate, and questions were being asked internationally about her fate. The first would have made any form of trial very difficult and likely to cause considerable trouble and both would have made "discrete disposal" equally if not more difficult. The simple solution was for those holding her ( the Junta) to simply take her to the border and hand her over to Cambodia. I doubt that Thaksin had any hand in it. Being hard nosed about It, Yingluck as a (live) prisoner of the Junta, or even perhaps as a martyr, would have been more use to his cause.

I too watched the clip which you describe. She raised a number of points, particularly with regard to the constitutional provisions on the Federal Government deploying or rather not deploying troops to act against it's own citizens on the streets of the United States, and highlighted the widespread opposition to that, of which the 104 year old lady was a notable part. You seem to be the one having the hysterical reaction, particularly when you insist in somehow coupling it with your imagined sexual fantasies about her private life!

It does seem to have become a favoured tactic doesn't it; if someone offers an opinion which differs from or counters yours, to immediately accuse them of agreeing with, supporting or at times even indulging in something equally or more reprehensible. A particularly bankrupt debating tactic!

I don't know, don't care and it's none of my business. I leave it to your rabid imagination. However I do suggest that Rachel Madow does produce incisive, accurate and well researched commentary which clashes with whatever echo chamber you favour. It is watched and noticed by many people - perhaps it is that rather than your imagined image of her domestic life which "gets on your wick"?

I don't have all that much time for Thaksin, but there is an element of "damned if you do or damned if you don't" here! Any commercially available drone is controlled by radio signals. Such transmissions by their very nature can be tracked, revealing the operators location. Certainly there are tactics which can be employed to reduce that risk, remote transmitters fed by ground wire from the operators location, and probably even cleverer technology, but that is down to how they are used and the training of the operating units - and there may lie the weakness! I suspect that the someone is sore that Thaksin gave them the drones, they would rather have had the cash!

Hold on, I am always being told that the Philippines is one of the largest native english speaking countries in the world...

You know that do you? Or is it just your perverted bigoted imagination running away with you?

Once it becomes accepted that troops can be deployed onto the streets of major cities by Presidential fiat, then another fundemental principle of America democracy is gone.

I held that view long before Trump entered politics.

How?

I absolutely do. It declares that to be its primary aim. I do not regard that as a conclusive test of anything.0

"Your lot"! Leaving aside your particularly binary view of politics which at times verges on hysterical - "with me or against me" - and your bizarre redefinition of "National Socialism", you are a bit presumptuous to refer to me as "your lot", I am not an American, nor am I a member of any political party or enthusiast for any particular political movement. I am a keen student of history, which has significant influence on how I view contemporary American society and it's political scene. Not exactly "history repeats itself" but certainly "parallels! Incidentally, Dachau was not intended for Jews but for political opponents and those deemed undesirable by the regime. Jews came later.

Of course what would be most laudable, in this crackdown on lawlessness and crime in Washington DC would be a no holds barred investigation into and prosecution for any sexual crimes involving young people. As Washington DC is the nation's capital it could be a nationwide investigation, ranging as far afield perhaps as New York and Florida! I understand that the Federal Authorities already have significant information on this, some of which perhaps involves some very high profile people who currently live in DC. Then again, perhaps not!

Yes, I seem to remember a "facility" being built in the 1930s for political enemies, at a place called Dachau, just outside Munich after another political demagogue came to power!

Judging by his stream of ever more excited posts he certainly is!

I shouldn't be at all surprised if he hasn't come in his underpants! Poor people being driven out of what little they have got, masked thugs swaggering around the American capital, National Guard soldiers on the streets... What's not for the enthusiastic fascist to like! Now how about some robust justice for elderly, rich, powerful people ( politicians even) who have trafficked, abused and yes, raped little girls?

They want 8. They have 4. Not only do they plan to build 4 from a standing start and with no experience, but they are also going to have to find experienced and trained crews for them. Hmm.

As so often, you ignore the simple truth that Russia/Putin launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. If it was an attempt to seize control of the 4 "oblasts" that they now wish to incorporate into Russia, why then did they launch a (hideously botched) unsuccessful attempt to seize Kiev?