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Hurricane Milton Reaches Category 4
You are comparing 10 years vs 3 years. Watch and learn. BTW, Milton is Category 5 now. -
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Ukraine ... Enlighten yourself
Although there is no black and white as to who was lied too and who is right and who is wrong in the Ukraine war, it was an invasion of one independent state by another (and the war actually started in 2014). There was very little negotiation, just give in to our demands and then a Russian invasion of Crimea and fomenting of an insurrection in the Donbass. The west allowed this to go unanswered other than a few sanctions and verbal criticism. Remember the Dutch airliner shot down by a Russian SAM system. Russia never admitted responsibility. I understand why Russia invaded Crimea, they had interests there (Russia's Black sea fleet) and it was never really Ukrainian. But the Donbass? Just pure greed. And when that was only partially successful, they went for out and out war. War crimes were committed on civilians and soldiers by Russia. Is it surprising that Ukraine wants to join Nato? As to what is actually happening in the war, subscribe to Tom coopers blog on Sarcastosaurus. Yes, Ukraine is currently slowly loosing, Russia has the demographic advantage and more weapons. However, the Russian losses are appalling. All the well trained troops are gone, wasted in frontal attacks. The mobiks are launched the same way, and the casualty rate is about 3 Russians to one Ukrainian. However Russia has a much larger population. Half of all armour and artillery has been lost. Economically, Russia is suffering. It is diverting a large percentage of its GDP to a war economy, but there military-industrial complex is in disarray, due to corruption, lack of maintenance and sanctions. They are unable to replace many of the weapons they loose; without the help of North Korea, Iran and China, they would be short of ammunition and drones. At current rates of expenditure of weapons, Russia will only have infantry left in 2 years. From a cynical western point of view, if the war continues, Russia will be a spent force by early 2026. However, they are learning how to fight drone wars - the west is still woefully behind on this. The question is, who blinks first, Russia or Ukraine. Loosing the war will see the end of Putin of Zelensky. As to Russia's standing in the world, it may be abysmal in the west, but the rest of the world doesn't care - like China, there help comes without lectures on Democracy, corruption and human rights. The west, and particularly USA and France, are loosing ground in Africa, because they find it insulting to be lectured too and treated like naughty children. They also see that israel can do no wrong in western eyes, even though they have caused chaos for over 50 years in the middle east. The second half of this century will be very different, just in what way it is hard to say, but not looking good. -
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Proof of Life
One would think that quick video call on Skype, Facebook messenger, WhatsApp or Line, might prove that the claimant is still alive. -
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Woman Fatally Shoots Popular Female DJ Over Debt Dispute in Chana, Songkhla
I briefly was involved with a teacher and she told me she was 1.5 million in debt and said virtually all teachers in same position. Educated but zero financial sense exit left for me. As mentioned before to stand guarantor for someone is madness -
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Urgent: Pharmacies that sell HIV PrEP in Bangkok (Sukhumvit area)
Think this discussion has run its course. -
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Car recommendations
I personally like the hybrid models more than the fully EV's. I lean more towards Toyotas than other brands. I'm not a fan of the Chinese made EV's. -
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Harris Lies, Americans Die. Illegal Aliens are more Important
This is historical data over several administrations, including Trump. Many of these were released by ICE into prisons. This is a nothingburger. BTW, Trump let 3 million illegals into the USA. That's a fact. -
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Supercar convoy causes major delays on M6 motorway (video)
Well it is Thailand after all. Why would anybody expect common sense on the road? -
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Huge markup on imported foods. Why?
You are wasting your time. He's as thick as...just doesn't understand. -
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Chiang Mai on High Alert as Ping River Surges Beyond 5.25 Metres
Thanks for all your updates. They have been most useful. -
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Trump lost the respect of veterans – including me. He's a risk to our democracy.
Thank you for entering into 8 years of President Kamala Harris with that mindset. Maybe there's hope for you guys after all.👍 -
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What's behind the current THB strength?
To keep it simple (english isn't my mothers tounge) as also this is NOT a financial advice... "Diversification is a strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio in an attempt to reduce portfolio risk. Diversification is most often done by investing in different asset classes such as stocks, bonds, real estate, or cryptocurrency." If you want to keep it simple, work only with stable currencies and possibly gold. You can open a additional account (e.g. Wise or maybe also Revolut) for digital banking to hold different (stable) currencies. Transaction costs are much less as with "classic" banks. And you have additional options like to fix a certain amount to exchange automatically to Thai Baht when the exchange rate reaches that point... Opening a digital Bank account costs you nothing (zero!) - except a bit time for the setup. I work now since a half a year with Wise. Reliable and simple to handle. Make first a "test-run" with a small amount. Check also on the net about their reputation etc... BUT: you have no intrest rate. And keep in mind, the statutory deposit guarantee protects €100,000 per deposit or per bank. -
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Oklahoma’s Controversial Plan to Purchase 55,000 Bibles for Public Schools
Religion is a fantasy -
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Supercar convoy causes major delays on M6 motorway (video)
After he receives his brown envelope, the investigation will be completed and will find that no malfeasance was involved.. -
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Huge markup on imported foods. Why?
Let me give you another clue, genius. Ask your friends in Australia to find the same product you have pictured. ANY of them 😊 Secondly, take a look at Allowrie in Australia Doesn't look the same, does it? Go into a supermarket and read the label, if you can read.
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