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Why are you such a fan of fascists? It is not like you will get anything for your loyalty. -
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UK Starmer's Chagos Betrayal: Costs Soar 10x Higher Than Expected!
One grab's another's land ? Then one has to pay. Case closed. -
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Electric Vehicles in Thailand
Looks like Indonesia. As China products not welcome in the US it might do okay there due to lack of competition but its all down to price. https://autolifethailand.tv/photo-toyota-bz4x-minorchange-2025-ev-bev-thailand/ -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Thai Army’s Social Media SOS for Barbed Wire Sparks Outrage
So the 2nd Army region that is sitting at the border to protect it is making claims that they can not get the barbed wire and asking the public to help them. OF course the Defense ministry would deny they do not have the funds for this. But in fact we all know where that money went anyway. China is bathing with it for their subs and engines most likely. This comment in itself is damaging beyond repair. They have no idea where to find the supplies needed to protect the border. So much so that they need to make a thorough equipment inventory to assess how to get what the soldiers need. -
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Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025
You have repeatedly posted statements attacking Ukraine whikle pretending to be not supportive of Russia. At best appeasement, but could be something else. Russia gets away with chunks of Ukraine. So you are completely cool about America carving off Greenland and bits of Canada, because, realistically, what can Canada and Denmark do about that.. Or indeed China-Taiwan. North Korea, nuclear armed, could overun Seoul in hours. It is your Russian friends who are the maximalists. All Ukraine wants is to be a country. That's pretty minimal really. You repeatedly denigrate Europe. Europe has HUGE resources. Russia, remember, started out with an economy the size of Italy. Now it has an economy the size of Spain. For instance, Russia has had to decimate its civil economy to get to artillery production of 50 million shells a year. Europe currently produces 6 million a year. But its well on track to exceed Russian production by 2026. And thats thanks to the power of European innovation and guile compared to your favoured lumbering Soviet kleptocracy. And our economies will barely break a sweat. You sound awfully like a defeatist, believing the Kremlin line hook line and sinker. You sit there copy pasting articles written by an ex-Tory minister who has never set foot in Ukraine, and a 20 something Ukrainian jobbing journalist who spends most of her time in London. Looking for anything to support your view, which includes letting Russia win and profit from this. Why do you want Russia to profit from this. By profit, I mean accepting Russia's conquest of parts of Ukraine, and drawing a line under that. Ultimately the things you are demanding from the Ukrainian President are not in his power to give, unless you are a support of the idea of a Dictatorship, which you might do (an unhealthy number of Americans on this site, largely living in Thailand, seem Dictator-enthusiasts). Ukraine has a parliament, which needs a 60% vote, and the rest, to amend their constitution. You don't have much idea what "Peace" means. For you, Ukraine should surrender now to Russia, while secretly planning to attack them again when their back is turned ("A messy peace is not the same as surrender it is a pause, a chance to regroup, rebuild, and outlast an adversary who has just as many vulnerabilities as strengths"). Ukraine, quite rightly, doesn't want some sort of deal that just sets up Russia to attack again. You view that wish as immoral, which is perverse. You champion the strong, while denigrating the weak. Sounding a bit like a Gopnik "Russia Strong". You say Ukrainian forces are "stretched thin". I am curious why you are consistantly failing to point out that the Russian forces are also "stretched thin", being high dependant on press ganged Convicts, North Koreans, Bangladeshis, Africans. Why aren't you exorting the Russians to think again; there are plenty of Russians on this forum to appeal to. But you don't. You expect the Ukrainians to give in, never the Russians, despite your mealy mouthed "but I don't supprt Putin" line. You statements are contradictory. You attack, using your interpretation, Zelensky's demands as looking for "Total Victory", but then suggest that Ukraine could reclaim its territories by other means later on. That's not how treaties work. Zelensky is not looking for "Total Victory" in the manner you frame it. He wants continued recognition of Ukraine's international borders. He doesn't want a peace which means a change in Ukraine's borders. When you cede territory to another nation, what that means is that you change your international borders. For example, Cyprus has never ceded Northern Cyprus. Nor should it. Syria never ceded the Golan Heights. Egypt never ceded the Sinai. Georgia has never ceded Abkhazia and South Ossetia. That doesn't mean the countries involved were forever at war, but it has important implications legally and with respect to sovereignty. For instance, if you were a Brit, looking to retire to Cyprus, if you brought in the north, likely you have no legal title to that property. Its a pretty bad investment when you are sold stolen property. When you cede territory, thats it, there is no further negotiation. This is what Russia wants; the country you claim to not support, in fact, you support their demands 100%. If Ukraine cedes territory, then any future act it carries out to reclaim that lost territory would be seen as an act of war. This is exactly the line Argentina took when it invaded the Falkland Islands. The islands were British, through am internationally recognised treaty. Argentina felt this was wrong, but their act was illegal. After WW2, Germany ceded East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania to Poland and USSR. No attempt was made to reclaim these territories; so you think Germany should have gotten Konigsberg back after the collapse of the SU? So you have mixed up thinking there. Zelensky absolutely wants a ceasefire, which you repeatedly misrepresent, but not at the expense of recognising Russia's conquests. The Americans are proposing a 49-99 year "pause". President Zelensky is unhappy about this, considering it a de facto recognition of Russia's claims, but has not rejected it out of hand (lets see the details). A 99 year pause could be considered alongside a recognition that the Russian occupation is illegal, which has the practical impact of severely sanctioning Russia. It sounds like you want all sanctions to be lifted. You are supporting the maximalist ambitions of Russia while falsely presenting the Ukrainian position (Kremlin bots are the ones talking up "to the last Ukrainian" line). You seem not to want to support the option that Russian should be reminded, continually, that it has committed an illegal act. Why aren't you calling for the demilitarisation of the occupied territories, and replacement of the occupiers with blue helmets of similar, who can supervise a free referendum to see what people in the Donbas want. Let me guess, you are going to say they already had a vote.
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