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‘Putin clearly won’: Pundits say meeting was ‘bad for Americans’
Many of us do not consider Trump a particularly intelligent man, and I think it's obvious by now he's a terrible negotiator. This summit sure proved that. Putin whomped Trump. Russian President Vladimir Putin got everything he could have hoped for in Alaska. President Donald Trump got very little — judging by his own pre-summit metrics. The question now is whether Trump secured any moderate gains or planted seeds for Ukraine’s future security if there’s an eventual peace deal with Russia that were not immediately obvious after Friday’s summit. And he’s left with some searing strategic questions. Despite Trump’s claim to have made “a lot of progress” and that the summit was a “10 out of 10,” all signs point to a huge win for the Russian autocrat. Trump’s lavish stage production of Putin’s arrival Friday, with near-simultaneous exits from presidential jets and red-carpet strolls, provided some image rehabilitation for a leader who is a pariah in the rest of the West and who is accused of war crimes in Ukraine. Before the summit, Trump obliterated careful efforts by his staff to lower expectations when he told Fox News, “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire.” But the underlying premise of Trump’s peacemaking is that the force of his personality and his supposedly unique status as the world’s greatest dealmaker can end wars. That myth is looking very ragged after his long flight home from Alaska. Trump’s style-before-substance strategy clearly backfired in Alaska. Putin appeared far more prepared as Trump winged it. In retrospect, it’s hard to see what the Russian president offered to US envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin that convinced the administration that the Alaska talks were a good idea. But Trump's failure so far to end the Ukraine war that he pledged would be so easy to fix — along with US complicity in the humanitarian disaster in Gaza — means a legacy as a peacemaker and the Nobel Prize that he craves remain out of reach. Trump gets an F grade for his performance at the summit. Putin gets a solid A. -
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Cataract surgery in Pattaya or surrounding area
That's an inordinate amount of money. I've had both eyes operated on separate occasions over the last 4 years. Both procedures in a private clinic & the combined cost was 50k. Friend had his done in Bumrumgrad 100k. Post surgery medication for 4 weeks was included. -
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Fire Electric Car Catches Fire at Bangkok Repair Workshop
is this the official result of the investigation? or as so often in the past, bev's are blamed first just because these cars happened to be on board ... i asked google: - fires on ships do happen... but the majority are caused by conventional fuels (oil, diesel, gasoline), not ev batteries ... - studies and insurance data show that evs are not more likely to catch fire than regular cars; in fact, statistics often suggest they are less likely. - on ships, the risk is more about how all vehicles (ev or not) are stored and monitored in a confined space. lithium batteries require extra safety measures, but so do fuel tanks full of gasoline or diesel ... - some media headlines exaggerate ev involvement in ship fires, even when investigations show the cause was uncertain or unrelated. so: ev's are not the main cause of ship fires. they are a new type of risk that shipping companies are learning to handle, but the biggest fire hazards at sea are still oil, fuel, and cargo in general. -
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Report Stranded Aussie Pensioner Pleads for Return Home
เรื่องนี้น่าสงสารมาก แต่ก็มีบางอย่างที่สื่อทำให้ดูเกินจริง 4 ล้านบาตรไม่ใช่ทรัพย์สมบัติยิ่งใหญ่ อาจจะเท่ากับบ้านหลังเล็ก ๆ เท่านั้น ปัญหาที่แท้จริงคือบ้านอยู่ในชื่อภรรยา เขาเลยไม่มีสิทธิ์ขายหรือใช้เงินจากตรงนั้นได้ ตอนนี้เขาเหลือแค่เงินสดเล็กน้อย ทั้ง ๆ ที่ยังมีบ้าน แต่เหมือนติดอยู่ใน "กรงทอง" ไม่มีทางออกแท้จริง -
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West Bank takeover threatened if Palestine recognized
So sad. The US is a Jewish country, well controlled by Jews. -
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Quitting cannabis - my story
Heavy pot user. Heavy alcohol user. Heavy cigarette smoker. Heavy salt user. Heavy sex fanatic. Heavy eater. And if you quit cold turkey after smoking a lot of pot over an extended period of time, you'll have issues. You made your body dependent, now it needs to re-balance. Over time the issues will resolve. Here's the key 🗝️: Moderation Don't become a victim of your own habits. Exert self control and life can be good. Occasional spiff. A couple of beers or glasses of wine. A cigarette or two a day - better yet, none at all. Moderate salt on your food. Moderation is sexual affairs. Don't stuff yourself like pig day in and day out. Save the food orgies for Thanksgiving. Moderation baby - then you won't be going through withdrawals from any habit. Hang in there, you'll recover.
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