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Ukraine/Russian Conflict - General Discussion
That was a very insightful interview, making the following valid points: 1. Great powers are sensitive about their position and try to squash challenges from smaller countries. This applies to both the US and Russia. The Thucydides Trap 2. The Ukraine war has triggered a highly emotional response. Well, everything does these days 3. Ukraine has had a stated intention to join NATO since 2008, and has been a de facto member since 2014 4. The US thinks that Ukraine can win the war, France and Germany prefer a diplomatically negotiated settlement. It's a moral argument (in the western view) versus what can realistically be achieved 5. Pouring arms into Ukraine will ultimately lead to its ruin, as it's unable to win a war against Russia 6. The US, in its quest to expand NATO into places like Georgia and Ukraine, was based on the premise that Russia was weak and would therefore acquiesce, which was true when the USSR fell but is now a miscalculation. Even Angela Merkel warned the US in 2008 that encouraging Ukraine to join NATO was crossing the "brightest of red lines". Had the US heeded this advice, there would be no war today and Crimea would still be part of Ukraine. 7. Spreading liberalism and western capitalism is the objective of the US in its eastwards expansion, so Eastern Europe looks like Western Europe, but now it's blown up in their faces. The West sees its Liberal values as everyone's right, and uses NATO as a vehicle to achieve this. Russia sees NATO as an existential threat, particularly since NATO adopted a containment strategy in 2014. "Hitlerising" Putin is a strategy to garner public opinion on the US side, unsupported by France and Germany, and its effect is to harden the Russian stance as Putin is well regarded there. Thanks to @Shishifor posting this intellectual, rational and unemotional interview - of the kind never reported by the hysterical MSM. Why do Liberals, and the US in particular, think that they have a right to impose their views on others? We see so many examples of this. Why can't America (and its yapping poodle Britain) just mind their own business? -
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News Forum - What will be Thailand’s new tourism mix? – VIDEO
Certainly will be a real barrier to tourism and economy. "Come one, come all, welcome to one of the only remaining countries in the world where the public is fully masked." -
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News Forum - Goodbye, adios, good riddance Thailand Pass – OPINION
In Germany, just when Thailand opened the borders 1st Nov 21, they discontinued physical visa applications, but the e-visa system wasn't ready until late Nov. - T.i.T. Shortened my trip to a visa-free 30 days. And yes, no chance without internet these days, why not keep both avenues open? -
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Lottery wins.
If I won any money from the Thai lottery , I’d have my Thai step daughter claim it ! The USA would want me to declare the winnings and tax me!- 1
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