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flossie35

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  1. 6 hours ago, Guderian said:

    Not a good idea. There would be a chance that Thailand might end up subject to secondary US sanctions, and if they included the sort of financial sanctions imposed on Russia and Iran then the Thai banking system might end up locked outside SWIFT and foreigners would be unable to access their pensions and savings held abroad. On top of driving hundreds of thousands of retirees out of the country as a result, it would also single-handedly destroy the foreign tourism industry, unless visitors are willing to pay for everything in gold or crypto.

    The US can't sanction everyone!

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  2. On 4/11/2022 at 10:28 AM, Salerno said:

    Pure propaganda.

     

     “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2014)

    Gorbachev is talking about something else. The promise I mentioned is quite well-known.

    YouTube have a discussion between Chomsky and some one else which you might find illuminating. (I haven't seen it yet.) There was also a report on facebook yesterday by a Swiss gentleman, formerly a senior NATO official, which you might look at.

  3. On 4/9/2022 at 8:27 AM, ThailandRyan said:

    Your lost in your beliefs it appears.  You must also believe the Black lives matter drivel, and if so tell me how the embezzled millions of dollars in donations and purchased houses for members that they claim are campuses....thats hypocrisy.

    An article by Noam Chomsky in the New Statesman of 8 April 2022 mentions that, in return for Gorbachev’s agreeing to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, Baker and Bush Sr undertook explicitly and unambiguously that “the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east”. They later ratted on their promise and Russia now has NATO on nearly all of its borders to the west. Ie the US have provoked this war.

     

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  4. He's right. War should not have been an option. The  west has made it one. When the USSR collapsed the US made a deal with Gorbachev - you don't stand in the way of re-uniting Germany, and we won't move east. Great: end of cold war. But then the west ratted on their promise, inaugurating cold war II, and have been moving east as fast as they can ever since. This makes war an option for  Russia - maybe the best option from their point of view? Were they laying a trap for Russia, heedless of possible consequences? Whatever, their irresponsible conduct shares responsibility for the mess we're now in. 

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  5. On 11/27/2021 at 12:22 PM, tifino said:

    or like back in WW2 when they sided with Japan thinking that'll keep'em all safe! 

    - translated that to Now; and it's side with the PLA Navy berthed alongside, as it'll keep'em safe from the CCP new Hyper Missile Nukes if the PLA is still lingering nearby... 

    I think they sort of sided with both sides, which was quite clever. While Japan was winning it would have made no sense for Thailand to declare war on Japan.  And what reason would the Thais have to favour the western imperialists, from whose clutches they had but narrowly escaped, losing some territory in the process? (The European ones; US was not involved.)

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  6. 2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

    There is that dark history sure especially related to the cold war, anti communism. But I'm not seeing that recently. Like when a Latin American country votes in a leftist populist the U.S  isn't in general pushing coups. You could mention Venezuela but they're not a democracy.

    The dark history sometimes used the cold war as an excuse - eg by labelling Allende as a communist when he wasn't - but it was really all to do with corporate interests, In Chile including Pepsicola! What country lets fizzy drink makers dictate foreign policy?

    Nicaragua and Venezuela have just had elections which foreign invigilators seem to have found fair. In both cases the  leftwing govts won. So who says Venezuela is not a democracy? Even Guaido is reconsidering his position. And US was saying before the elections that they would be rigged - they may have changed their tune since, but I've not seen any more pronouncements. And they still persist after 62 years with their embargo on Cuba, despite the 15 Nov march being a flop. 

    US seem to have been involved, via their stooge OAS, with the coup in Bolivia. 

    It would be nice if the US were to be a force for good in the world but they need to get their act together. 

  7. The rules were changed a couple of years ago to exclude citizens residing abroad from the NHS. You now have to pay costs + 50%. I was caught early on - GBP 4000+ for a gastric ulcer. According to J Hunt your tax and NI payments are "irrelevant".

    Apart from that the NHS has been seriously run down financially, and had lost a lot of staff from brexit. There are long waiting lists for treatment.

    There are good hospitals in Thailand, and they're less expensive.

     

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  8. 14 hours ago, phetphet said:

    Not sure what you mean. You can download both Lazada's and your bank's app from the App store (or should be able to.)

    Providing you already have internet banking you should be able to set up without going to the bank.

     

    I normally buy the item, then go to Payment > Click on Bank Transfer as method of payment > Copy the order number (take note of final cost of item) > Go to my Bank App > Payment > Search for Payserv (Payserv123) > Paste the order code in first box > Enter phone number in second box > Enter final cost.

     

    That's pretty much it.

    Thanks - I've been mis-advised. Will follow your suggestions.

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