JPHa

"Relationships between Thailand and Germany and with China would remain intact if the Germans eventually agreed to sell the sought-after engine..." And how exactly is that Germany's problem? The contract and conditions were clear. The Chinese couldn't deliver as per contract. Send it back to the Chinese and ask for a refund. Good luck ???? After all these years dealing with the Chinese and always ending up short, one has to wonder when the Thai finally get it, no matter how fat the brown envelopes must be.

There is nothing wrong with being cautious and I guess nobody will forcibly remove or rip it off of your face if you still want to wear one. But mandatory wearing it in places that are obvious not significantly relevant for spreading the virus or just closing up certain venues, but allowing similar businesses to remain open, just seem very inconsistent and there would have been time to amend, but seemingly there seems to be no interest.

oh my! you are one of THESE people... I should have known when reading your initial post that you are maybe the wrong one to provide a proper reply when asked to backup your statement; confusing sarcasm or quippiness as a sign of intelligence instead of backing up claims with a proper statement... well, we re all entitled to an opinion and even voice it as such, so if that is your best, fine by me :))

Sitting on a pile or even mountain-load of RUBs is doing you nigh to no good, when there is almost no place worth going and noone willing to exchange it for any services, products or currency, no matter if you ll get 60 or 120 RUBs for an USD, or whatever they decide to artificially peg and prop the RUB up to. You may want to ask the poor sods who still got Evraz or Gazprom shares in their ports, frozen and banned from trade since 2 months now. As for recession; since all stockmarkets are going down the drain, on a global level, and further clawing each other down in a ripple effect, I d be keen to understand which alternatives you d suggest. Please spare me with crypto's, precious metals or the chinese stocks, whose indices already tanked worse than the US this year and are stuttering from one low to the next, as the zero-covid measures force city upon city into perpetual lockdown. So? what is your hedging bet? buying triple leveraged commodities ETPs e.g. oil at maxed out prices? US or even russian treasury bonds? sporting bets? THB or just stock up on MamCup noodles with almost eternal shelf-life and hope that you can sell them at inflation-adjusted value in a few years? I am happy to be enlighted and keen to learn.

I bet they didn t miss much by sparing themselves the 5min mouth-f@rting from the russian envoy, repeating another set of distorted lies and telling the world that russia is the victim of aggression and acting in self-defence, while their red buddies nodding eagerly. Just a sad clown show.

Though i understand that the situation is dynamic and changes may be required as needed, it baffles me why other countries seemingly were and are able to come forth with a plan of not only opening up but even completely abolish rules and restrictions and are back to an almost pre-covid normal. Looking at various European countries, they are back to normal, with unrestricted travel, holiday resort already doing business, restaurants operating at full capacity and no masks since months now.