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Walkabout

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  1. Long, very long time ago, I enjoyed the freshly prepared meals in the restaurant cars. But the last times I traveled a few years ago, they served only frozen junk reheated in a micro-wave oven . . . I was disappointed . . .
  2. They may not have enough money and hands to help quickly the stricken people of the neighborhood but it seems they managed to build a dry walkway for . . .
  3. Intervening to protect citizens? Destroying the most prosperous African nation (which is still in turmoil as of now) is protecting citizens? I condemn Russia but also the other side that only fuel the flames . . .
  4. Correction on the date: Congo vs Katanga : 1960-1963 What I say is that Russia is wrong but that parties on the other side are also wrong. And our media are more propaganda than objective reports . . . i certainly do not take side, I only want the fighting to stop.
  5. I have seen war, got hungry, seen my house completely destroyed, all that in the name of Democracy but in reality for the control of the copper industry (Congo vs Katanga, 197-1973)
  6. Do you really believe people are judged by their action? It is the winner and the powerful who determine the history . . .
  7. Here we go again with the (mostly) negative comments towards Thailand . . . Why do we need to take a position (against Russia)? Why only white versus black, “who is not with us is against us” . . . ? We do not know anything about the real thoughts and actions of politicians, military and other rich and powerful men, none of them having righteous motives Many things are in the play, Freedom (we cherish it . . . euh . . . hello Covid vaccination mandate), Democracy (we fight for it . . . In the EU, the Commission takes the decisions, the Parliament handles only less important matters, just like in the old URSS), Economy (selling arms, controlling energy – think of North stream 2, . . .) . . . these are some of the visible reasons. But there are more obscure reasons, one of them being the need for the USA to rally its NATO and EU allies to quell the beginning of some dissensions withing the group . . . For me, it is wise for Thailand to take a neutral position.
  8. I condemn the action of Russia but I just as well do not approve the actions of our western friends. The USA, Europe, NATO, are teasing the Russian bear ever since the fall of Yeltsin and are now “astonished” to see the bear react. The Russian operation in Ukraine is not different from what the USA and its allies have done in different parts of the world since the end of WW2 . . . Thailand would be wise to stay out . . .
  9. Thailand to “focus on quality tourists who can spend more”. Well, those quality tourists will spend their money in the higher quality tourism businesses (mostly owned by the richest and well-connected upper-class) and leaves the smaller operators, the Mom-and-Pop shops, . . . and the ten thousand lower class Thais without proper income . . .
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