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Congrats on bragging about making 35% trading rubles — the same currency that only swings because it’s propped up by artificial capital controls, oil sales to China at a discount, and the Kremlin banning Russians from moving their own money freely. That’s not a ‘world-class’ currency, that’s a casino chip in Putin’s house..... Yes, the ruble bounces — because it’s volatile and manipulated. Real investors don’t call that stability, they call it risk. You can’t buy credibility with capital controls. Don't pretend the U.S. ‘lost control.’ The dollar is still used in almost 90% of all global forex trades and is the reserve currency of the world. The ruble? Barely a rounding error outside of Russia’s forced trade partners, including SWIFT transfers 🥺 You can dress it up all you want, but a currency that needs constant rescue, bans on outflows, and black-market channels isn’t ‘strong’ — it’s on life support. You’re mistaking Putin’s desperation moves for economic genius, which is why this sounds less like analysis and more like comrade propaganda 🤷‍♂️

Ah, the greatest hits of Kremlin spin. Sure, Russia is so strong that it can’t even build a new car without Chinese parts, its tech sector is crippled, and its middle class is vanishing. You brag about ‘buying through Turkey and the UAE’ like that’s a sign of strength instead of desperation. As for GDP — maybe read beyond the headlines. Russia’s so-called ‘growth’ is just war spending and inflated state budgets, not real innovation or prosperity. Meanwhile ordinary Russians face skyrocketing prices, a brain drain of talent, and a future tied to smuggling routes. And that debt number? Worthless when your currency is volatile, your reserves are frozen abroad, and your economy is propped up by oil discounts to China and India. You don’t prove sanctions failed — you just prove Russia is surviving like a black-market economy, not succeeding.

Ah yes, the classic ‘everything I don’t like is Western propaganda’ line. Convenient, but it doesn’t erase reality. Russia’s economy is propped up by oil and gas sales while ordinary citizens struggle with inflation and lack of innovation. The government has imprisoned journalists, outlawed dissent, and even criminalized calling a war a war. That’s not Western spin, that’s documented fact — often by Russians themselves who risk their freedom to tell the truth. If you have to dismiss all inconvenient facts as propaganda just to defend your position, maybe the problem isn’t the information — it’s the regime you’re trying to protect

Are you sure you got in the right car ? I used to use the Ambiance Mercedes service to pick me up at the airport, I felt I had Mario Andretti as a driver.... I've been using Mike's for maybe 15 years now, never a driver problem but once they sent a tour type van that held 15 pax and it was only me. Wasn't as comfortable as a car, I asked them not to do that again and they haven't. Who do you use now?

And after @PeterRS throws you out, you could stay with @BjornAgain to see how it goes, he's knows all the places you'll love.... be sure to ask him about the cheesesteak place.

Mike's has never let me down.... 1000 baht BKK airport to Pattaya tolls included. https://mikepattayataxi.com/

Considering the nature of this board, I'd say you'd like to be in more than just his shoes 😝

Obsessive one minute, vanished the next—your posting habits are performance art in frustration and relief, yet relief ..... still pending!

If you listen to Trump, Biden started that war, and the Red Hats believe him 🙄

And.... don't leave us hanging, lol

A regret that I have from my last trip was not taking someone off from there, I went with a friend that mentioned the owner doesn't make anything there and I wanted to support the bar, but my tomorrow mentality threw me off and I never had time to get back there and there was one guy I was interested in, not so twink/fem .... Wish I was more decisive and quick acting like @vinapu

So… are you finally seeing the different personalities you’re packing around, is one of them still undecided on ladyboys and feminine or just to shy to admit 😉

That's a picture that I had posted, a while ago.... until Indiana Jones reposted it.

Winner is more twinky guys.... the other one is more tattoos and rougher looking. I think both are the almost same in playfulness

I’ll be keeping an eye on your posts—when you go silent for a bit, I’ll know you’re probably on a flight, time traveling to January 2027. Somehow, the universe seems to be hinting that it’s arriving sooner than we might expect 😝

As @vinapu might say.... Don't look, Just go 😉

Ah, the classic ‘pretentious tone over substance’ approach—impressive how little you actually said while pretending to lecture.... And, Just wondering—how many posters are you aiming to annoy? Or is irritating the message board your full-time pastime now?

In SP I used to stay at this Airbnb across the street from Republica park, stopped going because I heard 2nd hand getting guests was difficult/impossible after a change in management. The rooftop pool and view was nice. How big a pool you looking for?

Consistently pointless, consistently dull. Bravo

How kind of you to contribute again—your knack for saying nothing is, as always, flawless… and tedious 🙄

Search: “desperate troll recycling broken metaphors” Yield 0.2 seconds later: one lonely guy yelling into the void, hoping somebody cares 🤷‍♂️

As you should.... neither of us could/should do the aforementioned positions, at this point anyway 👨‍🦼

It's an easy Grab/Bolt ride from the Venue and Agate hotels 😁

Might have been possible some years ago in Sunee Plaza, the bar with the pool table where all kinds of things happened beyond the divider.... what was it called, Good Boys, Nice Boys...something like that?

you really went full archaeologist for that one. Careful, you might dig up some self-awareness next, if that's even possible 😝