Kasssandra:


(Defending russia mode activated).

Every Russian leader who knows his history knows that Russia is very easy to invade...too big too large and has many points along its borders that are not easy to defend. (Ukraine is located in one of those traditional weak points...several invasions came from that side).

So, every russian leader , or many of them, take actuion to either

1.Take over the surrounding countries wholescale...ie Poland (twice), Ukraine(many times before 1900), Finland (a Russian colony till 1918, and the finnish statesman Mannerheim viewed the last Russian tsar as his boss...even when running an independent country, and the man had been dead for ages).

2.Make sure that most of the neighbours , and even the neighbours neighbours have governments that are friendly to them(USSR strategy after WW2 till 1991, Russia strategy in Ukraine now).

Putin does not want the USSR back (one reason why the USSR collapsed was that it was spending too much subsidsing all the satellite nations...and even far away communist nations like Cuba self...plus a heavy duty crushing budget on defence spending to keep up with the USA...rendered the USSR broke by the late 1980's.)...but he does want friendly naitons in all his borders. (the USSR signed a treaty with Finalnd guaranteeing its neutraility.)

Hence his attacking Ukraine.

*Defend russia mode ended)

The problem is, Ukraine, like Afghanistan (and Iraq, Iran and Vietnam for the US) does not want to be Russia's b'tch.

Russia is hard to defend but more difficult to conquer. Hitler's soul can testify to this, especially in winter.
USSR died a natural death. Stalin's rule was bloody. Suppressed opinions and killed for the most minutest reasons.
Ronald Reagan of America knew the Soviet Union was in deep Crisis.
Gorbachev later came up after Stalin and did some reforms that loosened the Communist tight grips on the people. Revolutions began with Ukraine pushing for total independence.
Gorbachev resigned amidst the choas and voila, that was the Soviet Union collapsed.
Putin didn't attack Ukraine because of her NATO intention. That's a cover up. Don't fall for that. A new world order had been his discussion with Xi of China. Same way Xi wants Taiwan, thats how Putin wants Ukraine.

TheOgaBoss:
don't just swallow western propaganda hook line sinker, the main bone of contention was the treatment of Ukrainian citizens of Russian origin in the breakaway regions of doneak and Donbass. There has been a deliberate attempt to subjugate them culturally and politically since Ukraine became pro west, leading to their secession and the Minsk agreement which Ukraine refused to honor even after signing it.

That's a lie. Same way Putin used NATO's expansion as a flimsy excuse.
Togo has Yoruba speaking part. It's like saying Nigeria wants to liberate them, and moves in to invade and displace the president in power. No matter how they are treated. It's a stupid move. It's stupid for anyone to accept that as a valid reason.
It doesn't hold water

Karnice600:


That's a lie. Same way Putin used NATO's expansion as a flimsy excuse.
Togo has Yoruba speaking part. It's like saying Nigeria wants to liberate them, and moves in to invade and displace the president in power. No matter how they are treated. It's a stupid move. It's stupid for anyone to accept that as a valid reason.
It doesn't hold water

Have u heard of the Minsk agreement? Go and read about it and how Ukraine refused to honor it even though they signed it.

FullBlastLight:
Hahaha... Japa!

Laughing Out Loud!

Is d future not female again?

Methinks she wld be anoda Iron Lady -Margret Thatcher!

What a man can do, a female can do better, my foot!

She has blatantly disappointed her gender, full blast!

She's in her early 40s. Iron Lady became leader by 50 years old.

Leadership is not for the young at heart or those whose head are still in the cloud.

Only in Africa that we don't put our old age, most times, to good use.

The tories need to step aside. They've brought nothing but chaos and uncertainty with an economy spiralling out of control and no clear cut answers. I knew Liz wasn't going to last long but I didn't think her end would be so abrupt. Shocking!

Kasssandra:


They are choosing the certificateless ones, because at the end, it is those people who do the hard work of mobilization and ganering votes....

A small story before I continue.

A young man with a degree was lamenting that he had no job, while his agemate who finished primary 6 was a councillor, and was earning big money.

The simple reason was that the young man with the degree finished primary 6, left his village to the city for secondary school, then went far away for university,meanwhile his mate stayed at the village, farmed, and when leadership called...he put himself forward.

All of you crying about certificateless Buhari and tinubu and atiku....have you gone and joined a political party, made connections, made sacrifices, carried the big man's bags for them, organised, and so forth...so that you can become a political leader?

Most of you run to Lagos and Abuja, or other big cities after you get your degree, and start looking for money, and big house, and a spouse. Your certificateless mates meanwhile are left at home....and when home people need a leader...who will they choose....is it you who is busy in the city....or the village certificateless mate of yours who is available, and who they know?

Me, I no dey vote APC. But Tinubu is where he is today because he spent 30 years making sacrifices to be where he is. Same for Buhari, same for Atiku (who stepped down for MKO in 1993) and even Obi, who left his city job .

You that is complaining of certificateless leaders...when are you going to leave your city hustle and go home and run for office.? And start from there? When are you going to form a party? Or join one and start from the bottom....

Why are ye so lazy.?

Best post I've read on this forum in a long time.

If only president Buhari did this 7years ago, we won't be where we are today.

Maysdevices:
See this one

Babe, is dt u on ur profile?

U're simply clean & endearing!

Trust u won't see it as somtin out of place 2 say hello 2 already, huh?

putin2:
Racist nation everybody know that she is not qualify to be pm but she win becos she is white . They have see the result now.she is a baby politician

they are even better than our country,they are full of tribelism among themselves.
Nairaland that u are writing this is d worse of all

ibinaboonline:
Yes, obviously. Boris is on his way back. The woman fall my hand.

Well, I like their way of opening up , she said she can't deliver the mandate. It better to hand over to someone else rather that stick to power and let's things get bad.

it's so bad