jl115:
.... Yeah naaahhh......Egypt, Algeria and even SA have large fleets of drones

Lurker4Long:

You missed the part where he said "UCAV".

And didn't you get the memo about responding to "gi-ants"?

Odunayaw:
I guess you were given such access to all this because you served in the military right

NTSA:

How true is this?

jl115:
..and even SA have large fleets of drones

kabe1:


Apparently FG has not learnt anything. We are now firmly under the influence of the United States government.

Super Tucanos - America

AH-1Z - America

Engines for M-346F/A - America

Engines for NNS Kada - America

Engines for 2 x OPVs from Turkey - America

Engines for Proforce Defence ARA 2 MRAP - America

Engines and subsystems for Akinci UCAV - America

Critical parts of Nigerian security architecture is completely Americanized.

Chakib:


yeah something like that

jl115:
.... Yeah naaahhh......Egypt, Algeria and even SA have large fleets of drones

Odunayaw:
SA has a large fleet of UCAVs? Amazing

Odunayaw:
Any fuckup like this and it is soledad

davefurn:
Saw this thread on twitter; kinda like Kikuyus' kinda prediction..... It was a fun read.

https://twitter.com/tiffin1963/status/1512804018220937228?t=77UYGt6htKOCjzsB9qT-TA&s=19

Check it out, maybe it's a hocus-pocus; enjoyable read though

davefurn:
Saw this thread on twitter; kinda like Kikuyus' kinda prediction..... It was a fun read.

https://twitter.com/tiffin1963/status/1512804018220937228?t=77UYGt6htKOCjzsB9qT-TA&s=19

Check it out, maybe it's a hocus-pocus; enjoyable read though

Lurker4Long:
Right, no sensical response from the Russia supporters.

Chakib:

Algerian Army Start receiving a new chinese 120mm self-propelled mortar system based on the chassis of its locally made Nimr HAFEET 640A.

jl115:
.... Yeah naaahhh......Egypt, Algeria and even SA have large fleets of drones

Lurker4Long:
Right, no sensical response from the Russia supporters.

SuperSixSeven:


So you think Russia can prevent NATO from deploying nuclear weapons at its border by invading Ukraine? While US/UK/France can simply fire a ICBM from anywhere else?

Russia demanded security guarantees, these included:

> Ukraine should never join NATO,
> the withdrawal of all NATO troops from the Eastern European NATO accession states
> an end to all military NATO activities there,
> a contractual renunciation of any further NATO membership and an end “nuclear sharing” > (the stationing of US short- and medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe)

Russia offered:

> nothing

The demands were non-negotiable and were therefore not negotiated. A few weeks later, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, Moscow has been covering the neighboring country with the cruelest war crimes in the name of "demilitarization" and putting into practice a genocidal rhetoric of extermination preached in the name of "denazification". The only reason that Putin didn't want Ukraine in NATO is because he wanted to invade Ukraine. It has nothing to do with Russia's security interests.

For Putin countries like Ukraine or Poland are either non-existent or just puppets of the United States. The Ukrainian territory would be only the first step in his long term strategy to establish a greater Russia. It is no coincidence that Putin has demanded complete withdrawal of NATO troops from the countries of the former Warsaw Pact. Putin also believes that right now he has a certain military advantage over the US in hypersonic weapons. He has repeatedly said that this advantage will not last too long, for Americans would soon catch up. It means he has to capitalise on it now.

Russia propaganda is pushing the narrative that the West to be fundamentally weak, corrupt, and cowardly. And i thnk at some point the Kremlin believed their own propaganda to be true. It looks like a miscalculation because as a result, everything Russia allegedly wanted to stop with its list of demands will be realized now:

> neutral Sweden & Finland to join NATO in June, this is extending the RU - NATO borders by 1,340km
> The NATO military presence in Eastern Europe is being expanded
> Ukraine army is being supported by the west
> an increase in the US nuclear presence is under discussion
> EU and Kyiv are talking about EU accession of Ukraine

Still you can argue the Idea was right but execution was poor - but geostrategically, Russia has already lost more than it can gain, however this war turns out.


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If you really learned your lessons from history then you realize that Russian or Chinese imperialism is not some sort of alternative imperialism, as some might naively think, it is the same.

For the first time, Georgian deputies have admitted that the country is being used as a base by Chechen rebels who in recent weeks stepped up their campaign against the Russian military.

The guerrillas are long believed to have used Pankisi Gorge, in the north-east of Georgia, as a base since thousands of refugees fled there in 1999. There are also reports that Chechen fighters are helping Georgian partisans in the west of the republic fight Russian-backed Abkhazian forces in the Kodori Gorge region, a spit of Abkhazian territory on Georgia's western border.

MAN1960ii:


Please how many attack drones South Africa have?

kabe1:

jl115:
at least 6 were ordered in 2016....however the actual number is undisclosed

SuperSixSeven:


In reality NATO was never a geo-political threat to Russia. East European countries maintain small armies and do not have/host nuclear weapons. NATO only started to deploy troops to its eastern border after Russia invaded Crimea 2014. Russia always wanted to invade Ukraine to maintain their ideology of a greater Russia, this is sadly a proven fact now. That is the very reason why Russia never wanted that UKR to join NATO.

jl115:
at least 6 were ordered in 2016....however the actual number is undisclosed

kabe1:


Just like Santa-Claus.

jl115:
must I post the link here again?

Odunayaw:
link

kabe1:


Post the link.