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PDPGuy:
It’s utterly ridiculous that the Japanese goalie, Suzuki, has barely touched the ball in this match, let alone be forced to make a real save!
Thats how poor Tunisia have been.

Remember Japan are playing this good despite missing FOUR of their key players due to injury

Teams like Tunisia are why some people say Africa deserves less slots. Pathetic.

I don't know how they can look their citizens in the eye when they get back home

Some really problematic ties for round of 32 and 16.

Netherlands and Brazil or Morocco for Rd32

Germany vs France for Rd 16

This Curaçao keeper na dangbana choko oh. E say no goal today se

E never sure for Cote D'Ivoire like this. If them no bring their shooting boots and Curaçao scores a lucky goal. Because Germany beating them might have fooled people. This is an organized team

Kilishihunter:
I think he was the one who scored the winner against Ghana during their pre world cup warm up. He won't be short of suitors after the world cup if he was a bit younger

He was struggling to see shirt at Brighton. Football is a funny game.

One thing I know as far as he's fed with chances the guy will score. His eye for goal is good

Told you about Undav. One shit one kill. No need to rely on Gbavertz again

Both teams are just fooling

What is Adingra doing man

What happened to Woltemade sef

Camaaan. Undav

Wtf was Nagelsmann doing leaving him on the bench. The guy is a natural goal scorer

Kimmich spamming the same dumb corner kicks

This ref e be like e carry Cote D'Ivoire to win. Anyways Germany always struggle second group stage match. No surprises here

Nagelsmann still starting Sane in big 2026 is nasty work

If Brazil no top their group na this Netherlands get them for round of 32

Would be funny to see if Brazil no go lose on purpose to avoid them like this.

That final match day will be interesting

Ellexy:
This Gyokores sef

Fake demon. Airmark favorite striker

nihilistjnr:
NGL America took a huge L here and if I'm Saudi, UAE and the other gulf countrie, nothing is stopping me from getting a Nuke. If America cannot protect me, and any wars America gets involved with leads to me continuously getting bombed not them, and then America will now pay Iran 300bn for their troubles.

Eff that

One thing with war. You can predict when it starts not when it finishes so you have to try your darnedest to follow it to logical conclusion or just keep playing the espionage you have been playing.

The unwillingness to go the whole nine is what is being leveraged

If Big Yahu wants to play Kratos. Fund and equip him let him keep your Middle Eastern opps in check till a more moderate guy is in charge. That one kuku like war pass peace

I don't know that Trump has $300bn to give Iran. What would likely happen is that the Strait and all the previous Iran assets that have been seized will be released. That will make the regime flush with cash. What do you think they will do with that cash?

More weapons to prevent a repeat of what happened to them this time

The real cost for the US will be the bases destroyed. The cost of rebuilding and their presence moving forward. Can they still exercise soft power in the region by virtue of their military installations?

This is why I was adamant on either avoiding war altogether or follow it till the end.

If you didn't destroy the Mullah regime with money you think you can touch them now that sanctions are lifted and money is surplus

Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi will stand trial for rape, French prosecutors have confirmed. pic.twitter.com/tZetbgRHTX

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) June 19, 2026

Chai. Will Hakimi face Partey treatment? I've checked their fixture list and I don't see Canada there.

This is quite embarrassing. Why you should greatly limit your interactions with women wey no like you (honestly I don't think you should interact at all) all this woo, pursue, chase, try harder without full green light that mindset will eventually enter Biakwubiakwu activities and from there you go explain tire no evidence

TemporaryHansel:
https://www.nairaland.com/8694009/usa-iran-talks-switzerland-abruptly-called

A40 Iran is doing too much at this point. See what Trump's desperation to end the war has caused. This embarrassment is huge! Iran is saying they want to see implementation of the MOU from the US before any further talks.

As of this moment, the greatest impediment to the power of the US president overseas are the American citizens themselves. They've essentially handicapped their president.

Somebody that needs to be finished off brutally will be getting pampered because of democracy rules, human rights , and fear of price of goods and services rising to avoid protests.

They have also overplayed their hands. Sometimes when your luck is at the edge of a cliff you should try not to push it

Imagine negotiating a deal between two people and someone is telling you Israel must not attack Hezbollah. And you are not asking Iran to keep Hezbollah in check

How are people supposed to see that and not believe you're negotiating from a position of weakness.

I've not seen any part of this so called MOU that even addressed the Hamas/Houthi/Hezbollah axis of terror. Or do they think that is going away.

All I'm seeing is Trump asking the Mullahs to pinky swear they will behave. I'm not seeing any serious concessions by Iran on this deal. If IRGC were smart they will run with this deal and overlook Israel/Hezbollah beef. But apparently they might not be

https://x.com/i/status/2067732246879207897

The deal is so bad. Others are also like me asking if Trump or Vance is IRGC

raumdeuter:
These checks and balances existed in the era of Bush Obama Biden Nixon right? How did they help in Vietnam, Iraq, Libya Afghanistan wars that dragged for years and even decades. Where America still ended with eggs in their faces?

You can wear seat belt and still have accident. Still advisable to wear a seat belt

raumdeuter:
So you expect Trump to send US forces on ground to go and depose the Iranian govt so that they can capture them and be beheading them on camera, Once you start beheading Americasn on camera, what do you think will happen both domestically and abroad? Is that not the way we ended up 20yrs in Afghanistan without much gain? The so called administrations with checks and balances, who do not talk much spent trillions in Afghanistan today the country is back in the hands of Talibans, women have been chased away from classrooms, All the arms left with the Afghan govt are firmly in the hands of these Talibans, That was under US admins that had checks and balances and do not talk much.

No. Obviously not. The issue here is nobody asked you for this war in the first place. This was self inflicted. Why should I applaud someone that deliberately touched a hot stove and then quickly rubbed red oil or lavender oil to cushion the effects. How about not touch the hot stove to begin with

raumdeuter:
If Iranians are not prepared to help themselves, and sacrifice Iranian lives, Nigerians are not prepared to fight an sacrifice Nigerian lives, but you want Trump to sacrifice American lives for Iran and Nigeria?

Well maybe don't interfere in their matter or talk about interfering with their matter.

raumdeuter:
Kurdish rebels, he gave them arms and they pocketed it, So what else should he do?

Fairs. You make a good point here

raumdeuter:
The negotiation with Obama in a diplomatic manner led to the current situation where every Hamas Houthi an Hezbollah can launch rockets at Israel willy-nilly

What's the difference? You are basically banking on murderous Shia Muslims to pinky promise swear that they will be nice and be on their best behavior moving forward after handing them access to more resources than they've ever seen or could ever fathom. What are the odds of that?

Trump's lack of principles and consistency is why he's been contradicting himself all over the place. His comments this week? He's made everyone that stuck their necks out for Trump including myself look ridiculous

You cannot tell us all this time how these people are bad people and now you want to give them money and unfreeze monies they had been denied by previous administrations

raumdeuter:
If you think this world we live currently, you will achieve any military goal without commiting genocide or you have a 100% win that wont happen , Its usually a trade off, you consider what are the options and you pick the less bad option

Somehow he picked the worst possible option.

"What an embarrassment."

GOP and Democrat senators are casting doubt on President Trump’s Iran peace deal, with lawmakers from both parties criticizing the agreement and raising concerns about its potential impact.

"Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to… pic.twitter.com/ulkaZwlAPW

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 18, 2026

You know you agreed to a bad deal when both Democrat and Republicans are flaming you

raumdeuter:
Will Israel rather have the Democrats who are chasing Jews around American colleges attacking their places of worship shooting them, killing them to be in power or Trump that cannot give them 100% of what they want?

Gen Z democrats is not the same as the establishment ones. Jews still hold the money which both parties dance to

Anti Jew Democrat where e wan see money campaign?

raumdeuter:
The point of it is that Iranian leaders now know their leaders who don't act right can be killed anytime whether Khamenei or Soleimani. If they behave right, they get rewarded and if they dont they get killed

In your example the employee crashed the car and offered to fix from his salary, take that vs an employee who crashed the car and didn't even offer to fix it

Life is about picking the least bad option. I wan japa go Canada, I no wan experience cold. You never serious with life

O fe pe laye, Ki oju e ma ri ibi, Ikan ni wa mu nibe (You want to live long, your eyes will not see evil, You have to pick one)

How many people did the US kill the last time? How many people do they have to kill to realize they are not afraid of death.

If you're not ready to uproot the regime in its entirety then leave it as it is. That's my point.

Not agree to a deal that puts you in a weaker position against them than before you invaded them.

Based on this deal what is their incentive to act right especially as more and more of these monies become accessible to them

Anyway it looks like the whole thing is on pause in light of recent events. Make we dey observe

raumdeuter:
Which war in the past 50yrs has been seen to a logical conclusion? Is it Vietnam, It is Afghanistan, Is it Iraq, Is it Libya which one does not have a lingering issue

Trump said from the beginning he is not for FOREVER wars. The strategy of the Arab is to drag wars for decades and centuries so it becomes an attrition game, No one in the west has the mind for that, So what other leaders do is to cower which Trump is not doing.
Obama gave Syria Assad several lines in the sand which they crossed and he didnt do anything

Yes that is why you don't get into them in the first place.

You have enough of a sample size to be armed with that information. So why did you do it

All that suggests is that he is not a thinking man

This is his biggest foreign policy blunder which is so bad it has me thinking he's working for IRGC. This is simply indefensible

raumdeuter:
If you do not vote for Trump, you are directly or indirectly voting his opponent, So ask yourself does the alternative achieve your goals? The alternative which will openly figh against Israel

This is potentially a better deal than Obamas JCPOA,

Voters will likely be anybody but Trump atp. He has succeeded in pissin everyone off and I will be truly shocked if the Republicans still win the midterms

If he was not smart enough to recognize the Strait of Hormuz as Iran's biggest bargain chip then how can the rest of his judgment be trusted

raumdeuter:
Obama gave them the money upfront, Trump promised the money if certain conditions were met
The money Obama gave them immediately found its way to proxies who used it to destabilize the region
The Obama JCPOA did not address ballistic missiles, A nuclear weapon is useless if you do not have what to deliver it. Its not like you will carry in portmanteau to drop on your opponent

But Trump is giving them even more money. And full sanctions relief. You will be dealing with a bigger problem in the future if their regime goes rogue.

Wasn't it Trump the other day saying Iran should have missiles since other teams had missiles.

There's no real obligations in this MOU I'm seeing here besides the Strait of Hormuz matter and the uranium enrichment

raumdeuter:
Netanyahu without Trump will have to deal with his own internal and external problems. He has warrants in almost all of Europe and UN, Its the Trump support that is making them not enforce it. Its the fear of US support that is making other Arab nations deal with Israel in a goo way and even holding back their genocidal intent

UK, Australia Spain all recognized Hamas last year imagine if you have a US leader who supported that move too, what will remain of Israel today?

Netanyahu main yawa is with his Israeli people, if they want him back as PM then nothing consign am with Trump. He's not reliable so his allyship is useless.

As far as the Jewish community has a say so in majority of the Western countries especially the US Israel will still have strong legs regardless

raumdeuter:
Unless he is a fortune teller, there is no way of seeing every thing that happened, Like they say hindsight is 20/20, everyone can play Monday morning quarterback, he shoulda done this shoulda done that

This is why checks and balances exist. All of which he skipped and has been left with egg on his face.

It's not about Monday Morning Quarterback when it's an avoidable situation. He gets no extra credit for that

raumdeuter:
We can ask the same of every leader who has gone to war or everyone of us who has taken an action and didn't pan out 100% like we envisaged

How did he know the Iranians will not rise up after their leaders were taken out?

He talks too much and he has done way more than any president to resolve the middle east crisis, Before he came into power
there was no Abraham accord, after his first term a few Middle East countries have recognized Israel for the first time in history,
He was the president who moved the US embassy to Jerusalem which many presidents before him promised and never did
Before his second term Israel and Hamas were in a war, Israeli hostages were in Gaza, today he has secured all hostages back to Israel
Before him Khamenei was the supreme leader of Iran who can do anyhow he wants today Khamenei is with his creator

Which other US president or world leader has done this much in the ME, that is with him dealing with domestic pressures

How can the onus be on Iranian people that have been slaughtered in their tens of thousands. How many people died in the operation Endsars before everybody sempe?

Multiply that x100 and tell me what Iranian civilians are supposed to do?

Kurdish rebels are there. Did you work with them? This is what I'd expect an astute leader to do. Cover as much bases as you can

Not that you brag everyday about destroying their army, destroying their navy yet Strait of Hormuz you cannot control

Yes he killed Khamenei a 86 year old man but that achieved what? IRGC are still in charge. If your objective was not to dismantle and topple the entire thing then you could have saved taxpayers money by simply negotiating these terms with them in a diplomatic manner. They're not stupid they would have accepted and all this carnage would have been avoided

raumdeuter:
You say you don't understand how ending the war on what you call a weak term helps him. One it reduces inflation pressures cause by gas prices which his populace are complaining about, which if it continues he loses the next elections

If you don't care about the election and he loses, then what happens to all the gains he has made in every front when he gets impeached and everything reversed

You truly believe Trump will get any positive feedback and results from a deal that has been universally blasted even by his strongest supporters

What Trump did is like your employee taking out your car without your permission crashing it and then offering to pay to fix it from his salary. And then expecting you to give him extra credit for that.

Everyone is asking. What exactly was the point of it all?

raumdeuter:
Trump is eager to end the war because there is an election in the US in 4 months time and many of the voting population left and right are complaining about cost of goods and general support of the war.

It favors Israel for the war to continue but it doesnt favor Trump. He is losing political capital. If he loses the house and senate in midterms he can be impeached by the left. So will Netanyahu rather have Trump impeached at this point?

There is no way you can achieve regime change without either Iranians rising to do it or American boots on ground. American boots on ground means there will be American casualties and any American casualty is a death knell for Trumps admin

Trump wants to end the war anyway he can before it drags his admin down. The Iranians know he doesnt want to push the war further close to the midterm and are milking that

If you are Netanyahu you will be reasonable and know Trump is the best American ally you have, the president that has stood by you closest. When you consider the options to Trump within and outside America you know Trump is your best bet and you better stick to him

Which is why he should not have started it to begin with if he was not ready to see it to a logical conclusion

Look at his recent utterances. That tells me he's either working for the opp or just a very confused individual

You're supposed to make all those calculations before jumping into anything. Look at Russia that wanted to do special operations. They are still there since 2022 with no real accomplishment

So the question is did he make an unforced error or is he working for IRGC? Whatever the answer is if I were American neither he or his party would have my vote.

All these calculations is what a smart and non compromised President makes before jumping into a war. You're not Russia so you cannot get a way with brute force so why not secure full support of Congress.

If you sign a deal worse than what Obama signed then that is just poor judgement on your end. If I could vote I would not praise Trump for trying and failing to fix a avoidable problem that you created. Nobody forced him to attack Iran

Netanyahu really has no need for Trump since he will be almost gone anyway. If you're signing 'deals' that compromise my ability to face Hamas and Hezbollah then what do I need you for?

When you're gone me and my people will still have the Hamas and Hezbollah problem and other proxies as well. So he can ignore Trump without being outwardly hostile.

raumdeuter:
Trump is a realist and not an ideologue

He can change his position if things are not going as he planned

If he continues the war and his party trashed at the election, all the good things he has done reversed and he gets impeached

What good will that do to him or to Israel?

The option to Trump in US (democrats) outside US (EU China etc) are not shy to arm the enemies of Israel

Trump doesn't hate anyone on an ideological level as long as you live and let others live. Even if you are a terrible person and can be convinced to change your mind he will deal with you. As long as you dont pose an immediate danger to his country

He views everything as a business deal. No hard feelings about anything

A realist would have considered all those options before launching Operation Epic Fury and bragging about destroying their military every day.

That's a checkers move not a chess move. The man talks wayyy too much.

For me and I've said it since, if his agenda was not overthrowing the Iranian regime then this entire exercise would be a complete waste of time. Unless it was a decoy war used to distract us from something in the first place

If you're not going to follow through no matter what then all you have done is wage an expensive war and brought unnecessary carnage to ultimately achieve nothing. No liberation for Iranians, no favorable deal for Americans and you even managed to piss off one of your biggest allies Israel.

The only people this deal favors is Iran, China and Co. That's why I keep asking if he has been working for them all this time.

If this is how he executes business deals I'm not sure anyone will want him in charge of their company.

I don't have any skin in the American election game but I'm also confused as to how ending this war with a very weak and unfavorable deal helps his party's chances in the mid terms. I believe it actually worsens it.

Realmrsean:
trump simply followed the advice of warmongers like Lindsey Graham and defense contract lobbyists politicians including netenyahu.

Trump himself thought eliminating khamenei and arming the Kurds will cause uprising in Iran and orchestrate a regime change.

He miscalculated on that as the event backfired when Ali khamenei was replaced with his son and more hardliner mojtaba khamenei.

Iran rained missiles on gulf nations who houses USA interests. This in turn made them out pressure on trump to end the war.

He underrated Iran, he played his cards and failed, he cut his losses and moved on..

Where is the said Mojtaba? Lol your conclusion is too simplistic

Merely looking at Ukraine and Russia anybody with sense will know that you're going to need more than weeks to topple a regime that has been in charge for almost 5 decades.

I'm saying this was probably not a real war and the plan was always to purge certain characters.

The same Netanyahu has Trump not gone rogue on him?

Did Trump arm the Kurds? No.

He didn't do the things it typically takes to topple a government.

Even the gulf nations cannot possibly be impressed with this agreement. All these bombings they chested only to end up with a stronger Iran? That makes no sense

Ibime:
Trump is a reality TV President, not a principled guy, which is what I said when he bombed ISIS in Nigeria. He is only interested in the cheap headlines and will leave us to deal with the fallout when ISIS now train their focus on Nigeria.

Well I comment my reserve until we see the actual MOU on the 19th cos what's floating around may be incorrect.

I was at Investment panel meeting with the fund managers who manage our company investments 2 weeks ago and the two companies both independently pointed out that anytime Treasury Yields start to approach 4.5%, Trump will immediately talk up a deal out of nowhere to calm the Yield down. That's his focus, not the battlefield.

He has his good sides but the lack of principles makes him a very unreliable ally to have

It's evident he's always more concerned about image and optics than anything else.

I don't even believe he likes or hates either side, whether Hezbollah, Iran, MAGA, Leftists, Putin, Isreal, China, Jewish, Muslim

This man legit no send anybody. Whatever he feels he does it's really that simple

A friend of mine says he doesn't even hate Trump like other leftists because for him to hate him he has to take him serious first.

Realmrsean:
the mistake you people make is equating bombing to winning.
Iran has proven to be anti assassination proof
Meaning killing their leaders doesn't change anything in the battlefield.
Iran controlled the Hormuz from the first day of the war up until right now even when this Mou is been signed, they'll still control it together with Oman

Irans missiles was untouched as they were buried deep under the mountain 🏔️ together with their nuclear uranium.

USA won't ever dare put boots in the ground as that'd be more catastrophic for them. Look up what happened in ishafan when they attempted.

Iran still had the red sea card together with undersea cables on Hormuz.

Iran doesn't care about economic choking, they don't care of naval blockade or sanctions, they don't care if their currency goes to zero. These are Shia Muslims not some cartels in Venezuela.

Trump played all his cards and he didn't get results, he had to cut his losses and move on

As simple as that

You don't understand. Iran held no aces. There's no reason for Trump to end this war this abruptly and agree to all these terms and insert more that Iran would never have expected if he has not been compromised

I legit think Trump has been compromised. Everything you are mentioning here is not grounds to end the war.

What cards did he play? He did not see anything through to logical conclusion. Everything was applied halfway. Half measures and half stepping

I now lowkey think the whole war was probably a fake to distract us to begin with. This is not capitulation this is malpractice. Some day we might find out what really happened

TemporaryHansel:
Like bro this is literally the best time to finish off Iran, they've never been this weak and exposed.
Trump has made a very terrible decision because of fear of bad headlines and protests.
The useless Americans that have gotten used to soft life will regret this their softness when one of these dictators use their softness against their government in a major war.


I understand Netanyahu's frustration fr. Only option now is for Israel to crush Iran without the US, I believe they can do it. They should ignore whatever Trump says because they might not have this chance again after a while.

The urgency to end a war nobody asked him to start had my eyebrows raised.

Without any major casualties how are you more eager to end the war than Iran and Israel.

Unless your aim was never to finish them off to begin with and you have some kind of arrangement with them. Soon as it came clear he was not interested in regime change I don wash my hand comot. George W Bush was at least willing and principled enough to do that, But it seems something even more sinister is at play

Even Ukraine that has been battered since 2022 are still fighting and have not ceded an inch so for you to not just be overly eager to end the war but give Iran even more than they could have bargained for when the war began makes me assume you have been compromised.

This is not incompetence. This almost feels like it's by design. Even his utterances have been bizarre. This deal is not just unfavorable to Israel but America as well

There would have been no need to go to war with Iran if they brought this proposal to the previous guy. He would have accepted in a heartbeat

If you're Netanyahu you now know that Trump simply can't be trusted. Maybe this is the end of their alliance. Or the alliance of America and Israel as a whole. We shall see in the next few weeks and months

Y'all thought Trump was a puppet of Israel and Netanyahu.

Now I actually think he's been working for Iran all this time

That is the only logical explanation. Cos Iran wasn't winning on the battlefield. There was no need to give all they want and more. If you are not basically working for them, cos even in their wildest imagination they can't possibly have negotiated this for themselves

Even countries that get invaded and occupied do not agree to concessions like this so this is definitely not ordinary eye

Maybe the plan all along was to remove the old Ayatollah and put in a more scattered leadership. I mean where is the new guy. We've never seen him.

Politics has taught me the more you look the less you see

This World Cup na no gree for anybody World Cup

If Ronaldo really love Portugal he will embrace the Udonis Haslem role and motivate this team from the bench

Roland17:
Naaa fam, we are not going to start rating that glorified Principal Cup just because the Knicks won it.

You see, this is why I am saying some of you are taking this thing way too far. Like seriously?

No. I'm saying only a team that wins both the Chip and this trophy should get to raise the banners. Relax and try and understand me.

I'm only giving credit where it's due. Since the inception of the tournament they are the ones that have won both. Beating the team in the cup that they beat in the Finals. By all intents and purposes they were the best team in the league this season and were merely hiding in plain sight

Roland17:
You are really loving this Knicks title!

Not really. I'm just giving credit where it's due. I respect the fact that they are actually did what no one else has. Which is win both comps. Like winning league and champions league

Ohh btw. The Knicks are the only ones that should be hoisting that NBA cup banner fr

greypencils:
Lol! The drags are just getting started. You haven't seen people on X dragging Jimmy Butler rating Wiggins and KAT over him.

KAT and Wiggins are passengers. Nobody who knows ball will compare them to Jimmy Butler. Even with 2 rings. KAT that averaged 13ppg and was a foul merchant. He's a passenger

Same does not apply to Brunson.

Brunson is a victim of his size and low draft status and expectations. No other player with his production in the past 4 seasons in the playoffs is this lowly rated. Don't forget he also beat the Jazz without Luka when he was at the Mavs

If he leads the Knicks to another chip within the next couple of seasons people are still going to doubt him.