compton11: Islam my nigga!
Believe in oneness of God
Be good to your both parents
Be good to orphans, widow, travellers
Pay zakat to the poor
Don't talk human as God
And so on
LollySeaSide: Of all the ways to die, this one chose to be thrown into the secret service wardrobe. What a life! Hopefully, they'll discover that he's nuts and transfer him to a psychiatric home. His madness must have made him believe that Biden would be sleeping at the gate when he gets to the White House. All thanks to Trump for calling him sleepy Joe.
The U.S. and its Western allies are to blame for the dire state of relations between NATO and Moscow, according to a top Russian United Nations diplomat. First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky on Wednesday accused the U.S. and NATO of "exploiting" divisions in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, and trying to "crush" the newly emerged Russian Federation.
Russian diplomats are on a pointed public offensive against the U.S. and its NATO allies, spurred by renewed tensions along the Ukraine border where tens of thousands of Russian troops remain deployed.
The crisis has dragged on for months, with Kyiv and its Western backers calling for Russian de-escalation, but the Kremlin demanding guarantees that Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO. Joint NATO-Russia security talks are planned for mid-January.
Russian officials have been echoing President Vladimir Putin's argument that the West, not Moscow, is to blame for geopolitical tensions. The eastward expansion of NATO after the Soviet collapse is proof, they say, of Western duplicity and a plot to surround and smother Russia.
"Everybody was thinking that people in the West are our friends, that they really are giving us a hand so that we will live in some better place, a better world and nobody will ever remember about the Cold War, about East and West," Polyansky told reporters on Wednesday, according to Russia's state-backed Tass news agency.
"But eventually things have gone [the] other way very quickly."
"We saw that the intentions of our colleagues are not as innocent as it was presented at the beginning," Polyansky said. "We saw a lot of Americans and Europeans exploiting our country, trying to split it, to crush it, to split Russia further, to promote separatism in Russia, to promote divisions between Russia and newly emerged states."
Russia's initial federal history was "very difficult, very challenging," with the country "really on the brink of collapse," the diplomat added. But as the country moved through the 2000s, he said, "we have started to be perceived as a threat by the West, by the United States...What we're having now we have is kind of a remake of the Cold War, Cold War 2.0."
Polyansky suggested there is no longer any ideological basis for conflict. The U.S., its Western allies and Russia have clashed repeatedly over human rights issues, particularly Moscow's suppression of domestic political opposition. Russia's intelligence services have repeatedly been linked to successful and failed assassinations of dissidents abroad.
"There is no communist ideology that Russia or anybody else promotes, our economic structure is very close to that of the United States, or any other Western country, but confrontation is there and the efforts to portray Russia as an enemy are also there," Polyansky said. "It of course brings to your mind some conclusions that the question was not of ideology but of geopolitical struggle, which is back to existence right now, unfortunately."
At his annual Q&A press conference last week, Putin likewise accused Western rivals of stoking conflict with Moscow. The president refused to guarantee that Russian forces would invade Ukraine again, instead demanding security guarantees from the West.
"Our actions will depend not on the negotiations, but on the unconditional security of Russia, today and in the future," Putin said, referring to the planned January talks with U.S. and NATO officials.
"We have made it absolutely clear that NATO's expansion to the east is unacceptable," Putin said. "What's not clear about it?"
"We are not the ones who are threatening someone, we are not the ones who came to the border of the U.S. or the U.K.; they came to us." Putin continued. "And now they're saying, 'We will have Ukraine as well.'"
"You should come up with guarantees, right now—immediately," Putin said, addressing the U.S. and NATO.
Putin has framed the Ukraine crisis as Russia's response to NATO aggression. Russia already borders five NATO states—Poland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia—posing serious security concerns for Moscow. Ukraine's addition to the alliance would be a severe strategic blow.
"They just cheated us," Putin said of NATO nations. "'Not a single inch to the east,' that's what we heard in the 1990s," the president added.
Putin's proposal to exclude Ukraine from NATO permanently has already been publicly rebuffed in Kyiv, Brussels and Washington, D.C.
As nuclear deal talks in Vienna show promising signs, Iranian military leaders are using aggressive rhetoric to deter the U.S. and its allies from strikes on the country's nuclear infrastructure.
The eighth round of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) revival talks began this week in Austria. The seventh round ended with U.S. and European frustration and warnings that the window to reach a diplomatic, non-military solution to Iran's growing nuclear capabilities was closing.
Amid reports that the U.S. has considered military strikes on Iran and with continued Israeli threats to do the same, top Iranian military officials have been issuing warnings of their own that enemy action could prompt a bloody and costly regional conflict.
Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Khatam al-Anbia headquarters, told reporters on Wednesday that recent and future IRGC drills should stand as a warning to those considering attacking Iran.
"We want the enemy not to test our will and power because it will not be able to bear the costs of a massive and all-out confrontation," the commander said, according to the IRGC-owned Fars News Agency. "Believing the Islamic Republic of Iran's power will certainly have lower costs for the enemy," he said. Last week, Iranian Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and IRGC commander, Major General Hossein Salami, both said the recent Great Prophet 17 military drill was a direct response to aggressive Israeli rhetoric.
Bagheri dismissed reports of imminent Israeli action as "empty threats," while Salami warned: "If the officials of this regime do a damn thing, we will cut off their hands." Bagheri also said this week that Israel's Dimona nuclear facility would be "a prime target" of any Iranian retaliation to a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Israeli forces have reportedly been preparing a range of strike options to halt Iran's nuclear program, which the Israeli government has long considered an existential threat. Defense Minister Benny Gantz said this December he had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to "prepare for the Iranian challenge at the operational level."
Israel is continuing strikes against Iranian and allied targets across the border in Syria. Tehran, the IRGC and Iran's network of proxy forces—among them the Lebanese Hezbollah militia—have been vital in helping President Bashar al-Assad forces re-take much of the war-torn country.
Iranian forces and their proxies have established military positions throughout Syria, including along the Israeli border. Syria serves as a key conduit for Iranian money, fighters and arms to reach proxies in Lebanon, and the Palestinian West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Successive Israeli administrations have committed to preventing Tehran from gaining a permanent foothold in Syria and called for U.S. support to do so.
Israel also opposes the JCPOA nuclear deal—which capped Iran's nuclear capabilities for 10 years—and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed a powerful influence on former President Donald Trump's 2018 decision to withdraw from the accord.
JCPOA signatories—Iran, the U.S., Germany, France, the U.K., Russia, China, and the European Union—are hoping to revive the deal via the ongoing Vienna talks.
Russian and Iranian officials told reporters this week that the eighth round began promisingly. Tehran said success remained possible if other negotiators showed "good faith," while Russia's lead envoy praised "indisputable progress."
American and European officials expressed frustration after the seventh round of talks ended without a deal. U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley accused Tehran of "trying to build leverage by expanding their nuclear program and hoping to use that leverage to get a better deal."
"Their strategy is going to backfire if that is their approach," Malley told CNN.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has been reviewing U.S. military options in case diplomatic efforts fail, according to a report from The New York Times, as well as considering new sanctions on Tehran.
After the seventh round of talks, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters: "The president has made clear that if diplomacy fails, we are prepared to turn to other options."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki also hinted at military action. "Based on the outcome of the last round of talks and the ongoing advancements in Iran's nuclear facilities, we are laying the path for...the groundwork for another path entirely," she told a press briefing earlier in December.
Authorities in Iowa have arrested a man who was found during a traffic stop to be carrying a rifle and a "hit list" that included President Biden and Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Kuachua Brillion Xiong, from Merced, Calif., was taken into custody last week after allegedly telling police who pulled him over for driving aggressively that he was on his way to the White House "to kill persons in power," according to federal court records that were unsealed Tuesday.
Authorities said they found an AR-15-type rifle, ammunition, body armor, medical kits and a grappling hook in Xiong's vehicle, per court records.
Xiong's "hit list" of targets was compiled from TikTok videos, according to court records. In addition to Biden and Fauci, the Times reported that the list included former Presidents Clinton and Obama and Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
"Xiong believes that he is the only person remaining who can free the United States of evil and it is necessary for him to kill those in positions of power," Secret Service agent Justin Larson said in an affidavit, according to the Times.
Xiong also told authorities that if he was released from custody he would continue traveling to the White House and "do whatever it takes" to complete his plan, per court records.
"Xiong stated that he has no intention of returning to California to see his family because he plans on dying while fighting evil demons at the White House," the affidavit said, per the Times.
Xiong, 25, was booked in Iowa's Pottawattamie County on the afternoon of Dec. 21, according to court records.
Xiong is scheduled to appear in federal court for a detention hearing on Thursday, with the federal government arguing he should remain in custody for making a threat against a former president, which is a federal crime, the Times reported.
Hanibbal: They are so foolish yet dey keep lending your country billions of dollars investing into your country's infrastructure. Yet you are still here bitter and pained just because your slave master America didn't do what the chinkos have done for your country instead exploited your country and continent for its own gain. No get high blood pressure the chinkos are set to overtake your slave master. You will continue to seeth in rage and pain like a wounded dog.
DenreleDave: chinkos are foolish... They need hype so that other countries can purchase their weapon... Unfortunately, who purchases a cloned technology? Something that my TECNO spark 4 can do, mumu chinkos are proud of..
Very foolish country...... USA no dey make noise....... Na the D day go determine...
Anyway I already dug a 100km underground for myself.. The facilities involved supermarket, stadium, estates and so on..... Even if the world end, I will be alive... I will take as much as possible pretty slim and average ladies with me.... So we can pro create another set of sane human beings
The United States seeks to keep its place as the dominant naval power across East Asia, where Washington and its allies believe Beijing is trying to reorder international rules and military alliances in place since World War II.
Visit "U.S Defence Today" on Youtube if you want to be overwhelmed by U.S new military inventions. I dont know why China keeps making noise over simple invention
Kutunban: Bestiality Otherwise called Zoophilia cannot produce an offspring especially between humans and goat because we don't have the same genetic makeup; none that I have seen in any reputable scientific jornal. This is mutation, researchers will definitely look for the cause, India is a country with interest in scientific research and they are one of the largest country that practice goatery too.
Did you and your wife discuss family planning and family planning methods? I really do not understand what advice you want us to give you.
These things are reversible; family planning methods I mean. Now your wife is pregnant and you're coming to Nairaland to seek advice. Do you want us to tell you to abort your baby as a married man or what? No I ask you. What advice do you want us to give to you?
Fix your house man. Learn your lesson. This thread is even getting me angry.
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