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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:02pm On Oct 21
WriteerNg:
⚡The death toll from Monday’s Houthi ballistic missile attack on a military training camp in Yemen’s Shabwa province has risen to 73, with more than 200 wounded and 14 missing.

According to local authorities, 3 Houthi ballistic missiles struck the facility.
Who is providing the Houthis with satellite data for such precision strikes?
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:37pm On Oct 21
obedience4:
You are still holding unto your fantasy!!!


Year 5 of a 3 day war and you are still waiting for maths to clear for Zelensky eyes😂😂😂😂

Take your time and research about Ukraine counter offensive "Operation Vivaldi"
I usually don't involve in dignifying ignorance from your irks with a reply. But, for the sake of strollers by, let me gratify your warp and lobsided purview with a simple eye opener to burst your zombification bubble.

Ukraine has a critical manpower shortage and lacks what it takes to muster a major counteroffensive, let alone succeed.

The disparity in the asymmetry of force across the entire length of the 1000km Frontline is so glaring that during exchange of dead soldiers, the odds are always against Ukraine at more than 95%.

So Operation vivaldi is a simulation that happens only in zelensky's cocaine laden head. Just like the Ghost of Kiev.

In reality, Ukraine is shrinking and dying slowly.

On paper, minor tactical shifts and village-level counter-pushes happen back and forth, but any narrative suggesting Ukraine is executing grand, sweeping territorial conquests ignores the harsh reality of their severe troop deficit.

I hope this clears your eyes. Don't bother replying because I won't even read it.

I don't have the time for back and forth display of ignorance.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 1:06am On Oct 20
Lordly13:
Oh, Russia state Media just announced the biggest Ukraine drone attack on Russia

This shows you Zelensky now controls the war.

First he got his arms from US, now Ukraine produces 90% of the weapons they use to pound Russia. He doesn't depend on Trump.

Ukraine is even making billions selling weapons, while Putin is losing refineries left and right. Putin turned Ukraine into a weapon Powerhouse.

You cap for Putin here,
but Putin is crying in private 😭😭😭
I am so glad that these Ukrainian attacks are happening in Russia.

This will further necessitate the quest for russia to take the whole of Novorossiya to create the buffer zone they so much need for Moscow and it's adjoining border towns.

Putin recently announced that Russia is systematically carving out a non-negotiable 660-kilometer-long security buffer zone inside Ukrainian territory.

So, if anyone thinks this war is ending soon, they're making a big mistake.

Russia needs zelensky to keep the fight going for the mission to be realized.

It is when Kramatorsk and Slavyansk will fall to complete the takeover of the entire dombass region, and Russian forces will start pushing from Belarus that the maths will become clear in the eyes of zelensky.

Ukraine will eventually become landlock.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:24am On Oct 19
WriterrNg:
⚡Ansarallah launches attack on Saudi Arabia's Abha region.

Saudi Civil Defense issued early warning in the city.
The house of saud has bought a market a they cannot trade.

Trouble dey sleep, yanga go wake am. Houthis don para.

Egypt sending troops is more of an act of solidarity and a pretense that they're paying back for all the massive economic support and investments they got from Saudi arabia.

Otherwise, their presence will change nothing on the battlefield --notwithstanding they're one of the largest and strongest military in MENA.

Yemen has a very bad memory for them where they intervened and suffered terrible losses in the 1960s.

So, I expect their role to be limited to helping the weakling Saudi army to defend against incoming Houthis drones and missile strikes. And that too is limited to how much they're willing to sacrifice and the length they're ready to go.

The only certainty in all of these is that, like I said some weeks back, this Houthis escapades and recent successes, especially across the critical Red Sea shipping route vis-a-vis the chaos in the strait of Hormuz, will force some unwilling state actors to get involve for their own economic interests. We are already seeing that with a couple of European states, and now Egypt.

In other words, the prospect of a massive regional war that could lead to a broader global confrontation is looking more likely by the day.

Fingers crossed.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:01am On Oct 19
[quote author=WriteerNg post=140943216]⚡Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Russia:

Most of the Russian budget goes toward investments in weapons or the military.

They will reach 1.5 million military personnel.

So if the war ended tomorrow, what would Putin do with 1.5 million soldiers?

He himself would face internal problems if he stopped the war tomorrow morning.

And this gives me the impression, since he continues to accelerate, that he would not want to stop in Ukraine.

This is Europe's concern, especially the concern of the Eastern European countries closest to Russia.

And that is why, as Europe and NATO, we are preparing.


at its peak.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:00am On Oct 18
WriteerNg:
⚡U.S. Establishes New Strike Unit Aimed at China.

On October 8, the 4th Multi-Domain Task Force - comprising 2,100 service members - was established at Fort Carson, Colorado, as part of the 7th Infantry Division.

Its primary mission is to deny China the ability to control the western Pacific Ocean. The task force is designed to locate and destroy Chinese radar installations, command posts, and missile systems, effectively disrupting the People's Liberation Army’s "kill chain."

The units are intended to operate from territory in Japan and the Philippines. Their arsenal includes mobile ground-based missile systems, such as the "Typhoon" (Mid-Range Capability) and the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
Still on the this mad quest to contain China according to the Eldridge Colby's Denial Strategy via the Pacific, a part of which is already proving to be a disaster in Iran.

China has not even fired a single bullet, yet the US is already losing miserably. By the time Beijing decides to enter the fray, Washington would be far gone in loses and pain.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:40am On Oct 18
WriiterNg:


Says the fuuuuulll with a trade deficit with China.

Russia meanwhile has a trade surplus with China.

The other day Norwegian troops discovered that their military vehicles sent back their data to China.

These are the clowns calling Russia reliant on China.
He was actually speaking out of pain seeing how Russia and China continue to excel on all fronts despite the hatred and hybrid economic and overt war waged against them at different levels.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:34pm On Oct 15
LordAdam16:
formerly, i thought these plans were just musings by gung-ho overzealous hardliners

but apparently these are very active plans
they plan on eliminating the kurdish threat on their border

there are even audacious plans to move on the uae
but i just don't see the viability of crossing the gulf

besides the kurdish threat
two other reasons are driving this operation

first is trading territory for something
whether it is more concessions
or lebanon and gaza

second is putting the us on the defensive
so that instead of washington planning to land troops on persian islands or southern coast
the us would have to fight off a persian invasion elsewhere

-Lord
Well, those are lofty plans, but, if you ask me, the risks outweighs the benefits. The whole thing get K-leg well well, and it could easily turn into a massive trap for Iran.

First, the biggest mistake is assuming that Iraqis or Kuwaitis will just fold their hands and look. Even the Shia groups in Iraq that are friendly with Tehran will not tolerate an open Iranian occupation because nationalist pride is a different ball game entirely in the mind of the average Muslim. Moreover, they'd just gone over a long and brutal occupation by the US and would definitely not want to entertain another. So, Once Iran tries to hold that land, wahala go bust like suckaway, and they will find themselves fighting a brutal, endless guerrilla war against local resistance groups, which would drain Iran's money, weapons, and soldiers very quickly. In fact, there would be jubilations and sheers in Pentagon once Iran make that self-destructive move.


Another major reason this plan could backfire spectacularly is the potential international reaction. Invading sovereign nations like Iraq and Kuwait means crossing a bright red line that will instantly unite the West and the Arab world against Iran. Those US allies that has refused to partake directly in the war before now will not just sit back; they will launch a devastating campaign to shred Iranian supply lines. Since Iran would be fighting far away from home, keeping their troops supplied with food, fuel, and ammunition under a heavy rain of American and allied airstrikes will be an absolute nightmare.

To make matters worse, an aggressive move like this would completely destroy whatever is left of Iran’s economy. The moment their troops cross the border, the international community will slam them with total economic isolation, cutting off any remaining oil sales and trade. Instead of using the occupied land as a clever bargaining chip to get concessions for Lebanon or Gaza, like you envisaged, Iran would find itself completely broke, isolated, and dealing with massive anger and protests from its own citizens back home, meaning CIA/Mossad don win b dat. In life, trying to play an offensive game to protect your house might just end up burning the whole house down.

So, for me, they should shelve that plan and focus on the long game they've played perfectly well so far. The US does not have appetite for such and have always ended up losing long wars.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:21pm On Oct 15
WriteerNg:
⚡China has taken possession of F-35 stealth fighter parts — a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door — that were inexplicably rerouted to Hong Kong during a UPS shipment from Australia to the US.

The Pentagon says it is working to retrieve the components.
Free delivery to Chinese copy and paste machines. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:37pm On Oct 12
WriteerNg:
⚡Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese displaced by this year’s war with Israel, according to Reuters sources.

The group plans to pay $3,000 per family, prioritizing around 50,000 families from destroyed or inaccessible villages.
For the clowns who thinks Iran isn't making a dime since this war began.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:13pm On Oct 05
Vic2023:
plumber took the control of the plane? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Moreover who unbanned you?
Na this false flag i take know say this guy na paid troll.


it's obvious he doesn't even know what a cockpit of a plane is. I feel embarrassed that he was actually defending this nonsense that even a blind man knows was poorly scripted.


Well, plumber no go fit take control of the plane since witches they fly with brooms for e village.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 3:04pm On Oct 05
Blakjewelry:
Aside the fact that security of the cockpit has been upgraded to prevent outside intrusion, a killer will go for the neck region and I will play 2 scenerio.

A professional killer will simply excuse himself and come and approach from the back, the pilot seat is high up, it even has a head rest so the only expose part is his arm, neck and his head. A pro Wil go for his carotid artery a single cut or or stab is enough to do the job or he simply slit which is a bit harder to do than cutting his artery because his hand has to move more distance.

Second scenerio, even if the other guy is not a pro, he had still go for the neck because the arm, head and neck are the major expose area in that case, you will see a multiple stab wound on the neck.

So this is poor script, well if the passengers are not part of the script, then I think they should thank their stars as their lives would have been use to further someone's agenda.

I am telling, maybe it may blow back in the future because of loose end if not I don't see reason why they didn't go through with plan of executing their own people to wipe up sentiment all over the world.
It was a poor script, no doubt.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:43am On Oct 05
dermmy:
I had thought about the bolded too. After the 9/11 attacks, the civil aviation industry made cockpit security and access control so strict that no passenger and even no cabin crew member can enter the cockpit during flight without proper authorization. So how those passengers managed to gain access to the cockpit is what I don’t understand.

Even the cabin crew who attend to passengers need during flight can't gain access to the cockpit they can only use interphone to communicate with the pilots flying the plane and even if they must see the pilots there are strict procedures in the plane like checks and all before a cabin crew member can get into the cockpit.

All these security checks were put in place after the 9/11 attacks.

After the stabbed pilot had been stabbed who opened the cockpit? Was it the pilot who stabbed his co-pilot or was it the same pilot who was stabbed.
On the bolded, you may want to ask the poor, unintelligent agent who wrote the pathetic false flag script for the Israelis.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:31am On Oct 05
Hamxas:
U really identified my point the cockpit of a plane on air can only be opened from within, how did the passengers accessed it, got through, pinned down the co-pilot. Is there any room for such struggle to happen in the cockpit of a plane, where they no turbulences, did the controls stayed perfectly ok and only diversion from Israel was the only disturbance.
If the co-pilot has already subdued the pilot to stabbing him on the arm how did the air host not notice but the passengers where the once that noticed by seeing blood flowing out from the cabin. How many gallons of blood does the pilot have to warrant such flow.
They can only fool their zombies on this thread, not informed folks like us.

We see through their deceptions, and it's so pathetic to behold.

Worst, it did not generate the uproar and international condemnation they were hoping it would generate.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:18pm On Oct 03
Plus1234:
Israeli hater , terrorist sympathisers.shame on you.
Go and take your meds.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:37pm On Oct 03
SonOfWords:
Quite conveniently, a plumber stabilizes and lands an almost hijacked commercial aircraft carrying tens of Israelites.

Also very conveniently, a suicide bomber suddenly straps on a malfunctioning vest in Kabba Mecca.

And there are actually people who believe these cinematic scripts o😅!
You forgot to mention that it was so easy and convenient for the said passengers to "force" their way through the cockpit of the plane when you cannot actually do that from the outside once it is locked from the inside, except with heavy weaponry. cool

And the purported Omani pilot who was supposed to be a professional killer was so foolish to stab the lead pilot in positions of the body that were less instant life threatening when he could have conveniently excused himself from his seat to pee, then step behind the pilot and slit his throat in less than a second. cool

Ediots can't even get a simple false flag operation right.

Pathetic failures. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:05am On Oct 02
shoodboi2:
Two days ago, it was a failed airplane hijack. Today, it’s a failed suicide bombing in Mecca.

The false flag engineers are clearly working overtime.

https://x.com/rt_on_x/status/2105767023750062573?s=46[/quote]It's a false flag season.

The flydubai debacle was a pathetic false flag. The basta*ds can't even get a false flag right.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:13pm On Oct 01
WriteerNg:
⚡The first Russian 130‑nm lithography system: work is nearing completion; work is underway on the next prototype — a 90‑nm one.

According to information announced to Russian journalists on September 26, 2026, by Vasily Shpak, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia.
Once Russia has this rolled out, it will overwhelm the cup market in the coming decade due to its cheap price factor.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:45pm On Oct 01
WriterrNg:
⚡Russia pulled in its highest weekly oil revenue since the war began — Bloomberg

In the week ending September 27, Russia shipped 3.99 million barrels a day abroad, worth $2.75 billion.

The jump came from Russian oil in the $110–120 per barrel range, plus higher crude exports.
The sanctions are working.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:30pm On Sep 28
WriterrNg:
⚡For the first time since this Saudi-Yemen war started, a British Air Force KC2 refueling aircraft was visible operating over Saudi Arabia this afternoon, near Yemen, along Saudi A330MRTT & GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft.
Like I predicted, Houthis escapade will force the hands of Europe to act.

Small small,many of them go enter the point of no return.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:52pm On Sep 28
WriteerNg:
⚡Iran is celebrating the surge in US bond yields, with Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf saying "Happy 5.1% 10Y America, celebrate: it's the floor two years out."

"You wanted Iran dragged back to 1970s? Nobody told you Iran isn't for arrogant amateurs? We'll return you to 1970s rates, plus high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms. Enjoy the nostalgia!" he adds.
Brutality. grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 12:07pm On Sep 24
LordAdam16:
pezeshkian is on his way to america

i pray mk dem kidnap am

-Lord
He would make a perfect excuse for Iran to test a nuke. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:50pm On Sep 22
SonOfWords:
They're using it to fry burgers at MacDonalds and to fuel Trump's golf carts😭.
cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:49pm On Sep 22
dermmy:
Where is the millions of barrels CENTCOM keeps escorting out of Hormuz everyday going? grin
Stop asking. They're stored in Trump's suckaway.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:51pm On Sep 22
WriteerNg:
⚡Italy will deploy warships to protect its commercial vessels through the Bab al-Mandeb strait, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said, warning Rome would not wait for an EU decision.

“We have the capabilities to protect the passage,” Crosetto said, adding that Italy “must not allow bureaucratic delays in decision-making to exacerbate an already complex situation.”
Like I said, the Houthis escapade in the red sea will force the hand of Europe to act at some point. Should that happen, the global economy will suffer more damage and potentially trigger a massive recession that would make the previous one look like child's play.

Russia will covertly and overtly get involved to pay Europe back in its own coin like they did to it in Ukraine.

A lot of shite is going to come out of this current brouhaha so long the US is not willing to acquiesce to Iranian t&c.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:20pm On Sep 19
WriteerNg:
I still think the biggest mistake Russia has made so far is NOT killing as many Ukranians as possible.

Fewer Ukrainians means future peace & security for Russia.

As long as there are Ukranians alive, they'll never run out of soldiers.
Abeg, take am easy. cool


Don't forget that Ukrainians are Slavs, Russia's own kin.

Russians and Ukrainians are both East Slavic peoples with shared roots in Kyivan Rus, and millions of Russians have Ukrainian family. Putin himself calls them "one people." Exterminating them means destroying your own extended family, which is the opposite of security.


Ordinary Ukrainians are not the problem for Russia. It's the bought-and-paid ifor diotic politicians and oligarchs that chose to sell their conscience for western peanuts.

This war would never have happened if elensky had stuck to his campaign promise of ending the feud in the Donbass and uniting the country. But, he chose to be famous by acting as the pawn for the west.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:41pm On Sep 18
WriteerNg:
⚡Russian Il-76TD cargo plane, which had taken off from Moscow, landed in Tehran.
Axis replenishing stocks rapidly. No dulling. This fight go tire Trump.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:39pm On Sep 18
SonOfWords:
UK is now borrowing from the American playbook on casualty reports😂.

Person wey dey dodge bullets and missiles no sabi cross road again?
The statement "Away from the Frontline" gives the report away. It was trying very hard to cover the truth.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:08pm On Sep 18
WriteerNg:
⚡Important detail: The tail number is 5529, which means it's an advanced F-15SA ( $110 million or more) and a two-seat fighter Jet, so there are two prisoners/casualties.
Houthis too have started stacking take-downs like their big brother, Iran. What a time to be alive.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:00pm On Sep 18
SonOfWords:
Ursula will not rest until she has pushed all Ukrainian men of adult age to their avoidable deaths.

She and Laura Loomer seem to be executing a pact made with their coven to drastically reduce Ukraine's population😹.
They're already filling the country with asians. They don't care if the entire ukrainian male population is reduced to zero.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:55pm On Sep 18
amadivv:
. keep dreaming, let them seize dombas and Kherson first. 😂😂😂😂😂
Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are the only two remaining cities in dombas, and they're already on the verge on falling into Russia's hand.

The whole of Novorossiya is coming back home to the motherland. That's Putin's endgame and Ukraine knew they can't stop it. It's just a matter of time, baby.

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