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Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m): 1:30pm On Sep 21, 2022
shogsman:
So they spent $3t to take resources from Afghanistan that has a gdp of less than $20b ,why am I even replying you, you're not sensible enough to earn a reply from me
At the bolded, spare the lady, she is just a girl. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m): 1:25pm On Sep 21, 2022
leofab:
huhjust like they are refueling fuel Indian and Chinese tankers at discounted prices to evade sanctions.. even the fat Buffon from North Korea was offering 100k soldiers (refugees ) for grain and Iran now boast of selling weapons to world power…
In business people sell at discounted prices, and if Russ decide to sell to their allies at a discount, what's your business? You're crying more than the bereaved EU baby. cool

Allies support and sell things to each other all the time, including weapons in peace and war time, and for different reasons.

There was a time when Russia wanted to buy helicopter carrier ships from France, not that they can't produce it themselves, but the ship building yards in Russia are already saturated with projects of other nature.

US buys weapons from others also. See below.

Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m):
leofab:
most of them are inflated balloons for show off.. keep clowning yourself.. small skirmishes with ukraine and they are going to Iran China and North Korea to buy weapons..
Get near one of those inflated balloons and let us see whether the 'leo' would still remain intact in the 'fab' that makes up your moniker. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m): 1:11pm On Sep 21, 2022
joyandfaith:
A us senator now means us government?
Go and research about CAATSA. it was a bill created specifically targeting weapons sales from Russia because the proliferation of such weapons pose a great geoplolitcal threat to US gunboat diplomacy globally.
Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m): 12:59pm On Sep 21, 2022
blackboy:
If Russia was as invincible and powerful you make them look they would not have invaded Ukraine out of fear.
What weapoon does Russia have that USA dont? USA remains the super power after the collapse of Soviet Union.
Hitler had already defeated Russia in WW2 but his pride he stopped his soldiers from going to Moscow but chilled and went to Stalingard which was a mistake.
China is there you are talking of Russia. China with 3 billion people and crazy arsenal.
Russia is just a chest beater n noise maker.
If they use nuke the world will use nuke on them too. Who loose?
So because Russia is powerful it shouldn't look out for it's own interest and security especially against an adversely (NATO) that has repeatedly made known it's hatred for her? You're not making sense.

If we are to go by your logic, which I think is warped, why is USA threatening the government of the Solomon Island against allowing China to have a permanent military base there? Isn't the US not the world so-called sole superpower? Why then is she wary of China?

This is called being pragmatic and preemptive in securing one's sphere of influence and strategic advantage.

The USSR made the mistake of trusting the enemy and despite having a "none aggression pact" with Germany, the Nazis still invaded surprisingly and we know how that cost the Soviet people, the ripples of which is still being felt today. Russia will NEVER make that mistake again...allowing NATO to encamp her and pack missiles at its doorsteps is, as Putin rightly puts it, a treasonable offence that generations of Russians to come would never forgive them for. And Ukraine is the last straw on that REDLINE.
Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m): 12:42pm On Sep 21, 2022
Discombulator:
Exactly,me I understand say nairalanders no too dey exposed and it's not Thier fault,I studied international relations and I can boldly say Russia is one armed bastard that is why they behave like they can do whatever they want unlike china that is too scared of USA, every goddamn thing USA has Russia has it too in bucks, this guy's have goddamn biological weapons,a war train capable of missile launch,I mean who the Bleep weaponize a damn train.
USA and Europe has weapons but they're woke and it is affecting them, which is why Taliban kicked them out in Afghanistan.
If Russia declares war on Ukraine today,e don finish for Ukraine because na to kill everything there and the horror will probably be too much for even us pro Russia to bear
Even Ukrainian forces confessed that Russia was firing like 12k rounds of artillery shells every 10-15 minutes as such that it looks like it was raining hell from heaven, forcing them to stay in their trenches for days. Yet, the Lamestream media decieved many of our brothers here that Russia has run out of missiles and firepower. Like you said, so many people here are misinformed.

Foreign Affairs › Re: THIS IS WHY NO ONE ON EARTH CAN WIN RUSSIA IN A WAR NOT EVEN USA by Appleyard(m): 12:20pm On Sep 21, 2022
shogsman:
I saw a funny thread here about if Russia can actually win in Ukraine and I just laughed because of how stupid it sounds,the question should be if Ukraine actually have a chance in hell.
Russia is not even fighting up to minimum capacity in Ukraine, it's used approximately less than 4% of it's 3.5million strong army without any notable mobilization or conscription and it's already controlled 30% of Ukraine.

Nobody with an actual brain can think Ukraine will win Russia.
If Russia declares war on Ukraine today and mobilize troops Ukraine won't last one month before it turns into a pile of crap
-A country has over 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons
-6,000 nuclear weapons
-the beautiful pantsir missile hell ball
-an army of 3.5million
-almost 30,000 tanks
-krasuka electronic warfare system specifically built to scramble everything electronic you have before bombing you to hell
-self propelled artillery numbering in the tens of thousands
-hypersonic missiles
-hybrid missiles
-dozens of nuclear powered submarines like the yaen class subs that was designed to deploy nuclear weapons with the sole aim of sinking aircraft carriers
-air force with over 5,000 aircrafts
thousands of suicide drones
-tens of thousand of recon drones
-avangard hypersonic glide vehicles that can travel faster than the speed of sound and deploy nukes capable of destroying a whole country at once
-tupolev tu stealth bombes than can nuke your country without your radar detecting it
-100s of battle ships like the mighty Kirov battle cruiser that can release hell on you from a continent away.
-Literarily millions of missiles.
Russia literarily used a whole city for weapons storage that's how crazy they are.the
You lots really need to read up and study.

USA had to create NATO an alliance of over 30 countries to fight only Russia, if that doesn't tell you how powerful this people are , you're dumb.

Russians at home don't know anything about the war in Ukraine that's how little resources used in Ukraine are, kalingrad alone holds more weapons than most EU COUNTRIES.

So if you think Ukraine can win a real war with Russia you're stoopid
This list is not even close to what Russia have in store. You only just scratch the surface. But it's still a big deal. They rolled out their old Soviet stuff against Ukraine because that is what much of what Ukraine has consist also, and people start hollering Russia has nothing.

Like you said, anyone that actually expect Ukraine to win against Russia has been propagandize beyond redemption. From the onset, Ukraine never stood a chance.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Makes $8.3b Monthly From China Alone In Energy Sales(kremlin's Money) by Appleyard(m): 12:01pm On Sep 21, 2022
Even the shameless EU have to lift sanctions to get Russian fertilizers without which they will go hungry. People simply underrate Russia just because they don't use smartphones and fine cars made in Russia.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Or Ukraine, Who Would Eventually Win The War. by Appleyard(m): 11:45am On Sep 21, 2022
Andres28:
russia will never use nuclear weapon on ukraine..get it.
they know the consequence of it...ukraine can easily hit many nuclear power plant in russia too
Nuclear power plants grin

Bro, it's game over for Ukraine once the referendum holds and the result says yes to join Russia. Even the west understand this.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Or Ukraine, Who Would Eventually Win The War. by Appleyard(m): 11:43am On Sep 21, 2022
shogsman:
Well anybody that thinks Ukraine can win against the nuclear superpower of the world who just declared all out war on them needs a psychiatrist
grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Or Ukraine, Who Would Eventually Win The War. by Appleyard(m): 11:42am On Sep 21, 2022
VictorDivine:
Ukraine is already the winner.
In your American dream. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kremlin Accepts Referendum Plea To Recognize Donbass As Part Of Russia (video) by Appleyard(m): 11:40am On Sep 21, 2022
bonechamberlain:
Ukraine pushed Russia to this extent. If they had negotiated with Russia early, no one would be talking about referendum or joining Russia. If those regions support to join Russia (which they will) I pity Ukraine if they still believe they would win, even with all western monies and weapons.
How a leader is sacrificing his citizens to fight a war on behalf of foreign powerrs is mysterious.

With a successful referendum, Putin would be trying to draw America and it's allies into a full blown war. Let everything be settled once and for all. Russia has nothing to loose now, the US and co have exhausted all sanctions still no success (Russia is currently the most sanctioned country, but yet still prosperous). The only option now for Washington and Brussels is a full blown war.
Watch how many of these so-called United NATO countries would start distancing themselves from this brouhaha as it takes a new turn. Bulgaria is already turning away from the war party, and many more would follow suit if it happened that the referendum were held and they voted to become part of Russia. No one wants to be on the cross hairs of Moscow nuclear warheads. Expect many states to declare neutrality soon.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kremlin Accepts Referendum Plea To Recognize Donbass As Part Of Russia (video) by Appleyard(m): 11:13am On Sep 21, 2022
God1000:
Dangerous move, Putin has started what he cannot finish
It was the west that started what they cannot finish.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Panick In The West As Putin Declares War On Ukraine by Appleyard(m): 11:12am On Sep 21, 2022
They want war, let them have it. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Breaking News: The Decree Of Partial Military Mobilization Has Been Signed And W by Appleyard(m): 11:04am On Sep 21, 2022
Opolopoopolonio:
Russian forces far outnumber the Ukrainians which is what has been giving them the upper hand until Ukraine got the HIMARS.

Russis has been replacing men at the frontlines since the early days of the war.

Putin is just bluffing. The harder they come, they harder they fall. cool
Where are you getting your facts from?

Russia started the SMO with 150,000 regular Russian soldiers, the rest are Donbass milita men and Wagner group which are not even up to 200,000 combined.

Ukraine has a standing and active army of about 600, 000 men and you say Russia out numbered them since the start? That's not true. Get your facts right.

Lmao. grin Himars was effective but it changes nothing. Except you believe that 16 pieces of Hirmars can win the war for Ukraine. If Russia with such a small amount of forces could carve out such a sizable landmass of Ukraine in less than 7 months, I wonder what a partial mobilisation would be like on the frontlines. Macron isn't calling Putin frantically for nothing. Ukraine is about to experience the full wrath of the Russian might. Kids gloves are off now. The only painful thing is that it's mostly innocent people that will end up dying needlessly in this conflict. sad
Foreign Affairs › Re: Breaking News: The Decree Of Partial Military Mobilization Has Been Signed And W by Appleyard(m): 10:37am On Sep 21, 2022
rottennaija:
Putin has announced in clear terms he will use nuclear weapons if he has to, as he announces a mobilization of 2 million reserves.
It's game over for Ukraine as a nation. The next shift now is the Balkans. Alois Irlmaier's prophecy is coming into play.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 10:26am On Sep 21, 2022
baralatie:
Poroshenko was the architect of the whole problem that bedeviled ukraine
Agreed that he didn't stick wholeheartedly to the Minsk 2, but he never allowed himself to be goaded into trying to take the two breakaway regions by force. That was why they brought in Zelensky.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 10:21am On Sep 21, 2022
shogsman:
President macron is trying to reach across to Putin now but they said his calls has been denied
Macron the last minute caller. cool Zelensky don buy market.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 10:20am On Sep 21, 2022
shogsman:
Breaking: Wagner PMC says Kiev is transferring all its forces for a decisive attack on Russian Armed Forces. Apparently, even forces from Kiev are being mobilized
It's getting more daring and serious than we all think.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 10:18am On Sep 21, 2022
baralatie:
Well!
Ukraine should not have thrown out that minsk2 agreement in the first place!
And a full blown war only means an allied war or a world war
Depending on how that goes
Your guess is good as mine
Unless something miraculous should happen
I blame Zelensky for this crisis. He allowed himself to be goaded into this mess by NATO. If it were Poroshenko who wasn't a saint either, he would have negotiated quickly from the start. But Zelensky think war is like the movies he use to act. It's painful seeing that beautiful nation torn to shreds. And the worst is yet to come.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 10:14am On Sep 21, 2022
sanpipita:
Lol since February, don't you people get tired?
How much land Ukraine have lost since then? You tell me.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Leaders Made To Share A Bus To Queen's Funeral Like Slaves by Appleyard(m): 10:12am On Sep 21, 2022
budaatum:
Sorry, but I today refuse to discuss with those who lack manners. When you acquire some, do please hola, or wait till a day when I'm willing to break my rule.
I did not disrespect you. I only pointed out a fact. Your excuse on their behalf is nothing but an apology. You don't just anchor on a premise that is entirely based on assumption when there is no factual occurrence supporting it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: EU ports has just blocked Russia's free $300m fertilizer to Africa nations by Appleyard(m): 10:08am On Sep 21, 2022
RichProminent:
Ur brain must be full of shits! U are not intelligent one bit. EU needs ur dirty ass morethan you need them? you are a stupid joker.
It's easy to spot a child even from afar because you can tell through his tantrums when he has nothing to offer as a rebuttal.

Kid.

If Africa closes its economic doors against the EU for one year, most of the countries there will reel back to Stone age. But alas, I don't expect a plantation niggga like you to understand that because you don't even know what you have to begin with other than what your slave masters tells you on BBC and CNN.

Pathetic.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 9:55am On Sep 21, 2022
RiceProducers:
Did you say Zelensky should negotiate? Prepare to see the break up of Russia in a few weeks. Do you want to bet,?
Watch Putin and pray God to spare his life.

It appears too many young shallow people commenting.
A man has boxed himself and country into a corner.
Russia will only break up in your fantasy world of delusion.

Putin and Russia is always a step ahead of the collective west in the geopolitical chestboard.

Get off your delusional high horse and live in the reality of the moment.

It's shallow thinking folks like you in the collective west that has put Ukraine in this untold suffering and miserable position because you and them pigmified ediotic western leaders think you can wage war against Russia in its own backyard and prevail. So far, it's the collective west that has boxed itself into a regrettable economic tight corner.
Politics › Re: Southern Governors: State Police Is The Only Solution To Insecurity by Appleyard(m): 9:50am On Sep 21, 2022
In saner climes where true Federalism is practiced, state police is key to guaranteeing public law and order. But here in Nigeria, some state leaders particularly from the North would always kick against it because they knew that once it is implemented, they will not have room to let loose their marauding Fulani cattle and rapists to terrorise other states at will or have other northern indigenes becoming the commissioner of police in a state they do not originate from. They also knew that if there is a state police, it would help to dismantle the "born to rule" entitlement mentality of the northern leaders, and that is something they cannot afford to happen. But it must happen.

If the southern states are serious, they should just go and set up their own police with or without approval from the central government. Period.
Foreign Affairs › Re: EU ports has just blocked Russia's free $300m fertilizer to Africa nations by Appleyard(m): 4:27pm On Sep 20, 2022
If only our leaders can for once man up and close door against their western capitalist greedy bastard colonial masters. The EU needs us more than we need them. Unfortunately, we are blessed with irredeemably blind and corrupt leaders.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia finally declares a full out war on Ukraine with backing from the DUMA by Appleyard(m): 4:24pm On Sep 20, 2022
Jesus. This war is about to wear trouser and gown. For the love of Christ, Zelensky should negotiate and end this war quickly before more areas of Ukraine are destroyed.

If the current SMO upgrade to full blown war, many innocent people will die because Russia would be bombing indiscriminately. This is really bad. I hope this war will just end.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Leaders Made To Share A Bus To Queen's Funeral Like Slaves by Appleyard(m): 4:12pm On Sep 20, 2022
budaatum:
Ignorance is when one ignores simple facts, so let's see who ignores. Shall we?

For your information. All the invited leaders were asked to get the bus with none treated as 'more important' or 'lesser leader'. Some decided for themselves not to get the bus and brought their own vehicles and paid for their own security, and if anything, defined their own class.

Now scroll up and read my comment where someone implied the G7 leaders are more important. I won't add a link so you'd have to work not to ignore it.
You have moved from being deliberately ignorant to deliberate apologist or what were you trying to achieve by this puerile excuse you put up there? huh

Is it that you didn't read where the paper described some of the leaders as "lesser leaders" whom same paper anticipated that they would be given the bus option, which rightly happened according to how the organizers arranged it? The paper simply reported what was planned by the organizers and it turned out to be true, so I don't know why you're trying to be an apologist by bringing up the notion that had people like Buhari rode on a motorcade, some people would have said he was wasting our money. That's assumptional excuse that holds no water. The fact remains that the arrangement was degrading, to even suggest it was unwise and poor in terms of security. If their own papers is castigating it, it's simply because that is what it connote: some Animals are more equal than others. Simple.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Leaders Made To Share A Bus To Queen's Funeral Like Slaves by Appleyard(m): 8:53am On Sep 20, 2022
Broveens42:
And they went to answer roll call ...see them smiling


But I have a feeling, only a person of obj caliber in Africa would have been treated differently... I don't know why
Or He wouldn't attend
Obj would never have taken the bus way.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Leaders Made To Share A Bus To Queen's Funeral Like Slaves by Appleyard(m): 8:52am On Sep 20, 2022
shogsman:
You could have just let them bring two cars each that still won't be as much as the 30 car convoy Biden brought
Even a single car from each of their embassies would have sufficed.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Leaders Made To Share A Bus To Queen's Funeral Like Slaves by Appleyard(m): 8:51am On Sep 20, 2022
budaatum:
Some just like insulting themselves and making themselves feel small.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau arrived at the Abbey after travelling by bus. He is not an African leader the last time I checked. As did Anthony Albanese of Australia, and Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, who said she did not understand the "fuss". Revealing she regularly makes her ministers carpool, Jacinda Ardern said yesterday: "I don’t think the bus warrants too much fuss."

But trust some ignorant people to make a fuss.
You're just being ignorant. You overlook the bigger picture to cherry-pick your assertion on what you think is 'balance' on a political pendulum that is otherwise blatantly unbalanced.

For a start, referring to some leaders as 'more important' and others as 'lesser leaders' is class discrimination defined, notwithstanding whether the actors/victims involved are whites or black.

If you call yourself a democracy which hinges on Equality, then every leader that attended the burial should be treated equally. But as usual, George Orwell was, and will always be right; some Animals are more equal than others.

Secondly, you ignored the security risk involved in cramming such huge numbers of leaders in buses. Like a thief, no one knows when terrorist cells may strike. Imagine if they decided to make global headlines by targeting the burial ceremony. A single drone strike or 2 to 3 suicide bombers dressed as security targeted one or both buses successfully, it means half if not all of an entire continent would be mourning the mass death of their leaders in different countries. Think about the political and economic upheaval that would resonate from such a scenario.

Guy, as much as you don't want to believe it, the fact remains that the bus arrangements for African leaders packed like sardines was bad in all aspects.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Leaders Made To Share A Bus To Queen's Funeral Like Slaves by Appleyard(m): 8:26am On Sep 20, 2022
shogsman:
The London times call them lesser leaders
And these lesser leaders irredeemable blinded and zombified bots here on Nairaland would waste no time glorifying same white men and racists western mainstream media. Do you blame them for calling our leaders lesser leaders? We have sheep's and plantation niggaz here doing their biddings by gobbling all that the lying media throws their way. This is pathetic to watch.

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