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Foreign AffairsRe: Ukraine 'losing On Frontlines With Russia And Has Nearly Run Out Of Ammo' by Appleyard(m): 7:04pm On Jun 11, 2022
seunny4lif:
Even Ukraine defence said the weapons they have received and those already in Ukraine are enough to defend Ukraine against any European countries but not against Russia.
It's a pity Ukriane have been led into the this by the US.
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukraine 'losing On Frontlines With Russia And Has Nearly Run Out Of Ammo' by Appleyard(m): 6:37pm On Jun 11, 2022
leofab:
at the end of the day ukraine is growing stronger.. the only army in the world fighting and training at the same time.. Slava-Ukraini.. ….
Ukraine is growing stronger how? It's folks like you that pushed Ukraine to enter this hopeless fight that they can never win. Let's be realistic: Ukraine never stood a chance against Russia.
Foreign AffairsRe: If Someone Wants To Limit Us In Any Way, They Will Limit Themselves- Putin by Appleyard(m): 6:21pm On Jun 11, 2022
God1000:
He's not tired making threats
How is stating the obvious a threat making? He imply spoke the truth. Try limiting Russia, and you will end up limiting the global economy.
Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 3:20pm On Jun 11, 2022
Hi
Emmyxclusive:
it's putin zombies like you that havd refused to reason beyond the propaganda being fed by Russia.
Get facts from independent and unbias news.
Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 3:18pm On Jun 11, 2022
Etinosa1234:
First tell me go how u can regain land that u never owned before.. cheesy cheesy

It was Peter who started the expansion of the country to what it is now.. So that ur claim of "regaining" is very erroneous.. Prior to Peter, the country was just another nation like the Balkans grin
Tell me you're not being intelligently stupid. grin Just kidding my homie. cool If you don't own something, no one can say you "regained" it after you take control of it again. Why would I say Etinosa1234 regained Akpakpava Market from thugs if you weren't in control of it initially? cool That was exactly what Britannica said... cool or you didn't see the picture I attached to the previous post? I will attach it again. See below and check the word regain and stop dancing on an avalanche of deniability. cool

And for crying out loud, conquest is dejure way of owning land prior to 1945. So, any land own by any country, whether Russia, Britain, India, Turkey, Israel, etc., through war and conquest belong to that country.




U want to know the difference.. Israel has reliable historical claim to the land around it since the time of the BC till when they were sacked and sold off by numerous world powers... Whereas the places where Russia are focusing their sights on are not even Slavic places... Bar the Ukrainians who have been oppressed by Russians since time immemorial, Finland ,Sweden, was never Russian owned....
Lmao. grin Every country has its historical account of events, claims and counter claims. Even the lands you said Israel has a claim to were historically not theirs, but belong to the Perrizites, the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amalekites, the Canaanites, and so on and so forth. These nations were sacked and replaced by the Jews in biblical times as God foretold and ordained. Otherwise, they were never the original owner. They only became the dejure owner by conquest after they sacked those nations through war . You can read that up on the Bible. cool

U know one thing abt occupation by conquest, its that the defeated will one day rise up and drive u out of their ancestral land .. This is why after the fall of the Old Russian empire, most of the various tribes that were conquered and still managed to keep their distinct identity came up to form their own nations such as Finland, the Baltic states, Ukraine , Poland... This is to prove to u that those places were just conquered lands not Russian owned lands
No one is denying the fact that land own by occupation may often generate strife on the long run. The fact you are refusing to grasp is that land have been, can be and is evidently being own by conquest, occupation and possession. The history of most countries of the world runs on this parallel land ownership truth. Some or most of the land many countries of the world occupies today originated from conquest, possession or lease. Hence, no big deal about the exploits of Peter The Great.


During the 7 days war in 1967, the Israeli expanded their territory released the ones that were originally Egyptian or Jordanian... Sometimes the west will not intervene militarily if they deem the matter an internal one
This is laughable. Israel is currently expanding the territory in the occupied West Bank, forcing hundreds of Palestinians from their homes and bulldozing their houses to make way for new ones for Israeli settlements. And you call that an internal affairs matter that is not worth condemnation from the West? Western double standards have never been in cloak or doubt. The west have always turned a blind eye when such core matters involved so-called third-world nations or Muslims dominated countries.


Lmaooo.. The person who compared Hitler to Putin didn't lie afterall... Hitler used the pretext of the presence of German population to annex neighbouring countries.. First, Austria, then Hungary, later Czechoslovakia. .. All because there are ethnic Germans thus violating the right of other sovereign nations..

U know the interesting thing... The Finns and Swedish have been wise to see this same script playing out hence since the invasion of Ukraine, the support for joining NATO increase by 40%....

If not that Russia was such a big bully, most of the eastern European countries would have preferred to form an alliance with them rather than faraway united states






Well... We are no longer in the pre World war time... Sovereign countries should have a right to determine their countries future





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So under this pretext, the Niger republic has the right to infiltrate our country in the name of protecting their fellow Hausa people right??..

Ohh.. And Russia should refund America its money so that it can collect back Alaska from it..

After all, since u can collect what u dashed to another person, u can also collect back what u sold... Under Russian law grin



There's everything wrong in defending ur people when u are doing the wrong way..

Understand cheesy wink
Putin is Hitler comparison...this just shows you don't understand the geopolitical play that entwines these whole conflict.

Every sane thinking and unpropagandized person knows that the Russian annexation of Crimea was purely strategic and result as a matter of core security interest. Crimea is home to Russian black Sea fleet and is only a foolish government that would have watched on the event unfolding in Ukraine without doing anything about it. Most of you guys just yarn out of emotions instead of being realistically and logically reasonable. Do you think the US would have done less if it were in Russia's shoes? I guess Cuba and the nuclear missile comes to mind. cool My friend, this is geopolitics, played by the big boys, for the big boys, and of the big boys (Russia vs US-led NATO). Ukraine is just a pawn in the scheme of things, and many thanks to it's comedian president; he is doing such a nice job of destroying the country. cool

Right now as we type, the US is threatening fire and brimstone if the government of the Solomon Island allows China to setup a military base on its soil. I guess that's not bullying but a geopolitical strategic stance, since it's the US involved, eh?. But if it's Russia, folks like you and the lying Lamestream media will call it bullying and blatant opposition of democratic and sovereign right of the Solomon Island to chose his friends and partners. cool I just they laugh. cool But that is realpolitiks for you. cool



Sweden and Finland has for years been defacto NATO members. The crisis in Ukraine just gives them the pretext to make their membership dejure. So it changes nothing for Russia. cool

As much as NATO continue to creep closer to Russia's doorsteps, Russia will continue to move the border far away from it's basic line of engagement. And it's obvious, some people will be the ones to suffer the consequences. This is the sad geopolitical reality.

Yes, Russia is a bully because she is the only bully that is able to bully the chief bully, thwarting all it's warmongering and diabolic schemes from Georgia to Syria, to Ukraine. How the west must have hated this bully. cool
Yeah, the US isn't a bully...how alluring. cool

Russia has its own military and economic alliances, CSTO, BRICS, SCO, etc,. But they are not 'popular' in the eyes of the West because they don't go about bombing nations and assassinating leaders of nations, sanctioning the ones that refused to follow their diktats and destroying governments from Panama, to Nicaragua to Vietnam, to Laos, to Sudan, to Iraq, to Libya, to Syria, and so long a hit list that even Satan is left wondering whether he is actually the greatest troublemaker I'm human history.

Tell Uncle Sam to return Guatanamo Bay to Cuba, and the formal Mexican territories. Better still, beg the US to humbly walk away from Iraq where they have refused to leave, and Syria.

This is the reality of the world we live in. Where big powers play ball, small nations should not up themselves as the goalpost. Unfortunately, Ukraine under Zelensky wanted to roll with the big boys, and he is paying for it dearly.

Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m):
Etinosa1234:
Wonderful... So are u telling me that original Russian land was more than 2 continents??

In fact, how was the land "retook" from Sweden Russian land?? Peter the great was just a conqueror and an emperor.. So any where he sought to conquer, he went to capture..

He was the person who started the expansion of Russia to what it is now

The Swedes are not even from the same line as this Russians who were basically Slavs.. Even Finland that is the closest neighbor of Russia are not Slavs like them either

So correct that lie that he "retook" land from sweden
He didn't "retook" any land he fought against Swedish power and captured the lands that was never his own.
At the bolded, Peter The Great "regained" lands taken by Sweden from Russia in times when war of conquest defines ownership of land. What's the word "regained?" You know the answer, so I don't understand what you're trying to achieve by twisting the fact to suit your myopic narrative.

Israel today is occupying the Golan Heights and West Bank against the interest of the Syrians and Palestinians and nobody in the west has called them out for it, even when they keep extending the occupation territory in the West Bank. Call it double standards.

While international law on paper no longer recognizes ownership of land by conquest, the reality suggest that where a major powers are involved, the law takes the back stage and traditional norm applies unfortunately. Hence, we see what's happening in Palestine. As for the status of Crimea and the Donbass region, these are predominantly Russian people dominated areas, and have always be Russian in blood and ancestry, no matter how you may want to twixt it. And Russian has never made secret her plan to defend and liberate them wherever and whenever their core existence is threatened. These guys have been living in peace in Ukraine until the United Snakes of Abomination decide to play his geopolitical games against Russia in 2014 which lead to the current brouhaha. It's only a myopic person that calls this war a land grab, the typical western narrative that only scratch the surface and not drawing in the bigger picture. Like Putin puts it, "It would be criminally negligence if they sit back and allow the mistake of USSR with Germany to repeat itself". Hence Russia will liberate it's people and their land from any form of existential threat and oppression no matter whose horse is gored. And if anyone in the collective US-led west don't like it, well, they can send their troops into Moscow. No one gives a dime anymore.



Before I prove this assertion wrong, can u prove to me "how Russia wasn't paying attention" when Ukraine occupied donbas??

Go and read history and you'll see that those lands u are referring too was never Russian in the beginning
Those lands were originally Russian at some points by conquest and so on. Conquest was a legal way of owning lands in the medieval and pre-World War timelines.




Also, for Crimea, it shows that u haven't read far and wide to know that Russia is basically reclaiming land that was part of the old Russian empire

Firstly, Crimea was never originally Russian land... It was inhabited earlier by the Greeks, then the Ottomans conquered it before the Russian captured it from the Ottomans in the 1700s by -guess who cheesy - Peter the Great's daughter grin.. So u can see that both Catherine and Putin sought to continue Peter the Great legacy by continuously grabbing lands

In the old Russian empire, Finland was part of it until 1917

Given that Putin has compared himself to Peter the great, there's every possibility he'll set his sight on it too...
Lmao. grin Crimean was Russian by right of conquest and possession from the Greeks and Ottomans in those days, and has remained Russian ever since all through the life of the Soviet empire when Khrushchev the then Russian premier gave it to Ukraine (where he came from) as a gift. More than 75% of the people living there are Russians with the other percentage made up of Ukrainians and Turks. As much as you hate to admit it, Russia have the right to defend it's people anywhere at anytime if threatened.

So yes there's everything wrong with Putin trying to reclaim land that was not originally his grin grin

It was nice educating u grin cheesy
No, there is nothing wrong in defending your people at all. cool

Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:54am On Jun 11, 2022
chaseblack:
Lol, see as this one is shifting goalpost. So Russia wasn't part of USSR then abi, you want to exonerate Russia to satisfy you dogmatic view but your faux lord Putin keeps crying about bringing back USSR.
Post one evidence of where Putin cried for or craved the return of the USSR.
Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:49am On Jun 11, 2022
Emmyxclusive:
stop saying the invasion of Ukraine is about NATO. Putin's aim from the beginning was to go into war a grab land. He even admitted in an interview recently that he is reclaiming land like tzar Peter but since u claim u know putin's mind more than himself continue with u NATO provocation talk.
Typical western bot narrative.
Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:48am On Jun 11, 2022
Delacroix6:
Yeah Afghanistan too because of NATO.
It was USSR that invaded Afghanistan.
Foreign AffairsRe: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:45am On Jun 11, 2022
In this age of Hypersonic missile, drone and space technology, border barriers are just a waste of paper money. The best defence anyone can muster is to keep your friends close and your enemy closer by being neither here nor there.
Foreign AffairsRe: Brit Sentenced To Death In Donetsk Issues Warning by Appleyard(m): 11:32am On Jun 11, 2022
Carloslehder:
Na person wey dey craze go waka go fight a country that defeated Hitler
grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Medias Admit Russia Is Poised To Take Severodoneskt by Appleyard(m): 10:47pm On Jun 09, 2022
Tecnophone:
you should.
Sorry, no tears for fools.
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Medias Admit Russia Is Poised To Take Severodoneskt by Appleyard(m): 10:33pm On Jun 09, 2022
But last time I checked, Ukraine launched a massive counter attack that destroy the Russians and took back 75% of the land and then took complete control of the land, according to Igbofam, my nigga from Kwale Igbo farmland in Delta state. cool And buttressing his false claims are Mods like Seun and lalatisclala who sent the fake news to front page, thus displaying their mendacious and bias leaning towards western unverified narratives.

Whatever, time is the ultimate fulcrum of reality the truth relies on to shine at the end of the tunnel.

May this war end quickly and let there be peace, including to those who parrot, aid and abet fake news. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Artillery Is Helping Ukrainian Forces Push Back Russian Invaders by Appleyard(m): 10:06pm On Jun 09, 2022
Ballzproblemm:
I don't care if they're fighting against west ,all I want is for Ukraine to expel Russia forces
Sorry bro, but you will have to wait till 2070 for that to happen. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Artillery Is Helping Ukrainian Forces Push Back Russian Invaders by Appleyard(m): 9:59pm On Jun 09, 2022
pansophist:
Not only that, but Russia is the only country in the history of western sanctions that instead of their economy and currency disintegrating as sanction bites, it actually got stronger. What does that tell you about the strength of Russia? The ruble now is getting close to what it was before Crimea's ascension to Russia in 2014. Now let's look at what so-called Russia, a loser has achieved so far.

1. Currency got stronger almost double. It's like Nigeria fighting Cameroon, and after the whole west slapped us with at least six thousand sanctions, the naira appreciated from one USD to N200 grin

2. Russia officially exited the Bretton woods system. If anyone understands the Bretton woods system, they will see clearly that it is also the reason why all currencies are measured against the USD, and why the naira is getting closer to being toilet paper.

3. Russia officially reclaimed all their historical Russian lands and advanced further to cut off Ukraine from the black coast, effectively making it a landlocked country like Mali, and if we know anything about geography, being landlocked for any country, especially a corrupt one is suicidal. The land Russia has claimed so far from Ukraine is bigger than Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg combined, and more are still to be claimed.

4. A multi-polar world has officially been created. Just in case you didn't notice, the majority of the world didn't sanction Russia and is still doing business with them. It is only the US-led western countries, basically, less than 20% of humanity sanctions Russia.

5. Western firms and corporations that are far richer, stronger, and technologically advanced have left Russia for good, allowing local players to grow and dominate the market. From MacDonalds, Ikea, Zara, and Apple, just name it. ~Imagine all the billion USD industries controlled by foreigners in Nigeria suddenly becomes open for Nigerians to dominate. Poverty will be eliminated in a year.

6. The war also reduced the trust of the US in the international arena. Now Taiwan is convinced that the US will not come to its aid if China decided to claim its territory back. The international community has lost faith in the US, and Taiwan will be the nail in the coffin because the US will only supply weapons and not help. If you think Russia is tough, then go read the history of the Chinese. Russians are like wolves compare to the Chinese. The most brutal and deadliest war in the whole of human history that makes the second world war looks like a video game was fought in China, with hundreds of millions killed. China being patient is not cowardice, but strength.

7. For the first time since Bretton woods, the non-Western world has finally united to create a just international system that is fair and just to all. The USD is under threat of losing its reserve currency status, and trades are being conducted in Euro Asia in local currencies. The global center of the economy has moved to the East just in case you didn't notice. The new ''abroad'' is not the west anymore, but it is China. If you want to make big money, go to China.

8. The west has proved to the world that all the grammars of the right to personal properties, judging individuals, not by their nationality, sex, race, etc, rule of law, democracy, etc are false. Or else how can you explain the punishment average Russians received even if they have no influence on what Putin does? Why should Chelsea owner Ibrahimovich be sanctioned? even Russian trees, cats, and legends like Dostoyevsky that have died centuries ago were sanctioned. The west simply killed the trust others have in them.

This war is a great reset for Russia, to build from scratch without dependence on the western system and grow organically, just like what China did when it was completely embargoed by the whole west for at least thirty years. What Russia is passing through today in the name of sanctions, China passed through worse, when it was poorer than Pakistan. But China builds and relies on itself, now, look at China. China (and hopefully Russia) is the only country that is sanction-proof, that the west can do nothing to. And if China dares sanction the US, there will be a riot tomorrow.

If one listens to alternative media, all of these will be clear to see as daylight. But if your only source of news is CNN, then I am sorry for you, you are being propagandized, brainwashed, and indoctrinated.
He that has an ear, let him hear. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Artillery Is Helping Ukrainian Forces Push Back Russian Invaders by Appleyard(m): 9:48pm On Jun 09, 2022
shogsman:
Maybe you hit your head at birth or you're just naturally slow, but I think capturing 25% of Ukraine, capturing over 10,000 soldiers, capturing the industrial cities of mauripol, Kherson that accounts for most of Ukraine industrial output, destroying the Azov battalion is a substantial progress
Not just substantial progress, but 75% of mission achieved. Once Severedonetsk and Lysichansk falls totally, it would be mission completed.

Already, the captured Azov guys are now being readied for trial for all the crimes they committed for the past 8 years against the people of Dombass. Meanwhile, in Kherson and Melitopol, thousands of people are now cueing up and getting their Russian passports. I watched one Ukrainian military commander who and his wife defected to Russia's side and got his passport also. The Russian Rouble has been introduced into the Dombass region as means of payment and settlement for goods and services, working side by side the Ukie currency for now. Russia is now almost fully entrenched in the East, and once those two remaining cities fall completely, it would be game over for Kiev and its sponsors because there would be nothing left to go back to since the Dombass region account for 80% of Ukrainian economic power in terms of agriculture and industries.

Zelensky was foolish to have allowed this war to progress this far. Well, once a puppet always a puppet. Adieu Ukraine.
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Artillery Is Helping Ukrainian Forces Push Back Russian Invaders by Appleyard(m): 9:28pm On Jun 09, 2022
Ballzproblemm:
Russia military is weak it has been over 3 months and Russia military have not made any substantial progress
Define 'substantial gains' vis-a-vis a territory such as Ukraine. But don't worry. Calculate 20% of Ukrainian territory, measured it with England and Wales, and come back with the answer. Maybe that would clear your eyes. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Artillery Is Helping Ukrainian Forces Push Back Russian Invaders by Appleyard(m): 9:25pm On Jun 09, 2022
seunny4lif:
Yet the OP uploaded USSR weapons cheesy cheesy cheesy
I thought I was the only one who noticed it. LMAO grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Western Medias Admit Russia Is Poised To Take Severodoneskt by Appleyard(m): 9:18pm On Jun 09, 2022
Tecnophone:
So, you are excited?
Should he be crying? undecided
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukrainian Forces Take Back 20% Of Territory Lost in Sievierodonetsk Luhansk. by Appleyard(m): 12:13pm On Jun 08, 2022
Dvdpity:
Its because they are not trained by competent military. I have always said it that NATO is whacked. NATO only fights nation's with weaker military. In this Russian Ukrainian conflicts have I seen tanks being wracked to scraps. NATO cannot sustain such war. Look at what is happening to Ukraine. USA has started their lands lease Ukraine is losing. They have given Ukraine over 60billlion dollars, Ukraine is losing, EU keep donating weapons Ukraine is losing. Over 150billion USA dollars NATO and EU plus Japan, south Korea, Australia, new Zealand have poured into Ukraine still Ukraine is losing with NATO commanders and instructor's plus NATO macenaries. Ukraine is still loosing. With 4th mobilization of Ukraine soldiers, Ukraine is still looking against Russia that has not called up its army for full Invision nor call up mobilization of Russian men that are looking for who to kill.
Honestly, I feel sorry for Ukraine. It's becoming clearer that Zelensky is an asset of the US secret service.
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukrainian Forces Take Back 20% Of Territory Lost in Sievierodonetsk Luhansk. by Appleyard(m): 9:03pm On Jun 06, 2022
hungryboy:
Funny how Seun and his mods. Pushed this fake News to the frontpage

We that have stayed long on this forum ,have seen you turn this place to shit ,but at least try and verify what you take to the frontpage

None of this ever happened , even today the same man is confessing that the only control the industrial area after getting called out by Ukrainian war journalists for lying about the situation there
To be sincere, I'm shocked at the rate the owner of this forum and its Mods are demonstrating outright bias in information disseminated via its platform. It's A real shame. I just don't words to describe it.
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukrainian Forces Take Back 20% Of Territory Lost in Sievierodonetsk Luhansk. by Appleyard(m): 8:44pm On Jun 06, 2022
Krismas:
grin So said by a LEARNER grin Napoleon captured Moscow and lived in the Czar palace for one month but yet lost the Napoleon war disastrously grin In WW2 Hitler captured Paris. The French government headed by Charles de guile promptly moved over to America to continue the business of French government. The French government house was moved to America grin
If Putin capture Kiev, Zelensky will open a fresh office in Poland grin and still continue making speeches on TV, running his mouth.
Capturing Kiev is not crucial. The initial dash for Kiev was a legover, the Russians wanted to lure Ukraine out of their fortified hide outs in Donbas.
It didn’t work. Nigeria’s best fighting men are in the North east currently cos that’s where the war is. Similarly the Ukraine war is in Donbas, that’s where Ukraine army is.
Destroy that army, destroy Ukraine
Only ediots think Russian was after Kiev actually. Having surrounded Kiev, they easily could have smash it to pieces if they wanted. But the Russian forces there at the time was a feint intended to keep the large Ukie forces concentrated in Kiev from moving to support their colleagues in the East, and that's the reason big cities like Kherson fell easily, and Mariupol followed suit, with many other towns and localities, giving Russia 90 percent of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. I hope this war will just end save people from wanton killings and destructions on both sides. It's heartbreaking watching conscripts massacred on the frontlines.
Foreign AffairsRe: Don't Close The Embassy, U.S. Ambassador Begs Russia by Appleyard(m): 8:25pm On Jun 06, 2022
seunny4lif:
Russia can’t never close the Embassy even doing Vietnam or Afghanistan war, USA or USSR never closed each other embassies.

USA Congress has failed to extend school meal waivers, expiring on 30 June.
They can‘t afford free food in school but have 50 billion for Ukraine
The United States is a develop ghetto. That school meal brouhaha shows the US is ruled by private corporations.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Strikes Kyiv For First Time In Weeks As Battle Rages In East by Appleyard(m): 7:19pm On Jun 05, 2022
God1000:
This is face saving attack, Russia is losing massively from different fronts
Lmao. Are you dreaming? Russia already controls 90 percent of the Luhansk, leaving Sevedonetsk and Lysichiansk to complete 100 percent. Quit dreaming.
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukrainian Forces Take Back 20% Of Territory Lost in Sievierodonetsk Luhansk. by Appleyard(m): 2:59pm On Jun 05, 2022
gtrust:
Ukrainians have a very small window left to escape (though leaving behind their heavy equipments)!
Russia continues to pull them into a “cul de sac” and instead of running away they’re there claiming 20%.
Bridges have now been destroyed by the Russians and even the river is now fully occupied by the Russians.

This is suicide
Best they will get is another Mariupol
I thought I was the only one seeing this. They fell for the Russian trap. The Russians pushes them without any intent of holding on to the ground covered, then they encourage them to push back at the Russians and once they do, the Russians retreat deep inside the previously captured territory only to pause, reengage and allow their advancing troops from the other two rear to close the Ukies in a cauldron, and gbam, you have another Debalsevo. I thought by now the Ukies must have calculated this risk but alas, I was wrong. How could they be getting themselves holdup in cauldrons is surprising.
Foreign AffairsRe: Severodonestk Has Fallen To Russian Forces in just 2 days by Appleyard(m): 9:44am On Jun 01, 2022
Scholes007:
Noise...
Facts...
Foreign AffairsRe: Severodonestk Has Fallen To Russian Forces in just 2 days by Appleyard(m): 8:42am On Jun 01, 2022
The Russian artillery firepower is a nightmare to any fighting force on the planet. Even one retired US captain couldn't help but confessed the fearsomeness of the Russian Arty units which he described as a "rain of steel".

It's only ediots on sentimental drug pills that envisaged a Ukrainian field victory over a firepower house like Russia.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Captures 3 More Territories In Ukraine As Fierce Battle Rages In The East by Appleyard(m): 8:16am On Jun 01, 2022
Tmberwolf1:
Lol... Are you talking about debts? China has the worst debt to gdp ratio. 60% of tge 27 trillion dollars US debt is debt owed to itself... The debt of china is 300% of its GDP. China's GDP per capita is around $10000, America's GDP per capita is about $60000. And US's nominal GDP still surpasses China's by a long shot. US owes debts it can pay, China owes debts it can't pay.
This again, the US don't owe any debt to itself. Just listen to your self. Do some research.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia Captures 3 More Territories In Ukraine As Fierce Battle Rages In The East by Appleyard(m): 7:58pm On May 31, 2022
okeysoninv:
I am not surprised , we are already on endtime. our prophet told us in 1930. the combination of China and Russia will bring an end to America. he who has ear let him ear.
William Marrion Braham cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukraine Said Its Forces May Need To Retreat From Their Last Pocket Of Resistance by Appleyard(m): 4:27pm On May 29, 2022
skoskosko:
If I also call your father(since I believe I am not your mate) an idiot, we will now degenerate to insults and name calling instead of issue based analysis! This is the reason I clearly refrained from quoting any of you when writing my comments which are first of all issue based and backed by proof culled from bbc which is the most vocal anti Russian press.

A lot of you pro western analysts are very vile when you find it hard to counter an argument, easily resorts to insulting people, which shows how emotionally unbalanced you are, which maybe as a result of poor education, age or exposure. Neither of us are Russians, Ukrainians or Americans. No one is going to dash you American visa because you insulted someone on NL over war analysis!

You could not stomach the truth, you want to quickly throw insults at me? FYI, there are no supermen in war, Russians must also lose men and equipments too. But will that stop a Russian victory? Has it prevented Ukrainian territories from continuously falling? NATO and Serbia are not mates, but when NATO bombarded Serbia in a 78 day aerial invasion, Serbia successfully shot down a US F117 stealth jet using s-125, not even s-200/300. It was the most formidable and supposedly invincible to radar jet in the world at that time(1999). The embarrassment led to the ultimate retirement of that jet. Other jets that predates it are still in service. Did that ultimately prevent a NATO victory? Media props and wishful thinking don’t win wars.
Hey, man? Have you so forgotten what the Bible said in Proverbs 26:4-5? "Do not answer a fool according to his way, lest thou be like him".

You don't have to reply every comment, especially those that start with insults. There are people who create their own reality as such that no matter the reality you point them to, they will never see it but theirs even though it's a false reality. Learn to engage in discussion with people you know are civil in their replies. Peace.
Foreign AffairsRe: Ukraine Said Its Forces May Need To Retreat From Their Last Pocket Of Resistance by Appleyard(m): 4:14pm On May 29, 2022
BritishNaija:
Before the war, he was Being probe. The point is this, someone tried to make it look like he was leaving because Russia is about to capture kiev.
He wasn't leaving because Russia wants to capture Kiev. Moreso, he wasn't stopped twice because of incorrect paperwork. Whatever,he should remain and bear the consequences of whatever emaniate from Ukraine now or later for being a supporter of this bloody war.

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