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Drenimarcus:
Talk about Health insurance, government will say no money, insulin costs is so high that diabetic patients living here cant afford it, people are quitting their jobs at an exponential rate, inflation is over the roof(forget the 8.5%) , gas prices, transgender crises, social security is running out of money etc. But this government has sent $1.3Billion to Ukraine and is about to sent another $800M. No money for citizens but there is always money for war which isn't directly happening in America.

Mid-terms deh come, we go wait for una.

The inflation side shows some governments are hiding real data. A friend in the US said that groceries that he used to buy at $40 is now $100. How is that an 8.5 percent increase in inflation?

Drenimarcus:
Even the owner is, still wondering how much he was paid.

They don't push balance news, just anti-Russian news and sentiment. Lalasticlala is the worst.

railone:
I know it's a bad take but I hope He does.

When people fail to learn from history, they are bound to repeat the mistake of the past.

With or without the help of the "West", Russia in his current format is close to a revolution just like the Soviet Union and other fascism regime in the past.

This I attribute to the increase in the number of opposition voices. Those opposition will start bonding together to form a force that can't be stop.

Opening a second war threatre with Finland might be the push necessarily to hasten that.

OR

I might be wrong and the Russians enjoy being dictated to on how to live and express themselves

No second war will happen with Finland. It's just standard posturing.

railone:
Dude, I just said you should read and understand and clearly that's a hard thing for you to do.
Did you not see the part where Dutch forces that were on peacekeeping mission was attacked and overwhelmed by the Serbian? or you don't understand the concept of interest.

is an attack on Dutch forces not considered an attack on the Netherlands itself when it's not at war with the attacker?

Clearly you just like to argue for arguing sake before you neither want to understand anything just only reply.

Shalom

Nonesense again. Dutch forces acting outside the territory of Netherland doesn't fall under the protection of article 5 of NATO if they come under attack by an enemy in a crisis they're engaged in. You keep manufacturing baseless excuses. Did the Serbian attack on Dutch forces triggers the article 5? No. Why? Because it falls short of the provisions of the article and NATO charter.

NATO got involved out of pure emotions.

The only scenario where article 5 has been triggered was when the 9/11 attack happened in the US, and even that too was faulty because it wasn't the Taliban that did it, but so-called Al Qaida.

Powersurge:
I dey shake my head. "R" in USSR stands for Russia. To slap u dey hungry me.

The Union derives it existence from the existence of Russia as a republic.

CALEB1590:
This beautiful and educating thread about the Nazis should be in front page. If it does not get to front page before the close of play today, I will believe that nairaland is part of the bias journalism of the west.

Lalasticlala and most of the mods here are pro-west.

railone:
Guy dey try read and understand before you reply. I've already said something about that.

I believe I was the first one here to mentioned US help in making Russia appear big as it believe it is.

UNSC is made up of 5 permanent member state. Their membership is non-negotiable and doesn't end. One of those seats belonged to the USSR, with that association being defunct, that seat would have been vacant or the member states of the USSR would have fought each other to get the seat causing instability in Europe and central Asia.

The US chose to back Russia for the seat because out of all former Union states, Russia was the richest and easiest to economic stability.
Similar scenario played out when the PRC won the Chinese war against the ROC government and took over mainland China. China seat on UNSC was occupied by Taiwan until the US chose to side with China and Taiwan was dropped as permanent member.

There is and never was a successor to the USSR. The US acknowledged Russia to bring stability to the region.

Why did NATO counter Putin when he brought up that "agreement argument" with the fact that NATO never had such agreement with Russia if Russia is as you claim "successor".

Read, it will do you good

Your argument is just plain lame.

Russia was the nation that initiated the Soviet Union. The Union was born out of the Russian revolution of 1917. It's headquarter, and sheer power was concentrated in Moscow. So it's only natural that Russia assumes it's geopolitical and international roles after the collapse of the Union. Your argument that US only supported Russia because it's economy stable at the expenses of other formal USSR member states is nonesense. The reality is that Russia was always the head and heart of the Union.

goaldynman:
Mumu!!

At this age you don't know the meaning of USSR?!

Use your brain. The 'Republic' there stands for Russia, the initiator, central and inheritor of the the Union after its collapse.

railone:
This is an extract about the Bosnian war:

"By the summer of 1995, three towns in eastern Bosnia—Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde—remained under control of the Bosnian government. The U.N. had declared these enclaves “safe havens” in 1993, to be disarmed and protected by international peacekeeping forces.

On July 11, 1995, however, Bosnian Serb forces advanced on Srebrenica, overwhelming a battalion of Dutch peacekeeping forces stationed there. Serbian forces subsequently separated the Bosniak civilians at Srebrenica, putting the women and girls on buses and sending them to Bosnian-held territory.

Some of the women were raped or sexually assaulted, while the men and boys who remained behind were killed immediately or bussed to mass killing sites. Estimates of Bosniaks killed by Serb forces at Srebrenica range from around 7,000 to more than 8,000.

After Bosnian Serb forces captured Zepa that same month and exploded a bomb in a crowded Sarajevo market, the international community began to respond more forcefully to the ongoing conflict and its ever-growing civilian death toll.

In August 1995, after the Serbs refused to comply with a U.N. ultimatum, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) joined efforts with Bosnian and Croatian forces for three weeks of bombing Bosnian Serb positions and a ground offensive.

With Serbia’s economy crippled by U.N. trade sanctions and its military forces under assault in Bosnia after three years of warfare, Milosevic agreed to enter negotiations that October. The U.S.-sponsored peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 (which included Izetbegovic, Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman) resulted in the creation of a federalized Bosnia divided between a Croat-Bosniak federation and a Serb republic."



Pay attention to the bold sentences then maybe just maybe you'd understand when and why NATO entered the war. Like I said, they have never been the first to attack

That's not the excuse. If you should cite that as an excuse, then we can safely say that Russia did not start this attack on Ukraine, but simply reacted to Ukraine constant shelling of the Donbass region for 8 years, thus entered to defend the Donbass region.

The point here is: NATO is a military alliance, which, by its own article, is committee to the defence of it's members, not nonmembers.

The war on Bosnian does not concern it nor was it mandated by the UN to act as the UN military arm in the crisis. So your excuse holds no water.

Same holds true for Afghanistan, Libya and co.

goaldynman:
Mumu!!

At this age you don't know the meaning of USSR?!

I already gave an answer to that. Check around.

Johnnycastro18:
Dude is trying to burn bridges instead of mending things......that leader that he just rejected or avoid can influence some other leaders who are sympathetic to him, to turn against him in retaliation. This guy truly lack diplomacy, no wonder there is a war going on in his country.

What do you expect? He is a comedian driven by emotions instead of being pragmatic.

Donaluta:
Sometimes I dey wonder weather Una get shame ... A country fighting with another country ... You want to go and visit same country the country you support are fighting with.. what do you expect.. open arms to welcome you.. oga sometimes talk like human

Make everybody quarrel with your neighbor because you dey quarrel with am? You reason like person na.

seunny4lif:
USA president:
Russia invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. 70% of the increase in prices in March came from the Putin Price Hike.

I’m doing everything I can to bring down prices and address the Putin Price Hike

But I thought they said Russia is not powerful.

Biden is a puppet of the deep state.

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rml8JsnE1VI

Mass surrender of Ukrainian servicemen

The flow is growing, the surrender of Ukrainian military personnel has become massive, 1026 Ukrainian marines have already laid down their arms and their flow is growing. New footage with prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was published by correspondent Sladkov. Among the surrendered 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 162 officers, 47 women, and more than 130 wounded

This is good news. Better this war ends quickly.

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi_GVNAzTNo

Ukrainian Marines in Mariupol began to surrender en masse

You will never see this on BBC, CNN or Sky News.

The numbers of those surrendering are on the increase.

Once they get Odessa, it's game over for Ukraine as it would become a landlocked nation for life.

railone:
all those wars were reactionary attack for an earlier attack on the interest of NATO member states.

none of it was an outright attack by NATO. it's a defensive alliance and they always stay that way.

Nonesense. Which NATO member state was attacked in those wars?

railone:
Nobody and I repeat nobody except you guys that don't know neda references Russia as USSR.
Show me even one official article that does that.

When talking about the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is mentioned not Russia.

The Soviet Union was a superpower, Russia for all its gimmicks and misinformation is just a wannabe

The US sees Russia as the successor to the Soviet Union. you no better than the US?

gamechanger547:
True talk.

Russia just informed them that it will target their vehicles that's transporting weapons across the border into Ukraine.( Since the Ukrainian transport bringing weapons are been destroyed, US and Nato are using theirs to bring in weapons disguised as humanitarian supplies).

The world may just get the WW3 it's looking for, If US and Nato continue to bring in weapons and Russia state to destroy them.

Gradually, they are gearing towards WW3.

diplomat058:
Why did Russia inherit USSR's permanent seat in the UNSC? Why did it inherit USSR'S arsenal of mass destruction? Why did the US recognize Russia as the successor state to the USSR?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_states

Read and learn, OK?

Allow the kids to wallow in their ignorance.

obedience4:
You that isn't a slave, if you are that anti west.
Why do you use western products..
You claim to be free, yet you speak a language gotten from the West, you wear western clothes,
If not for the west HIV, malaria, would have killed Million in Africa, yet the free polio vaccination your child will receive in the hospital is paid for by the same west..
If your country wants to borrow still the same West..
If God bless you now if you wanna go on vacation. You won't go to a communist state like, Russia, China, Cuba, Iran, you will still run to the same west and still contribute to their GDP,
Be there your opinion doesn't matter.
The West will still go on Strong.
They remain the highest and biggest economy in the world

Nobody called you a slave. Just Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. Meaning learn to think freely.

railone:
You even quoted an article to proof this same point. Russia didn't inherit shit and isn't a successor to crap.
It's the US that you all love to hate that made it possible if not, Russia would have started from Ground Zero and there would have been a power vacuum at the UNSC. Just like they did for mainland China.

Russia isn't the USSR, they don't speak for the USSR that no longer exist.

It's how you guys are so dulled but will be quick to shout western propaganda that is it for me

Russia today is the sole reference to the USSR because it's the head, soul and spirit of that body.

railone:
Propaganda upon propaganda.... NATO has never attacked any country first. Don't know where you carry your own source from

Tell me: the Bosnian war, the Kosovo war, the Afghanistan war, the Libyan war, etc, NATO didn't attack the nation involved or the nation attacked them first?

Mrtaye:
USA is a free nation practicing democracy hence the rule of law prevails and as such USA is the police of the world...but that cannot be said of communist Russia who practice rogue and tyrannical dictatorship who suppress dissent and rule of law hence most sane countries don't want to form alliance or associate with them except for some hypocritical nations..

bet you if you were given free visas to Russia and USA you would chose USA because you will be very free unlike Russia that is a security risk

It's comments like this that made Bob Marley cried "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."

Learn to think independently. Don't allow Visa application to think for you.

JohnBullMySon:
Russia did not create Ukraine. Ukraine existed even before the USSR.

Ukrainian as a lingual people has been absorbed many years by Tsarist Russia. They became republic within Russia following the Bolshevik revolution from 1917 to 1920. Present day Ukraine only became a truly independent and sovereign nation in 1991.

Mrtaye:
Russia's demand ab initio is an illegality because these Eastern countries are sovereign nations and are not binded by Russia's whims and caprices except you are telling me that Ukraine,Finland etc are states within the Russian federation just like kogi,Rivers, Sokoto are in Nigeria

Sorry to disappoint you. While I understand your drift vis-a-vis the concept of sovereignty and the right of choice of nations as it relates to political/economic alignment in saner climes, the concept of realpolitiks sadly portends that some nations will forever be cursed for sharing natural borders with a particular nation with completely different ideology.

If the US did not, and will not tolerate his arch geopolitical enemy to put weapons in his backyard (neighboring Cuba), what make you think Russia would accept his large neighbor Ukraine to play host to US-NATO expansionism?

That's realpolitiks for you. Their are no morals in this game.

obedience4:
Putin will be disgrace..
Matter of time..
Since Libya was that good,I wonder why you didn't migrate then

Comments like this is the reason why Bob Marley cried Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

railone:
dude do you actually know anything about anything??

You just asnwered that you know nothing about anything being said.

JohnBullMySon:
By who? All breakaway states are the successor states of the USSR. The USSR does not exist anywhere on this planet anymore.

By the United States who disagrees with you. The US and other western nations recognized Russia as the successor state to the USSR.

https://history.state.gov/countries/russia

railone:
Let me ask you a simple question. If you have a contract with Dangote Group and for some hypothetical situation, the Dangote Group liquidate and its subsidiaries are now stand alone companies. Can you now hold Dangote cement accountable for a contract you had with Dangote Group of Companies??

Yes, you can hold Dangote cement accountable especially if it inherited the asset and liabilities of the liquidated Dangote Group of Companies.

railone:
inherit which Republic power. You guys and spinning around. It's like a trademark for you guys.
You didn't know the R was Republic and when you were corrected as usual you decide to spin it around.

Guess the country that made Russia relevant as opposed to the other members of the SU?
The country you guys love to hate, America.

Same way the made Mainland China relevant instead of Taiwan. And in all this, what they get in return is hate.

Lmao. Even blind Bathemos knows R is for Republic. But who is the head, central and sole inheritor of that Republic? Russia.

Get sense.

Even many western writers today equate present day Russia to the then Soviet Union, and is rightly so because the Union was initiated by Russia, led by Russia and after collapse, Russia inherited it's assets and liabilities.