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 Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Forces Cut Off Last Routes Out Of Eastern Ukraine City by Appleyard(m): 12:34pm On Jun 15, 2022 |
richeeyo:Like what? |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Forces Cut Off Last Routes Out Of Eastern Ukraine City by Appleyard(m): 5:16pm On Jun 14, 2022 |
richeeyo:You don't have to blame them that much the Russians made mistakes in the early hours of the conflict but they have adjusted and corrected most of that. Understand that this is a highly tactical and strategic conflict at play here. The Yankees are in it not just to weaken Russia as they have said openly, but to learn and test Russia's fighting prowess, capabilities and technology. The Russians are trying so much not to give all of that away. This is a country waging war against the whole of NATO who are guiding and supplying real-time Intel to the Ukrainians. The Donbass and Luhansk region share borders with Russia and that's the primary line of engagement for the Russians. I hope this war will stop soon. While both sides have lost considerable amount of men, the message is clear and loud enough to the collective west that Russia is too big and too strong and capable to be intimidated economically and militarily. 8 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Greece Releases Iranian Flagged Tanker by Appleyard(m): 4:55pm On Jun 14, 2022 |
Kastonkastroll:I understand your point. But it's not about seizing more tankers. It's about sending a message and creating a precedent. The Iranians have made it clear that anyone that seizes their ship will be dealth with accordingly. 6 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: USA Paid 2 Billion,Rubles For Astronaut's Trip Via Russian Spacecraft: Roscosmos by Appleyard(m): 4:49pm On Jun 14, 2022 |
seunny4lif:EU and hypocrisy are like five and six. 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine: England, UK On Verge Of Recession As Cost Of Living Surge by Appleyard(m): 4:46pm On Jun 14, 2022 |
Uptownerd:Agreed. That's why Biden is making a trip to Saudi Arabia. They need more oil to be pumped into the market to lower the price. But the funny thing is that, as long as the war in Ukraine keeps going, oil prices will continue to edge up. 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: USA Paid 2 Billion,Rubles For Astronaut's Trip Via Russian Spacecraft: Roscosmos by Appleyard(m): 12:32am On Jun 14, 2022 |
seunny4lif:I will not be surprise once protest start hitting many European capitals. Once the government becomes unable to sustain the money subsidies they are currently doing, it would be hell on them. Biden is already blaming Russia, calling it Putin's tax. These guys are funny. 6 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: USA Paid 2 Billion,Rubles For Astronaut's Trip Via Russian Spacecraft: Roscosmos by Appleyard(m): 12:18am On Jun 14, 2022 |
seunny4lif:The 'collective west' is led by a bunch of unintelligent short-sighted bureaucrats whose policies while serving their Establishment Masters are driven by pure irrational emotions rather than pragmatic and logical reasoning. It's pure madness. 6 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: USA Paid 2 Billion,Rubles For Astronaut's Trip Via Russian Spacecraft: Roscosmos by Appleyard(m): 12:09am On Jun 14, 2022 |
BritishNaija:A US company operating under the laws of the United States paid in Ruble. End of discussion.  7 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine: England, UK On Verge Of Recession As Cost Of Living Surge by Appleyard(m): 12:05am On Jun 14, 2022 |
gambojimeta:Spot the difference homie... One interest rate is falling while the other is rising. Russia sanctioned heavily and waging an ongoing war against the "collective west" is cutting down interest rate while the Biden-led United Snakes of Abomination is increasing interest rates. Call it the economic version of the German Enigma.  In summary, things are getting cheaper by the day in Russia. But in Amerika, they're getting costlier, no thanks to the "Putin's tax" on the US economy as alleged by old Joe. 4 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine: England, UK On Verge Of Recession As Cost Of Living Surge by Appleyard(m): 2:32pm On Jun 13, 2022 |
Betscoreodds:People are now stealing baby formulas and it's materials in the US while the country they sanctioned is lowering interest rates. How has the mighty fallen. 8 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: USA Paid 2 Billion,Rubles For Astronaut's Trip Via Russian Spacecraft: Roscosmos by Appleyard(m): 2:20pm On Jun 13, 2022 |
BritishNaija:There is no need quarrelling over this. The point is that a US company paid for space transport on Russia's flight, and the payment was in Rubles, not in Dollars. That settles it. 10 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: NATO Countries Have Reportedly Agreed To Stop Sending Tanks To Ukraine by Appleyard(m): 1:31pm On Jun 13, 2022 |
sapientia:He is from your village. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: NATO Countries Have Reportedly Agreed To Stop Sending Tanks To Ukraine by Appleyard(m): 1:27pm On Jun 13, 2022 |
gaby:Succinctly put. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Zelenskyy says Russia Suffers 32,050 Dead soldiers in combat since war started by Appleyard(m): 10:50am On Jun 12, 2022 |
A shameless mentally derange ediotic comedian playing deadly politics with the destiny and lives of his people and country. This is the kind of leader no nation prays to have. The cocaine addicted psycho leader was quick to give Russian forces losses in 'exact' numbers, not even an estimate. Yet, he is unable to provide figures for Ukrainian dead soldiers. If Russia has lost 32,000 soldiers, it's common sense that Ukraine has lost 5 times that amount. In Mariupol alone, the Azov brigade and additional units were made up of about 14,000 men. About 3000 surrendered later, and the rest were completely wiped out. Now, take into consideration the rest of Ukrainian deaths in other cities and villages and you will understand the collosal losses this man has caused Ukraine to suffer. Ukriane has already conscripted the country for the 5th time, which means he has already lost about a third of the country's 700,000 regular strong army. You wouldn't be mobilizing for the fifth time if you are not losing men like mad. The Hungarian foreign minister and Paliament leader were right when they said that Zelensky has a mental problem. It's obvious when you watch his telecast and choice of words and commanding demands. Which beggar seeking for help insults his would be helper and threatens them? This man is crazy. No wonder many Ukrainian soldiers are.now refusing to fight anymore. The guy is a mad case walking. Tufieeeh!!! 10 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine 'losing On Frontlines With Russia And Has Nearly Run Out Of Ammo' by Appleyard(m): 10:29am On Jun 12, 2022 |
leofab:Russia running out of ammo? Are you seriously trolling or just regurgating Lamestream media nonesense? 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: No Other Country In The World Would Have Survived What Russia Did by Appleyard(m): 7:57pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
seunny4lif:They prepared well for this. Russia always a step ahead. 4 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: No Other Country In The World Would Have Survived What Russia Did by Appleyard(m): 7:35pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
VeryWickedMan:Wickedness runs in your blood I swear. 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: No Other Country In The World Would Have Survived What Russia Did by Appleyard(m): 7:34pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
Carloslehder:Seriously? Please, DM me. How much did it cost you? My sister wants to go there and study. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Some 300-400 Ukrainian Troops Blocked At Azot Plant In Severodonetsk - LPR Envoy by Appleyard(m): 7:24pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
Svlla:From Azov plant to Azot plant, the way Russia get Ukie troops encicled in a cauldron is something western military planners will find very unpalatable. No modern forces fights like this. 5 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: U.S Pentagon Finally Admits Running 46 Biolabs In Ukraine by Appleyard(m): 7:12pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
citygarden:Seun and the Mods here are outrightly bias. 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine 'losing On Frontlines With Russia And Has Nearly Run Out Of Ammo' by Appleyard(m): 7:04pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
seunny4lif:It's a pity Ukriane have been led into the this by the US. 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine 'losing On Frontlines With Russia And Has Nearly Run Out Of Ammo' by Appleyard(m): 6:37pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
leofab: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 Affairs › Re: If Someone Wants To Limit Us In Any Way, They Will Limit Themselves- Putin by Appleyard(m): 6:21pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
God1000: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. 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 3:20pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
Hi Emmyxclusive:Get facts from independent and unbias news. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 3:18pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
Etinosa1234:Tell me you're not being intelligently stupid. Just kidding my homie. 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? That was exactly what Britannica said... 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. 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. 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. 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 landsNo 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 oneThis 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..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. 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. 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. I just they laugh. But that is realpolitiks for you. 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. 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. Yeah, the US isn't a bully...how alluring. 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. 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 12:57pm On Jun 11, 2022*. Modified: 1:44pm On Jun 11, 2022 |
Etinosa1234: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??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 empireLmao. 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 hisNo, there is nothing wrong in defending your people at all.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:54am On Jun 11, 2022 |
chaseblack:Post one evidence of where Putin cried for or craved the return of the USSR. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:49am On Jun 11, 2022 |
Emmyxclusive:Typical western bot narrative. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Finland Plans To Build Barriers On Its Border With Russia by Appleyard(m): 11:48am On Jun 11, 2022 |
Delacroix6:It was USSR that invaded Afghanistan. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: 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. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Brit Sentenced To Death In Donetsk Issues Warning by Appleyard(m): 11:32am On Jun 11, 2022 |
Carloslehder: 1 Like 1 Share |
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