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Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 9:32am On May 25, 2022
Carloslehder:
The day I made up my mind that I would rather go to North Korea than USA is when I was reaching about gun violence there on my project I swear to God go to ordinary YouTube and you can get 50,000 videos of individual people getting killed in the USA, I'm talking about live videos of shootings and homicides caught my CCTV,you can watch live shooting videos in USA back to back everyday of your life and you will never run out of videos.
Yesterday alone I watched over 19 videos of murders there and this all happened yesterday
I swear, at this juncture, North Korea is much safer to be than America.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 9:28am On May 25, 2022
Ishitinyourlife:
Civilians in the USA own more than 400 million firearms
Blood of God1 shocked No wonder their foreign policy is geared towards fighting endless wars all over the globe.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 9:09am On May 25, 2022
Ishitinyourlife:
America is just Iraq with 24hours electricity.before the endeof today I can bet my balls there would be another school shooting
Lmao grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 9:08am On May 25, 2022
shogsman:
This morning my wife woke me up from bed 5am and she said we need to start talking about relocating elsewhere
Hell, is time you consider her request especially if you have children. That place ain't safe for any one.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 8:52am On May 25, 2022
Carloslehder:
Like I always say na person wey dey craze and watch too much Hollywood they migrate to America
Period. I would rather remain in my poverty stricken naija and still keep my life than to migrate to America where that life can be taken away gruesomely.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 8:49am On May 25, 2022
Discombulator:
No wonder they are always encouraging war,this people are sick in the head and they need to be avoided at all cost, my guy was shot last month in Chicago because another guy wanted his shoes.
How can a child have unlimited access to a machine gun,last week a racist kid killed 11black people in Chicago and now another kid slaughtered 19 children and 2 adults
Is a crazy society out there. I pity gullible Nigerians who are zombified by the American lifestyle they watch in Hollywood. The fact is, the American lifestyle in reality is unsafe, unhealthy, destructive and a complete opposite of the life you experience in other saner, developed countries of the world. The American so-called social and democratic system is a violence manufacturing machine, a recipe for unending social and health related disasters.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m): 8:41am On May 25, 2022
Ishitinyourlife:
Just so you know this is the 204th mass shootings in the US this Year alone
Is crazy. America is not by any standard safe for sane thinking people.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Texas Shooting-21 Dead, 19 Children Among Dead In Primary School Attack by Appleyard(m):
This is the country some ediots here on Nairaland are quick to accuse you of being denied visa whenever you speak ill of America. Tufieeh!!!

As a black man and as an innocent and harmless citizen, you are more likely to be killed either by racist police or crazy white supremacists and drug infested psychos in the U.S than any other developed and even developing nations in the world.

It's only an insane society that allows the free purchase and carrying about of automatic rifles and heavy weapons capable of killing people enmass.

Crazy country. sad

RIP to the dead.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine’s Defence Ministry: Russians Are 16 Miles Away From Encircling Donbass by Appleyard(m): 8:27am On May 25, 2022
Fact is, different groups of UkroNazi forces have been encircled or facing encirclement in the Eastern fronts. Ukraine stand no chance against overwhelming Russian artillery, attack bombers and fighter planes, and naval firepower that's pummelling them from all directions. In Lyman, the Ukies are surrendering while the ones that refused to surrender are being hunted down street to Street. Kramtorsk and sloviansk are the key to all of donbas/malorossiya.

And right now, studenok/dolyna area and belgorovka area plus siversk is what is left to close the lisichansk cauldron completely. The cauldron is getting smaller every week. Now it is almost closed at Pilipchatino. Next thing you know they are circling the coral outside Popasnya. Fact is, It is a mess for the Ukrainian s, and if the Russians get Yampil and Solodar then its over for those in Sevrod and surrounding areas. It will take a few weeks ( several) but they will be finished. After which the front would not have that 300km bulge. Concentration of Russian forces will then be in a better depth should they decided to move on any other areas.

So at this juncture, it's understandable what the Ukrainian ministry is saying. It's only a miracle that can save them now from complete encirclement and destruction in the hands of the Russians. I really feel sorry for them. undecided Ediot Zelensky really think he can win this war.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Total Collapse Of The Ukrainian Army In The Donbass Region Has Begun by Appleyard(m): 6:03pm On May 24, 2022
AldrichAmes:
Artillery, EW and reconnaissance drones.

Russian doctrine and use of artillery is second to none. Ukraine never had a chance from day 1. Russians just held back and played it soft from the beginning due to brotherly bond. But the gloves are off a bit now (now even fully off).

NATO needs to be very scared.
The Russian guns are blazing everywhere. Is like chaos in a town hall right now.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Total Collapse Of The Ukrainian Army In The Donbass Region Has Begun by Appleyard(m): 6:01pm On May 24, 2022
Drenimarcus:
It is like they just upped the gear a bit this week! Destruction everywhere! Artillery pounding, KA-52s doing their thing, SUs doing their thing and TOS doing their thing. I wouldn't wanna be a Ukkie soldier right now. Even mercenaries are leaving.
It's like hell raining on Earth. I pity those Uki soldiers. Many of them are getting more demoralized watching their colleagues killed everyday. While they have the numbers, they're outgunned by the Russians.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Total Collapse Of The Ukrainian Army In The Donbass Region Has Begun by Appleyard(m): 5:30pm On May 24, 2022
AldrichAmes:
Saw it on a German pro-Ukrainian account on Twitter (will find the link).

If they don’t pull out - this is how Donbass will look like soon with tens of thousands of troops trapped in there:
Gaddamit!!! The Russian war tactics is irreplicable by any modern military power. They are doing all this with a huge number of their forces still located in Belarus apparently waiting for the Polish planned maneuver to happen towards the western parts of Ukraine. The way they easily trapped their opponents makes it difficult to have a successful ground war against the Red army, and this is why Pentagon is calling for a ceasefire. They knew Ukraine no longer stand a chance in this war, especially now that Russia is increasingly blinding NATO AWACS as such that is becoming more difficult to give the Ukies real-time Intel for accurate artillery and missile targeting. So it's not surprising that they are now talking of a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Ukraine is losing up to 500 men almost on daily basis.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Total Collapse Of The Ukrainian Army In The Donbass Region Has Begun by Appleyard(m): 5:20pm On May 24, 2022
Balogunodua:
Lyman is already occupied grin
More than 500 Uki forces have surrendered in Lyman. Ukies are capitualing everywhere in the Eastern frontlines.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Victories Very Temporary', Vows Ukraine's Zelenskyy by Appleyard(m): 11:24am On May 23, 2022
Kingsnairaland:
Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic of Ukraine..... Lol.

Ukraine has lost Kherson and Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast and, having been penetrated at Popasnaya and Izium, is about to lose the entirety of Donbas to Russia. That's 100,000 km sq of territory lost already to date.

The propaganda we hear is
One minute it's Russian tanks destroyed, then Russian Generals killed one after another, then Russia losing the war, and tens of thousands of Russian troops died etc etc..

.. But then the truth is we are witnessing one city fall after another, the latest being Mariupol when thousands of elite Azov surrendered.

No matter what's been reported on Russia's loss, we still do not see the Ukrainian troops making any major counter offensive to take back any part of territory they have lost!!

Now we see the comedian president only bothered about collecting Russia compensation he is not even bothered about the lose of human life.. What a twisted seniaro ....
I swear, that man is not rational in his thinking. One minute, he wants peace, the next he is talking conquering the Russians. Russia has already occupied territory the size of the UK in Ukraine, yet western media wants you to think that the Russians are losing badly, especially once you Ukraine succeeded in in inflicting one or two losses on the Russians. He should be thankful that this Russians were not fighting completely dirty as they did in Chechen and in Aleppo where they leveled whole cities. We saw much destruction in Mariupol because the Azov guys were using civilian infrastructures to fight. Russia is trying to avoid similar scenario repeating itself in the port city of Odessa. There, they used retreating tactics typical of the Mongolian army to make the enemy feel they're on the run, retreating all the way back to the Russian border close to Odessa, and the ediots fell for it and they pursued after the Russians, only for them to be trapped and about to be completely encicled. cool The moment the US saw all these, they knew all their efforts to bolster Ukriane is simply amounting to nothing. The Russkies are too intelligent and superior in tactics to the NATO-led Ukrainian forces. Hence, the call for a ceasefire at once. grin Moreover, Russian artillery fire is doing heavy damage to the Ukie forces as such that many of their soldiers have lost the morale to fight on some Frontlines. If Zelensky doesn't find a way to give in to the Russian demand as advices by Italy recently, I suspect it would reach the point of no return when some elements in the army would assassinate him and his entire corrupt and puppet government . Whatever, Ukraine losses big time.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ruble Hits 5-year High As Gas Buyers Bend To Putin’s Will by Appleyard(m): 2:21pm On May 22, 2022
Pierohandsome:
Tell me one reason you think Putin will want this war to end? This war will linger for the next 2yrs until Ruble topples the USD In value... US ntoor
Gaddamit! You can see through the thickest geopolitical mist cool. The US intelligence have said that Russia is preparing for a long-term war in Ukraine. Initially, the US-led west planned on prolonging the war in Ukraine in order to 'bleed' Russia militarily. But now, from their own observations, the odds favours Russia compared to the cost and gain for the west. This has alarmed them, hence for the second time in a month, the US had called Russia and asked for a ceasefire in Ukraine. cool One thing that is noteworthy is that it was the US side that initiated these calls, not the Russians. Now, common sense dictates that the US wouldn't have called if things were going according to their plans. They knew that at the end of the tunnel lies a negative outcome for Ukraine, the EU and the US. The only little gain they can takeaway from this brouhaha is the fact that Two New members --Sweden and Finland--will be joining NATO, which, by the way, is more or less of any major turning point as far as Moscow is concerned because, these two have over the years been close NATO allies with their military almost linked and synced together. Entering the alliance formally is just for formality.

But as much as the Ukraine is concerned, Russia have cornered the west and get them to ruin their own economy while exposing their double standards for everyone to see. cool I must admit, Vladimir Oghenedonado Putin is a goddamn strategist and master chess player.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ruble Hits 5-year High As Gas Buyers Bend To Putin’s Will by Appleyard(m): 2:06pm On May 22, 2022
olas24u:
This shows that Africa is very rich and we can do the same and we will be out of undevelopment.
Unfortunately, our leaders are zombies.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ruble Hits 5-year High As Gas Buyers Bend To Putin’s Will by Appleyard(m): 2:05pm On May 22, 2022
seunny4lif:
Russia halt gas, oil and electricity supply to Lithuanian today.

Maybe it’s time Nigeria government need to declare war on Niger Rep, Togo, Benin Rep and Ghana then we can now demand Naira for all our oil and gas after EU and USA sanction us.

Africa leaders need to wake up, we need whosoever advised Putin on Russia demand for rubles.
The ediots we have in Aso Rock don't even monitor what is happening in the international scene. All they care about is stealing and wasting of money. The countries you mentioned are owing Nigeria huge amount of money. Yet, they keep getting without payment. If Nigeria start demanding to be paid in Naira for oil and goods sold, especially with China, the Naira will appreciate sporadically and the inflation rate in this country would ease a bit. But alas, we have only cows and pigs in government. Very pathetic.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Europe Must Convince Ukraine To Accept Russia's Settlement Proposals - Berluscon by Appleyard(m): 1:57pm On May 22, 2022
KaLuCh:
LooooooooooooooooooooL. Chai. America. Why una dey deny people visa like this.
It's comments like this that made Bob Marley cried 'Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.' So in your warped delusional mind, you think anyone that talk ill of America is denied visa?

Free yourself before it's too late.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Moscow May Swap Azov Prisoners For Captured Putin Ally: Negotiator by Appleyard(m): 1:46pm On May 22, 2022
Seun:
I fear that they won't because Azov is the reason why they couldn't take the Donbas region since 2015. They are the "nazis" that Putin hates.
It's nonesense even bothering to comment on such warped eventuality. Those Azov guys are going to be tried, jailed and sent to the gallows or Siberia for life.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Is The Real Definition Of Two Big To Fail by Appleyard(m): 1:39pm On May 22, 2022
Russia making more money ever. It's funny seeing the EU crying foul that Russia is weaponizing food and gas, cool what else should they have weaponized? I told one zombified western bot on this platform that a country like Russia that is technologically advanced, mostly self-sufficient in agricultural produce and is 100 energy self-sufficient cannot be isolated by sanctions, now we are seeing the results. cool

The sanctions have upped the prices of crude oil, meaning that reduced oil volume of Russia due to the sanctions is being more than compensated for with the increase in prices. While hunger now stares the west on the face, with Monkey pox added to the punishment, is almost comical seeing the west contemplating attacking and sinking ALL Russian Black Sea fleet ships in order to get access to Odessa and take the excess grain blockaded there. grin The madness of this people is quite unbelievable if not dangerously funny. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukrainian Forces Seen Handing Over Weapons To Russian Troops by Appleyard(m): 1:36pm On May 21, 2022
Opolopoopolonio:
Urban warfare in a territory that has already been occupiedhuh

So far, it's Russia that have been failing at their objectives and the little success stories they have so far has been at huge costs.
Russia is not the one losing lands, cities, towns and villages. Ukraine have already mobilized four times while Russia is still using it's old forces. Whether we like it or not, Ukraine is the greatest loser here.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukrainian Forces Seen Handing Over Weapons To Russian Troops by Appleyard(m): 1:24pm On May 21, 2022
Opolopoopolonio:
It has started already in Melitopol.

It will spread to other occupied territories.

Up till now, Russia cannot successfully hold a referendum in Kherson.
Lmao. That's urban warfare and skirmishes in Melitopol, not guerrilla fighting. The Russians knows just how to cleanse that out.

As for Kherson, there is no need for a referendum yet when fighting is still ongoing in many other frontiers. Ukraine is just adding to it's pains with everyday that passes. Truth is, the Russians will achieve their aims, even the US already knew this.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukrainian Forces Seen Handing Over Weapons To Russian Troops by Appleyard(m): 1:13pm On May 21, 2022
Opolopoopolonio:
Mariupol defenders bloodied Russian invaders till the very end.

Russian forces could not successfully storm the Azovstal.

The Ukrainians are heroes abeg.

Phase 2 - guerrilla warfare - loading.
There is no guerrilla warfare anywhere. Ukraine is a plain landscape that doesn't bode well for guerrilla fighting, and when it comes to urban warfare, the Russians are masters of the act. No modern army have been able to encicled a large fighting, capable force with heavily fortified frontiers the way the Russians have done with the Ukrainians. You don't have to be pro-west or pro-east to realize this truth.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukrainian Forces Seen Handing Over Weapons To Russian Troops by Appleyard(m): 1:07pm On May 21, 2022
The loss of Mariupol to Russian 100% control is not only strategic in that it gives Russia a land corridor to Crimea, but also a catastrophic loss to NATO's interest in the country since it ultimately put an end to the long held plan to setup a naval dock center for NATO ships in the Black Sea adjacent to Russia's naval route.

Mariupol gives Russia access to an unobstructed land bridge from the Crimean peninsula it legally annexed from Ukraine in 2014 to the Donbas region in southeastern Ukraine, enabling easier troop mobilization into the Donbas that has become the focus of Russia’s invasion.

Moreover, Mariupol is the largest trading port on the Sea of Azov and the primary export center for goods in southeastern Ukraine, and the city falling would help to effectively cut Ukraine off from access to the sea.

Mariupol will not only extend Russia's naval assets ability to maneuver in the Black Sea, but also gives it wider range of economic and political nautical miles.

And when you consider the fact that the Russians achieved all these (Kherson and Mariupol) with just a fragment of it's armed forces and capability (150,000 troops) with much of it's naval forces sitting idle at sea, one can't help but commend the strategic superiority of the Russian military planners, though they suffered significant losses also at the initial stage of the SMO. If I were Zelensky, I would immediately call for a truce. But what do you expect from a puppet that is controlled from Washington DC? Nothing, I guess.

Adieu Ukraine, even as Poland warms up to cut away the western part of the country. That's the price you pay when you allow your country to play host to a geopolitical achrival tussle between two great powers. sad
Foreign Affairs › Re: Pentagon Denies Ukrainian Claims Of ‘plan To Destroy’ Russia’s Black Sea Fleet by Appleyard(m): 11:54am On May 21, 2022
It's funny reading some gullible comments here regarding US/Ukraine plan to sink Russian black sea fleets. It's very amusing as if it's something you can do easily on computer games. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Bush Condemns Putin's Invasion Of 'Iraq' Instead Of Ukraine by Appleyard(m): 11:21am On May 21, 2022
Discombulator:
Only someone without a heart won't feel for those people,I watch the war documentary and even as a strong man I cried,come see how little children were bombed to hell, decapitated
You need to watch the probed video investigated by the British Paliament which shows US and British Pilots deliberately targeting and firing on Women and children running around in Iraq. It was a gory sight that will make you cry your guts out. sad But in the end, nobody did anything to those people. Those soldiers, Tony Blair and Bush are still walking free today. If the west does not burn By nuclear fire, God will have to apologise to Sodom and Gomorah. But thank God, judgement is coming upon them, many seers have said it already.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Bush Condemns Putin's Invasion Of 'Iraq' Instead Of Ukraine by Appleyard(m): 11:12am On May 21, 2022
shogsman:
What is worst is after he changed it to Ukraine he said 'WHATEVER' like it's no big deal that over 120,000 children were killed because of him
I hope Bush and Tony Blair while on their dying beds sees Iraqi children and women chasing them with fighter jets and armoured tanks. They need to scream 'death' and 'ghost' on their dying beds before they pass on to the other side.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Austria Opens Ruble Gas Account by Appleyard(m): 12:11am On May 21, 2022
seunny4lif:
We knew that since
Austria government need to do meaningful us Austria citizens.
Bavaria state president already warned Scholz and his coalition parties especially that yeye Green Party that knows nothing about economy.
There is going to be some sorts of revolution in Germany, either covert or overt. Many of the country's top companies leaders and owners are already visibly angry with Scholz who look like someone that is lost in taking a stance.

If Germany loses its competitive edge in production and manufacturing, Scholz political career would be short-lived.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Takes Over Azovstal Plant As 962 Ukrainian Soldiers Surrender (Video) by Appleyard(m): 4:41am On May 19, 2022
seunny4lif:
After Azovstal surrender, the focus is on Severodonetsk agglomeration where between 12 and 15K Ukrainian troops find themselves encircled. Luhansk Region’s governor Serhiy Haidai says the Russians are now firing at the lifeline road to Soledar/Bakhmut.
Also in Akdiiva. The way Russian troops are rounding up Ukrainian troops in different sectors like cowboys rounding up horses/cattles is a rare military tactics in the 21st century.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Takes Control Of Mariupol, First Major Victory In Ukraine War. by Appleyard(m): 11:09am On May 18, 2022
Its funny how the western Lamestream media were all calling it an 'evacuation' when even a blind Bathemos knows what it is.

With Mariupol now fully liberated, Russia and the DPR forces can now free themselves to restrategise and focus on taking Odessa, which if it goes like Mariupol, it would be game over for Ukraine that would become a fully landlocked country.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia's Ruble Is World's Top-performing Currency Against The Dollar by Appleyard(m): 11:50pm On May 13, 2022
RevDesm0ndJuju:
The Russians have made it clear by switching to the Gold standard that they have shifted from the western liquidity speculative economy.

Choosing between investing in Russian rubles or the money changes in New York and London is akin to putting your money in essential real assets or investing in bet9ja.

As long as Russia can assert and defend her sovereignty the Ruble and her economy will blossom.

What Putin has done is no different from how Hitler transformed the German economy within 10ys from the worst economy on the world to the most prosperous economy with the best standard of living even for today's standard.

That Wall Street and City of London is where all the world's woes comes from.
Without firing a shot at their direction, Putin has upturned the money changer's tables and that is why the men with little hats are wringing their fists at Putin and Russia.
The Hitler's analogy is very spot on.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia's Ruble Is World's Top-performing Currency Against The Dollar by Appleyard(m): 11:48pm On May 13, 2022
RevDesm0ndJuju:
Wrong.

The Russian economy depends largely on commodities that they have a near monopoly of and to which the rest of the world needs.

Their other major exports are military hardware which they have zero competition in terms of pricing since Russian military tech is low on prices and very cheap to maintain and operate. They only barrier to Russian military exports are the US and UK who mount diplomatic and economic pressure on intending buyers to boycott Russian armament.

That said, the Russian economy is purely a commodity based economy which is far stable even with sanctions than a liquidity based economy like that of the US.

By thinking cutting Russia from international trade via SWIFT and also seizing Russian foreign reserves held in western banks, the idiots in the US, UK and EU did not know they shot themselves on the foot .

Russia simply left the worthless fiat dollars for them and turned to key allies notably China and India.

These two nations account for 30℅ of the earth's population and they will be needing Russian gas, oil, arms and wheat.

So as long as they comply with the Russian govts demand to pay for Russian commodities in Rubles, there will be demand for same rubles.

Also consider that Russia has pegged their currency to gold. So if in future the Russians decide to sell one barrel of oil for 1gram of gold, both gold and Ruble will skyrocket .

With gold going up, the US fiat dollar is dead and buried as the US has no gold anymore (the Jews have since moved all US gold reserves to Israel to be housed in their third temple).

The US never thought this through that Russia will be pressured economically to withdraw from Ukraine over the worthless paper dollars they had in western banks.

The world needs Russia and not the other way round.

What you are seeing with the Ruble is Russia asserting her sovereignty as one of the key features of a sovereign state is to have control of their own currency which they now have.

Its the end of the paper dollar and it signals the demise of Pax America.

The only thing to ask is if the US will activate the Samson option and take the entire world down with them.
I couldn't have said it better. You made my day. cool

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