₦airaland Forum

mrgreen4real:
You this pro-Putin don't come here and decive some pple with your fact you probably got somewhere. If Anatoly Chubais (a long time Putin's adviser) who knows putin far better than you do resigns and flee Russia believe Russia at war is uncalled for then who are you convince me Ukraine is defeated.

EmperorHadrain:
Bio– Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. His analysis and commentary can be found at his blog, https://sonar21.com/

EmperorHadrain:
Question 6– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been lionized in the western media as a “wartime leader” and a modern-day “Winston Churchill”. What the media fails to tell its readers is that Zelensky has taken a number of steps to strengthen his grip on power while damaging fragile democratic institutions in Ukraine. For example, Zelensky has “banned eleven opposition-owned news organizations” and tried to bar the head of Ukraine’s largest opposition party, Viktor Medvedchuk, from running for office on a bogus “terrorist financing” charge. This is not the behavior of a leader that is seriously committed to democracy.

What’s your take on Zelensky? Is he really the “patriotic leader” the media makes him out to be?

Larry C. Johnson– Zelensky is a comedian and an actor. Not a very good one at that in my view. The West is cynically using the fact he is Jewish as a diversion from the size-able contingent of Neo-Nazis (and I mean genuine Nazis who still celebrate the Ukrainian Waffen SS unit’s accomplishments while fighting with the Nazis in WW II). The facts are clear—he is banning opposition political parties and shutting down opposition media. I guess that is the new definition of “democracy.”

mrgreen4real:
Oga they are not defeated yet except I don't know the meaning of "defeat" have Ukrainian soldiers surrendered? NO
Is the war going on? YES

And you said they are defeated

EmperorHadrain:
Question 5– Russian media reports that Russian “high precision, air-launched” missiles struck a facility in west Ukraine “killing more than 100 local troops and foreign mercenaries.” Apparently, the Special Operations training center was located near the town of Ovruch which is just 15 miles from the Polish border. What can you tell us about this incident? Was Russia trying to send a message to NATO?

Larry C. Johnson– Short answer—YES! Russian military strikes in Western Ukraine during the past week have shocked and alarmed NATO officials. The first blow came on Sunday, March 13 at Yavoriv, Ukraine. Russia hit the base with several missiles, some reportedly hypersonic. Over 200 personnel were killed, which included American and British military and intelligence personnel, and hundreds more wounded. Many suffered catastrophic wounds, such as amputations, and are in hospital. Yet, NATO and the western media have shown little interest in reporting on this disaster.

Yavoriv was an important forward base for NATO (see here). Until February (prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), the U.S. 7th Army Training Command was operating from Yavoriv as late as mid-February. Russia has not stopped there. ASB Military news reports Russia hit another site, Delyatyn, which is 60 miles southeast of Yavoriv (on Thursday I believe). Yesterday, Russia hit Zytomyr, another site where NATO previously had a presence. Putin has sent a very clear message—NATO forces in Ukraine will be viewed and treated as combatants. Period.

EmperorHadrain:
Question 3– Last week, Colonel Douglas MacGregor was a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show. His views on the war are strikingly similar to your own. Here’s what he said in the interview:

“The war is really over for the Ukrainians. They have been ground into bits, there is no question about that despite what we hear from our mainstream media. So, the real question for us at this stage is, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government or we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as a Ukrainian war? Are we going to stop using Ukraine as a battering ram against Moscow, which is effectively what we’ve done.” (Tucker Carlson– MacGregor Interview)

Do you agree with MacGregor that the real purpose of goading Russia into a war in Ukraine was “regime change”?

Second, do you agree that Ukraine is being used as a staging ground for the US to carry out a proxy-war on Russia?

Larry C. Johnson – Doug is great analyst but I disagree with him—I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden Administration that is smart enough to think and plan in those strategic terms. In my view the last 7 years have been the inertia of the NATO status quo. What I mean by that is that NATO and Washington, believed they could continue to creep east on Russia’s borders without provoking a reaction. NATO and EUCOM regularly carried out exercises—including providing “offensive” training—and supplied equipment. I believe reports in the United States that the CIA was providing paramilitary training to Ukrainian units operating in the Donbass are credible. But I have trouble believing that after our debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, we suddenly have Sun Tzu level strategists pulling the strings in Washington.

There is an air of desperation in Washington. Besides trying ban all things Russian, the Biden Administration is trying to bully China, India and Saudi Arabia. I do not see any of those countries falling into line. I believe the Biden crew made a fatal mistake by trying to demonize all things and all people Russian. If anything, this is uniting the Russian people behind Putin and they are ready to dig in for a long struggle.

I am shocked at the miscalculation in thinking economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. Its exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and U.S. economies will be savaged. And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history.

EmperorHadrain:
Question 2 – Why is the media trying to convince the Ukrainian people that they can prevail in their war against Russia? If what you say is correct, then all the civilians that are being sent to fight the Russian army, are dying in a war they can’t win. I don’t understand why the media would want to mislead people on something so serious. What are your thoughts on the matter?

It's so true! Truth is the first casualty of war. So many people have been zombified by the media.

Larry C. Johnson – This is a combination of ignorance and laziness. Rather than do real reporting, the vast majority of the media (print and electronic) as well as Big Tech are supporting a massive propaganda campaign. I remember when George W. Bush was Hitler. I remember when Donald Trump was Hitler. And now we have a new Hitler, Vladimir Putin. This is a tired, failed playbook. Anyone who dares to raise legitimate questions about is immediately tarred as a Putin puppet or a Russia stooge. When you cannot argue facts the only recourse is name calling.

EmperorHadrain:
Question 1– Can you explain to me why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine?

Larry C. Johnson – Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept. In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.

Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and the required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure. Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated. If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.

The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.

I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr. NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.

Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles.

kollinz1234:
u are now sounding like a talkative

kollinz1234:
the greatest threat to world Peace is any nation who doesn't want to hear the voice of it's people (democracy); the country which wants to tell a sovereign nation what to do and what not to do; the country which has preference for the creation of weapons of mass destruction rather than logic and brotherly love; a country that bombs, shells a children's hospital, a country that is sending it's army to a senseless war. Russia is a threat to world Peace, and it won't be long before they become another Nazi Germany whom the rest of the world will cripple

jaxxy:
Putins top adviser just resigned and fleed the country and u are still talking here??

kollinz1234:
Putin who is far more experienced and intelligent than you said the war will end in four days

Merisbankie:
One nigga was screaming fake news
I can't help laughing

AJSfan:
With all the carpet bombing it took USA over 3 months to capture Afghanistan. Ukraine is a big country with a strong NATO-trained military. Just that they are no match for the Russian Military

WriterNig:
Click on the Twitter link. That page is an accurate source for any military news. Confirmed ✔️ Just search for Sergei Driga on Twitter and see for yourself.....

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Botlord:
So you guys don't have any propaganda to present us again, it's now this...

I pity Ukraine for thinking the west can face Russia on it behalf.

Propaganda don't win war, it'll only make such countries appear foolish later.

Meanwhile Ukraine has killed 100,000 Russian soldiers, destroyed thousands of ammunitions. We're winning on Twitter, CNN, BBC, nairaland...

God bless Putin and mother Russia.

Buliwyf:
Typical bloviating buffoon. Show me where I quoted any article. This one wants to stand me face to face lol. You no go even free show up. You are the one posting and quoting articles. And that article you just posted was as at when Germany haven't fully decided on decoupling from Russia yet. Now that the new Chancellor has decided, things are moving fast.

In your first article you said 4 years. I debunked that. Now you are posting about 2024. That's a timeline that requires the usual EU bureaucracy that take a year to even sign documents. But with the new plans, bureaucracy is out of the window and rest assured that LNG terminals for receiving gas might be a major thing by the next winter.

Sense you no get. Learn you can't learn. You are always using every opportunity to show the whole Nairaland you are daft.

Jeromejnr:
Now 11 percent about 1 hour ago

Rise of Russian Rubles coming soon..being a majorly independent nation ain't no joke.

gambojimeta:
In summary.

The government of Germany and Qatar are wasting their time and should not bother since the cost would be too high.

Well, maybe these countries will stop sending aid and money to Africa, South America and Asia only for politicians to loot and steal. Time for Africa to stand alone which is a good thing. They could use some of that money to get gas at an higher cost as long as they are getting the gas. No wahala ba.

RICH Western Europeans need subsidy and rebates too.

Another arm chair expert on Nairaland.

gambojimeta:


You have never heard of oil and gas tankers

How do you think Nigeria gets its refined crude oil?

Jesse25:
Ewooo just imagine every nation demanding to be pay with their currency that one mean say USA go enter one corner dance

Drenimarcus:
The German chancellor already said no. The DPR and Russian troops take control of the Azov-Stal perimeter and they reached the perimeter of the neo-Nazi fortified area at the industrial zone of the Azov-Stal plant.

Drenimarcus:
If they come into Ukraine, they will clash with Russia and we might have a full blown war on our hands.

DoctorOlasDesk:
As expected you're estremely stupeed. Look for someone else's time to waste with your useless banter.


Good day

2braithe:
His invasion of Afghanistan is not against the Afghan government but rather against the Taliban.

US soldiers fought side by side with Afghan soldiers on many occasions.
No dey yarn dust.

DoctorOlasDesk:
You've not talked about what you're bantering about. I believe you just enjoy the thrill of arguing. Educate us oga, what exactly is the bone of contention here. I know you're itching to type and banter as atypical as the average social media Joe is today. But what the argument is about is what I'd like to know.


Before you begin the verbal diarrhoea again, allow me ask you, what has Russia achieved so far compared with its economic loss, lives of soldiers lost, equipment loss. Educate us o.

Currency value lost

Foreign reserve of up to 50% can't be assessed

Business activities steady declines


141 nations voted against Russia in the UN. Russia had just five supports. Mr. I too know tell us what you more better than 141 nations

Gas supply deal with EU that would have generated 50 billion dollars annually lost


Credit status globally decimated abysmally.


Please educate me about the merits Russia has enjoyed in fighting this war


Don't bother responding. Its obvious you're a fook

Mrtaye:
Do you know the kind of defense systems Japan possess and the technology compared to Russia? abi you think say Japan na like Russia wey go open mouth waaaa dey boast about having nuke and other bullshit ..no be mouth ooo Russia no be Soviet Union ooo

DoctorOlasDesk:
Continue with your propaganda. Go to BBC and check out what this morning news had to say about your claims

Bluffly:
Bros stop gainsaying, the torpedo you are shouting is not even concluded. Russia themselves cannot conclude it yet, no carrier self and it will as well be like the 1950's failed one

DoctorOlasDesk:
Putin is fullish. One of the worst things in life is for a leader. In this case, a military leader is to not deliberately lead your soldiers into sure death. There's a military code of honour, that leaders must lead soldiers to victory, not into certain death. Especially when there's room for alternative action. Putin has failed woefully and he's just a walking corpse at the moment.


Even Hitler, Napoleon never lead their men to assured deaths. Yes they fought wars and their men died, but not in a way Putin is sacricifing them by sending them to death machine, Ukraine


There's a narrative the world is not reporting about. Report suggests over 12,000 soldiers have died. But much more have been lost by Russia. Many of the soldiers that have died are specialists that took years to train in other to specialize the skills needed by their units. Theyve lost Pilots, Sailors, Navy, Weapon controls systems, communication and teach experts.


They've lost all sort of professionals trained to handle and manage so many complex machinery that would take lots of training and time to master.


The new, young and replacements won't master these roles over night. This technically means, Russia is decimating its might, personnel, abilities and strengths in the long run with no single achievement or whatsoever.



The strategy was super effective if only he had stopped she he assembled 150,000 of his men outside the border. He would have gotten whatever claim he was looking for.



Now a whole 150,000 soldiers invaded a country and could not besiege any city. What a shame. Putin should leave the stage. He's finished. Either he does it himself, or he's taken out.

Fahdiga:
This goes to show that Putin is too emotional and doesn't deal with logic. He should know that countries that have more nuclear weapons are ever ready for his madness