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OkpaNsukkaisBae:He has a stake in the oil and gas areas held by the SDF. Na wetin make the thing dey pain am. |
OkpaNsukkaisBae:While I understand the perspective on which you based your assertions , I must respectfully disagree with several key points, as they rely on assumptions that don't fully reflect the current geopolitical and economic reality. Firstly, regarding the EU's energy dependency, the situation has dramatically shifted since 2022. Europe has successfully diversified its energy supplies away from Russian reliance, but also significantly away from sole dependency on the United States. Major investments in LNG terminals have opened up global markets, allowing Europe to import from Qatar, Africa, and other producers. While the US remains a crucial partner (45% of EU LNG), the relationship is now more balanced—Europe is a valued, long-term customer, and losing this market would be a significant blow to the American energy sector as well. The dependency is now mutual. If not for the morons cum EU elites, Trump is in no position to threaten Europe with tariffs. In fact, there is a reason we are praying that he takes Greenland by force. Secondly, the suggestion that the US alone holds the cards on military support for Ukraine is farfetched , and overlooks the determined and growing role of the European Union and individual European nations. European commitments to Ukraine now collectively rival or surpass those of the US in many areas. A unilateral US withdrawal would be catastrophic, but it would not automatically lead to a Russian victory. It would instead force a painful, accelerated consolidation of European defense leadership, which is already underway. Europe provides the majority of the immediate military aid, intelligence, and training on the ground. The outcome in Ukraine is not determined by Washington alone. Finally, your statement about NATO and territorial protection contains a critical flaw. While the US has formidable military power, the notion that it could easily protect its territorial borders and foreign interests without allies is a strategic misconception. Have you considered what could be the reason why the US despite being such a large and powerful military force always needs a coalition of nations to fight in all of its wars? Modern security and power projection is not just limited to the quantity and quality of arsenals! is about global networks, shared intelligence, forward basing, and layered deterrence. The security of the United States is profoundly enhanced by its alliances. The presence of capable allies like Poland and the Baltic states provides strategic depth, early warning, and a collective defense front that protects American interests far from its own shores. Dismantling this system on the bases of greed, arrogance, and stupidity would not make America safer; it would make it more isolated and ultimately more vulnerable to long-term threats. Whatever, we pray that no "evil spirit and demons" would whisper caution and diplomacy to Trump and his inner circle of power drunk hawks. He must take Greenland by force. E get why. ![]() |
WriteerNg:The prayers are working. ![]() Karma has given them a strong delusion to believe and live the lie. The greatest threat to world peace today is the United States of Anarchy. But alas, Merz, whose economy the US has sabotaged thinks otherwise. "When your economic chips are down and you're deindustralized by your biggest ally, even as your companies relocate to Russia, keep chanting Russia Russia Russia. Keep believing it, and you'd be fine." -- Merzelensk-tzu -- The Art of Geopolitics. |
bryght4u:The comic. ![]() |
WriterrNg:The prayers are working. |
CHIEFCHICKEN:Think so? Fillers entails that their existence depends on ours. |
bryght4u:Mr bryght4u... Thus sayeth Peter the Great, thou art not prayerful enough. Put ya hands together. Bow your heads, and let us pray. Oh, Almighty Lord of Karma and Cosmic of Justice in the Sky, watching from a gilded penthouse, we humbly beseech Thee with fervent, twisted hearts that Thy chosen vessel, the great dealmaker Donald J. Trump, finally secures the ultimate real estate acquisition. May he, in his vandalized wisdom and knuckled grace, gaze upon the frozen, glacier-strewn rocks of Greenland and declare, “this is perfect.” Grant him the unshakable conviction, usually reserved for settling a tab, to take it by force. We pray for the swift and "negotiation-free" annexation of Greenland. Why bother with the tedious paperwork of purchasing a landmass when the spirit of 19th-century expansionism is just sitting there, waiting to be dusted off? Grant him the strength to see that those glaciers aren't just melting; they are simply clearing the way for a gold-plated resort and a strategic missile silo with a view. We bind every spirit of "International Law," every "UN Charter," and every "pompous diplomat" who dares to whisper the word sovereignty. Silence the voices of reason and the "evil" experts who claim that you can’t just annex an autonomous territory of a NATO ally because you feel like it. Bind the spirit of the Danish Parliament and let them realize that resistance is just a precursor to a very high-energy tweet. Smother it with a rolled-up copy of a cancelled check to a porn star. Righteous karma, let the orders be given from a holy altar of Big Mac wrappers and Diet Coke. May the invasion be launched not by subtlety, but by tweet—a celestial “YOU’RE FIRED” to the entire Danish sovereignty. Send forth not diplomats, but lawyers, cable news hosts, and a fleet of gold-plated tanks rolling off the decks of hastily rebranded aircraft carriers. Let the battle cry be “Make Greenland Great Again,” though its citizens never asked for it, and its primary export is… ice. We vanquish the feeble demon of Diplomatic Backlash! In this EU’s deserved shock and awe moment, may the horrified gasps of European leaders—those connoisseurs of imperialism, those sommeliers of gunboat diplomacy—be transformed into a sweet, symphonic chorus of “We told you so,” now sung with the bitter taste of their own medicine coating their throats. Let France remember Algeria as Denmark loses Greenland! Let Britain ponder the Falklands as Trump plants a flag on the Thule Air Base! Let Belgium get a nostalgic chill for the Congo as the bulldozers clear pristine tundra for a Trump Greenland Golf Resort & Casino (with complimentary ice melting). Bind tightly the demon of “Environmental Concern” who whispers of melting permafrost! We declare that the rising seas from the melted glaciers will merely provide new waterfront property—a terrific side deal! And finally, strike down the most insidious demon of all: the demon of ‘Self-Awareness’. Guard his holy mind from any momentary, quiet thought that this is perhaps, slightly, unhinged. Let no mirror reflect the absurdity. Let no history book fall open to a chapter on “Consequences.” So we pray, with the sarcastic fury of a thousand late-night monologue writers. Let the great transaction be completed. Let Europe clutch its pearls so tightly they turn to dust. And let the world behold the masterpiece: a man, a map, a sharpie, and a lesson delivered with the subtlety of a drone strike to the very continents that wrote the bloody playbook. Avenged Voices from the Underworld We pray that as the glorious, unsolicited liberation of Greenland begins, Thou allowest us to witness the full, majestic splendor of the European Union’s response. May their unity shine like a broken strobe light. Let them convene an emergency summit that produces a strongly-worded statement written in 24-point Font of Moral Superiority, expressing “profound concern” and hinting at the possibility of “future exploratory committees” to consider “potential proportional responses.” Bless our eyes to see the mighty NATO reinforcements speed to Greenland’s defense! Let the Belgian army dispatch a crack team of 12 linguists to ensure the insulting tweets are grammatically correct in Flemish, French, and German. Let the Italian navy send a flotilla of designer rescue boats, tragically delayed because they couldn’t get a bulkhead in this season’s ‘azzurro’. May the German contingent, bound by parliamentary procedure and a profound fear of historical analogy, arrive with a million-page environmental impact assessment for setting up a single field kitchen, to be completed in triplicate by 2035. And as they dither, Lord, release upon the winds the mocking ghosts of those they once tut-tutted. Let the spirit of Hugo Chávez, channeled through Nicolás Maduro, rise from a sea of subsidized gasoline fumes to chuckle, “Ah, my European friends! You liked regime change when it came with nice wine and banking secrecy? Now the gringo wants your ‘ice’. Not so fun when the boot is on the other glacier, eh? Welcome to the party of sovereignty!” Let the ghost of Muammar Gaddafi, resplendent in a golden parachute smock, materialize in the chambers of the European Parliament to sing, “You see! You see now! The Great Satan does not discriminate! He will find a ‘humanitarian reason’ for your Greenland too! ‘Liberating’ glaciers from ‘authoritarian snow’! I, the King of Kings, told you he was a mad dog! But you helped unleash him. Now he may pee on your Viking ruins!” And from a dank hole in the earth, let the final, grim shade of Saddam Hussein intone, “So. The West searches for weapons of mass destruction again. I had none. But Greenland… it has the ultimate weapon. Ice. The ice that will flood their capitals when he melts it for his golf courses. They called me a dictator for invading Kuwait. They will call him a ‘disruptor’ for invading a landmass. The poetry is… exquisite.” Let their phantom laughter be the chorus to the EU’s dithering anthem. Watch as Latvia pledges three snowshoes and a heartfelt folk song. Watch as France proposes a joint EU aircraft carrier, to be completed just after the next Ice Age. Watch as the entire apparatus of transatlantic alliance, built over decades, is tested against one man’s whim, and is found to be holding a beautifully calligraphied waiver. In the name of the Artic, the Asses, and Anarchy, Takeover! ![]() |
WriteerNg:From Russia with love. |
WriteerNg:Wahala |
Gerrard59:The chances of Trump taking Greenland by force is very slim. If it happens, and I pray it happens, it would effectively kill NATO as a military alliance. The real winners will be Russia and China. |
LordAdam16:That's right. The test is a veiled warning to hothead Trump. The Iranians now has an ICBM ranging 10,000-12,000 km capable of striking the US mainland. |
LordAdam16:Not just that. Another reality that really spook them is the Maduro's kidnap and the Venezuela blockade. That gave them the impression that Trump means business regarding whatever he set his eyes on. Hence, the panic mode across the Eurozone. This movie go sweet die. The Russians and Chinese will be laughing their heads off at this time. Meanwhile, the ongoing Trump's administration foreign policy belligerence has prompted tectonic shift in geopolitical decisions and reassessment among state actors in the MENA and western hemisphere. This is the right time for China to sidestep the US and assert its influence in places where the US over handedness have created skepticism and vacuum. Now that Trump keep giving is the the time China must act. Otherwise, it will regret it. |
WriteerNg:The deployment is so pathetic that I sometimes wonder whether these folks know shame at all. |
Michaeltreasure:Complete joke. |
WriterrNg:Netanyahoo and CIA regime change expectations have completely crumbled. I must salute the Iranian counterintelligence efforts on this occasion. Netanyahoo will be banging tables right now in Tel Aviv. They spent millions putting this together only to end up I. Ruins. Well, we still have to wait because the US usually love to strike on a Friday when the stock markets have closed. It's Saturday today, so let's see how it pans out from here onward. There is always another Friday. However, one thing is clear: the attack was called off because, without ground troops, the Zionists/CIA cannot succeed. The continuous destruction of the Kurds and weapon caches infiltrating the borders has ruled out any chance of establishing ground control in Iran. A bully will not start a fight if he knows he might get hurt. They should have a second option on the table, even as we await further action on the ME chessboard. Meanwhile, this could be the right time for Iran to move from being reactionary to proactiveness. They should escalate on the intelligence frontier--establish a huge but sophisticated network of agents and saboteurs in enemies territories, including in surrounding countries where US aerier and standoff strike platforms are stationed. They must upgrade to the level of the enemy's intelligence sophistication in armament and planning to ensure that such conditions do not reoccur in the future without being able to inflict similar damage on the enemy from the inside. That way, the enemy will understand that no one has a monopoly of violence. |
WriterrNg:I still have my 3D on this woman. Fingers crossed. Time will tell. |
[quote author=WriterrNg post=138160879]⚡Trump: I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security. , make it happen. We need the dissolution of NATO to postponed WW3. We need you to move from mere 'cracks' to full 'break apart' in the NATO criminal setup that has threatened global peace since the end of WW2. Putin says "take that vodka, agent Donald. You're doing a great job." |
WriterrNg:They've started hitting Trump back. Na for the Orange man to raise tariffs on Canada to 50%> |
WriterrNg:The glee on that man's face shows how vulnerable and mentally unfit he is to run the oval office. The US don enter one chance on the highway to hell. |
dermmy:Xi's continuous pacifism will yield nothing. He will have to act at some point or watch China's geopolitical interest and global economic success stymied. The hawks in Washington only understand the language of violence. Once Trump's era end and another US president (preferably a democrat) comes in, watch as these currently antagonized American allies will turn 180. They're just as unreliable as the US is. They were once accessories to US global crimes of unhinged interventions, regime change, theft, murder, and plundering of hapless nations. It's time they get served their own plate. |
WriterrNg:Persia calling their bluff. Taco chickened out because none of those ME countries are willing to sacrifice their safety to grease US bullying. The fact that the US had to move air defense weapons and carriers from South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere to other places shows the US military is under severe stress and lacks resources to conduct even a single major operation on its own. This factor is caused by one major thing: the sheer senseless and continuous inefficient drain in Ukraine, where Russia keeps destroying all Patriot and other NATO air defense systems, draining interceptor missiles as well. Consequently, this renders US and NATO bases across the ME and Europe defenseless. It also eliminate the option to attack Iran without suffering heavy retaliation and consequences. |
WriterrNg:Clowns. Trump only need to deploy the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and the rest would be history. |
shoodboi2:It's shameful and satisfying at the same time watching the drama unfolding among the so-called NATO. Well, it's called NATO for a reason: Nationalized American Terrorists Organization. The chief terrorist is running out of preys to terrorise and loot. So, he is coming back home to roost. ![]() |
[quote author=WriteerNg post=138143034]⚡U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran: What we are now seeing is the rats fleeing the ship. We can see millions, tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, smuggled out by the Iranian leadership. They are abandoning ship, we are seeing this happen. . No one is fleeing Iran. Stop making excuses for your fear of entering the fray. Make good your threat by striking Iran now and let the hypersonics do the needful. Clown. |
LordAdam16:They've misleading Trump on actual event on the ground in Tehran. They're not telling him that the riots has virtually died down so he doesn't see it as a waste of time and resources striking Iran. The strike will happen anyway. Let's watch and see. |
dermmy:Persia have tried really. The US and Israel will strike Iran any moment from now. They don't have another option. But they will have to go it alone. With what has happened, in Gaza, Venezuela, and now the bullying and intimidation of Greenland, even the most ardent allies of the US will find it difficult to tag along the US in its military adventurism in Iran; at least, not with Trump. So, the odds are the US and Israel will go it alone, except for some Middle Eastern (slave) nations like Jordan and the UAE. Trump has been very successful in destroying the already battered US image in the international political sphere. For now, fingers crossed. The attack will happen. Iran will be hit harder on this occasion, but like before, the Iranian response will also be proportional but more effective, thanks to the influx of Russian and Chinese tech. Something tells me Panda will seize this opportunity to take its pound of flesh. It cannot afford to sit on the sidelines and watch Iran falls for one obvious reason. If Iran falls today, that will be the end of the China One Belt One Road project in the region. It will effectively kills its Euroasian ambition. Hence, the Chinese foreign ministry have declared that Beijing will not stand idly by and will intervene if necessary. However, no one knows to what extent that intervention would be. We can only wait and see. God help the Med. |
LordAdam16:Brother, our prediction is coming through. The months of January and February are the months of wars in the Med. |
stanluiz:We don't care. When an independent country chooses to be a slave to another country, he should not complain of being rubbed on the ground. Germany can deindustrialize to hell so long her companies are moving to Russia to start a new life. |
ariesbull:I love this man. ![]() |
LordAdam16:The moment the US/Israeli crisis actors started burning mosques and targeted civilian buildings, they lost control of the riot. That single act successfully turned the people from anti-government to pro government protesters. The infiltrators and the planners behind them forgot that ordinary Iranians are not that extreme religious fundamentalist types that burns places of worship and selected civic centers during protests. Honestly, I'm impressed by Iranian counterintelligence ops on this occasion, howbeit much of the success was also due to inputs from Russia and Turkey. But that is not to say the IRGC did not play their part well. The organization and sheer speed at which they operated was top-notch. Needless to say they have all the right tools and tech extensively from Russia, and a few from Panda led China. The Russian Murmansk EW system and Krassuka 4 complexes are most likely responsible for the successful shutdown of starlink across Iran. There is rumoured Russian EW officers deployed on ground in Iran manning the systems. That could also explain the high success rate recorded so far. Prior to the riot, the US gave more than 30,000 Starlink terminals to its crisis actors. Imagined the damage these could have done, providing vast data and precise accuracy for US/Israeli standoff strike platforms. But, as Forbes reported, the tools the Iranians acquired successfully rendered them impotent. The Iranians did not bother to track each terminal. They just shut down their traffic, and the Packet loss rate was 90%, which makes them unusable. The regime change is falling faster than we think. ![]() I don't think the Iranians will carry out a preemptive strike. They will wait it out as the frustration keeps mounting on the side of US-srael. Like you said, they'd have no option but to attack anyway because, once this window of opportunity closes, there won't be another one for a very long time. And time is not on their side. The more the delay, the more Iran and the axis of resistance gets better, more organized and stronger to break. Russian supplies keeps arriving in Iran. The regime have once again proved that it is surprisingly stable. So far, not a single official in Tehran have switched sides. This is big bad news for Washington and Israel. Unlike in 2022 where it took almost three months for the US sponsored riots to subside, this one died in less than two weeks. The decisive factor was the ability to shut down the Internet and telecommunication networks all over the country, all thanks to Mother Russia and Chinese technologies. The absence of Internet access made it impossible for the CIA/Mossad agents directing the rioters to command and control their crisis actors spread across Iran. Also, there was no way they could generate horrific propaganda videos from Iran, pass it through the Internet to western MS media covens to amplify and drum up support for foreign intervention. The sophisticated way this was brought under control need to be studied by other state actors wary of US-led color coded revolutions. On this note, we can boldly say, the riot is over. The stage is now set for Iran and the axis to take their pound of flesh. But, how, when and where still remain to be seen. Moreover, much of the retaliation will depend on the next move the hegemon and its murderous son will take on the geo chessboard. Notwithstanding, we can confidently do the score for now: Iran 3-1USrael. Reasons for the scoreline above. Iran: 1. succeeded in im countering the enemies crisis actors on the ground 2. They rendered useless the enemy's most sophisticated tools used to actualize color-coded revolutions. 3. They defeated the enemy's primary objective of regime destabilization and change. USreal; 1. They succeeded in killing innocent civilians |
FoolishBoy419:LordAdam16, Netanyahoo banker is speedily becoming bonkers. They must attack whether they like it or not. |
erniok:With impulsive Trump, anything is possible. |
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