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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:58pm On Jan 19
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
This Graham senator guy is the new John McCain. I've never seen him preaching peace
He has a stake in the oil and gas areas held by the SDF. Na wetin make the thing dey pain am.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:55pm On Jan 19
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Somehow I understand his position. It is not a black and white issue especially now Americans have done their assignment years ago. America have the cards because of two major reason.

1) If Trump and EU doesn't reach a deal and escalate sanctions. The Europeans have more to lose because their economy is dependent on American energy supply.

2) The US may withdraw military support and intelligence from Ukraine. Thus, Russia might decide to take the whole of Ukraine.

Even if NATO, cease to exist, the Americans still have potent military power to protect her territorial borders. We can't say the same to Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland etc
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. cool

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:27pm On Jan 19
WriteerNg:
⚡Germany's Merz:

The greatest security threat to Europe today does not come from the West.

It comes from the East — from the war in Ukraine.

My greatest concern for Europe’s security is not Greenland, but Ukraine.
The prayers are working. cool

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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:31am On Jan 19
bryght4u:
Amin!
Amin!
Amin!
But, come o, who borrow you small anointing sef - Pst. Okey or Pst. Kings?
The comic. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:20am On Jan 19
WriterrNg:
⚡Trump sent an “interesting” letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre:

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.

I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
The prayers are working.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:21am On Jan 19
CHIEFCHICKEN:
Funny. What would aliens want with a low thinking groups in the celestial?
Earths resources are infinite enough to sustain the space ship to its final destination. Earth is a space ship
Think so?

Fillers entails that their existence depends on ours.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 12:36am On Jan 19
bryght4u:
Him wan interfer with a fellow white man's country oo, them dey try remind am say na we-we ooo.
I am on my knees praying against every demonic thought or voice that could spring up in Trump's head, asking him to jettison the idea of taking Greenland by force.
I want to see full US invasion of a fellow Western country's territory.
It's time these guys have a taste of this same poison they've been serving the rest of the world for decades now.
At least this hasn't been labeled as a fight for "democracy and human rights" but for "national security".
Like Buhari once opined, "rule of law should be subject to national security!" Trump should gleefully make them experience what that means!
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!
cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:15pm On Jan 18
WriteerNg:
⚡Iran used the Russian Tobol electronic warfare system to neutralize the Starlink network, which is used by terrorists supported by Israel and the US. This technology has previously been tested in combat conditions in Ukraine.

The Tobol fixed complex works by analyzing and tracking Starlink satellites, then flooding them with a stronger, "contaminated" signal, creating destructive radio noise. This system is a tool for denying access to areas, and when combined with sophisticated jamming devices like the Tiradā-2, it poses a multi-layered threat.

When integrated with other intelligence systems, it can pinpoint the locations of Starlink stations, turning satellite internet from a secure feature into a detectable vulnerability.
From Russia with love.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:13pm On Jan 18
WriteerNg:
⚡The Bank of England has been advised to prepare for a major financial crisis that could be triggered by an official announcement confirming the existence of aliens.
Wahala
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:09pm On Jan 18
Gerrard59:
Except these people are not putting up a public posturing considering their shared histories and belligerence towards China and Russia, the EU cannot do anything if the Trump-led administration decides to take over Greenland.

If Trump is damn serious about taking Greenland, he would do it, and nothing would happen. What is good for Venezuela is also good for Greenland.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:56pm On Jan 18
LordAdam16:
further to this

us sources are saying iran conducted a successful ICBM test
fired towards siberia with russia's approval

-Lord
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:13am On Jan 18
LordAdam16:
😃🤣😂

the truly funny part is that the danes and europeans would look at the 12d war and the assassination of persian diplomats
and are now nervously looking at each other and definitely thinking to themselves

"F*CK"!

that could absolutely be us at any point

na d same game of deceit the us go run on both foe and vassal

-Lord
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:18pm On Jan 17
WriteerNg:
⚡Italy will NOT join the European troop deployment to Greenland, with Defense Minister Guido Crosetto dismissing the small NATO contingents as symbolic and ineffective, calling them “the beginning of a joke.”
The deployment is so pathetic that I sometimes wonder whether these folks know shame at all.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:18am On Jan 17
Michaeltreasure:
They are worse than clowns. Europe today is a joke.
Complete joke.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:15am On Jan 17
WriterrNg:
⚡Iran's National Police Command announced on Friday the interception of 60,000 weapons at Bushehr port coming from abroad and headed to Tehran for use in riots that have gripped dozens of cities since early January.

Two suspects were arrested, and officials called it a major blow against terrorists and rioters.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:52pm On Jan 16
WriterrNg:
⚡CIA Director John Ratcliffe meets with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez.
I still have my 3D on this woman.

Fingers crossed.

Time will tell.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:49pm On Jan 16
[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."
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:33pm On Jan 16
WriterrNg:
⚡Canada to import 49,000 Chinese EVs at preferential tariff rates: PM Carney
They've started hitting Trump back. Na for the Orange man to raise tariffs on Canada to 50%>
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:27pm On Jan 16
WriterrNg:
⚡Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize medal presented to him by María Corina Machado.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m):
dermmy:
This This is big, Canada is giving up on the U.S gradually. All thanks to Trump's hostile policies towards America allies. May be Xi's pacifism and gentle approach will pay in the end and attract America's allies.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:33pm On Jan 16
WriterrNg:
⚡Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee on Trump:

Of course, we will maintain our brotherhood and friendship with Saudi Arabia, with the Emirates, with Bahrain, with Qatar, with Türkiye, with Iraq.

But not a single one of your bases in these countries will be safe.

We recommend you go back. Don't come any further forward than this.

If we start moving, we won't have discussions about ceasefires and such things anymore.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:09pm On Jan 16
WriterrNg:
⚡Here's the list of European troops deployed/to be deployed in Greenland.

France — ~15 personnel 🇫🇷
Germany — ~13 personnel 🇩🇪
Norway — 2 personnel 🇳🇴
Sweden — 3 personnel 🇸🇪
United Kingdom — 1 personnel 🇬🇧
Finland — 2 personnel 🇫🇮
Netherlands — 1 personnel 🇳🇱
Clowns.

Trump only need to deploy the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and the rest would be history.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 4:01pm On Jan 15
shoodboi2:
It is funny watching NATO trying to defend itself from NATO. So if NATO attacks NATO, who will help NATO? How will the so-called article 5 even work?

Denmark itself should make peace with the BS it found itself. You don't go around helping an imperialist nation to steal from others and then expect that the imperialist won't steal from you someday.

As they say, he who rides a tiger will end up in its belly. Europe has ridden a tiger and will now end up in its belly.
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. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 3:53pm On Jan 15
[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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:12am On Jan 15
LordAdam16:
a critical observation to note

the us has recalled all but 2 of its 11 aircraft carriers home

the 2 aircraft carriers deployed outside the western hemisphere are in asia
one near japan (it is actually at its japanese home port) and the other in the south china sea

there is no aircraft carrier in the persian gulf, med, or europe




with no aircraft carrier group and skeletal crews in gulf bases
they'll have to rely on air assets covering long distances to conduct strikes which they'll support with their large tanker fleet
that'll put greece and greek cyprus as the leading source, that is if the gulf surprises everyone by vetoing strikes from their soil
israel is out of the question because it will be pummeled like no tomorrow
there were 2 aircraft carrier groups defending it during the 12D war that are now drinking tea in the us
even israeli jets, as during the 12d war, will move most offensive operations to greece/cyprus
strikes against the highest security targets would go off from the us itself, bases in western europe/uk, or diego garcia
it will be interesting to see how many sorties they can manage




the more information comes out
the more it appears that they bet the house on the terrorism
those crisis actors were supposed to f*ck over and cripple the government
this also lends credence to the government characterizing the riots as an insurgency

furthermore, the hegemony would have to strike
because this government will acquire a nuke after hostilities
it doesn't matter what khamenei says
the power brokers will get a nuke

-Lord
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:14am On Jan 14
dermmy:
Honestly Iran has tried the onslaught has been very hot and ferrocious over the decades. I'll always teach my children to be dogged and resilient like the Persians. I wish them good luck cause America and Israel don't want to miss the chance this time they will throw everything at it. I believe it will be a coalition of countries against Iran like the gulf war.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:16am On Jan 14
LordAdam16:
red flag raised above the jamkaran

LET'S F*CKING GO!

-Lord
Brother, our prediction is coming through. The months of January and February are the months of wars in the Med.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:21pm On Jan 13
stanluiz:
America did Germany a very bad thing by bombing Nord stream 2 gas pipeline. Germany has already invested billions of dollars in that project.

Nord stream 2 would have be a game changer for Germany because the gas pipeline passes through the Baltic sea direct from Russia unlike other gas pipeline that passes through Ukraine and Poland.

America even went ahead to sanction companies that were involved in the project. Now, German economy are now feeling the heat. Germany is now Deindustrialising all because of America.
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:14pm On Jan 13
ariesbull:
JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇬🇱 Russia's Dmitry Medvedev says "all 55,000 residents of Greenland could vote to join Russia, and then it's all over."
I love this man. grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m):
LordAdam16:
the excellent performance of iranian intelligence so far confirms four things:

1. israel scored numerous brownie points during the 12d primarily because of their infiltration
their field agents did the heavylifting
from degrading defenses to targeting high value vips to providing excellent by-the-minute intelligence

2. the 12d war was a wake-up call for the axis on iran
panda's hesitancy notwithstanding, the axis, particularly russia, has offered invaluable assistance
the russia/china will do nothing while the islamic government collapse narrative is in the toilet

3. there will be more surprises from iran
jamming starlink within hours is a mind-blowing feat
especially since there was no prior nationwide drill or test
no one even guessed they had that capability
this is their first go at it and you have to understand that iran is huge
also dismantling a riot network that had been deployed in virtually every province within 48 hours is crazy work

4. this regime change operation started immediately after the end of the 12d war
info is emerging that the hegemony spent billions shorting the rial
to provoke the demonstrations
that would activate their crisis actors
that would provoke a brutal crackdown
that they would show to western audiences to quieten any mumblings about a military intervention

they've followed that plan to a t

the only hiccup is that the crisis actors were supposed to be more effective at destabilizing the government
and the brutal crackdown was supposed to alienate the government from the populace
so that the military intervention could occur while the government was in death throes and would struggle to mount a painful retaliation

however, they've invested so much and burned so many assets that they'll attack nonetheless

any talk about diplomacy or indecision should be discarded

the hegemony is willing to sacrifice a couple of americans/israelis and an 80 year old unpopular president to attack iran's security installations and officials

the loudmouth's completely unhinged plan is to strike iran then offer negotiations and some kind of conciliation to avoid a painful retaliation (maybe allow another choreographed strike) and a wider total regional war
he offered iran unfettered access to selling its oil to china to get them to end the 12d war
but that was after generals and scientists had been murdered and fordow was hit
he definitely thinks that'll work again




since we're in the endgame T-*
a quick synopsis on iran's readiness

iran had been planning around a 12d war repeat
the introduction of the us leading the attack has led them to dust up secondary plans
us bases are all around iran's west (true west, northwest, south west)
the gulf, iraq/syria, turkey

a pre-emptive strike is being complicated by knowledge about whom will allow their territories to be used
turkey did provide valuable intelligence to capturing iraqi kurdish agents but will that extend to banning the us from using their bases?
the saudi arabia-uae clash that is benefitting iran's foreign policy means the gulf is also not clear-cut
then you have iraq and syria where they have to be careful about creating the impression that they instigated war with a pre-emptive strike
essentially, they have to wait for at least axis early warning systems to identify source of imminent attack

this would have been much more straightforward if it was an israel-iran match up

-Lord
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. cool

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
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:15pm On Jan 12
FoolishBoy419:
🚨 BREAKING:

🇮🇷 Iranian intelligence RAIDED a MOSSAD TERRORIST safe house in Yasuj and ARRESTED several armed militants in a surprise operation.

The CAPTURED terrorists CONFESSED:

“I was influenced and completely unaware. I was taken advantage of by ‘them’. We were deceived.”




There are dozens of videos like this. This is pure terrorism by USreal
LordAdam16, Netanyahoo banker is speedily becoming bonkers.

They must attack whether they like it or not.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:13pm On Jan 12
erniok:
He has lost touch with reality. US dare not invade cuba and he knows it.
With impulsive Trump, anything is possible.

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