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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:40pm On Oct 04, 2025
LordAdam16:
I am convinced that some of the drone incidents are false flags.

Weeks back, OkpaNsukkaisBae highlighted the French order to hospitals to prepare for a major war.
Methinks they're setting the stage and priming the population for readiness sake.
Depending on how events like the Iran and Venezuela wars go, they really might attempt to shoot down a Russian jet or some other provocation and spark a war.

The French FM today was asking Hamas to surrender.
They want to wrap up the genocide and proceed with plans on other fronts.
F*ckery is afoot.

You could sense it from Putin's statements yesterday and the increase in pace of Axis deliveries to the various fronts.
Sh*t my very well soon hit the fan.

-Lord
It's not 'some', they're all false flags.

Anyone who thinks that modern day Russia need drones to accurately map military sites and infrastructures in Germany or other NATO nations is living in the stone age.

Common sense dictates that Russia already has the coordinates of all NATO critical bases assigned to strategic missiles within the echelon of Russian missile forces.

The elite in the west are vying hard for a reset, and they're preparing the people's mind for that.

The Russians are taking notes and not letting this slides.

Lavrov at the UNGA recently made it clear:

Take down a Russian jet and the response would be instant and decisive.

And they're making this threat clear. Russian warships and subs are now parked closed to strategic NATO borders.

Try nonsense and reap nonsense.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:25pm On Oct 04, 2025
Tsarbomba:
This thread will reach 2 million views in the next 6 hours! I want to appreciate these great people for making this thread lively and not boring! I will like to appreciate @Writeerng, @Shoodboi2, @Lordadam, @Appleyard, @Kingsnairaland, @Obedience, @Gbadebo, and all the other contributors who've been actively sharing their thoughts, opinions, and insights. Your contributions have added so much value to the discussion, made it engaging for everyone, and made me enlightened about the complex geopolitricks smiley surrounding the Russia-Ukraine situation and Israeli-Gaza conflict. Let's keep the conversation going and reach that milestone!!
Thanks bro. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:23pm On Oct 04, 2025
LordAdam16:
Israelis are now complaining about the sheer number of Iranian spies that have been caught.

The crazy part is that most of them are citizens.

To the Israelis resisting, Chag Sukkot sameach!

-Lord
The truth is, Netanyahoo is very unpopular in his own country. Many of the Jews hate him like mad.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:20pm On Oct 04, 2025
LordAdam16:
🤣😀😄

How many times will he open the gates of hell.
The gateman for hell go don tire.

-Lord
The gateman don vex take sleeping pills while hissing so that Trump mentions no go dey disturb am. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:15pm On Oct 04, 2025
LordAdam16:
An Iranian general has said they will not conduct a pre-emptive strike.
Apparently, they now feel confident about bracing the initial assault.
The entire military has been on high alert for about a week now.

Lastly, there is speculation that the earthquake of yesterday was not natural.

-Lord
A similar earthquake happened early this year, and all the signs points to a possible nuke test.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:13pm On Oct 04, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Russian military cargo aircraft keep entering Iran non-stop, from different directions and countries.

Today, two planes entered Iran from Kazakhstan and Armenia.
The axis are propping up Iran for the potential Israel rematch.

This time, the ME might go up in flames.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:09pm On Oct 04, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡A Russian Ilyushin IL-96-300 just flew from St Petersburg to New York.

Look at the Finnish border. Russia flies around it.

The opposite is the problem. Finnair cannot fly across Russia and so their entire ultra lucrative Asia business is gone.
Finland's case is really pathetic. They're suffocating so much in silence since joining the sanctions war and NATO bloc.

All the cheap basic necessities they were getting via the Russian border is gone. Almost all the businesses in the bordering towns have closed down. Prices of things have tripled.

The airline case is just one example. And is not limited to the Finns alone. Is same story with other European countries that sanctioned Russia. They now spend twice more in flight prices and expenses to get to Asia compared to their Asian counterparts, prompting them to cry 'unfair competition'.

The worst thing that can happen to any country is to have leaders who reason based on emotions as against stark geopolitical and economic realities.

The Euro zone has succeeded in making itself a less competitive bloc to the Asians and the USA. And that gap is growing with each passing day.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:33am On Oct 04, 2025
WriterrNg:
⚡🇷🇺 VLADIMIR PUTIN:

"The power of the United States and its allies reached its peak at the end of the 20th century.

But there has never been, nor will there ever be, a force capable of ruling the world, dictating everyone how to act, how to live, even how to breathe.

Such attempts have been made, but every one of them has failed.

However, we must recognise that many found that so-called liberal world order acceptable and even convenient.

True, a hierarchy severely limits opportunities for those not perched at the top of the pyramid, or, if you prefer, the top of the food chain.

But those at the bottom were relieved of responsibility.

The rules were simple: accept the terms, fit into the system, receive your share, however modest, and be content. Others would think and decide for you.


And no matter what anyone says now, no matter how some try to disguise the reality – that is how it was.

The experts gathered here remember and understand this perfectly well.

Some, in their arrogance, saw themselves entitled to lecture the rest of the world.

Others were content to play along with the powerful as obedient bargaining chips, eager to avoid unnecessary trouble in exchange for a modest but guaranteed bonus.


There are still many such politicians in the old part of the world, in Europe.

Those who dared object and tried to defend their own interests, rights, and views, were at best dismissed as eccentrics.

They were told, in effect: "You will not succeed, so give up and accept that compared to our power, you are a nonentity."

As for the truly stubborn, they were "educated" by the self-proclaimed global leaders, who no longer even bothered to hide their intent.

The message was clear: resistance was pointless.

But this did not bring anything good.

Not a single global problem was resolved.

On the contrary, new ones are constantly multiplying.

Institutions of global governance created in an earlier era either ceased to function or lost much of their effectiveness.


And no matter how much strength or resources one state, or even a group of states, may accumulate, power always has its limits.

As the Russian audience knows, there is a saying in Russia: "There’s no counter to a crowbar, except another crowbar," meaning you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, but another gun.

And indeed, that "other gun" can always be found.

This is the very essence of world affairs: a counterforce always emerges.

And attempts to control everything inevitably generate tension, undermining stability at home and prompting ordinary people to ask a very fair question of their governments: "Why do we need all this?"

I once heard something similar from our American colleagues, who said: "We gained the whole world, but lost America."

I can only ask: Was it worth it? And did you truly gain anything at all?"
Point to one current leader in the West that can reason and articulate words like this man.

None.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:07am On Oct 04, 2025
shoodboi2:
How they continue to self-assure themselves despite the overwhelming evidence never gets boring. grin grin grin
Its a dangerous coping mentality because, it has a way of eroding one's innate conscious sense of reasoning and pragmatic awareness, replacing it with a psychologically, warped, twisted viewpoint and persona. This is one of the main causes of the rampant cognitive psychological issues you see on this thread.

When you see truth and you say it's false, repeatedly, it will replace that conscious sanity in your reasoning to an extent where admitting or telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Some calls it self induced cognitive reprogramming. Its a mental illness that so many are not even aware of.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:44am On Oct 04, 2025
shoodboi2:
See finishing grin grin grin

The Battle of Poltava was fought in 1709, 316 years ago. Sweden was fighting against Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia. Sweden had defeated the first two and marched toward Moscow to defeat Russia. But the battle ended in a severe defeat for Sweden. It marked the end of Sweden's attempt to become a great European power and also, marked the rise of Russia as a great European power
Russia don't start wars. They end them. cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:42am On Oct 04, 2025
WriterrNg:
Airforce and Navy against yahoo boys?

Wetin u smoke?

I have never seen or heard of Nigerian army going after yahoo boys.

No military does that.
cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:05pm On Oct 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Putin:

If Russia is a paper tiger, then what is NATO ?


cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:02pm On Oct 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Putin:

"They say that the German army should be the most powerful in Europe? Okay, we have been listening to that attentively and eyeing that closely, trying to figure what they actually mean. I believe that no one has any doubts that the response of Russia will not be long in coming."


I love this.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:32pm On Oct 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Trump:

I’ll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion.
China called his bluff and shove his damn soybeans on his egoistical tarrif face.

The likes of Brazil and Argentina filled the void.

Now, the US is back 'begging' with pride.

Stupid has never been this shameful.



The more this things plays out the more they'd realize that the world has since moved away from the US-led western hegemony.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:20pm On Oct 03, 2025
SonOfWords:
Again, some of you Nigerians on this Obasanjo's internet are hilariously weird grin.

You're gleefully mocking someone for being pro-Russia and using a US owned company to access information, when you're actually pro-USA to the core, but have to sleep on a "Russian propaganda thread" every day just so you can find relevance and spotlight through air-brained arguments😂.

Na your passport suppose define "hypocrisy" for Oxford dictionary!
grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:06pm On Oct 03, 2025
LordAdam16:
Looks like an Iranian demand.

Iran is activating every asset.

The US also emptied two bases in Iraq because USreal are planning to take on the PMF, KH, and other pro-Iran militias in Iraq.

-Lord
I was also thinking the same thing. Iran's hand is at work here.

Whatever. The ME is poised to experience more bloody geopolitical turbulence.

I read some where that Russia is about supplying advanced anti ship missiles to the Houthis. I don't know how true it is. But, anything that gets America entangled at this moment is good for Russia vis the Ukraine SMO timeline.

October is the beginning of many sorrowful things to come.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:52pm On Oct 03, 2025
SonOfWords:
Una too funny for this thread grin.

The Russian military is inefficient and below par, yet it is Donald Trump and the Ukrainian comedian who have consistently been lamenting every eke market day about Putin's refusal to agree to a ceasefire.

Una for no like put NATO boots for Russian borders so the job of capturing Russia can be done at once🤡?!
What else do you expect from kids on emotional overdrive. One elwas even comparing the Russian-Ukraine war to Israel-Gaza crisis..
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:38pm On Oct 03, 2025
SonOfWords:
Bros abeg try give me your dealer number before you sleep grin🙏.
grin grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:24pm On Oct 03, 2025
Kingsnairaland:
Ukraine gave Russia the bodies of 35 Russian soldiers.
In return, Russia returned the bodies of 909 Ukrainians soldiers
One brother will soon come here to say that Russia has lost more soldiers than Ukraine.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:13pm On Oct 02, 2025
shoodboi2:
Funny thing is that if Russia fires 10 drones and missiles into Ukraine, Ukrainians will hear 12 explosions. The additional two explosions are coming from Ukrainian patriot missiles slamming into Ukrainian buildings.

In the last Russian attack on September 28/29, there was a video of a patriot missile literally ignoring the Russian drones and missiles it was supposed to target to intercept Ukrainian buildings on the ground 😂😂😂
Don't mind the kids in here. cheesy

This has been ongoing for a very long time.

The numbers of intercepts they claim is usually at odds with the extent of damages recorded on the ground across Ukraine.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:16am On Oct 01, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Iran executed Bahman Choobi-Asl, a database specialist, for spying for Mossad.

He was reportedly recruited abroad and shared sensitive data center information in exchange for money and benefits.
They need to do more of this sleeper cell busting.

The more people they catch, the less Netanyahoo confidence will get.

The fact that the Yahooboy is still pursuing a second round despite Iran setting the precedent that we can inflict serious pain on you, means that, there is something huge he's banking on to achieve their goal in the upcoming second round.

Tehran must find that source of confidence.

Or die trying.

And I know that source lies within Iran.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:01am On Oct 01, 2025
LordAdam16:
Worst Iranian President in living memory.

-Lord
The man seems lost. He appears to have no grasp of reality.

Scary.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:15am On Sep 30, 2025
WriterrNg:
⚡A whole street wiped out. Aftermath of the strike on Kyiv.

In Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, an entire street has been destroyed.

Homes were left without roofs and windows. The streets are covered with chunks of brick, glass, and building debris.

Firefighters and rescue teams are clearing the rubble.
It amazes me how Ukraine and their ignorant supporters here usually intercept all the drones and missiles with the 'targets.'
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:47am On Sep 28, 2025
LordAdam16:
Is it just me or is Russia doing an Oprah-style everyone gets a nuclear plant giveaway?

Many of these countries can't pay for one outright, so Russia will finance it with Russian-generated loans.

-Lord
In the next two decades, several countries that no one envisaged would become nuke capable. Even Nigeria wants to build a nuclear power plant. Na from there dem take dey start.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:23am On Sep 28, 2025
FoolishBoy419:
Russian drone production capacity is scary. Most of them are suicide drones and yet they unleash hundreds of them per night as if they're AK47 rounds.
It's because they now have automated factories.

Machines producing machines.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:19am On Sep 28, 2025
Alamkiir:
You be like me, no time, peace is sweet.
And I have notice that more intellectuals are now contributing regularly, instead the usual once in a while post. Seun try for this one if only he can add more weeks or make it permanent
In deed. It introduced some sanity.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:16pm On Sep 27, 2025
emmaodet:
I don't even know if this 3 weeks ban is working.
I do ban some monikers just only to see them surface back with 10 days or 2 weeks.
Infact, i am tired of regularly banning them.
Can't seun just give us the option of picking the number of days we want? like i can put 150 days or more instead of these 3-3 weeks painful routine.
It has been a blessing.


Once I see any of the forbidden usernames, I just click on it. Scroll to the block option below. Click on it. Then return bank to the current page. Refresh it and the menace is taken off my view.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:29pm On Sep 26, 2025
IMEI:
Abeg let's keep things here decent and surface level, I know the history of this beef, as I've been here long enough, but most people here prefer the intellectual sparring to this personal stuff
I'm really disappointed that this once glorious thread have turned into a doxxing ground.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:07pm On Sep 26, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡During a previously-not-made-public tense meeting earlier this week in Moscow, with the goal of deescalating tensions between Russia and NATO; British, French and German envoys told Russian officials that NATO is prepared to respond to further violations of its airspace with lethal force, according to sources with knowledge of the talks who spoke with Bloomberg.

During the talks, a Russian diplomat told the Europeans that the incursions were a response to Ukrainian strikes on Crimea, with the Kremlin stating those operations would not have been possible without NATO support and, as a result, Russia considers that it is already engaged in a confrontation involving Europe.
Play time is over. Hold my beer.

You want war? You gat one.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:52pm On Sep 26, 2025
WriterrNg:
⚡Two Russian surveillance satellites are 'pursuing' satellites used by Germany's armed forces, the German defence minister has said.
Even in space, there is no peace for the wicked/Nazis.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:30am On Sep 25, 2025
WriterrNg:
⚡"There is no superior race.”

“There is no ‘chosen people of God’.”

“It is neither the United States nor Israel.”

“The ‘chosen people of God’ is all of humanity.”

— President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro
Raw facts.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 4:25pm On Sep 24, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡They accuse Russia, China, and Palestine of dictatorship, but the real dictatorship and censorship are in the EU — Romanian MEP Diana Sosoaca

'Ursula von der Leyen said she will put me in jail... but I cannot shut up — I'm a lawyer, I love God, I trust in God and they are Satan'.


Just so you know...

Last year, the Russian Federation arrested 400 people for comments on social media. The United Kingdom arrested 3,300 for comments made on social media.

Orwell's 1984 is truly prophetic. cool

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