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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:54pm On Oct 02, 2024
seunny4lif:
Which one? The ones that already landed in Israeli or another ones?

Meanwhile, why did U.S. destroyers like the USS Carney and USS Arleigh Burke, which are stationed in the Mediterranean Sea and equipped with advanced missile defense systems failed to stop Iran missiles? Why did Jordan not stopped those missiles unlike the last time?
Truth be told, everyone is tired o Netanyahu.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:41pm On Oct 02, 2024
Mille:
Unbelievable. I don't want to believe Iran has these kind of missiles that can overwhelm air defense and cause as much damage as I have seen. What the F did they now do in April flying some shambolic missiles and drones.

Btw, who else has noticed Jordan did not shoot down any missiles that passed through their airspace? Can anyone tell us why.
Everyone is getting fed up with Netanyahu high-handedness. Even the Americans did not make any attempt to intercept any of the missiles. Netanyahu had to be tamed.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:33pm On Oct 02, 2024
shoodboi2:
Another imperialist and anti-Russian bites the dust.
I remember Stoltenberg for his 'shivering hands ' and 'rattling' papers as he struggled to put coherent words together during a NATO rushed press conference in the aftermath of the Turkish downing of Russia's SU-24 in 2015. grin

For almost three months, all NATO planes avoided the East of the Euphrates like it was the Eleventh plague of Egypt following the Russian declaration to target any plane that flies in that direction. grin

When you're big, you are big.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:20pm On Oct 02, 2024
shoodboi2:
Word of the month:

Iskandered /hiss-can-dad/ — To be destroyed using an Iskander missile. Examples:

[1] Five Ukrainian F-16 jets were iskandered at an airfield in Starokostiantyniv.
[2] Five Ukrainian F-16 jets were iskandered but the news was hidden by Western media.
[3] A US soldier called Steven was killed after being iskandered at an Ukrainian Air Force airfield.
This is creatively hilarious.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:04pm On Oct 01, 2024
BoldBrainz:
I'll never really understand why the humans here give you so much attention. You're a disingenuous being with a single digit IQ.

If you're playing opposition with informed facts, it presents a different scenario. But you vomit a lot of nonsense on a daily basis and when you're fact-checked, you slither like a pregnant snake and swiftly twist your own words just to have that argumentative edge.

That is not intelligence but putrid buffoonery laced with a sprinkle of cowardice. You should rest.

Your entire personality annoys the fvck out of my senses because you're so loud about your know-nothingness.
I blame the folks here replying him seriously.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:00pm On Oct 01, 2024
WrriterNg:
Ask the mumu how the west wan take blockade country wey span from Europe to Asia to the Arctic?

Country wey get 11 time zones. Share border with 14 countries.

Na Russia go even blockade the west from accessing the Arctic, Barents sea and Northern Sea Route. Them don dey do am already sef.

Western ships must first ask Russia for permission 72hrs before Russia allow them pass through Arctic and some other seas.

Abi him Don forget say Russia ban UK & NATO ships from entering Barents Sea?? Or when Russia block some parts of Black Sea?

Na because of this reason why China no fit ever leave Russia on their own. Because China go need Russia as land and sea corridor when war start.

You fit blockade China but NEVER Russia.

E easy to even blockade US if you surround them on all 3 sides.
Don't blame him. When you have kids watching too much Hollywood, what do you expect?.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:55pm On Oct 01, 2024
LordAdam16:
War comes for you whether you are prepared for it or not.
War came for Saddam. War came for Gadhafi.
War will come for the Mullahs.

Weakness is fatal in the ME.
And the Israelis smell blood.

Why should Netanyahu not end the Iran question permanently now if no provocation will push them to a War?
Answer that simple question.

The same people would pushed Ukraine to fight an unwinnable war will not sit idly by and miss this glorious opportunity to end the Mullahs.
Some of you betray your naivety and are not street smart.
Khamenei should go to war. If Russia and China let him fall, so be it. He is a dead man either way.
He can either take Netanyahu down with him or die like a rat. Those are his choices.

Some of you think Putin is bluffing when he talks about using nukes.
He knows the stakes of the game. If he loses a war where his team is favorite, right on his border, he'll die.
Same applies to Persia. There has never been a time in Persian history where Weak Shahs survive failures as massive as Khamenei is cooking.

-Lord
What a lot of people don't know is that the ME is at the core of US geopolitical power play and elitism survivability.

There is no US government that would come into office that wouldn't have to make decisive decisions that would cause blood to spill one way or the other in that part of the world, and it doesn't mater whether the said government likes it or not.

The Establishment and it's shadow agencies writes, defines, and controls US foreign policy. And a huge part of the Establishment is made up of the MIC, which needs wars and manufactured crisis to thrive.

Thus, there can never be peace in that region because there is no other region in the world that offers such a fertile environment on the basis of historic, religious, and ideological intricacies and avalanche of sentimentality for which the geopolitical players and age-long contenders are brutally inclined to fight to the death.

The dark knights in the Establishment would never let go of such unique fertile ground of geopolitical chaos, anarchy, and division because, the more it thrives the better for business.

That is why Russia can never be part of NATO even when they wanted to - the Establishment needs a Boogeyman to sell home and maintain the 'enemy' and 'fear' narrative and get the sheep in line to support and pay for their merchandise of death.

That is why there can be no reunion between South and North Korean - the Establishment needs the "uncivilized next door neighbor ' tag to maintain its grip and relevance in that region even though the so-called number nation of the world can actually make that union happen if they wanted to.

It's the same reason Iran and Israel can never settle and live peacefully together - because the more devisive they get the better for business.

Formal president Dwight David Eisenhower warned the public about this, and sadly today, it is a reality.

A reality that Russia is aware of and they had long prepared for it, even as we watch on part of that reality unfolding in Ukraine.

A reality that China is aware of and has secured its economic and military lifeline for the unknown tomorrow.

Same reality now breathing down on Iran.

If the mullahs chose to be ignorant, then I have no pity for them. Reality is the only naked fowl that always comes home to roost.

Just like it took out Kennedy, have tried in taking out Trump, took out Qaddafi, took out Saddam, and messed up Syria, and now Ukraine, I have a free banker to give the Mullahs.

It will come for them.

The only way out is to fight and fight dirty.

Get nukes and the Establishment would set their own self restraining boundary.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:01pm On Oct 01, 2024
nigeriansamurai:
😂😂 Wow... make una see person una dey follow argue, Manchi wey dey fabricate em own news😂😂. Why do you guys even bother.
I have a list of people I don't bother replying their posts. I have my sanity to protect. I call it project SIO - Special Ignoring Operation.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:53pm On Oct 01, 2024
WrriterNg:
Naw bro.

You got a personal beef with Iran. Cuz WTF 😭 🤣

This dude only comes here to blast Iran and it's leadership, both past and present. Chill bro 😂
Iran's leadership aside the era of Amaddenijad has been one hell of incompetent buffoons.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 3:57pm On Oct 01, 2024
WrriterNg:
What a warped reasoning.

Between the US and Russia, do you want to guess who has had their weapons stock severely depleted? The US!

The amount of weaponry the US have sent to Ukraine alone is unlike anything they have ever seen. More weapons than the ones used in Afghanistan & Iraq combined.

Now add Israel to that. Why do you think Blinken has been running up and down the Middle East since Oct 7? He's trying to pause the conflict a little to allow the US have a breather.

With more debts piling up for the US, how long do you think they'll last? Or do you think weapons are printed like fiat currencies?


Hamas have rejected all the ceasefire deals proposed by the US. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

Does a person tired of fighting reject a peace deal?

Has Hamas made any ceasefire offer? Even once?

While the US keeps adding Trillions in debts on senseless wars, China keeps multiplying it's wealth.

China will emerge out of this decade far richer than the US. And more powerful too.
You even have the time to reply him.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 4:34am On Oct 01, 2024
WrriterNg:
"Isolated Russia"


This is the kind of isolation we all pray for.
I would really be glad if Lavrov can take over from Putin in the near future. That man is truly a great state man.

Meanwhile, a massive number of diplomats walked out on Netanyahu when he was about to give his speech on the floor of the UN general assembly.

It was a pathetic show to behold. Something you will never see on Western mainstream media.

The man even had to come with his own rented crowd just to get a facelift.

It's time he stops this war now before everyone else turns against him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF005o1sPG0?si=9kLVEzm81CFBv2fp
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:14pm On Sep 28, 2024
LordAdam16:
Lebanon has no reason to.

The government is a coalition of Christians, Shiites, and Sunnis. Neither the Sunnis nor the Christians will be caught dead fighting on behalf of Iran. Especially not this empty shell Iran that's all bluster.

Lastly, they can't go toe to toe with Israel. Their most advanced fighter jet is a Tucano.

The reason why everyone besides Netanyahu is scared of a regional war is that no one knows right now who will be fighting who.
Lebanese Christians have become weaker, so local Sunnis might wipe the floor with them. Iraqi Sunnis will fight Syrian Shiites.
It'll just be an unholy mess that'll go beyond just Israel+US v Iran+affiliates.

-Lord
You make sense. But don't you think with a planned ground invasion, the Lebanon Christians, Sunnis and Shiites could unite to say enough is enough?.

Men. With all the problems in Nigeria, I'm glad I'm not in the Middle East right now. That place is a keg of gunpowder waiting to explode .
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:03pm On Sep 28, 2024
LordAdam16:
It's because he is fighting paramilitaries without Air Defense.
If he were fighting Turkey or Pakistan; we will have a scoreboard up.

-Lord
I have been wondering ... What happens if the Lebanese government decide to enter the war against Israel on the side of Hezbollah?

Full blown regional war will ensure, or what do you think?
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 4:55pm On Sep 28, 2024
WrriterNg:
⚡4 Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles struck the Starokonstyantiniv airfield in Khmelnytskyi region.

This is the same airfield that was struck by Kinzhals 2 days ago.
Even some Ukrainian channels reported that the previous strikes destroyed four F-16s. This brings the numbers to 6 F-16s destroyed so far .

The supposed game changer weapon is fast becoming another tragic-comedy for Elensky.

Now they're asking for Eurofighter, Gripen, and Rafael fighters. I wonder what he would be asking for next. Maybe nukes or witches and wizards to make his .much touted 'victory plan' a reality, although we all know that's just in his head.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 4:45pm On Sep 28, 2024
LordAdam16:
It's not really skeletons.
Germany, Japan, and South Korea are conquered states.
Their independence and sovereignty is a see-through, thin veneer that can't stand up to US insistence.

The US essentially crafted their current constitutions and have embedded individuals who'd protect American interests in every layer of their polity since the end of the War.
As far as America is concerned; their prosperity is contingent on the US blessing. Thus, if at any point, American interests demand they commit seppuku, it must be treated as a command not a suggestion.

The world hasn't changed much.
It's still an echelon with superpowers and direct vassals.
Non-aligned states have to play by rules set by the superpowers.
Contravention of the forenamed rules will be punished by sanctions or direct/indirect civil/military intervention.

-Lord
You are not far from the truth. The vast amount of US forces and weaponry in these three countries you mentioned is tantamount to occupation.

South Korea can be excused a bit on the basis of ;'mutual allies' vis-a-vis the Korean war and its aftermath. The remaining two is a completely different and sad reality.

Japan was dealth a crushing blow that it never recovered from since 1945. But the worst case is Germany. Why? The Soviet that largely destroyed the Nazis and marched into Berlin were not the ones occupying it now. They left in the face of the cold and ideological war with thr west. The Yankee party that came into the fray late became the occupier, effectively denying the Germans the true sense of sovereignty.

Currently, if war is to break out across Europe, German would be the primary target for destruction, no thanks to the huge amount of US weapons and troop in that country.

The fact that the German ruling class could afford to sabotage their own economic lifeline to please the US diktats shows that they're not really independent. It's such a big shame.

Take a look at the Turks. They've got US nukes on their land, and they can be two-faced backstabbing bitches when they want to. But, they waste no time in giving the US the middle finger when it involves issues that concern their absolute soveringty. Germany is a stark contrast.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 3:32pm On Sep 27, 2024
LordAdam16:
What the US has done to German industry and global competitiveness is heart wrenching.

-Lord
Sometimes, I feel like crying watching Germany the economic powerhouse of Europe unravelling on the altar of political suicide. I don't know what skeletons the US has on their leaders that has forced them to be this subservient.

Pathetic.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 3:15pm On Sep 27, 2024
WritterNg:
⚡Germany's WKW Automotive, which makes decorations and spare parts for Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW cars has declared bankruptcy after 84 years in business. 4,000 people laid off.

Part of record wave of insolvencies and company collapses in Germany.
Let Ibime breath. cool cool
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 3:14pm On Sep 27, 2024
WritterNg:
⚡"If Russia attacks Ukrainian nuclear power plants, it will be necessary to intervene immediately.

Tthere is a risk of attacks on Rivne or Khmelnytsky power plants" - Polish president Duda
Easier said than done. You can't even muster enough courage to shoot down Russian drones and missiles crossing your airspace, but you think you can confidently intervene and attack Russia inside Ukraine. Stupid has never been this overt.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:16pm On Sep 16, 2024
Ghostagain:
Many romanians also have poor hygiene. You don't wish to have some romanians as your neighbours. Just two romanian families in my neighborhood and they bleeped up the entire place. Once you have them in your neighborhood, more romanians will come and roam near your house, expect your place to be robbed once or twice every 3 months.
Much of the Romanian population lives within the poverty line, so I'm not surprised that they have poor hygiene.

Truth be told, some countries in Europe are only 'better' off just because they're in Europe. But in reality, some are just like African countries.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:12pm On Sep 16, 2024
Ghostagain:
Yemen is saying this is a result of Yemeni advancement in hypersonic missile technology. Who is Yemen kidding 😂?
That's Iran for sure using the Yemenis hand.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:54pm On Sep 16, 2024
lanre316:
Againhuh

WTH!!!
They want that man dead by all means.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:36pm On Sep 16, 2024
Allthelight:
Who does not know ballistic missiles are hypersonic

Funny people
Ballistic missiles are not purely hypersonic because they only achieve that hypersonic speed range at certain stage in flight. Plus, they lack the glide and maneuverability of real hypersonic missiles.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:31pm On Sep 16, 2024
Ghostagain:
I will never be able to understand why Poland, Hungary and Romania are part of the EU, especially Romania. What in hell do they bring to the table ? And now some people want to add Ukraine huh
Romania, Hungary, and Poland are just there to bleed the EU dry. The case of Romania is even more telling considering how poor they are when compared to other EU members. Well, it's good for Germany. France, etc, who are paying through their noses to keep them there.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:25pm On Sep 16, 2024
cyber999:
That's crazy speed. Damn!

That's 2.22 km/s.

More than two freaking kilometers each second!!!

😲
I suspect Iran have just tested one of their newly built hypersonic missiles.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:21pm On Sep 16, 2024
Ghostagain:
Nafo slava Kursk, how is it going ?
(How far ? 🤣)
We all knew it was a suicide mission. The coke president just expending souls for no strategic reasons.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:50pm On Sep 12, 2024
sainttwist1:
on point
Thanks.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:45pm On Sep 12, 2024
cyber999:
That song was....

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I swear. If Trump campaign team use that song, it would be viral for ages to come.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:39pm On Sep 12, 2024
Procashtips:
Better she becomes the president.
You mean to hasten the denise of the US as we k ow it?
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:37pm On Sep 12, 2024
Ghostagain:
Whomever wins the election, the script of what they shall do has already been written down by the CIA.
If you look attentively at USA politics then you will notice that no matter who gets elected, nothing changes.
True. But, at least, with Trump, the script is reduced in size. During his first tenure, it was revealed by secret intel that there are two CIAs operating American foreign policy. One the real CIA led by the real US government and the other the shadow CIA led by the Establishment. Unfortunately, the second appears to be more powerful in dictating US foreign policy.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:05pm On Sep 12, 2024
petesunday:
Putin is playing a very long, complicated game that very few actually understand. The west hs tried to bait him to no avail. He is fighting a military, economic, political nd psychological war. If he goes full blown on Ukraine, he plays into the Western narrative of a villain and his arsenal may be depleted when NATO faces him directly. He also needs to convince his allies, especially China that they are fighting a just war. There is a growing alliance of global south that will render US powerless but it's building slowly. Putin is buying time, gradually playing the west in their own cat and mouse game.
You're enlightened.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 1:46pm On Sep 12, 2024
ourunivibes:
Well i understand you. You know you can never be entirely prepared for a war. Those west are very cunny and evil. Russia shouldn't have enacted any red line at all beacuse all the red lines have been shattered and guess what even countries that can't cough where Russia is, see Netherlands Lithuania and co giving greenlight to strike deep inside Russia. Man e don spoil, Sun Tzu the great Chinese warlord said that was is inevitable and it part of life, don't take a war lightly, and don't underestimate your opponent. By virtue of what is going on man it's not going to go well for Moscow sorry to drop this here. Sentiments aside, Russia need to spioil Ukraine before Ukraine spoil them
I see a lot of emotions on this thread.

Ruthlessness is not what Russia is lacking in this current war with Ukraine. On the contrary, Russia is just extremely being careful not to play into the hands of the underlying western design vis-a-vis Ukraine. And what is that design? They want Russia to completely destroy Ukraine as a nation and nail home the narrative that Russia is not just a revanchist power that should be alienated, but an existential threat to modern Europe as a whole which must be tamed. In fact, they want a Cold War 2.0 to sell the need for a collective security mantra that will get the people in line and keep the MIC and deep state establishment running. So far, the Russians have not taking the bait. They are responding appropriately in the best possible ways, which, some of us here that are too emotional, are not seeing that it is getting the west frustrated.
Because, the longer it gets, the worst for the western design as it gets to face their population that is increasingly becoming war-fatigued and tired of a negative economic impact this has caused across the west. We have seen that from recent results from several elections across Europe, and more is bound to occur as the conflict drags on.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 11:20pm On Sep 11, 2024
Masterviolence:
Something keeps telling me that I should withdraw my support from trump which I've done some days ago.

Donald trump is not the saviour y'all think he is. Trump is a business man and a stubborn one at that, but he cannot go against the deepstate and their interest.
Upon assuming position of the president and getting his sit in the oval office, he'll make more irrational decisions and increase the financing of Ukraine defenses since no active duty American soldier is dying officially in Ukraine.

It's up for trump to prove me wrong if he is lucky enough to win come November.
This version was even crazier. And that line about Joe stepping down after he got shot and stepped up, was fire.

Magavelli in deed. cool


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlMOr2m6TRM?si=XD4ehNlHnI6j0dL0

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