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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:26pm On Feb 20, 2025
stanluiz:
You don't understand what Zelenzky mean ?

We all know that trump what to appease Putin by allowing him to take the territory he conquererd from Ukraine just like chambalin did to Hitler in order to avoid war or any future war.

But can we get assurance that putin will not invade another country that may cause another devastating military conflict just like Hitler did by invading poland after take czechslovakia.
Why would Putin invade a country if not provoked?
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:25pm On Feb 20, 2025
Procashtips:
I have not seen anywhere on Nairaland the news that the US was using USAID to sponsor terrorist groups including boko haram


Nothing on the front page
Nothing nothing

The video of the senator reading out these information is trending on tiktok.

Nairaland is a western tool, reason I now spend less time on it ever since Mossad threatened Seun by shutting down Nairaland a while back
We have long knew that Boko Haram wasn't sponsored from within, but from abroard.

Several years ago, eyewitnesses in some Borno villages told reporters that they were seeing military helicopters flown by White Men airdropping weapons for the terrorists.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:44am On Feb 19, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Trump on Canada:

"I spoke to Governor Trudeau.."
Trump has taken political trolling to another level. grin

Governor Trudeau.... grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:40am On Feb 19, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Axios, quoting sources:

Zelensky told Trump that Putin seeks a deal out of fear because Trump is strong and Putin is afraid of Trump.

"I need to talk to Putin in order to save Ukraine," Trump told Zelensky.
Zelensky is in for a long ride with Trump. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:40am On Feb 19, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Axios, quoting sources:

Zelensky told Trump that Putin seeks a deal out of fear because Trump is strong and Putin is afraid of Trump.

"I need to talk to Putin in order to save Ukraine," Trump told Zelensky.
Zelensky is in for a long ride with Trump. shocked
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:30am On Feb 19, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Reporter: “Would you support Zelensky ceding territory or exchanging territory at any agreement to end war?”

Trump: “Well, he's gonna have to do what he has to do, but, you know, his poll numbers aren't particularly great, to put it mildly.”

“He's got a country where, you know, it's been savaged and attacked, and, he's got an army that's been very, very brave, actually, despite the fact that, you know, we've given him, in my opinion, $350,000,000,000. That's what the real number is. You don't hear that number. And Europe has given, in my opinion, a hundred billion dollars, and they've done it in the form of a loan.


And I have a secretary of treasury right now who's actually quite brave. He's over in Ukraine on a train, and there's a lot of things happening around that train that aren't so good.

And he's going there to get a document done where we're gonna be in assured that we're gonna, in some form, get this money back because we're putting up far more money than Europe, and Europe is in far more danger than we are.

We have an ocean in between. Europe has nothing in between. You know what they have in between? They have Ukraine in between.


So as you know, Europe is putting up money and they're getting it in the form of a loan. And The United States under Biden didn't do loans. They just handed money every time somebody walked in from Ukraine. They just handed them money, foolishly. This should have never happened.

It should have never started. And once it did, other things should have happened. Other things should have taken place. Like that's So, we're we're getting, security on our money. We're gonna have it secured by they have, Rare Earths, and they have, oil and gas, and they have a lot of other things.

And we're asking for security for our money.”
His poll numbers ... Lmao. grin grin

Trump is a fuvcking gangster realist. grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:26am On Feb 19, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

No concessions from Russia are required to begin negotiations on Ukraine.
Some people in Europe will have heart attack over this. It was folly to expect hey could win against Russia.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:59am On Feb 18, 2025
okeysoninv:
The War is never over, Ukraine shall surely possess his land and Russia as a form of compensation. WORD OF GOD SHALL NEVER FAIL
Cursed is he that lieth in the name of The Lord.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:44am On Feb 12, 2025
Masterviolence:
There are two people I don't take serious on this thread.
1. The fake lawyer.
2. Major general pillock the bright bulb.

Taking these people serious is one step away from madness.
The second one is worst. He takes delight in the amount of emojis he can put out on a post even if he doesn't make any sense.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:42am On Feb 12, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Area 51 rocked by earthquake as seismic activity around mysterious testing site ramps up - Daily Mail
They're now testing classified weapons.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:30am On Feb 12, 2025
Watcharena:
this man is singing a different song ,Abi Na imagination wan killlll me
cool

You're not imagining anything. Such is the life of the Muslim nations in the Middle East. The worst group of sellouts in the world.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:16am On Feb 12, 2025
WriterrNg:
⚡Trump:

Iran can’t have nukes. There's two ways to stopping them: With bombs or a written piece of paper.

I think Iran is very concerned, scared & would love to make a deal. Their defence is largely gone.

I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them.
Either Trump is trolling or he is being seriously misinformed about Iran's capabilities.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 7:50pm On Feb 09, 2025
Masterviolence:
They should take Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk and negotiate an end to this conflict.

A landlocked Ukraine would hold significant strategic value for Russia in the long run. If, after the war, reconciliation is achieved and Ukraine seeks access to the sea, Russia could grant it on a lease basis as an act of goodwill.

Moreover, Ukraine must be fully disarmed once this war ends.
I agree with you in in toto.

A landlocked Ukraine would render it economically unviable for US/NATO, but would remain strategically valuable for them in terms of military installations.

So, the Russian endgame is to ensure that not only is Ukraine effectively disarmed, but rendered impotent as such that no external military deployment would be allowed on its soil.

Taking Odessa would be a strategic step in achieving that objective because, without a naval port for greater access to the sea, the US/NATO quest to build a warm water port to curtail or checkmate the Russian fleet in the black sea would amount to a waste of time and resources.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 2:53pm On Feb 09, 2025
WriteerNg:
Lmaooo!

Only dumb fvcks support Ukraine.

You can't have a functional brain and still call USAID funded media outlets "Independent".
Unfortunately, that is what one of the sons of disobedience is saying all over the thread right now.

These clowns forgot the fact that he that pays the piper dictates the tune.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 12:05pm On Feb 09, 2025
WriiterNg:
And here we were, wondering why Russia wasn't trying to take Odessa.

Turns out it's a barren land... no resources.

But holds historical significance to Russia.
Taking Odessa will effectively landlock Ukraine.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:36am On Feb 09, 2025
FPVdrone:
🎯✅ 🇺🇸 🆚 🇪🇺 Politico received $8 million from USAID and other U.S. agencies to create a positive image of Democrats, Trump said.

He called the publication a "left-wing newspaper," adding that the situation could become "the greatest scandal, perhaps, in history."

Trump also stressed that Democrats will not be able to get away with this.

Earlier it was reported that the United States would stop paying for the work of Politico, The New York Times and the Associated Press news agency.
When we tell our pro west brothers that most western media houses are bought and paid for by the CIA, they cry foul. Now, the cat is out of the bag. I knew Donald Trump would come for them once he gets reelected. Even CNN is now down tuning it's negative image of Donald Trump. grin
5

This second coming of Donald Trump will be full of surprises.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:59pm On Feb 07, 2025
Akhaz024:
Can't EU just stand alone and stop taking order from America in the long run they will be the one losing America has nothing to lose.

Imagine US thinking of taking Greenland or even trying to invade ICC and they called themselves ally.

EU doesn't need to fight Russia, they just need to respect each other boundaries.
Sorry, that ship has long sailed out of port. What you have now in Europe are goblins masquerading as bureaucrats.

Majority of the countries making up the EU today has no sane leaders.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:55pm On Feb 07, 2025
LordAdam16:
The war has already started.

It'll be mostly confined to the geopolitical and economic fronts.
But there will occasionally be a few hotspots like Ukraine.

Our pro-West cohort is five years behind the curve.
Although since Trump came with a sledgehammer, they've been awfully quiet and reticent.
It's dawning on them that their team lost the opening round.

-Lord
Trump is a wordplay maniac. He is playing both sides of the peace and war fence.

His mad rush rhetorics will definitely trigger hot conflicts at specific fronts across the globe, particularly in the Middle East.

I don't know whether he is doing this on purpose -- give the Deep State something to feed on while setting them up for the fall. Talk about draining the swamp. Who knows.

But one thing is certain: this current 'trouble-everyone's' path he has chosen will not end well for him and the US.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:57am On Feb 05, 2025
WritterNg:
I've been thinking about this all day.

More like adding fuel to both fires (US & EU)

Trump will now want to show them who's boss. You know he takes pride in Putin's compliments.

And the EU will now want to show they have spine lol pathetic! 😂 🤣
Exactly.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:41am On Feb 05, 2025
LordAdam16:
Ladies and gentlemen, Secretary of State Marco Rubio with the sauce:



Sourced from the official State Department website. Transcript of his interview with Megyn Kelly.
https://www.state.gov/secretary-marco-rubio-with-megyn-kelly-of-the-megyn-kelly-show/

The old world order is dead and buried.
Everyone on the planet is on the same page on that.

-Lord
That last paragraph should be eye-opening for the majority of our pro-west brothers Rubio's pragmatic realism just succinctly buried the so-called infallibility of the US as the sole superpower in global politics. The rise of China took them off guard and it's only going to get worse as the global economic tectonic plates shift from the West towards Asia. The resilience demonstrated by Russia in the current ongoing face-off with the West has further driven many nations to realign their national interest with the economic objectives of the East-Asia bloc. This, in turn, has led to the creation of alliances, although economic for the time being, and that's where my fears lie.

Alliance formation is a precursor to war.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:18pm On Feb 03, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
This man na REAL KGB agent. EU leaders go be like "are we going to wag our tails before Trump"?
No.. Let's prove Putin wrong. Let's confront Trump.

One of those European country sent representative to campaign for the Democratic Party. That's political interference.
Elon Musk will give them a run for their money
Psychological mind play at its best. cool

While he is being realistic as a knowledgeable observant, he is being psychological as well, tacitly playing with the minds of both camps.

He is not a KGB expert for nothing. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:02pm On Feb 03, 2025
Kingsnairaland:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMkqMrJcF/


Many videos popping up of how peaceful America is since Trump began to raid illegals in the USA

Lol Americans are saying they are happy the street is safe for them to move around lol
Coke man thinks in his head he matters really. By the time the powers that be have reached their own terms of settlement, it would be read out to him, and if he refuses, they'd order his take out, and that will be all with the sniffer.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:57pm On Feb 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡DeepSeek was created based on Soviet developments from 1985, as the head of the startup Liang Wenfeng admitted.

It turned out that the basis for the most powerful neural network for today was the program code of Soviet programmers, written in the 1980's.

"I won't lie, our AI was created on the basis of Soviet developments, namely the OGAS system of Academician Glushkov. Without it, we would never have caught up with the Americans with their CHATGPT," Liang Wenfeng said in his interview on YouTube channel.

Earlier DeepSeek wrote in a reply to its user that it's integrated with Russian Yandex services.
Russia to the moon.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:33pm On Feb 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡ President Trump says we're going to put tariffs on chips, oil and gas on the 18th of February.
Tariffs on oil and gas...Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Co smiling while awaiting potential giant strides to the bank as prices will soar.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 4:29pm On Feb 03, 2025
FPVdrone:
Things are not looking good for Ukraine on the battlefield honestly.
From day one, things have never looked good for Ukraine on the battlefield. It's just wishful thinking that they can match Russia in military warfare.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:30pm On Feb 02, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Russia is about to enter mass production of a new Iskander ballistic missile, with twice the range of the original, now up to 1000 km.
Whenever Ukraine hears the name Iskander, they shiver, and Zele takes more rapid sniffs on his coke supply.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:15pm On Feb 02, 2025
Alamkiir:
🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 CHINA HAS DEFEATED AMERICA

🇨🇳 DeepSeeak BEATS OpenAI 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 BYD BEATS Tesla 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 Huawei BEATS Apple 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 Huawei BEATS US Telecoms 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 Alibaba BEATS Amazon 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 CATL BEATS US lithium-ions 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 TikTok BEATS Instagram 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 DJI BEATS all US drones 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 Temu/Shein BEAT US ecomm 🇺🇸
🇨🇳 BRI BEAT Build Back Better World 🇺🇸

🇨🇳 China is also BEATING the US in infrastructure, high speed rail, healthcare, education, space technology, manufacturing, defense technology, gold production, energy, housing affordability & annual GDP PPP.
There is a reason the US realigned foreign policy tagged China as its major threat.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 6:07pm On Feb 02, 2025
Fash20:
The accident was terrible. What went wrong?
I'm confused.

I don't understand how a jetliner and a slow-moving helicopter could crash mid-air, especially during a clear nighttime. It's puzzling.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:59pm On Feb 02, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡European officials are debating whether Russian pipeline gas sales to the EU should be restarted as part of a potential settlement to end the war against Ukraine, according to people familiar with discussions.

Advocates of buying Russian gas argue it would bring down high energy prices in Europe, encourage Moscow to the negotiating table, and give both sides a reason to implement and maintain a ceasefire.

But raising the idea of reopening flows of Russian gas into Europe, even in preliminary discussions, has already sparked a backlash among Ukraine’s closest allies in the EU.

Three of the officials briefed on the talks said the idea had been endorsed by some German and Hungarian officials, with support from other capitals that saw it as a way to reduce European energy costs. 

“There is pressure from some big member states on energy prices and this is one way to bring those down, of course,” said one official.
There is no substitute for cheap, and when you're big, you're big.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:55am On Feb 02, 2025
seunny4lif:
The US attempt to take Greenland from Denmark has likely prompted the Danes to fight back.

The Danish Ministry of Energy has issued a permit to Nord Stream AG, the operator of the Nord Stream pipeline, to carry out work to preserve the damaged branch of the pipeline.

NATO vs NATO
This movie will be long
Russia will just sit back and watch the scenario unfold while sipping a bottle of vodka. The west is in for a long long ride.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:32am On Jan 28, 2025
LordAdam16:
Them don already fold.
That is if recent White House correspondence is to be believed.

https://x.com/PressSec/status/1883716584843391025
Colombia's President retweeted it.

Trump used an economic tactical nuke.
Sanctioned everyone in the government, ruling party, and their families.
Made access to finances harder for Colombia globally. Flights into the US restricted.
And worse, every single product and Colombian national entering the US will be treated harshly with extra checks and inconveniences.

The silver lining in all of this is that BRICS will be getting a heck of a lot busier going forward.
Heck, EU countries may start seeking observer status.

Putin and Xi buried the old international order.
Trump is saying the prayers.

-Lord
Your head dey there.

Trump's rhetorics and high-handedness will drive nations to seek alternative alliances such as BRICS. 2025 will be one hell of a geopolitical game drive.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:13am On Jan 28, 2025
BoldBrainz:
Gents and lasses, the show has begun cool
It's funny how Colombia was the first to slap the US with Tariffs...something Trump was threatening everyone with.

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