Regex:


A whole president went to China and a deputy Mayor received him. China knows how to petty...😂 😂

Imagined Putin visiting China.

A sell out like Scholz deserve that treatment.

We're you expecting Xi to shower blessings on him for the successful deindustrialization of German to please his masters in Washington?

Masterviolence:

As it stands, the u.s is doing everything she can to stop her lapdog from causing any trouble in that region.

Some gullible folks where saying that this was a trap set by the u.s to fight Iran and I laughed.

Geopolitics is not for everyone to be sincere.

You are so right.

Many people reason out of pure emotions and religious affiliations. This is geopolitics, not some domestic tribal or religious war.

Anyone that says Iran fell into Israeli and American plan to drag them out for a full-scale war is myopic.

Most people don't even know how weak the US has become in the Middle East. You only have to look at how majority of the key state players in the region aided and abetted Russia the moment western sanctions flies in. Qatar refused the attempt to get it to fill the gap left by Russia in the oil and gas supply to Europe, and to the ire of the US and the EU, Saudi Arabia even went ahead to buy Russian oil and reselling them at hire prices. The US waning influence was even more underscored when China got Iran and Saudi Arabia to restart diplomatic and bilateral relations.

What many people here don't know is that, Israel will not survive a full fledged regional war with Iran on the driving seat. If it was easy to attack, invade and destroy Iran, they could have done it many years ago. Each time they gamed the scenario, it turned out to be a disaster. The casualties level for the US and Israel was unimaginable.

And the Saturday's retaliatory attack by Iran has further underscored what real geopolitical minds like us have known for a long time. Let me explain.

Last Saturday, Iran proved that it can slice through what many described as the most densest air defense coverage in the world, penetrating all Israeli and NATO manned missile Shields. This included capabilities that formed the benchmark of the whole Western alliance; from advanced SIGINT to C4ISR to Patriot, THAAD, Iron Dome, C- Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow-3, and SM-3, plus the involvement of the West’s most advanced A2A defenses flown from F-35s, Typhoons, Eurofighters, and sea-based Allen Burke Class missile destroyers and more.

The fact that much of that Iranian volley included slow moving missiles and drones (except for the few ballistic missiles), yet managed to penetrate Israel's defences, especially with the spectacular view of missiles flying over the Knesset, is a rude awakening to war-happy Netanyahoo and his genocide war department that Iran isn't a bluff like they think. It gets even scary for them when you realise that, that is just a tip of what Iran has in it's arsenals. And that they can do real big damage if they wanted to.

So, it's in the best interest of America to rein in Israel before they get into a brouhaha they will live to regret for a very long time.

And to those shallow mind pygmies on this thread who delusionally envisioned a situation where God will send angels on chariots of fire to fight on behalf of Israel, well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, the God I know is not unrighteous to defend murderers who intentionally target and destroy civilian buildings, bombed hospitals, bomb aid workers sent on redcross vehicles to rescue the wounded civilians. Continue waiting and hoping that, by blindly supporting Israel in its atrocities God would bless and grant you visa to heaven.

You're hellbound.

tctrills:

First. I don't need to go through all your posts when I can judge you by what I see.
Also, you don't think it's smart to have evidence when you make the kind of claims you make? If you say that my words are propaganda and assumptions and you have no evidence to back your statement, don't you see that you are only making an assumption while accusing me of doing same?

You call me a coward for siding with Israel. I guess you see anyone that doesn't agree with you as a coward. You are always right and your opinions should never be challenged.

If you are Israel, will you attack the embassy of a nation that sponsored the greatest terror attack on your soil?
Israel even has more support against Iran than in their war with Gaza. Even many Arab nations are with Israel on this.
It would be completely unwise for Israel to follow your advice and wait for Iran's next action before hitting more Iranian targets.

Who then bombed the embassy? You?

WriterrNg:
⚡Warsaw and Kiev are considering the scenario of defending western Ukrainian regions with Polish Patriot missiles.

According to Ukrainian FM Kuleba, the initiative is being discussed with NATO representatives. However, he did not specify whether Poland plans to shoot down Russian missiles from its territory or transfer air defence systems to Ukraine.

Warsaw has not officially confirmed the talks.

Zelensky still thinks NATO countries would risks their major cities to defend her by attacking Russian missiles in mid flight. Coke is really bad for the brain.

usmanpogo:


You've made a very interesting point, the UN does not represent the current geopolitical landscape. Nations are supposed to be equal, while give more power to certain five Nations ( UN security council ). If the UN is to be restructured the veto power needs to be jettisoned, what's the point of voting on a motion if a fee minorities could veto the whole process.

Secondly, i think the African continent is more divided compared to the Asians. Imagine having 54 countries and no sit in the UN security council.

The African division was more on their colonial heritage and geopolitical leaning. That is, the British and French camps. However, recent happenings has shown that Africans can actually breakaway from this mentality, as seen with the ongoing rebellion against French interest in the continent. Moreover, the African contingent can make their proposal under the auspices of the AU to present a unified stance. It is disheartening that despite having such a huge representative at the UN, not s dongle African nation is among the Security Councli permanent members.

FoolishBoy419:
After further investigation, I can confirm to you all that EVERY SINGLE POST from Dystopian Muse that sounds intelligent was Olé'd and Barawo'd from Reddit. This would not have been a problem if she hadn't been going about insulting people at every given opportunity and even trolling someone for doing a fraction of what she did.

I will stop posting them now so as not to derail the thread.

WriterrNg:
⚡CIA Director William Burns asked Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) chief Ibrahim Kalın to mediate between Iran and Israel.

Iran also informed Türkiye in advance of its planned operation against Israel.

"Iran informed us in advance of what would happen. The U.S. conveyed to Iran through us that this reaction must be within certain limits," the Turkish source said.

"In response, Iran said the reaction would be a response to Israel's attack on its embassy in Damascus and that it would not go beyond this."

Just like I said, a backdoor meeting for a "fainted attack" and everyone goes home with feigned threats of reprisals but a feeling of happy ending deep down.

FoolishBoy419:


Dem no dey mark attendance for this thread. Leave

Masterviolence:


Oh, you want him to regurgitate fake stats from their colonial era.

That guy is too full of himself, probably suffering from delusion of grandeur.

emmaodet:


One thing is very visible. The UN is not effective to it's duties.
So many wars going on around the world and the seem lost and don't have a solution to it.
It is high time it is scrapped

The security council setting is what is killing the UN. It's time they restructure the whole thing. Final decisions on important matters should be taken by simple majority vote in the General Assembly, and the implementation by way of order be sent to the restructured security council for implementation.

I want to see a situation where if they failed to restructure the UN, the entire African contingent should withdraw from the body and form a new organization with nations from South America, and Asia, and the Middle East.

Africa alone has 54 nations. A threatened or actual withdrawal would effectively make the UN irrelevant to other nations.

Fash20:


Imagine Russia attacking the UK embassy in Poland because the UK has been helping Ukraine.

Going to Poland is even too far. Even in Ukraine, it would be a declaration of war. Nations like the US and many others keep military personnel in their embassies. Especially in hotspot locations. It's part of a nation's sovereign right to do with its territories, and it's one of the unwritten rules that you don't touch the embassy of another nation, not even in the host country by the host government. Netanyahu just think he can do anything and get away with it. Well, he was been warned.

ulaeto:


Appleyard, sincerely speaking it's been in a long while i read a completely intelligent packed analysed article from anyone here, you don't seemed and sound like a Nigerian, or at least if you are, i bet you must be very a very brilliant nigerian who is exposed too.. i wish we could meet in person to engage more in intelligent chats. Needless to say you nailed everything there, all points raised there in your article are not just pure real life facts but also philosophy for the wise to ponder upon.. Again, nice job. thumps up!!

Thanks man.

seunny4lif:

Iran released footage of missile launches towards Israel

Estimated military cost of last night's operations based on the figures published in the media:

110 ballistic missiles: 30-50 million dollars

45 cruise missiles: 4-7 million dollars

170 Shahed-136: 4-5 million dollars

Total: 62-38 million dollars

The collective USA,UK and Israel spent over 2 billion dollars defending Israel

In just one night. You see why the MIC is the most profitable business in the entire history of man. Hence, so long as there are men, there would be wars.

Masterviolence:

Bookmark this: Russia will aid Iran in the case of u.s support for Israel.
This aid is not only in equipments but in Manpower.


For years Russia has acted blind to the u.s misbehavior around the world but thank God the u.s mistakenly woke up the bear in Ukraine.

Russia is ready, and I'm not joking.

The US as it is now does not have the stomach to fight Iran in a direct hot war, let alone a regional one. The numbers of US casualties alone would make Vietnam looks like child's play.

US think-tanks have gamed this scenario many times and the result turns out to be very pathetic. It's Israel that is just needlessly dragging in the US into trouble.

Masterviolence:

Yesterday he came out of nowhere to discuss militarily in geopolitics, forgetting that we are not talking about fake stats, or imaginary numbers

May be he should give us some stats on why the British navy is no longer attractive to new personnel.

StudyBarn:


You've been advised to obtain a basic education before mouthing off on geopolitical realities you have no understanding of nor frankly the mental bandwidth for. This is not the Ukrainian army that builds fortifications in residential areas and mines apartment blocks.

Iran's retaliation was not to escalate but to put the Zionist regime on notice that Iran will not shy away from direct conflict if Israel keeps provoking it. It not only activated the Muslim population of the middle east but also drew a contrast between Iran's support for Gaza and the capitulation of the other rulers of the other middle east countries to Israel.

The full geopolitical implication of this is yet unclear but already in an election year in which I'd be proudly voting for Republican for the first time gas prices are about to go through the roof if the middle east becomes an even bigger conflagration, oil prices shoot up Biden loses.

For the sake of your sanity, ignore that man.

Masterviolence:

You should quickly return back to your shell

We're talking about live missiles and drones flying towards their targets, not fake imaginary statistics that has been regurgitate from God knows where.

dermmy:
Most people think Iran cannot attack US but Iran shocked us when it attacked US bases in Iraq in Jan 2020 giving US soldiers life threatening traumatic brain injuries. We also thought it couldn't attack Israel directly as the Israeli worshippers here would say

"If dem born Iran well make dem attack Israel"

Iran has attacked Israel o. Though they will now shift goal post by saying

"ehn the missiles and drones were intercepted but Israel killed an Iranian General"

Only a strategic expert and those who understand intl politics know the significance of what Iran just did. Don't use emotions to analyse geo politics start thinking now.

Many folks here just reason based on emotions and religion affiliations. What Iran did today is called deterrence. People don't have to die enmass to make that point.

seunny4lif:

During a Phone Call tonight by U.S. President Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Biden reportedly said that Israel should consider tonight’s Iranian Attack as Largely Unsuccessful and a “Win” due to nothing of Value appearing to have been Lost and it being a Clear Demonstration of Israel’s Superior Military Capability.
Also during the Call, President Biden is reported to have said that the United States would not Participate in any Offensive Action against Iran.

Well, I don’t believe any USA president.

Waiting for Trump, republican senators and representatives to talk this morning how Biden and Democrats are too weak to rule USA and Iran dare not try it if Republican person was the president.

This is Cinema

I told you this before, US have no stomach for a large scale war right now. So, they're trying to deescalate quickly. If another retaliation from Israel happens, Iran would most likely close the Straight of Hormuz and things would really get bad from there economically. It's in the best interest for both Israel and US to end this right now.

Ibime:


Ranting of an unstable mind. How is your Russian visa process going?

Slave mentality at its peak.

It's comment like this that makes Bob Marley cried "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."

Ibime:


Their Plan A was too bold, I hope they can defend themselves from the response to Plan A

It has to be bold to send netanyahu a message. At least, he now knows that Israel can be hit and even harder than he thinks. That man is too ideologically obsessed just like his Iranian counterparts.

nahr:
One thing that is significant about the Iranian attack tonight is not only to serve as deterrence but also a message to Israel that they are not invincible.

I blame Netanyahoo for this. There are lines you don't cross. Who bombs a consulate? That man is too ideologically mad.

okeysoninv:
Oh lord may your name be praised forever and ever.. who can remember the attack coming towards isreal by Iran and isreal and USA heavy attack . War planes will bomb Iran merciless.. nuclear attack! I saw smoke all over Tehran.

Regex:


Israel really screwed things up for themselves and the USA. Netanyahu might have to resign.

Netanyahu messed up big time I swear.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
You guys do forget easily that Iran is a member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Their allies will never abandon them especially now they were attacked unprovoked.

Exactly. That was why China told the US to get lost when it asked China to use it's influence to dissuade Iran from retaliating.

That consular building bombing was a foolish act.

Procashtips:


The US is doing an information warfare, trying to force the hands of their opponents into acting.

I'm glad Iran is not playing into it. Strike but when you are ready

Exactly. They want this done and over with quickly. The wait is killing them silently.

seunny4lif:

if Iran strike Israel, then it will benefit Russia massive because USA will forget about Ukraine within a second.

Iran will be so foolish to strike a nuke armed nation that is not afraid to use them, remember that Iran will not be fighting Israeli military but rather be fighting USA(NATO).
Iranian generals and scientists will kept getting killed until Iran show the world her nuclear missiles.
Imagine the disrespect as in massive disrespect for USA to killed Iran second most powerful person with an air strike.
Air strikes for that matter not even that they tried to use other methods.
What did Iran do? Hit USA bases in Iraq but informed the Iraq government few hours before doing it.
Within those period, USA already moved better equipment away.

With all the madness the USA haven’t even tried that rubbish with North Korea talkless of Russia that is their main adversary because they know the consequences of it.

Those weapons they could not give Ukraine because of Russia retaliation, will be send to Isreal without thinking about it.

USA alongside her allies supported and protection Israeli military against Hamas that is small, now imagine what they will do to Iran.

USA will empty all her storages for Israel, in fact no matter who becomes the USA president, Isreal is a no go area for anyone.
Israel is one of the states of USA.
Remember that USA(Israel) is not afraid to lose few bombers and jets, they will make Iraq look like a paradise compared to what they will do to Iran.
USA is built for war, they need war to function unlike Russia.

USA(Isreal) have been preparing for this since over 30 years.
Reason I said Iranian leaders were so foolish not to have 100s of nukes by now.

They are sitting on everything to have nukes yet blow that away.

You think that Israeli military hit Iranian embassy with those missiles, without approval from USA?
They want to take away their citizens mind from what is happening on Palestine matter, inflations and their failure in Ukraine, and Iran is the perfect solution.
They know their citizens will immediately support them against Iran.
Years of propaganda is not a joke, even you and I know that nobody can beat USA on propaganda war, I mean no Nation on earth.
USA is built for it.

If Iran thinks that Russia will defend them against Isreal, then Iran will be played like a child.
Russia and Israel relationship is a toxic one, love and hate, nothing Putin can do about it.
You need to have nukes in this world to be protected, no nation will go to war with you when you have nukes.


Case of Iran and Israel is like Pak and India, both have been at war with each other but limited it to small scale because both nations now have nukes to wipe each other out.

If Ukraine has nukes like Russia, there wouldn’t be war in that region because Ukraine wouldn’t think of needs to join NATO.
If am Iranian leaders, I will be get nukes first before starting a war with USA Israel.

Unlike Russia that refused to hit Ukraine supply lines along Polish border and the Black Sea, in terms of USA providing Ukraine with intelligence from Black Sea using drones and Co, the USA is not afraid to hit all Iran supply lines in Caspian Sea.
USA will do it, they don’t care.
They're done with Ukraine moving on to Israel

Unless Iran already has nukes hiding without telling the world.
Remember that Iran is a nation of many nations, meaning if a war break out now, those minorities will join USA to break Iran up like Iraq, Libya and Syria are facing right now.

While I agree with most of what you said up there, I don't think Israel nor US would use nuke on Iran should Iran strike hard at them. Truth be told, this whole thing isn't good for the US right now, let alone Israel. The US have no stomach for a wide regional war right now because it would force oil prices to skyrocket above the roof, which is not good for the current US and European economies, especially at a time when they are trying to keep pace with a runaway China in consumer goods manufacturing. Besides, US bases in the Middle East would suffer unprecedented attacks and casualties from multiple angles, and the chances that they can muster an effective deterrence is becoming slim every day. Jordan and Qatar just told the US that they would not allow their airspace to be used as staging ground of attack against Iran. Turkey just did the same thing now. Why? Not just because Israel is getting on everyone's nerves, but also because the US is gradually losing grip on the region where Iran has a massive influence that can really do a lot of damage.

Lastly, elections are close by in the US, and the last thing the Biden's admin wants to see are body bags of US service men returning home for burial. That would effectively give Trump a free ticket to the oval office.

So, looking at it from these angle, you can see why the US is in a tight corner politically and economically. That's why they're trying to make some concessions with the Houthis, and now you have Iran and Israel at loggerheads. Either way, the US is screwed except if they can come up with some backdoor agreement with Iran that would deflate the potential retaliatory strike in its extent in exchange for a "feinted" one that would act like an equilibrium while everyone goes home with some few grumblings but a better and safer ending.

In time past, the US could simply have gotten Russia to do this, but with their sins everywhere in Ukraine against the bear, that channel is forever closed (maybe until when Trump wins again). Knowing this, they went to China for help with the situation, but like I said earlier, Israel's action lately has gotten to everyone, and so the Chinese simply told them to Bleep off. So the US is back to square one again....to that screw edge where Netanyahu has placed it on. Honestly, to an extent, I feel sorry for the US right now.

WrriterNg:


This is one of the reasons why I dislike Iran.

They're more about the theatrics than action. Enough of all these games. You're losing important generals, diplomats, nuclear scientists.

Strike Israel hard for once!!

It is not that easy as it sound. Israel is no small force either. And beside, what the US intelligence is doing by continuing to predict when Iran will strike Israel is shifting the burden of "act quickly" on Iran instead of having it on Israel waiting erratically on when the strikes would come. It's a strategic psyop game of cat and mouse.

Iran would definitely strike back but it should be on their own terms and at their chosen time. Hurrying to strike back wouldn't be in their full interest. The more they won't, the more confused and erratic the US and Israeli war cabinet would become.

Honestly, I feel more sorry for the Biden Administration here because Netanyahu have succeeded in putting them in a quagmire that they can neither back down from nor been seen making concessions to Iran to avoid the imminent retaliation.

Well, whatever that may come from now on, this would affect the IDF planned Rafah ground offensive that has been generating much anxiety from everywhere. Like Trump said, Netanyahu is killing Israel on the PR front.

WrriterNg:
⚡Russian air defence system, trainers arrive in Niger

Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with Moscow, state television announced late on Thursday.

Niger’s military government agreed in January to step up security cooperation with Russia, after expelling French forces that were helping fight jihadist rebellions in several Sahel nations.

On Friday, African Corps — seen as the successor of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group in Africa — confirmed it had arrived in Niger.

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1778556292371480892

Now you understand why Macron is getting madder.

WrriterNg:
⚡️18 hours ago, Russia double tapped NATO military personnels in Sumy.

The Russians heavily bombarded a NATO staging ground in Sumy. They immediately called in Medivacs.

Russia then bombed the helicopters along with the wounded.

Like I said, they can come freely, like they have been coming, but they will never leave alive. Russia has increased its OSINT capabilities, and it would be fool-hardy if the pigmies cum bureaucrats in NATO thinks Russia don't know or see what they're up to in the southern and western parts of Ukraine.

WriterrNg:
⚡Partnership between the UK Royal Navy and the Netherlands Navy to build amphibious ships appears to have collapsed just 9 months after MoU signed.

Dutch say "the budget is different, the concept is different... we cannot build identical ships"

It's a pity how the UK has become a shadow of its formal self.

WriterrNg:
In the United States, this project would take at least $50 Billion and 15 years to complete.

Don't forget to add the Biden's and senator's share.