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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 5:34pm On Oct 08, 2024
BoldBrainz:
🇮🇷🇮🇱

🔥BREAKING!

The Iranian parliament is reportedly drafting a bill to create an official military alliance between all parties of the Resistance Axis: Iran, Syria, Yemen, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, and various other factions.

The bill mentions the creation of a joint operations room and a unified military infrastructure, as well as joint military exercises and an obligation to send military and humanitarian aid in case of any act of aggression by the US or Israel against any one of the parties – Tasnim

[Middle_East_Spectator]
The road to a full blown middle east war is about to unravel.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:51pm On Oct 05, 2024
Masterviolence:
I can clearly see that you're having a mental breakdown.
Since the IDF started receiving heavy beating in Lebanon, you have become restless. grin grin grin
The situation in the Lebanese front was a no-brainer.

Hezbollah was and still is a much more organized, equipped, and far superior force compared to Hamas military wing. In just few days of war, the IDF is already losing men like flies. Aside the civilian buildings they have been destroying (their specialty) and the targeted assassinations, the IDF has scored very little against Hezbollah on the battlefield.
Imagine a situation when other state actors join in.

Netanyahu is overplaying his hand here by repeating the civilian targeting mistakes in Gaza here in Lebanon. Whatever sympathizers he has among some European countries are gradually loosening their touch seeing the horrific footages of massive civilian deaths. It will geto a stage where no one will border to be of help to it anymore aside the US. The recent show of indifference by many of the countries that use to support it following the recent Iranian strike is one rude awakening that they should really consider. Unfortunately, the Netanyahu character isn't taking notice.

A fly that has no one to advise him follows the corpse into the grave.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:31pm On Oct 05, 2024
Vl3ly:
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted that the Russian army is "stronger than the European Armed Forces." He said this in an interview with the Financial Times. Stoltenberg also noted that Europe lacks not only weapons, but also troops and potential.

"We know we are behind the Russians," he said.
Reality is a bad bitch that always comes home to roost.

We have always said this, Russia isa war machine and winning wars is wired in their DNA.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:15pm On Oct 05, 2024
emmaodet:
What kind of world are we living in for God sake.
Is isreal bigger than the UN now? That even the UN has to be making stupid requests from isreal to allow medical personnels carry out their tasks at the hospital yet isreal denying them.
They need to scrap most of these organisations like UN, AU, ECOWAS etc to be honest
It tells you how ruined the current world order vis-a-vis the UN has become.

Everything you're seeing now indicates that the world is waiting to experience a catastrophic reset.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:47am On Oct 03, 2024
WrriterNg:
By the time the war is over, Ukraine would have become a public limited company and possibly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.


As Ukraine PLC.
This is hilarious. grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 10:43am On Oct 03, 2024
lanre316:
😂😂😂

As humans, we're generally getting lazier and dumber as AI is getting better and better.
That's very sad and bad.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:46am On Oct 03, 2024
shoodboi2:
Russia has always and will always be their father. America and their EU bullies are all substance and no content. All noise and no action. They're only strong when facing smaller and weaker countries.

Even then, they have to pack themselves as a group. Pitch them against giants like Russia and they suddenly flee with their immature tails stuck between their legs.

Russia is their father. And Iran is slowly becoming their older brother.
cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:24am On Oct 03, 2024
Vic2023:
🚫A will written by Rasha, a 10-year-old child who was murdered by the Israeli occupation, was found beneath the rubble.

“Please don’t cry for me, as it would make me sad. I hope my clothes can go to those in need, and my accessories to Rahaf, Lana, and Batool.

The bead boxes should go to Batool. As for my monthly allowance of 50 shekels, I want half to go to Rahaf and the other half to Ahmad. I’d like Batool to have my toys.

Lastly, please don’t shout at my brother Ahmad. Please follow these wishes.”

Among those mentioned in the will is 8-year-old Ahmad, Rasha's brother...Rasha had no idea that the brother she worried about and left a will for was also murdered by Israel alongside her.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭]
This was touching.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:20am On Oct 03, 2024
FoolishBoy419:
AI vomits what it learns from internet sources which are full of western narratives. It's not nearly as accurate as lazy Nigerians give it credit for.
I can't believe that people can't even do things by themselves anymore. He had to use AI to argue geopolitics for him.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:07am On Oct 03, 2024
Vl3ly:
By the way, in the event of a major war between Iran and Israel, with strikes on each other's oil facilities and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices will seriously skyrocket and the Russian Federation will earn billions or even tens of billions of dollars.
This reality actually puts the US in a quagmire.

An expansive retaliation against Iran and counter attack by Iran would force oil prices high, possibly beyond the price tag during the US invasion of Iraq. And that is a very bad omen for western economic outlook.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 1:52am On Oct 03, 2024
dermmy:
I know Israel will fly in F-35s with a mixture of 4th gen fighters. let's see how powerful Iranian Air defences are. I think Iran is trying to bait Israel into a war on multiple front considering how Hezbollah has not attacked seems they are cooking something waiting on the orders of Iran and other proxies in the region. Middle East is about to explode.
Iran has S-300 and there is rumor that China sold them some sophisticated AD systems as well.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:04pm On Oct 02, 2024
Procashtips:
No country is truly free without its own nukes

Infact, with nukes, you're rated high and counted amongs the big boys.
Facts
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:03pm On Oct 02, 2024
LordAdam16:
Id**ts.

You don't announce this.

What is it with these troglodytes and chest beating?

-Lord
Deterrence, I think.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:00pm On Oct 02, 2024
motayoayinde:
The current one is beyond terrible.
Very useless.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 8:59pm On Oct 02, 2024
Mille:
With the look of things, looks like they failed o grin
I don't think they failed. They saw this coming all the way. Netanyahu had to be thought a lesson. The Haniyeh assassination in Iran and the killing of Nasrallah made US officials furious.
Foreign Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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 Affairs › Re: 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

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