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Another brewing point. In a continent relatively peaceful.Thanks to resource discovery.

XAUBulls:
Whoa! A major sequence of events is unfolding in real-time in South America. Hope the sequence of events can be contained to prevent an all out military confrontation between Venezuela and Guyana (which has a large Indian and Pakistani immigrant population that arrived in Guyana from the 1840s as indentured workers to fill a massive shortage in plantation workforce after the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1800s).

[quote author=Alamkir post=127216880][/quote]PEACE IS NEVER AN OPTION, COMRADE!!!!

aumeehn:
Lol I no fit laugh he has now the taken the position of Okeysoniv Walking Encyclopedia, Mr know it all he has alot of Russian and Serbian friends don't you dare argue with him, he Is an all knowing Demigod Bonjour Monsieur

Have you meet a Serbian before? The usual rhetoric.
He might not agree with anyone fine, he might always want his own view above anyone else's fine. But insulting? Nah and his condescending approach here is bad. Can he even prove he's a French citizen

aumeehn:
You shut the fck up! you think this is your house where you give commands and orders? Just to make what clear? Are you the Alpha and Omega? The fck do you think you are? You shoukd learn to skip what doesn't concern you, don't force your Atheism down our Throats! I remember you telling me i don't even know what Islam is, you just move around claiming to be a walking Encyclopedia, please dey your lane

How dare you insult to our French citizen ; That's how he will be issuing insults allover the thread with his empty skull. Be talking in condescending manner here as if he feeeds any of us here. An 'All-knowing' bastard

Stoplying:
I'm ignoring everything else you said, because my points were not subject to debate.
I'm a French citizen, not a Russian citizen, that is why I'm not going "stay in Russia". Do you have any other stupid questions ?

After countering you on all fronts and you see you reeks of ignorance. You choose to turn to a French citizen all of a sudden. Even your moniker has give you away. Anyone can claim whatever in this faceless forum.But that doesn't stop from migrating to Russia.

Stoplying:
1.The EU is still buying Russian resources, but from middlemen in faraway countries and for a much higher price.
2. European union economies are not doing well due to shooting themselves on the foot but sanctioning Russian resources.
3. Many EU industries have relocated to the USA or are in the process of relocating to the USA because them price of powering their activity has skyrocketed due to lack of accessibility to cheap Russian resources due to stupid self harming sanctions.
4. As s person who lives in the EU, I can see my food price has nearly doubled and my energy bills have Neely tripled.
5. I think you should talk to other dogma driven people like yourself. You can't come here and be talking nonesense to le while I'm busy speaking sense. We're not speaking the sale language.

1. Even the US is still buying some items not ban under the sanctions from Russia. Russia too is still circumventing sanctions to buy items and also earn those important USD to fund it's war machine . So no big deal
2. A whole lot of factors are involved in European economies not doing well. Like Britain you can talk about Brexit, countries like Spain, Greece have other outstanding problems. Germany for example is dealing with the fact that it's. Export based economy and the rest of the world they export to ain't demand much like before.and so onm So everything does not boils down to Russia energy . LOL. The economic problems have been there before now.
3. European industries moving to US is not only as a result of not having cheap gases as your wack propaganda machine has made you to Believe. We are now entering into an era of protectionist (every one looking for it's own interests) one of the reasons they are moving is massive sunsidies and other benefits which the Biden's Build Back Better plan or whatever it's called introduced. They are and other factors. They are moving so they can compete. SO ALL ROADS DOES NOT LEADS TO NOT ACCESSING CHEAP RUSSIAN GASES LIKE YOU ARE CLAIMING.
4.Live in EU or Not . It's not easy anywhere with rocketing prices . So no point here. And does not correlate to how Russia is better than EU in terms of millitary might like you claimed.
5. Of course am not blinded by hate or ignorance. But you claim you stay in the EU. Why not go stay in Russia. Talking about dogma when the authoritarian and repressive regimes you support are the one good in that. Stop fooling around.

Stoplying:
You know Russia only bought a few hundreds of drones from Iran right ? Russia already produces its own version of the Iranian drones. And shells are being produced at a very high rate in Russia (higher than all of NATO combined) but being able to buy them from north Korea as well puts less stress on Russian industry.

I don't know why this is so hard to understand. European industry was powered by Russian ressources. Russia has more ressources than all of NATO combined, and Russia has sufficient trained personnel to take advantage of this. Also Russia kept its military industry at the same capacity as it were in ww2, and NATO didn't.

You cracking me up big time. Resources so important like FDI or Chinese rare earth metals? You mean cheap Russia gas powering up EU industries is why Russia can't be overtaken? Which were gotten elsewhere last year when Putin thought Europe will be frozen to death. Russia military industrial capacity has been on the same capacity but China has overtaken it, A millitary that uses 40 year old Moskava ship (which was sunken last year ) and other old Soviet techs, buying artillery and others from N. Korea and Iran? If they have maintan their industry like you said, they should have taken Ukraine since.
AND in terms of personnel, you mean a country were most of the tech transfer is being lost between generation or a millitary that has more conscript than modern professional army who even lack basic modern kit? Come on!!?
Stop being stupid

dvkot:
Hitler took the fight to Russia doorstep and that was his biggest mistake.
True Russia can't directly confront NATO neither can NATO directly face Russia.
But one thing i know for sure is without USA, Russia can face the rest in a direct confrontation, so long as Russia has weapons from North Korea and Iran.
We are already seeing the results in Ukraine as we speak

lanre316:
Dude, are you aware that Finland alone gave Russia a bloody nose during WW2? Stalin has to call for ceasefire. I bet you don't know. Kindly read up on it.

That's Finland alone o. Now combine the military powers of Poland, France, Sweden, Turkey and the rest of European NATO, even without USA. They are not producing weapons en masse and are only giving Ukraine piece-meal old rusted weapons because they themselves are not directly threatened, but I assure you that if they are directly threatened, Russia will see hell fire. Some European NATO militaries are heavyweights o.

LOL. You guys always like overestimating Russia. Even without USA and they are all willing to wage war. You mean Russia will still defeat all? Saying Russia will be getting supplies from Allies like Iran, N. Korea. So in that scenario Japan, S.Korea, Australia, even the USA not involved in the war will not beef up their NATO allies? Yes Hitler taking it to the Russian doorstep was a mistake but at least he did it. And you think Finland will be a small job for Russia. Like Lanre316 said above they have been involved in war with Finland (Winter war I think) and its didn't give the Russian's what they want exactly. Even in an all out nuclear war they will likely all survive due to their huge bunker network (I don't know if it's them or Iceland that has huge network of bunkers prepared exactly for unclear wars for all it's citizen.).
WITH OR WITHOUT US RUSSIA IS NO MATCH FOR ALL OF NATO
STOP DREAMING. BEFORE YOU SAID ANYTHING NOW I KNOW. You guys will start taking about Poseidon, Satan Bomb and all those gibberish. But you don't know what your enemy also has in stock

LifeofDream:
You write like a fool...
In a war with NATO, you expect Germany, France to face Russia because of Finland?? Thereby leaving their country at risk of a direct powerful attack?...

It'll be a different game entirely, it won't be between Slavic brothers but a real enemy you can exterminate without any guilty conscience... 💯

Insulting him when you are the real fool here
So France , Germany and others will not attack Russia because of reprisal attack from Russia. Be real with your self nuclear or even without nuclear can Russia defeat all of NATO in an open confrontation. Do you even think Finland is a joke? That Russia can easily defeat
And if they are not willing to confront Russia if Russia attack first why are they in a alliance that can make them do so in the first place. Or you think Russia will take the fight to French or German doorstep and they won't retaliate. Have you forgotten history that Hitler even took the fight to the Russian's doorstep??
Some comments here can make one roll on the floor. LOL

dvkot:
iran will NEVER engage Israel... They themselves knows this, it pays iran to keep using hamas and Hezbollah to disrupt Israel.. While they claim those ones act independently.
Israel is USA key player in the Middle East and USA/Israel can take iran refineries and set them back.
Israel main export is technology and no doubt they are one of the best.
USA can influence Saudi Arabia to take decisions that will hurt Iran. International politics is complicated no permanent friendship

dvkot:
yes.. But it won't happen

I don't think Iran and Israel can tango together. Iran alongside its axis of resistance are not friendly to most countries in the middle east, especially the monarchies as they believe they hold no place in Islam. Instead the clergies should hold their place same way it is been done in Iran. What about wanting to unite and lead the Islamic world under it's own 'brand' of Sunni Islam. Taking Saudi which is the leader of the muslim world for example would rather align with Israel as they share a common adversary in Iran. If you take a look back to 2019 when Iran or it's proxy attacked the Main refinery plant of Saudi Arabia. That incident waken up the Saudis that one day Iran might turn on them and especially with the US not having their back then. They resorted to a cold calculus 9f wanting an iron clad defense treaty with US like that of NATO in which the US will be their major security guarantor and as well developing their own civilian nuclear project which will enable the also enrich uranium just incase Iran gets its own nuclear weapons. But the problem is giving the US a more attractive offer since they cant use oil again due to US not really dependant on them again (you talk about shaling and fracking) so they offer to normalize relationship with Israel especially since they post no immediate threat like Iran. And also they can partner with Israel to share a common enemy in Iran. What about the tech and economic benefits. Then Israel in return having Saudi Arabia recognition is huge for them. For US having Israel and Saudi together will be great for balancing in the region which will also allows thw US to wind down operations and focus on the Pacific. Iran no this too well so they are doing everything to prevent that.

WrriterNig:
🇺🇸 🇨🇳

Propaganda like this. Even if the Chinese don't relay much about their subs. The US is still much ahead in terms of both quality and quantity. The same Chinese subs that are still vastly diesel powered. Some are even still using older Soviet tech. Just a few newly built not even up tio 10 are currently nucleread power and modern.

Fake news..

WrriterNig:
⚡Vladimir Putin:

We have to think how to stop war in Ukraine, it’s a tragedy.

We’re ready for talks.

lanre316:
👌

This thread is basically a propaganda outlet for Hamas and Russia. You will soon realise.

I know that already. Some of them are already moaning at the victory of Melei. Talking down on his Dollarization plan they are too naive, bittered and ignorant about.
And that Fool asking if I have meet any Serbian, that he has just because I posted they hate Pro Western news.

Making Sense of What's Happening at OpenAI
~ New York Times

Happenings at OpenAI is important, even if you’re not particularly interested in A.I. If you’ve ever used ChatGPT or drawn a picture with DALL-E 3, or if you care about whether powerful A.I. systems might someday threaten human survival, all of that is wrapped up in the drama at OpenAI, the world’s most prominent maker of artificial intelligence.

What happened?

OpenAI’s board fired its chief executive, Sam Altman, in a surprise on Friday. The board’s explanation — that Altman had not been completely candid with them — was vague and opaque.

We still don’t know exactly what happened between Altman and the board. But OpenAI’s unusual governance structure — it is run by a nonprofit board that controls a for-profit subsidiary and can vote to replace its leaders — allowed the board to fire Altman without explaining itself.

What was the coup about?

The coup was led by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, who had butted heads with Altman. Sutskever wants the company to prioritize safety and was worried that Altman was more focused on growth.

Sutskever is among a faction of A.I. experts who are fearful that A.I. may soon surpass human abilities and become a threat to our survival. Several of OpenAI’s board members have ties to effective altruism, a philosophical movement that has made preventing these threats a top priority. Altman has concerns about A.I. risks, too. But he has also expressed optimism that A.I. will be good for society, and a desire to make progress more quickly. That may have put him at odds with the safety-minded board members, whose job is to see that powerful A.I. is developed responsibly.

What’s happened since the coup?

Over the weekend, it looked as though Altman might return to OpenAI, under the condition that major changes were made to the board. That didn’t happen. Instead, late on Sunday night, the board affirmed its decision, writing in a memo to employees that Altman’s “behavior and lack of transparency in his interactions with the board undermined the board’s ability to effectively supervise the company in the manner it was mandated to do.”

The board then appointed Emmett Shear — the former chief executive of Twitch, a livestreaming company — to be OpenAI’s second interim C.E.O. in just a few days. (Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, had been given the job, only to lose it after signaling her support for Altman.)

In response, Microsoft — OpenAI’s biggest investor and a major strategic partner — offered to give Altman and his top lieutenant, Greg Brockman, a job running a new A.I. lab. Nearly all of OpenAI’s roughly 770 employees signed a letter threatening to quit and go work for the new Microsoft team, unless the start-up’s board resigned and brought back Altman and Brockman.

In another surprise twist, Sutskever then had second thoughts. He wrote in a post on X on Monday that he deeply regretted having taken part in the ouster and that he had “never intended to harm OpenAI.” He also signed the letter pledging to follow Altman and Brockman to Microsoft unless the board reversed its decision.

That sounds messy! But why does this matter to the rest of us?

Corporate infighting is not new. But what makes the OpenAI story stand out is the stakes. OpenAI is no ordinary company. It built ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing tech products of all time, and it employs many of the top A.I. researchers.

The company is also unusually ambitious and saw its role as building a digital superintelligence that would eventually become more powerful than humans. In addition, Altman was a well-liked leader and a figurehead for the A.I. industry, making the board’s decision to oust him even more of a mystery.

In a larger sense, what’s happening at OpenAI is a proxy for one of the biggest fights in the global economy today: how to control increasingly powerful A.I. tools, and whether large companies can be trusted to develop them responsibly.

How does this relate? Guess you want to 'chestbeat' right?

Stoplying:
Have you met any Serbian ?
I have.

Stoplying:
Rape-victim trying to be friends with its rapist ...time will tell.

lol any pro western news here and you guys are pained..

fools like you, get englightened no, but you will rather wallow in ignorance. Firstly, dollarization is one of some strategy to fix an economy, but struggling countries dont use it, due to political and geopolitical reasons. Secondly there are countries that had replace their currency with the dollar and doing well economically especially in the aspect of keeping inflation very low and there are facts to backup these claims. The only downside of replacing with dollar is your country will be affected by decision taken by the federal reserves. If he sees it as a strategy to combat their economic woes, so be it. What has there useless country offer them. Now get lost .

Stoplying:
They are replacing their currency with the USA dollar.
Now, are you the fool or am I ?

Stoplying:
Argentina is now a full fledged USA colony.
Congrats Argentinian voters.
What is the point of freedom anyways, I guess.

Useless posts like this. So because they now have a leader friendly to US makes them a colony. Don't be blinded by hate.

finally! He won. Will be watching how his dollarization campaing goes.

WrriterNig:
⚡Argentinians cheering, celebrating after Javier Milei got elected the next president of Argentina.

IAmHim1:
The only reason she knows you're not giving her your time is because someone else is giving her HIS TIME. Look back, cast forward

Understand this...there is no 'tall individual' Just 'tall compared to another'. There has to be a standard she's using to 'measure' your giving. You're not just tall...you're taller compared to someone else

And since ladies aren't logical creatures in the sense that they depend and rely on others for their experience, THEY CREATE THEIR EXPERIENCE THEMSELVES.

She knows you're not giving her enough time because someone else is giving her enough time. SO SHES COMPARING/ WEIGHING BRUV

there's someone else in the picture. She needs to feel justified to cheat on you. He's not giving me enough time= he doesn't love me

Mr x is giving me enough time COMPARED TO MY BOYFRIEND= Mr x loves me MORE THAN MY BOYFRIEND.

SO SHE bleeps MR X. It's the emotions

refer to ubunja definition of man and woman loneliness(it's on his profile) and also his writeup: that break-up she initiated for no reason

Good luck pal

100 Cold beers for you.. lol
Exactly my last points above
Here's that Ubunja's masterpiece

https://www.nairaland.com/4957210/ubunjas-miseducation-lil-break-up-she

SF123:
Greetings pals. Last week my girl friend sent me texts on facebook itemizing that she wants to break our relationship as a result of me not giving her my time, attention, nor chatting her frequently on social media. The things is, i am currently in school now and i barely have time for myself as my classmates i am to compete with are all brainics. and i intend studying the most prestigous course after completing a programme. my discipline is the toughest in the tertiary institution. Should i let her go or plead with her to stay since she requested for breakup. I have already explained to her yet she called me on the same ideology of breaking up with her. If i heed to what she request for, i will fall out academically and it will endanger my life. She is also in school too but my course is more complex than her.

Let her go. Once her mind has been made up, it has..
Do not beg or show any emotion. Delete any form of contact immediately (that is if you cant control yourself begging) highest it will take a week or two depending on how attached you her to move on.
Then ask yourself the following questions:
-How has she been of benefits or added impact to your life since you have been together?
-What efforts did she put into the reletionship before it ended. Especially compared to your own effort
Those questions are for you to answer just in case your don't want to let go or feels like going back.

They (female) always come up with lame excuses to break up when they are no longer interested. All those reasons there are BS. Another ni..ga might be in the picture. Might be the lil breakup she initiated for no reason. Stand your ground.

Henry Winter, editor-in-chief of The Times on why he voted for Leo Messi for the Ballon d'Or.

“This may be the last time we celebrate Messi as the best player in the world, but the issue has nothing to do with nostalgia, nor with clinging to a romance that is fading. Rather, Messi deserves the Ballon d'Or.

When I voted for England for the Ballon d'Or, I thought carefully about the incredible work of Haaland and Mbappé, studied their amazing statistics and best shots, and then came back to Messi.

Messi led Argentina to win the World Cup last season with a performance comparable to Maradona's in the 1986 World Cup.

Football is about titles and Messi's performance in Qatar showed that he deserved first place and six points. Although Messi's career was brilliant with four Champions League titles, he needed a World Cup.

All the pressure was on their shoulders, especially with a young coach like Scaloni and a team that included three important young players in Enzo, Álvarez and Mac Allister. At times, especially after the first surprising loss against Saudi Arabia, Messi was under more pressure, and when his country needed him most, Messi responded.

He won the award for best player in the World Cup and scored 7 goals of quality and variety: long-distance goals against Mexico and Australia, deep goals against France and penalty kicks taken with different left, right, high and low goals. Messi also gave three assists and played every minute of the tournament.

No player has taken more shots on goal than him (32). Only Antoine Griezmann has more key passes than Messi, who has 21. Only Musiala and Mbappé dribbled more than him, and no player was exposed to more fouls than him.

If some of those who mock him might suggest that referees are influenced by his reputation, the reality is that Messi is being attacked and his amazing movements confuse opponents who jump and catch him.

By all standards, Messi was the most effective in the most important tournament in sport, but Messi is not just numbers, he is much more. Messi is poetry. Messi is the one who surprises you. Messi is that sudden burst of speed and that touch to keep the ball away from a defender like Gvardiol.

Messi is a special role model for the younger generation who follows the stars as much as the teams. Attending a match with your team is completely different from another match. “A Messi match in itself is considered an event.”

Big lol. Language or weather as excuse as if you are even wanted in those countries in the first place. Aside the west and some others that opens their doors to all and sundry. Others don't , like . Japan even with their demographics crises hasn't open. China prefers only ethnic hans and not even every one in the that same east asia. What about russia ... Again big lol, you know the truth.

Watcharena:
when migrating to a country you will have to consider a lot of things one of it language barrier, another is weather.how many Africans can survive in a deep freezer,how many Africans can speak Russian language or Chinese language

lol.. Ignorance is bliss.. The . Us beggin south korea for shells. just so you know, south korea has the ighest number of artillery after north korea it self. and as the russian ukraine war has shown artillery is still very important. and with south korea as an ally with such large amount of shells. its only natural to ask them, same way russia is asking north korea. But due to some policy south korea dont want to transfer directly to ukraine instead the us will empty his own rounds and then restock from south korea..

seunny4lif:
How can a super power US and her NATO members for 20 years fighting and training Afghans against taliban and loosing everything in 2 weeks.
USSR trained Afghan troops fought and hold Kabul for months even after Soviet troops left.
Soviet only trained them for less than 10 years but Taliban chased the almighty USA troops away from Afghanistan using AK47 and slippers

Superpower USA emptied her second largest base in Afghanistan overnight without even telling her own Afghanistan government ally.

The whole NATO combined, are crying from ammo and equipment shortage, after 1 yr of fighting against one “gas station” then begging the South Korea for shells, and getting rejected by South America countries for same reason.

Bulgaria already said they have any ammunitions to send to Ukraine.
Slovakia have joined Bulgaria too to said same thing.

Russia is a world power abeg, a nation that fighting against over 40 nations combined with all the sanctions yet she is still making billions from same nations.

Russia with all the sanctions is still running free healthcare system, free education, and petrol prices is still same, something the USA with all her trillion dollars economy can’t relate to because US citizens don’t have it.

They have their reasons.like they say, geo politics is all about strategic intrest. Even saudi has used them in the past to fight another group

seunny4lif:
But Qatari supported and funded Muslim brotherhood.
Qatari is being ruled by Monarch

seunny4lif:
They were Muslim Brotherhood before Sisi came to power, in fact it was what made Saudi and UAE supported Sisi military coup in Egypt.
Imagine that Saudi tagged Muslim Brotherhood an extreme Muslims

The Muslim Brother ideologies and operations poise a threat to the Monarchies of the Muslim/Arab world because the Brotherhood sees they have no place in Islam. Hence Saudi, UAE and other Monarchies against them because they worried it will spread and depose them of their power

India Rejects Russia Demands to Pay for Oil in YuanIndia Pushes Back Against Russia Demands to Pay for Oil in Yuan
Russia has excess rupees it can’t use, while it needs yuan
India’s government won’t agree to requests, people sayPopularizing the yuan at the expense of the rupee also hurts India’s own efforts to internationalize its currency and would risk a backlash against Modi and his government as he seeks a third term in office in elections next year. India was the only nation in the BRICS bloc — comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — which opposed the introduction of a common currency, fearing it would eventually favor the yuan.At the same time, relations between India and China have remained strained as border disputes in the Himalayas continue to simmer and as the world’s two most populous nations vie for global influence, especially in the developing world.Wasn’t Russia until recently demanding that all oil purchased be made in Rubles?

If this demand collapsed, then Russia is in a pretty bad position. Demanding payment in Chinese yuan is a clear signal that Russia is now essentially China’s vassal state.

The ground invasion would be somewhat hard. Gaza, especially gaza city is an urban and very densely populated area. For context (densely as . Manhattan per square metre without the super tall skyscrapper). You also talk about vast network of trenches, which can make . Hamas millitias to pop up from any where. What about the IDF's exit strategy. All have to be put in the planning.

FoolishBoy419:
The problem is that many of them don't understand how hard invasion can be. Start explaining things to them and they'll tell you about the "6-days war" like programmed zombies.

FoolishBoy419:
This is coming while they are still accommodating Israeli diplomats in Turkey. I've always said it; Erdogan is a snake.

Erdogan is not necessarily a snake. Turkey is all about Turkey. Not like they necessarily care or don't care. They are just trying to give that Ottoman vibes, want to be seen as a leader of the Islamic world. So you might think they care (maybe) but what they really care for is their own selfish interest. Hence the "flip-flop"

Best have seen online today. Seems men are finally ''gettin' the idea''

heartofcity12:
👍

Vl3ly:
on top smaller group called Hamas?in you are over rated

It is better some of you don't comment at all and allow WritterNigg or whatever to be doing his great propaganda works here.Than to type nonsense. The same Hamas that is an existential threat to Israel is not worth meeting for. Before you quote me and say am brainwashed and they are western propaganda (because thats the rhetorics you guys always refers to)that Hamas pose no threat to Israel. Ask yourself what are Hamas goals against State of Israel. Stay safe.