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LordAdam16:
Russia has offered the Su-57 to India since 2012.
At a time, India ordered 200 units.
India then shut down the acquisition process to focus on their indigenous jet.
But with the recent bust of their indigenous engine program, Russia is moving fast to restart those acquisition talks.

Algeria will receive a Su-57 this year or next.
I think the delivery will be expedited after the Iran debacle.
The Kremlin is facing private accusations of being an unreliable partner, so watch out for them performing backflips for current partners they have a long-term relationship with.
India, Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, et al.

Putin even offered the Su-57 to Turkey.

Iran should turn to China, foster that relationship, and leave a door open for Russia.
It might work out to be a good thing for Iran. Russia only built <10 Su-57 last year. China makes that number of 5th gens in a month.

-Lord

Ruke1990:
India and SA are birds of a feather in that they both share in the hate problem, have racist ideologies and have the world highest rates of rape and HIV.

oyaskii:
Actors all have peculiar acting styles or methodology, that works well for them and they tend not to want to deviate, as it is a safe bet, why some other actors have the ability to flip methodology and change styles per roles, which is good, but it doesn't make them better actors than the latter.

Keenu Reeves and Liam Neeson have the same demeanor towards acting, and i have not really seen a widespread claim, that they are bad actors. I have also seen them carry the same demeanors into other genres, that is not action, and they were believable performances and endearing af. Keanu Reeves in "Destination Wedding" (2018), might be one of the best male lead in a Rom Com i have seen in the last 10 years and Liam Neeson in "Ordinary Love" (2019) is actually one of the best portrayals of grief and loss by Husband to a stage 4 cancer wife, i have seen.


It might come off as monotonous, but this is their style, and I will be first in line to see any films, both are in tbh.

Mariangeles:
Are you, by any chance, Indian?
You really took the matter personally.

abduleez1:
Just watched this trailer after anticipating what Ramayana might bring.
It's an adaptation of the same story but this Adipurush is a cinematic travesty. What the honest fvvk is that CGI and VFX??
All involved in that film needs to be flogged.

And that film is amongst top 5 most expensive Bollywood films. 😳😳


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNmYjoR-qM?si=420b7FheZAEKd39d

comradee1248:
Some Cultures (In the case of Nigeria) most especially Those from the Hausa Royal families marry their first Cousins so that they won't bring in a foreign blood to the royal family... Can you do that?

According to some quarters that Culture is mostly practice in the Middle East (Islamic Tradition)

South Asia countries like India, Pakistan and Bangledesh

Sub Saharan Africa

And some US States

So can you Marry your first Cousin?

LordAdam16:
Israel just lost a war with Iran and it is a nuclear power.
The US lost in Afghanistan and it is a nuclear power.

Flipping the table is the last thing you'll do.
Literally.
There are no moves after that.

In my analysis, I pointed out that the preferred outcome would be a treaty where the US loses its perch and perks and China becomes the undisputed #1.
The goal is not to eradicate all 350m Americans and wipe America off the map.
Nukes forestall annihilation. They don't prevent strategic defeats.
France has lost more than a dozen bases in Africa in the past 5 years. It is a nuclear power.

In a total war, China will drive the US out of the Pacific, maul the US mainland, and break its chokehold on global order.
That war will do to the US what the Suez Canal crisis did to the UK.

-Lord

Alamkiir:
How does this even prove anything?

LordAdam16:
This is an involved thought process.
Don't have the time to lay every single component out, but will give some sort of synopsis.

The US relies on air and naval power.
No one is thinking of conventionally invading China. That is not an objective.

For air and naval power, they'll need bases and superior manufacturing.
China has them beat on manufacturing supremacy.
On bases, they'll have to be close to China.
Look up Pacific island chains. It's this concept in military strategy of a ring of island chains that the US has to control to have a pincer around China to be capable of hurting China.

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As with the Gulf bases and Iran; the US so-called unsinkable carriers are Japan, South Korea, and to some degree Philippines.
Thailand, Malaysia, India, and a few others maybe may contribute to the war effort.
This is where it gets tricky because WW2 and the cold war is over.
As I told Writer, pull up Google Earth.

For every 1 million casualty in China, at least 3 million plus will be eliminated in those vassals.
South Korea will be taken off the board in days. Japan will be crippled. Think the status of the Low Countries during Hitler's march.
Philippines will sign an unconditional surrender. India will stay out hoping to pull a US where it will wait until both sides have wrecked themselves before aligning with the winner.

Then it's about China pumping out enough materiel to crowd out US assets in the South China sea and pushing the US to the second island chain. A reverse of what the US did to Japan during WW2. Casualties from US attacks will at worse plateau at this point and fatalities in mainland US will start rising rapidly. I don't see China pushing further into the Western Hemisphere unless the US collapses under its own weight.

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But this is the point where all of China's innate brutality and manufacturing supremacy will have the most devastating effect.
Think about what's happening in Ukraine currently. China will send waves after waves, non-stop of incendiaries, until it achieves its war goals.
The US will seek to blunt the attack but China will keep at it and systematically degrade the US militarily because it will simply make more stuff that go kaboom.

That is why I said it'll be a mauling.
It'll be the Dragon just drowning continental US in unrelenting fire.
A malaise the US has never experienced.
The Western seaboard will be decimated. Panama canal destroyed. Population centers in eastern seaboard cities will become kill zones.
That is the definition of "unrecognizable".

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Will China suffer huge casualties in a total war? Yes.
But at the point where it's lost 100m people, every Asian country that is a US vassal today would have either capitulated or be destroyed.
The US itself will bear the brunt during the war. No more destroying some other region, and decimating that region's population and industrial capacity while paying little price. Then it'll become how much punishment they can sustain until they sign a treaty that makes China the clear, undisputed Superpower.

This will be a war that dethrones the US.
The $ reserve status. The so-called rules-based order. All of that bunkum. China will put in a coffin.
China is preparing for the war. And part of the US starting fires all around is trying to rope in China into costly foreign debacles before it hits its own military milestones.
China knows the US will not go quietly into the night. A mostly peaceful collapse of the US will still have a shooting war component.

That's why the Chinese Foreign Minister told Kallas earlier this week that while it will not allow Russia to lose in Ukraine, it hasn't really provided military help to Russia. Because if it had, the war would have been over.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3316875/china-tells-eu-it-cannot-afford-russian-loss-ukraine-war-sources-say
Russia, Iran, the Koreas, even Taiwan. All the provocations aim to get China to stumble. But Beijing is not biting. The export controls and restrictions are also to slow China's military modernization.

China is currently building a military command center in Beijing that is 10 times bigger than the Pentagon.
They're not doing that to seize Taiwan or because of Japan.
The CCP don set date for the US. When the time comes they'll either accept a diminished role or be made to.

A multipolar world is the diplomatic compromise. But China knows that after 2500 years at the top, old habits die hard.
So it is preparing for what it considers an inevitability.
A showdown with the US.

-Lord

WritterNg:
⚡India lost 3 French-made Rafale fighter jets during clash with Pakistan, Indian foreign minister Jaishankar says.

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1940777473043829149

hamzeiy:
They are crammers...no innovation.
Good in knowing what is known already.
Just like the Nigerian educational system..unlike Indians Nigerians are smart enough to break the prison if they want to.

fxexperts:
Oboy conspiracy is living rent free in your head. How do you even belive all this bull crap mumbo jumbo. i truely give up on most of you Religious folks. brainwashing is your second name. all trying to make yourself look smart.

ElevationD:
We have a long business and personal relationships with Indians, so I know what I am talking about..

ElevationD:
I made reference to google because you first mention it to me. You asked me to research Sonia Ghandi and I responded to you. What you do not know is that I followed Jawaharlal Nehru and the Ghandis in history for many years, studying their brands of politics and leadership. There’s nothing to tell me about Sonia Ghandi, as I followed her personally, including the entire Ghandi family, starting with Mohandas Karamchad Ghandi. I can discuss the Ghandis all day.

ElevationD:
The fact remains that relationships between two or more nations cannot and must not be conducted on the bases of biases, with one nation wanting to lock out people from other nations, residing in their own country to either work, or do genuine businesses. You cannot say that it is up to us to make our decision to lock Indians out of our country, when daily at the newspaper stands on the streets of India, your citizens are seeking for job opportunities everywhere. Nigeria is a prime target because salaries are able to pay their bills in Nigeria and more than enough can be remitted to India to keep the family going. You cannot be protecting your civilization on one hand and expect to export same civilization to my own country, benefitting from my country and not wanting me to profit from yours. Certainly that’s improper. Again, India is not a hamit nation like China before the turn of the 18th century.

Fash20:
But the Ukrainian has been using startlink to for its drone strike again Russian. Is that enough reason to after it.

I guess going after it will make more Americans pro Ukraine which i understand

ElevationD:
Can you please show me the lie in all that I said Mr. Indian man? Don’t overstay your welcome, yet you have Indians who have long overstayed their welcome in African countries and still remain there. Such hypocrisy!

Is the reality on the streets in India the same as your google based submission? Or as an Indian national you rely also on google to inform you about happenings on the streets of the country? Do Africans especially have any regard in the eyes of Indian authorities right there in India?

Oga, stop deceiving yourself. You are certainly a Nigerian, who is poorly informed of real events on the streets of India. Your idea of immigration is very well lacking in all real proofs. At best you can only be an Indian who left his “civilization” in search of better living in Nigeria.

Indians fight a war to preserve their civilization and yet venture away from their own country, with their so called civilization to other countries. If it was so good out there in the country, why venture away in such magnitude? Indians can keep their civilization to themselves and let others stay peacefully in their nations.

While Indians are not Africans, you find Indians everywhere in Africa, securing African citizenships with ease. Please tell us how many Africans have obtained Indian citizenships in the last decade, as referenced by you. Can you please tell us how many Nigerians, central, north and South Africans who have obtained Indian citizenship in the last decade? You can also google that.

Which African country was spared the “millenniums” of ruling by foreigners? All African countries suffered the effects of colonialism. Now it is the invasion of Indians and other nations.

We know the issue with Naxalism, which is not common to India only. We know about long standing issue with Pakistan. We know that the rise in Hindu nationalism has been an issue with the minority Muslims and Christians. We know about the issue in Manipur and ISIS.But these all pale in significance to what happens in West Africa, yet it is far easier to obtain citizenships in African countries for Indians.

Truthfully, I am not in the position to dictate to the Indian government about their immigration rules. However I am entitled to my opinion about certain worrisome aspects. Shutting the mouth in the face of such concerns becomes an issue of its own. If people shut their mouths, then leaders carry on as they wish.

If you googled the Indian immigration policies, how were you not able to also look up the Nigerian immigration or citizenship rules. For your information the rules are made flexible inspite of the duration, enabling foreigners take their time to regularize their documents after the long stay. No one is ever molested, except they are caught in criminal acts. Nowadays it is common for Indian FRRO to pick up Africans at random, detain and deport them, even if their are not found in any criminal act.

shoodboi2:
The calculator and smartphone comparison make is more logical and relatable. A sniper rifle and an assault rifle are two very different platforms used by two different sets of people for two very different tasks. They are incomparable. Either will fail where the other excels.

An assault rifle cannot replace a handgun or even a shotgun either. Those have very different roles. It can replace a machine gun on specific cases, but you'll need to replace the magazine with a belt.

As for the calculator-phone comparison, a person who wants to use a calculator can use their phone or a dedicated calculator. But the phones can do other things other than just calculating, which makes them superior. Some calculator apps on phones are even more advanced than advanced scientific calculatiors.

With that in mind, calling the s400 a multipurpose platform is misleading. It is not a multipurpose weapon. It is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles along with cruise missiles and aircrafts, which is normal for those type of weapons.

Cruise missiles and aircrafts share similar tech and work similarly, so anything that can shoot one can shoot down the other.

As for ballistic missiles, anything capable of shooting down a cruise missile and aircraft will shoot down a ballistic missile.

So, it is not the s400 that is multipurpose. It is the THAAD that is inferior. A dedicated anti-ballistic missile platform like THAAD is almost never heard of. Countries almost never develop it.

Instead, they do is to develop a system that shoots down cruise missiles and aircrafts or satellites. Such system can then be used to shoot down ballistic missiles.

Hoaxen:
Shoodboi2, here are some specifications I got online:

THAAD: Maximum altitude: 150km, Detection range: 1000km

S-400: Maximum altitude: 60km, Detection range: 600km.

Confirm and see if it's the same.

https://www.jamiiforums.com/threads/dogfight-american-thaad-vs-the-russian-s-400-s-500-air-defense-missile-systems.1752740/

ElevationD:
So you do not know that on this forum, some of the people who you meet, have first hand experience about the issues talked about? You are looking at google and I am talking with experience as one who has visited and spent time in that country. You can continue with google if you choose, or you can learn from people who tell you what’s going on with the Indian immigration rules.

If 21,000 people have become citizens in one decade, does that not show you how poor rigid the process is? We are talking of millions of citizens from the rest of the world and not just Nigerians. India has a population of over 1.3 billion people and yet such poor amount of people have become citizens. Nigeria has 260 million people and with our rules, foreigners are well protected.

Do you want to talk of USA and Europe, where Indians scramble to get citizenships? You may contact the Nigerian high commission in India for verification and not google. That’s even more straight forward.

Foreigners may become Indian citizens by naturalisation after residing in the country for at least 12 years and renouncing any previous nationalities. This is the rule, yet it is extremely hard. With that rule, should people who intend to become citizens not have some documents to protect them, while they wait for the process to conclude?

Members of certain religious minority communities from neighbouring countries qualify for a reduced residence requirement of six years, yet even their Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan neighbors find it near impossible to achieve.

I am not aggrieved and there is no imagination here. I do not require and I never needed Indian nationality.
I am telling you the reality, as experienced first hand. You may seek for someone else who either has visited or spent time in India to tell you. Again, I have interacted with Indians right from when I was a little boy, right in Nigeria, India and other countries where I have visited. I know them as I have done business with them.

ElevationD:
Look, visa renewal, citizenship, whatever, they all should be opportunities granted to people of other nations to stay legitimately in their country. While others provide such opportunities for Indians, they cannot continue to make themselves a hamit nation. They have had an American Vice President and a British Prime minister. Such opportunities should be permitted to people of other nations.

If they can reside in other countries, renewing their visas easily and getting citizenships, while should they shut out others from their country?

ElevationD:
Some Indians are busy in the streets of Indian job hunting at the newspaper stands and targeting opportunities in Nigeria. While their wages in India are very poor, they look out for Nigeria where they can earn better salaries and remit to their country. A lot of the same Indians and Chinese reside in Nigeria illegitimately and unmolested by authorities. Many of them too to known to embezzle company funds and yet are not arrested.

Most Nigerians in India are not involved in any crime. It is only a minority who get involved. Indian government unfortunately makes renewal of visas very difficult in their country, otherwise nationals of other countries will not run into visa problems of overstay with the immigration. Knowing how expensive tickets and visa processes are, some choose to wait to do the shipments over periods of time, leading to overstay.

The problem must be addressed by the Indian government or parliament. It is absolute selfishness. While Indians are citizens of several other nationals, they hardly permit people of other nations be ine their citizens.

PaNnamdi:
Don't be deceived because electricity generation is not child play.Generation of electricity requires numerous capital and human resources to make a nation especially a large one called Nigeria with over 200 million people to get steady electricity.

Reasons Nigeria Can Never Guarantee Steady Electricity Supply

As a Nigerian I use roughly 3000 watts of electricity daily,this comes from my 8 400 watts solar panels.Every Nigerian need atleast a minimum of 2000 to optimum of 3000 watts of electricity in his home to be able to carry out basic electrical demands in his day to day life.

How Many Watts Do Nigeria Actually Need To Generate

Nigerian Need atleast a generation capacity of 600,000,000,000(600 billion)watts of electricity for it to gurantee that it have met the electrical demands of the Nigerian population.If the Nigerian government follows this solar generation model(which is the cheapest and ecologically cleanest way),the Nigerian government also need to distribute and subsidize solar batteries and inverters so as to make the Nigerian be able to boast of 24 hr electricity daily

Cost Associated With Generating Electricity Of This Size

A 600bn watts generation would guarantee every 200 million Nigerian citizen have assess to at less 3,000 watts of electricity wether during peak times or not.if it cost the government 3000 dollars to generate 3mw(3000 watts) of solar power,it would require 3000*200,000,000 which is 600 billion dollars to guarantee electricity for every Nigerian.(Note this is just basic calculation and extra costs involved during this realization weren't added if I added it everything could run up to 1 trillion dollars).

Reality

Nigeria can't afford this,and to my readers please maintain your generator or solar panels with all zeal because its your only remedy to steady light until you die,don't believe propagandas a thousand of Peter obi,tinubu, Jonathan,sowore and all analysts combined can't make Nigeria get steady electricity supply accross every inch of Nigerian territory not even in a 100 years time.

Kushites:
That is so sad.

Everywhere I look around the world, everyone is observing the religion of their ancestors.

Except us!

China - Buddhism, Taoism.

India - Hinduism, Janism.

Japan - Shintoism.

Our own nko?

And you wonder why we have problems.

A tree without roots, or with imported, artificial roots, can never stand gidigba like a tree with roots grounded in the soil.

How can you tell me that thousands of years of spiritual knowledge, and spiritual philosophy can just be thrown away because some idiots came from London with guns and bombs a mere century ago, carrying something they claimed was a ''holy book'' that did not prevent them massacring our ancestors to steal and loot our resources, in contravention of their ''holy book''.

Obviously they knew their 'holy book' was a pile of crap. Something they used to disconnect Africans from their spiritual heritage, morals and power, and brainwash Africans to worship them instead (via their invented white man 'saviour' jesus).

Thankfully Africans are waking up. So happy to learn that the Ooni of Ife has allocated 3 acres of land for the construction of the World Ifa Temple in Ile-Ife.

That will be the first of many new Temples for Nigerian traditional religion.

Mikasaobi:
Honestly this is my first time hearing about him. If you don’t mind, why is he unhinged for helping Iran and North Korea?

LordAdam16:
Until they arrive, do not hold out hope.

Iran is a certified tire kicker.

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To your follow-up question:
The J-10 is the best fighter jet Iran can lay its hands on today.
Russia, for various reasons, will be unable to hand Iran 3 to 4 squadrons of the Su-35 within a short timeframe.
Never mind the Su-57.
If it could, it would have already done so. Iran placed an order for Su-35s, trained pilots, built underground hangars for the jets.
Iran is still waiting.

The workhorse of the IAF are actually fourth-gen and earlier jets.
F-35I is the flagship, but they only have three squadrons.
They can only field 2 squadrons at any time. So they always have to deploy their fourth generation aircrafts.

The J-10C, with talented pilots, can go toe to toe with every fighter jet in Israel's inventory except the F-35I.
Combined with 5+ S-400 Air Defense Systems blanketing Iran, Iran becomes a fortress.
They need both. One without the other is incomplete.
Iran's capable indigenous Air Defense systems will augment and protect the S-400.
Iran's ADs are good enough to be supplementary, but they are incapable of being a first line of defense.

Iran did not deploy the full might of its air force in this war.
So its older airframes that would have been wiped out had they engaged with the IAF in the 12-day war would have a role when there are more layers of protection. They will hunt for drones and carry out strikes against infiltrators, enemy agents, and special operators.
They would also free up Iran's use of its own drones within Iran for added security.
Think several Mohajer-10s always airborne over the core areas of Tehran and high-value assets across the country during wartime.
Identify a sabotage unit, fire away immediately. Practical air borne snipers.

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4 squadrons is the minimum they need.
China produces 100+ J-20s per year. That's the more complex 5th generator fighter.
So Iran should be able to get the 40 J-10C in under a year, if they press, agree to pay a premium, and China is willing.

J-10C first. Then beg China to transfer a handful of J-20s. Then J-35s next year at the earliest (China currently has one squadron as of last count, so Iran would have to be patient).
Hire Pakistani pilots in the interim while Iranian pilots get familiar with the air frame and gain experience.

In my assessment, I will make the argument that Israel will push for a round 2 soon.
The longer it delays, the stronger Iran will become (assuming it promptly checks off its to-do list).
Iran will not stop at fixing its deficiencies. It will seek to gain capabilities that will give it the option to pre-emptively attack Israel.
That seems fanciful and like a bad joke today, but if China or Russia were in Iran's shoes right now, that would be a certainty.
So it is possible. BUT the Mullahs and the IRGC flag officer class do not inspire the confidence to definitively predict a timeline for that.

-Lord

Mikasaobi:
@ foolishboy and lord Adam

Good points. I just feel Iran can quickly become an economic powerhouse if sanctions are lifted. With their huge gas reserves they can partner with Russia and build pipelines from Russia to Pakistan and India. Pakistan and North Korea have said directly and indirectly they’ll give Iran nukes if they are nuked. If the Iranian civilian nuclear program can be transferred to Russia ( this will be difficult for the proud Persians) then I think it’s a good deal. The USA wants to destroy Russia and china but they’re still doing business with both.

Image123:
Above 30 million people are still without electricity in India despite the great strides made. They don't all have our problem. Like i said, our problems are foundational. All those countries we love to mention were united from the start, either by same majority tribe or religion. How do you compete with a people that were deliberately left with the least to lead us instead of the best?

WritterNg:
⚡U.S. intelligence agencies believe Pakistan is developing an ICBM capable of reaching the continental United States. The move may aim to deter a U.S. preemptive strike or intervention on India’s behalf in a future conflict.

Regardless of intent, U.S. officials warn that if Pakistan fields such a weapon, Washington would be forced to treat it as a nuclear adversary—no state with ICBMs aimed at the U.S. is seen as a friend.

ClassicEvilSpir:
Nice. Even poorer than Haiti.
Na because Nigeria get many poor people from its already huge population sha. Notice India dey the list..