geoworldedu: You didn't watch what happened? They stepped on a defender's leg and he was already on the floor before they scored.
If it were Messi n Argentina,they would allow the goal to stand like they did against Egypt,if Spain wins the world cup n Messi is given the best player then it would confirm the FIFA bias for him beyond double because when ateam wins a FIFA tournament the argument would be that the best player should naturally come from the winning side but wheneveresdi is involved the criteria are changed,now .If Spain wins the cup,the balon d or should equity go to a Spanish player if there's no bias.
SecuritybriefNg: 'If you're a broke man, you don't know what God has done for you. All the men I have locked here are rich. Nobody wants to lock a broke man.'
uunwanaobong3: OH THEY HAVE FINALLY ADMITTED IT, AND THEY HAVE REDUCED THE NUMBER FROM 20 TO 2, AT THE END TRUTH WILL COME OUT
AMERICA NEVER SEE ANYTHING YET. THEIR SHAKARA DON PUSH THEM TO ENTER IRAN ONE CHANCE.
IF AND WHEN THIS WAR ENDS, AMERICA WILL BE INCAPACITATED AND AFRAID TO FIGHT AGAIN 😅🤣. THEY JUST PICK FIGHT WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE EAGER TO GO TO HEAVEN AND ARE DETERMINE TO TAKE THEIR REVENGE. STRAITS OF HORMUZ HAS ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS BELONG TO IRAN AND THERE IS NOTHING AMERICA CAN DO ABOUT IT. THE MAIN PROBLEM AMERICA IS HAVING IN IRAN IS THAT UNLIKE VENEZUELA, IRANIAN POLITICIANS/MILITARY ARE NOT MOTIVATED BY MONEY OR WEALTH AND CAN'T BE BRIBED BY MATERIAL THINGS TO TOPPLED THEIR GOVERNMENT,THAT IS THEY ARE RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGUES AND THEY HAVE MEANS (DRONE AND MISSILES) OF HITTING BACK AT AMERICANS. IRAN WILL SURELY GET NUKES TO PRESERVED THEIR STATEHOOD, IT IS A MUST AND IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IF AMERICA/ISREAL THINKS THAT IRAN IS AFRAID OF THEIR NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL THEN THEY ARE MISTAKEN. AMERICA SHOULD NOT BE BOTHERED ABOUT CHINA/RUSSIA SUPPORT FOR IRAN IN EVENT OF THEIR NUKES STRIKE ON IRAN (PUTIN & XI ARE TOO AFRAID TO ENGAGED AND THEY HAVE SO MUCH TO LOSE), INSTEAD THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT NORTH KOREA GIVING HALVE OF THEIR NUKES TO IRAN AND BELIEVE ME, IRAN WILL NOT EVEN HESITATE FOR A SECOND BEFORE USING IT ON ISREAL AND "IF THEY CAN" ON AMERICA.
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS WAR THAT HAS ONLY ONE OUTCOME AND THAT IS "AMERICAN DEFEAT IN MIDDLE EAST AND THE END OF THEIR GLOBAL EMPIRE/PETROL DOLLAR SYSTEM" FURTHER ESCALATION WILL LEAD TO A MORE GRAVED CONSEQUENCES FOR EVERYONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
FOR ALL THE MILITARY ANALYSIS I HAVE SEEN, NO ONE HAS BE ABLE TO CONVINCINGLY EXPLAINED HOW AMERICA CAN INVADE IRAN AND DESTROYED THEIR GOVERNMENT WITHOUT GETTING DECIMATED/DESTROYED BY IRANIAN MILITARY. INSTEAD, THEY ARE ALL SAYING THAT AMERICA SHOULD CARPET BOMB POWER PLANTS, REFINERIES, BUILDINGS AND ANYTHING THEY SEE MOVING AS IF AIR POWER HAS EVER WON A WAR. THIS WAR WAS DOOMED TO FAILED FROM THE GET GO.
You see this war, na America waka alone enter, but at the end, na United Nations go beg Iran make them leave America alone.
Never start what you can't finish.
As for the death of the former supreme leader, Iranians will surely avenged it, either now or in 10years time and it wouldn't be the government of Iran that does it but instead it will be a religious fanatic lone-wolf who will take it upon himself as religious duty to avenged for his religious leader
Keep on cheering Iran to her destruction,let Iran continue she will certainly be served right.
grandiose4ever: What a logic. Is US attacking from Jordan, Kuwait, or Bahrain I even doubt they are attacking from Qatar.
Yet most of US refuelling is coming from Israel which means Isreal is more a legitimate target than Jordan or the Arab countries.
The US attacks are almost entirely coming from naval asset off the Omani coast.
What is going on here is that Iran understands the US is unwilling to wage this war and lose soldiers as it can't explain american losses to its people. But they know Israelis don't have that problem. 90% of Israeli society is willing to go to war with Iran. Therefore Israel can tolerate even upwards of 1000 casualty. In its six day war with Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan Israel lost 1000 people though it took close to 20,000 casualties from its enemies and yet won the war.
When the US and Israel joined to attack Iran, it was the US calming Israel. The Israelis did more damage and assassinated a lot of key people in Iran. And guess what, the new Iranian leaders don't want to die either. They've learnt it as far back as Farackhideh that when Israel wants to kill someone in Iran it's a matter of time.
I was thinking whether they'd be foolish enough to shoot at Israel. But obviously they are not yet foolish enough.
OGA, lecture them Wella let them know.
Asmanthinket: Iran is very afraid of Israel because Israel has a PhD in elimination of leaders. Iran doesn't want to go near them. They haven't yet recovered from the attack they encounter with Israel. Iran prefer dealing with the US than Israel. Imagine that Israel is closer to them than all the countries they are attaching recently, but they can't throw even a knockout to her.
Do you know history at all or you are just lying,if not for the Chinese n Soviet covert support you know what would have happen to Vietnam,you people can keep on cheering Iran to her destruction,let Iran continue,she will certainly be served right.
grandiose4ever: What a logic. Is US attacking from Jordan, Kuwait, or Bahrain I even doubt they are attacking from Qatar.
Yet most of US refuelling is coming from Israel which means Isreal is more a legitimate target than Jordan or the Arab countries.
The US attacks are almost entirely coming from naval asset off the Omani coast.
What is going on here is that Iran understands the US is unwilling to wage this war and lose soldiers as it can't explain american losses to its people. But they know Israelis don't have that problem. 90% of Israeli society is willing to go to war with Iran. Therefore Israel can tolerate even upwards of 1000 casualty. In its six day war with Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan Israel lost 1000 people though it took close to 20,000 casualties from its enemies and yet won the war.
When the US and Israel joined to attack Iran, it was the US calming Israel. The Israelis did more damage and assassinated a lot of key people in Iran. And guess what, the new Iranian leaders don't want to die either. They've learnt it as far back as Farackhideh that when Israel wants to kill someone in Iran it's a matter of time.
I was thinking whether they'd be foolish enough to shoot at Israel. But obviously they are not yet foolish enough.
The husband did not act in a wise manner but the wife is also very wrong to completely sideline the husband,if I were to be in the husband's shoe I would actually be the one to send you out of my house.you claimed your parents suffer for the money, didn't your husband's parents suffered to being him up?,the son you left with, would you encourage him to accept what you just did?, certainly you don't have to give everything to your husband but something reasonable should have gone to him, whatever you do with the rest should also be for the benefit of the family n not in secret too if you truly respect n honour your marriage,that boy you left with will grow into a man tomorrow n don't waste your time thinking you are going to brain wash him against his father,it will eventually backfire mark my words,if your husband had come to such fortune n completely sideline you,you would have been polluting the whole air with all sort of rants but now you don't see anything wrong with your actions.
People have always been asking who, what, why, when and how. It has puzzled me because I can easily see the answers.
In fact, I consider people that ask these questions to be unserious people. They don't really want to know the answers, they just want to attack people that they hate.
People ask who funds the terrorists in the north? How do they get such sophisticated weapons? Why can't the Nigerian Armed Forces, which easily defeated Maitatsine, Liberian, Sierra Leonean and Biafran rebels and which has consistently been praised during UN operations, easily defeat the terrorists in the north? What exactly do the terrorists in the north want? Etc.
You see, the sponsors of the insurrection in Nigeria have always been known. They've been known from the beginning.
However, I realise that I have not written about them since 2016, so here is a summary.
1) Al-Qaeda:
Osama Bin-Ladin came from a wealthy Saudi family. His father owned a large construction company and had close ties to the Saudi Royal Family.
Osama attended many schools in the 1970s, but he left school in 1979 to go and fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was one of the Muslim fighters that came from all over the world to fight against the Soviets. They received a lot of support from the CIA and that supported was routed through the Pakistani intelligence services.
Bin Ladin had a lot of money, so he created his own group that fought against the Soviets.
In 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Bin Ladin offered to use his fighters to defend Saudi Arabia, but the Saudis turned to the US coalition instead.
Osama Bin Ladin was very angry that there were US troops in Saudi Arabia. He felt that it was a desecration of the Holy Land. The United States military set up barracks in Saudi Arabia (to fight the Iraqis) and Osama felt that they were living in sin in the Holy Land. He therefore dedicated his fighters/organisation to fighting against the US and expelling them from Saudi Arabia.
Al-Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in New York in 1993. This was the incident that brought Al-Qaeda to public attention. They parked a bomb-laden Toyota mini-bus in the underground parking lot of the World Trade Center and set off the bombs.
I have told you that I woke up one day in 1998 to hear the crazy news that American embassies in Africa had been bombed. Al-Qaeda set off massive bombs in the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
In response the Clinton Administration bombed targets in Sudan and Afghanistan and gave Sudan a deadline to expel Osama Bin Ladin (it was later discovered that Sudan had already expelled him and the target that was bombed in Sudan was a civilian factory and had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda. The owner of the factory sued the US Government and won).
In 2000 Al-Qaeda put bombs on a speed boat and used it to ram an American warship, the USS Cole, in a port in Yemen.
Of course everybody knows about the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
In 2003 Osama Bin Ladin made a broadcast in which he said that Muslims were being killed in certain countries and he called on Muslims to rise up against the governments of those countries. Nigeria was one of the countries that he listed (I have posted his 2003 message on Nairaland in the post, but I'm too lazy to go and look for it). Everybody thought that he was mad (he obviously was mad).
In 2009 Al-Jazeera broadcast videos of the killing of Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria. Osama Bin Ladin made another broadcast calling on Muslims in Nigeria to rise up against their government.
It looked like Boko Haram was finished after the Nigerian Government cracked down on them in 2009, but Al-Qaeda offered them money, weapons and training. Shekau, the new leader of Boko Haram, pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda and the terror group began an even worse series of attacks in 2010/2011.
2) ISIS:
Sadam Hussein was a member of the Bath Party, a socialist party that was popular in Iraq and Syria. Remember that I told you that the left does not emphasise religion? Well, religion was not important to Saddam Hussein. In fact, there was a funny and embarrassing incident that occurred when Saddam had to pray in public. He did not know the prayers (remember, Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day).
That's why you know that US officials were talking nonsense when they claimed that Saddam had something to do with the 9/11 attacks. Osama Bin Ladin and his crew hated Saddam. Many Muslim extremists believed that Saddam was used by the US to attack Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and they hated Saddam.
But anyway, the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and this brought in many foreign Muslim fighters that came to fight the Americans.
Some Iraqi Muslims also became militant and took up arms to fight the Americans. One of them was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He formed the Islamic State (IS). The goal of the Islamic State was to form a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. The group believes that it represents all Muslims, but in actual fact most Muslims reject them.
It has many branches and it us most known by the acronym of one of its branches Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
There was a split in Boko Haram. The son of Mohammed Yusuf, Habib Yusuf (aka Abu Musab al-Barnawi), said that Abbakar Shekau had become too extreme. He said that Shekau was killing Muslims and kidnapping children and that this was wrong. He said that Boko Haram's actions were unislamic.
Abu Musab al-Barnawi created a new group and pledged allegiance to IS. His new group was called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). They get money, training, equipment and other forms of support from other Islamic State branches around the world.
I have been writing since 2011 that the terrorists in northern Nigeria are not trying to break away from Nigeria (as some thought back then), rather they are trying to take over the whole of West Africa (including southern Nigeria) in order to make it part of a global caliphate. Take note of the names of the organisations that I will mention in this post.
ISWAP fought against both Boko Haram and the Nigerian Army. Indeed, at the beginning, ISWAP almost destroyed Boko Haram.
ISWAP fighters cornered Abubakar Shekau (the leader of Boko Haram) and Shekau killed himself in order to evade capture. Many Boko Haram fighters switched allegiance to ISWAP.
The only thing that prevented Boko Haram from totally collapsing was the fact that it was receiving support from Al-Qaeda.
The other groups in this list are based in Africa.
3) AQIM:
This was one of those issues that I talked about quite often in the 1990s.
You see, the United States of America says that it is a great democracy and that it supports democracy all over the world, so why did this happen? (That's the question that I often asked people in the 1990s).
Africa was democratising in the 1990s. Many African countries that were either military dictatorships or civilian one-party states were embracing multi-party democracy. Algerian was one of such countries.
Like the others, Algeria had a major election in 1992. The Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was poised to win the election and I remember clearly that the United States and the Algerian Government did everything to frustrate the FIS.
It didn't work and Algerians overwhelmingly voted for the FIS. Then, suddenly, there was a (US-backed) military coup. The new military leaders imprisoned President Chadli Bendjedid (a former military officer who had been president since 1979) and banned the FIS.
(Imagine that! The US that is a beacon of democracy now supporting a military coup).
Obviously the coup was staged to prevent the Islamic party from gaining power via the ballot box. As a result, many armed Islamic groups sprang up.
Algeria was a mess in the 1990s. There were constant bomb explosions, fighting, etc. It kind of seemed like it faded out in the early 2000s, but then it reappeared during the War on Terror.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) evolved from one of those groups that fought the Algerian Government in the 1990s.
The Maghreb is basically the north-west region of Africa. It includes Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and Western Sahara (aka Sahrawi Republic). AQIM is mostly active in Algeria, Libya and Mauritania.
Remember what I said about a global caliphate? AQIM leads Al-Qaeda's attempt to conquer the whole of north-west Africa.
AQIM has focused on kidnapping for ransom as a means of raising funds and is estimated to have raised more than $50 million in the last decade. This organisation is one of the main sources of support for terrorist groups in Africa. They provide support to Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Shabab in Somalia and JNIM in Mali (in fact, JNIM is an offshoot of AQIM). They provide money, weapons and training to these groups.
Since 2011 there have often been reports of "white men" being seen assisting Boko Haram militants and bandits in northern Nigeria. I have a strong suspicion that these "white men" are AQIM militants.
4) Al-Shabaab
This section basically contains summaries of many of my old posts. You can search for the original posts if you want more information.
I told you that East Africa was one of the venues of the proxy wars between the East and West blocks (Soviet Union vs the United States). Somalia was ruled by a dictator called General Mohammed Siad Barre. Somalia and Barre were backed by the United States/CIA.
Ethiopia was ruled by a dictator called Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. Ethiopia and Mengistu were backed by the Soviet Union/KGB.
I've posted videos (on this thread) of Barre visiting Washington and meeting Reagan. I've also posted videos of Mengistu visiting Moscow and meeting with Brezhnev. I posted videos of Barre threatening Ethiopia, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union and I posted videos of Mengistu threatening Somalia, the United States and NATO).
Somalia and Ethiopia had direct skirmishes, but most of the conflict was prosecuted using proxies. Somalia supported Ethiopian rebels and Ethiopia supported Somalian rebels.
The Cold War came to an end and the two superpowers stopped supporting their proxies. Siad Barre fled to Lagos when rebels were marching on his presidential palace and Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe when rebels were marching on his presidential palace.
The Ethiopians were able to manage the situation bettter than the Somalians..Eritrea peacefully broke away from Ethiopia after Mengistu fled. There have been a few wars between Ethiopia and Eritrea since 1991 and there have civil wars within Ethiopia, but the country has remained relatively stable.
Somalia has fared worse. There has been no country-wide stable government in Somalia since Barre fled in 1991.
As I told you, all the rebel groups that chased Barre away, started fighting against each other as soon as Barre left. Somalia became a country of warlords with each warlord controlling a section of the country.
I created several posts (and took over an entire thread) about the United Nations intervention in Somalia in the early and mid-1990s. This intervention ended in disaster when the UN and most especially the United States became embroiled in a war with one of the most powerful warlords Mohammed Farah Aideed. Firstly Pakistani troops were killed by Aideed's forces. US troops tried to capture Aideed, but this resulted in several US soldiers being killed and their bodies were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.
This frightened the Clinton Administration which had promised (during the election campaign) that it would keep out of foreign wars. This was one of the reasons why they did not intervene in the genocide in Rwanda.
So Somalia became a lawless country and remained so throughout the 1990s, despite the efforts of the UN to restore order. Most of the UN backed governments had to operate from outside the country or from small parts of Mogadishu.
The Sharia courts in Somalia decided that the country was too unstable and unsafe. They formed an alliance, set up a military force and were able to take control of most of the country. This was in the early 2000s.
As I said earlier, there were several UN backed or internationally recognjsed governments of Somalia, but these governments either operated from outside Somalia or they only controlled small parts of Mogadishu.
Ethiopia (backed by the United States) decided to invade Somalia to install the Transition Federal Government all over the country.
The Ethiopians (supported by a small covert force of American soldiers) was able to overthrow the Islamic Courts Union and take over the country, but this immediately led to an insurgency. Jihadist groups began a massive terror campaign against the Ethiopians. The biggest of these groups was Al-Shabaab, which was created by some former fighters of the Islamic Courts Union and others.
Al-Shabaab was able to recapture much of the country from the Ethiopians and Americans. They inflicted severe losses of the Ethiopians through their bombing and terror campaign and the Ethiopians pulled out of Somalia in 2009. The Ethiopian presence in Somalia lasted from 2006 till 2009.
I have written that various international organisations and countries have tried to restore peace in Somalia. Well, it was time for the African Union to take up that role. The AU created the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force that was to go into Somalia, take over from the Ethiopians and help the government to restore peace. AMISOM soldiers came from East and Central African countries (like Uganda and Burundi) and Nigeria. Al Shabaab began targetting the African countries that contributed troops to AMISOM. There were bomb attacks in Kampala, Uganda and Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia. Al-Shabaab also began assisting Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Kenyan troops invaded Somalia in order to fight Al-Shabaab. They later integrated their troops into AMISOM. This led to one of the most infamous terrorist attacks in Africa. We monitores that terror attack live on Nairaland.
The Westgate Mall is one of the biggest shopping malls in Nairobi, Kenya. Al-Shabaab militants crossed into Kenya and attacked the mall. We could see videos and pictures that were taken by shoppers that were trapped inside the mall. The first people to respond to the attack were armed volunteers who lived in the neighbourhood.
People from all over Africa, especially Kenya, were on that Nairaland thread. Unfortunately the Somali super troll, Ayanle, was also on the thread
The issue with Ayanle (and his hundred accounts) was that he believed that Somalis were not black and that they were of a race that was superior to blacks (whom he called Bantus). So he would attack threads and completely derail them with his belief that Somalis were superior to blacks. He was a very virulent troll and nobody could stop him (he's probably the worst troll in Nairaland's history).
However, we stopped him on that day.
I was angry. People had just died, Kenyans on the thread werw worried and this Ayanle character was trolling them. I got the moderator to attack Ayanle. Ayanle went through many accounts (that's why you'll see many blank pages), but I was determined. After a while the moderator was also very determined and I didn't have to do anything again. For the first time in Nairaland's history, Ayanle was worn out. He stopped attacking the thread.
90 pages of live monitoring of the Westgate Mall attack by people from all over Africa.
Al-Shabaab has received money, training and other forms of support from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Al-Shabaab has also provided training and other forms of support to Boko Haram. Boko Haram militants have been to Somalia to learn from and train with Al-Shabaab.
5) JNIM
I have told you about how the Malian jihadist group, Ansar Dine, took over large swathes of territory and this led to an international force being deployed to Mali to repel them. Boko Haram fighters were seen in Mali, fighting side by side with Ansar Dine militants. They kidnapped and ambassador in Mali and engaged in other terror attacks. They could be distinguished from other fighters because they spoke Hausa, rather than the local language.
You might also remember the 2016 attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso. An international conference was taking place there and rumours spread that Aliko Dangote was trapped in the hotel. However, Dangote denied that he was in the hotel and said that he could not travel to the conference. The attack was carried out by the Sahelian branch of AQIM.
Ansar Dine, the Sahelian branch of AQIM and other jihadist groups merged and created Jama'at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM).
JNIM has become one of the most powerful terrorist groups in West Africa. They have imposed a blockade of Mali and people cannot get petrol because of them.
There was a report last week (I don't know if it is true) that elements of JNIM were in Nigeria.
6) Other sources.
I have told you a lot about these other sources.
I told you that one of the reasons why Boko Haram hates the Navy Base on Lake Chad is because it affects their revenue. Lake Chad is a huge source of fish and Boko Haram taxes the fisherfolk. You must pay Boko Haram before you can fish. However, the Nigerian Military disrupts this source of funds and Boko Haram does not like it.
I told you about the time that Boko Haram invaded the navy base. They captured some naval ratings and executed them while filming the execution (they released the video to journalists. The Army came a few days later and chased them away.
In fact, in the early days, Boko Haram also engaged in bank robberies in order to raise cash.
They've also made money from kidbapping people and they also toll roads (you have to pay them before you can pass). They also tax people in areas that they capture.
Propaganda and spin
So ignore the propaganda and spin, Boko Haram was not funded by Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, Sultan of Sokoto, APC, PDP, northern elders, etc. In fact, Boko Haram, ISWAP and other terrorists in the north would kill these people if they catch them. These things that I wrote above are the real sources of funds and weapons of Boko Haram, ISWAP and other terrorists in Northern Nigeria.
That was a nice n detailed write up you put out there,but you forget to mentioned that the Sudanese government of Omar Bashir offered to give the US Osama bin laden after the first bombing attempt of the UN headquarters for sanctions to be lifted against Sudan but the Clinton administration refuse n Sudan allowed Osama to leave Sudan.You also failed to acknowledge thatmuslims of northern Nigeria provided the initial support n sanctuary for Islamic terror groups of whatever name or origin to gain grounds in northern Nigeria,this support is in fact still continuing. I don't know if you are a Muslim or not but if you are, aren't you worried that all these terrorist organisations you wrote exhaustively about all have Islamic undertones irrespective of whatever is the motivating source of their actions?
SportConn: If you had one vote for the Golden Ball today, who would you give it to? No bias, just based on performances.
If Argentina win world cup ,they will say the best player should naturally go to a player in the winning team Messi,if Argentina doesn't win,all sort of statistics will be brought up that Messi derseves to be the best player,if mbappe were to be a while player the hype around him would have been different but because he is black ,racist attacks are coming from all angles,let there be a standard parameters set at the commencement of the tournament on how to choose the best player,for me mbappe is the best player at this stage.
Baxilexi: I share in your sentiments. If the IRGC is allowed to, Yemen would do the same, Egypt, Indonesia etc.
But we’re dealing with irrational folks that would rather destroy the world to please the IRGC.
The IRGC or whatever is there acronym would soon meet their Waterloo n wish they had never taken this path,Now the USA are going to forcefully secure the Hormuz straight n become it guardian n toll it for security cost,Iran would only watch helplessly in utter pains n shame.
CanadaOrBust: Messi is OBVIOUSLY a decent and humble fellow NOT always being aggressive like Ronaldo and others. Here's the Vozinha you're talking about below, just gushing about Messi
tanigororo: Every Time Iran or Middle East Post come onboard, I can't just stop laughing on how some people are just deluded about America.
With more than 15,000 Bombs drop by two powerful nations with advanced technology couldn't achieve just one single aim of their initial campaign.
Yet someone is advising them boot on ground, another one nuke them, another one even lied that he was their when they were blowing up ships.
Iran is the Worst America War ever because they lost strategically, killing the supreme leader who knew they would kill him is no winning. Killing of their military general is not a win because every soldiers believed they are a dead walking man.
1. Straight of Hormuz that was opened initially is now closed. 2. Iran that was under sanctions is no more sanctioned 3. America now Begging Iran to open Straight of Hormuz 4. They are not talking about Iran Nuclear Weapon again 5. Ballistic missile is not a discussion again 6. Régime change is now a mirage for America
Razzness: Then what? Will putting boots on the ground change the location of the Strait? The Strait of Hormuz is a fact of Geography. Even if you somehow succeed in overthrowing the IRGC; which as we have seen so far is not going to happen, you will still need a powerful government in Iran to keep the strait open otherwise it will just be overrun by pirates and other non-state actors essentially making it unsafe for commercial shipping.
Regardless of how this end, the strait of Hormuz will NEVER be the same water way it was before the war.
Before this crisis,where were the pirates?,ok, it's the plan of Iran to sponsor pirates like they are sponsoring hizbolah, houthis n others,ok let them continue,las las the results will decide
Razzness: Lol! The earlier the US realizes the Strait of Hormuz will never go back to being what it was before the war, the better for all of us. The Strait of Hormuz is the single most powerful leverage the Iranians have. It is their "hard currency"; anybody that think they will give that up over promises of some money or sanction relief signed on a piece of paper that can be revoked at the convenience of a US president any time is living in delulu land.
Oya now,let Iran continue,las las the results would be out for all to see.
Mattswaggz: Exactly!!!....just imagine the audacity....you're trying to hoard and extort from people that are using a international water way because it's close to your territory and when the same people are trying to work another route out that they will also feel safe using you're doing everything to stop their plans like typical witches....Iranian-Nigerians won't see this now but if the bombs start flying they'll on their mic, climb to the rooftops and start singing their usual genocide campaign.
Baxilexi: From what i understand, the US is trying to work something out with Oman. Ships in their territorial waters are of no concern to the IRGC.
This imminent isolation scares them.
First it was the road up north with Armenia and Azerbaijan. Then the Lebanon - Isreal deal, with the right legal framework, disputes over the strait ends.
There are international water ways for free navigation under the international maritime law,Iran should never be allow to change the law by force,the straight of Hormuz is certainly very strategic for world crude trade but it is not the only straight in the world, allowing Iran to change the law would set a very dangerous precedent n disruption of international shipping n trade.
Mattswaggz: Netanyahu should be given a special award as the man who saw the future in this case.....he reads these guys just like a book...just imagine the plain terrorism they're displaying to not just the people they claimed attacked them but to the entire world at large because of this natural leverage they managed to get their hands on.
Imagine the audacity to suggest that Oman's route shouldn't be used....only that of Iran should be used. .....and then going ahead to attack ships for no reason.
No central leadership...just confused sets of hydra cells going rogue and terrorizing the world....they should count themselves lucky tho that Netanyahu is not the one presiding over a country like the US if not the story would've been different for them by now....He will match fire with double fire.
I would encourage everyone to start getting used to higher energy prices because Iran have proven that they cannot be trusted.....the world should absorb the impact and also find alternative routes if possible or even join the campaign to defeat this rogue state whom have vowed to continually hold the world hostage instead of them spiting and attacking Netanyahu all day....He has been proven right to chose brutal means with dealing with their likes afterall.
Thank you very much,Iran has use the Shiite ideology to infiltrate and weaken some of the Arab countries like Oman,Yemen n Lebanon.If not ordinarily the omanis should have been protesting against the Iranian exploitations,by simple geographical logic shilp would transit the Hormuz straight closer to the Oman coast than Iran as it is by far the shorter route but Oman is quiet while Iran wants to falsely n forcefully claim ownership of the Hormuz straight against international maritime law,but let them continue,they are actually foolishly digging their own grave, already they have given the Israelis the good opportunity to properly handle hizbolah in Lebanon,the Iranians will certainly n definitely loss las las.
puremaker7: I swear Argentina are always protected.... I have always hated them since 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship (U-20 World Cup) held in the Netherlands.
For those fake penalties abi?,I can still remember,the bias was very clear.
CanadaOrBust: I get. I just assume almost everyone is a Messi fan because he's such a nice guy. As for racism, which other country has ever set "Blancheamiento" (whitening) as official state policy as shown below? Suppose SA whites had done same? They'd just deport those SA blacks to other African countries and import whites from all over and today SA will be lily white. Also, from what I read, Argentinians seem proud of being racist!
which messi is a nice guy?, somebody who is so egocentric but masking it with fake introvertive appearance, this is a player whom by himself said that he doesn't change jersey with non Argentine players,vozinha the cape Verde heroic goalkeeper stated that when he approached messi for jersey change messi said he would only give him the jersey in the tunnel!, this same messi plays with an amulet worn around his leg,if an African did that the whole world would shout juju use!,Messi is a very good footballer better than Ronaldo but I prefer Ronaldo because he is more friendly to everyone n does a lot of philanthropy, it's no wonder Ronaldo has such large follwershp on social media.
FreeStuffsNG: US and its proxy were using the Southern side of the Strait of Hormuz to move military assets and logistics to get closer to Iran and launch missiles on Iran.
The civilian vessels were a decoy Trump wants to use to gain a strategic military position close to Iran for killing Iranians.
Iran has created a lane for ships to take in the strait, if US is interested in ships movement then it should not bother anymore but Trump thinks the Iranians are stupid.
Iran will not sit idly and watch Trump kill all Iranian leaders. It is US that will eventually be forced to flee the gulf region like the Talibans defeated them in Afganistan.
Time n events shall bear witness to what you wrote,good luck to the Iranians but don't cry if the Iranians receive their due portion.
I remember how loud Saddam Hussein boasted before the gulf war 1991,when gboom gboom begin happening ontop their SF heads,no body go tell to zap,Iran is behaving like the stubborn fly,it surely follow the corpse to the grave.
5ThChild: When things get to hard or harsh, the people will revolt. They have a functioning brain and eyes. They see what is happening, they have feelings and thoughts
If the government does not make their lives easy, people will find a means to better their lives
And you think if Ukraine is over run by Putin their life would be better abi?
Quarrels about money are a constant in marriage. If you think it is only when there 8s no money, you are mistaken.
When there is excess, tastes will go up a well. Then quarrels shift to things around the excess. If you buy for your mum, buy for mine. Why are you donating N1m? Babe, manage this car for 6 more months...why should I manage when you can buy me one now?
Why are you always buying fuel and running the gen for 14 hours? Why not buy solar? I want to use the ac in the room throughout the night. No. Why? Why not? Buy 1 carton of chicken (ends up buying two and billing you for it...friends are coming over).
We wey don dey marriage more than two decades have seen it all.
First, Nollywood actress Uche Ogbodo and her husband, Bobby Maris, reportedly unfollowed each other on Instagram. As if that wasn't enough, an alleged leaked voice note has now surfaced online, it captured a heated argument between the couple.
The audio, which has been making the rounds on social media, allegedly features Uche shouting during the exchange, leaving fans wondering what is really going on.
Is this just another couple misunderstanding, or is there more to the story? 👀
Watch the video, listen to the alleged voice note, and tell us what you think in the comments! 🍿
The couple have indeed fueled speculation after reportedly unfollowing each other on Instagram, though neither has publicly confirmed a breakup or authenticated the circulating voice note
There's one big mistake men usually do during courtship,I don't know if it's out of timidity or lustfulness,most men avoid raising the issue of financial generation management n control in marriage during courtship only for same to become a big issue later,if there's true love n will,these things need to talked about during courtship, rejection from either party should be a bad red flag.
Some of these politicians are not well inform just opportuned, senator Alimodu is wrong to say zoning was instituted after the civil war, zoning n rotational presidency was the idea of Dr Alex Ekwueme of bless memory during the 1995 constitutional conference organized by Abacha,it was the same Ekwueme that brought the idea of dividing Nigeria into six geopolitical zones,after the resolutions of that conference failed to materialize,the same Ekwueme brought up the idea rotational presidency in the G34 group during the formation of PDP in1998, eventually the rotational presidency idea was accepted but limited to a north vs south rotation instead of specific zones, therefore rotational presidency is was n is actually purely a PDP affair, it's never constitutional or legally binding on other parties, I'm not condemning it as it surely a good idea ,just putting the record straight.However I must add that the Hausa/Fulani of the NE&NW vehemently rejected the rotation by specific zones because they never wanted an Igbo to rule this country,the reason is simple,the Igbos are the only msjor ethnic group the Fulani in particular have not gotten some real measure of control on whether by force or deceitful political manipulations , it's same reason they are dead scared of an obi presidency.
Cmeo: And now that they have no such law and their highest court (US Supreme court) says no one dare deny such birthed child a citizen, what then can you and I do untill their law says otherwise?? The response is "Nothing!"
Ànd if you really thinks that's a carte blanche for you to just stroll into the US n have you kid to later claim citizenship by birth then watch out, there's always another way, getting in will surely become another ball game,I hope the supreme court would open the borders freely for you.
Cmeo: For your information, Canada, Brazil and some other countries are still doing citizenship by birthright till today and they haven't stop it or been to court about it.
Why don't you ask countries like Saudi Arabia,Iran,Russia,China to accept citizenship by birth n sent your their to give birth so that your son can become their citizen,why insisting on the western countries,if the USA now wishes to change any of their homeland law that they now found to be counter productive to their interests what exactly is the problem with that?, it's up to every country to make their country condusive for themselves simple.
Very simple solution,ban open grazing , establish grazing reserves n the establishment of Private ranching for all this nonsense to al teast reduce drastically but instead the government is foot dragging n looking for who to blame.
Sports › Re: Spain Vs Argentina: World Cup 2026 Final (1 - 0) On 19th July 2026 by Deepthoughts: 10:58pm On Jul 19
I even doubt they are attacking from Qatar. 
.....and then going ahead to attack ships for no reason.