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God is not angry with the wicked. This is an old testament thinking. God actually dealt with sinners in the old testament in order to let them know he doesn't condone sin. Had it been God decided to stand aloof while they were sinning they wouldn't have known that sin is against God's nature. They wouldn't have known sin as a destructive force the main reason God gave them the law. Romans 5:13-14 [13](For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. [14]Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. You can't be angry with them and be calling them to repentance at the same time. Ephesians 2:4-6 [4]But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, [5]even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), [6]and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, How many of your sins did God punish you for before you became a born again? |
mysticwarrior:As in eh ... Afghan military is even lamenting that America left over night without informing them. It came as a rude shock. |
Afghanistan Soldiers flee to Tajikistan after Taliban clashes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57720103 |
inoki247:Lmaoooooo ![]() |
Well said. Thank you great man. |
seunny4lif:U.S shouldn't have stayed this long in Afghanistan. It's like America loves foreign entanglement lol. They failed to learn from USSR's mistake. |
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Hanibbal:Taliban of course. |
Withdrawal a clear indication that the last of 2,500-3,500 US troops have left Afghanistan or are nearing a departure. https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-02T063951Z_1410667376_RC26CO9J8QQO_RTRMADP_3_USA-AFGHANISTAN-BAGRAM.jpg?resize=770%2C513 After nearly 20 years, the United States military has left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, the epicentre of its war to remove the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaeda perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, two US officials have said. The airbase was handed over to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in its entirety, they said on Friday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release the information to the media, The Associated Press reported. One of the officials also said the US top commander in Afghanistan, General Austin S Miller, “still retains all the capabilities and authorities to protect the forces”. https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/000_98Z32T.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C513 At its peak, Bagram airbase saw more than 100,000 US troops pass through its sprawling compound 50km (30 miles) north of capital, Kabul. An Afghan official said the base would be officially handed over to the government at a ceremony on Saturday, Reuters news agency reported. The withdrawal from the airbase is the clearest indication that the last of the 2,500-3,500 US troops have left Afghanistan or are nearing a departure, months ahead of President Joe Biden’s promise that they would be gone by September 11. It was clear soon after the mid-April announcement that the US was ending its “forever war,” that the departure of US soldiers and their estimated 7,000 NATO allies would be nearer to July 4, when the country celebrates its Independence Day. Most NATO soldiers have already exited Afghanistan as of this week. Announcements from several countries analysed by The Associated Press show that a majority of European troops left with little ceremony – a stark contrast to the dramatic and public show of force and unity when NATO allies lined up to back the US invasion in 2001. The US has refused to say when the last of its soldiers would leave Afghanistan, citing security concerns, but also the protection of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport that is still being negotiated. Turkish and US soldiers currently protect the airport. The US will also have about 6,500 troops in Afghanistan to protect its sprawling embassy in the capital. Their presence it is understood will be covered in a bilateral agreement with the Afghan government. The US and NATO leaving Afghanistan come as Taliban fighters make strides in several parts of the country, overrunning dozens of districts and overwhelming the beleaguered Afghan Security Forces. In a worrying development, the government has resurrected militias with a history of brutal violence to assist the Afghan security forces. ‘Taliban at the door of Kabul’ At what had all the hallmarks of a final press conference, General Miller this week warned that continued violence risked a civil war in Afghanistan that should have the world worried. Last month, Biden told his Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani, that “Afghans are going to have to decide their future, what they want”. Ghani said his job was now to “manage the consequences” of the US withdrawal. The agreement with the Taliban on the US pullout was struck under the administration of former President Donald Trump. In exchange for the US withdrawal, the Taliban has vowed to prevent any armed group from launching international attacks from the Afghan soil. The group has also made a commitment to enter into talks with their Afghan rivals but little progress has been made in negotiations. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Faiz Zaland, political commentator and professor at Kabul University, said the pulling out of US troops is “a bit hasty in the current situation because we don’t have peace on the ground”. “The withdrawal is happening right at a time when the Taliban is at the door of Kabul,” he said. “There are severe and harsh fights going on all over the country. More than 80 districts have fallen into the hands of the Taliban in the past one month,” he said, calling June “the deadliest month for Afghan forces in the past two decades”. Zaland said the US is making an “irresponsible exit” by leaving before an intra-Afghan peace deal has been finalised. “It does seem likely that the country might be heading towards a civil war,” he told Al Jazeera. Rife with symbolism The US departure is rife with symbolism. Not least that it is the second time that an invader of Afghanistan has come and gone through Bagram. The former Soviet Union built the airfield in the 1950s. When it invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to back a communist government, it turned it into its main base from which it would defend its occupation of the country. For 10 years, the Soviets fought the US-backed “mujahideen”, dubbed freedom fighters by the then President Ronald Reagan, who saw them as a front-line force in one of the last Cold War battles. When the US and NATO inherited Bagram in 2001, they found it in ruins, a collection of crumbling buildings, gouged by rockets and shells, most of its perimeter fence wrecked. It had been abandoned after being battered in the battles between the Taliban and rival warlords fleeing to their northern enclaves. The enormous base has two runways. The most recent, at 12,000 feet (3,660 metres) long, was built in 2006 at a cost of $96m. There are 110 revetments, which are basically parking spots for aircraft, protected by blast walls. GlobalSecurity, a security think-tank, says Bagram includes three large hangars, a control tower and numerous support buildings. The base has a 50-bed hospital with a trauma bay, three operating theatres and a modern dental clinic. Another section houses a prison, nortorious and feared among Afghans. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/2/us-bagram-airbase-afghanistan-taliban Cc: lalasticlala mynd44
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BinamRex:This is not true. Why would Russia a superpower try to join NATO in 1954 when the cold war had started already. Can a Communist power mingle with Capitalist power during the cold War by joining NATO? Russia never tried to join NATO during and after the cold War. The only time Russia hinted at joining NATO was in 1996 under Boris Yeltsin. Vladimir Putin Hinted at that too in year 2002. Not that Russia tried to join NATO, those two leaders said so because the relationship between NATO and Russia after the cold War was cordial until 2004 when NATO brought in the Baltic states. They cooperated over so many issues. Have you heard about the North Atlantic Cooperation Council Partnership for Peace NATO-Russia Founding Act These are post cold War platforms initiated by Russia and NATO to promote trust and further peaceful relations among themselves. |
Plead:What's left? Crimea is gone. Putin outsmarted them by grabbing Crimea that would have hosted NATO's naval base. What is Ukraine's annual military budget? I'm very sure NATO isn't ready to bring in Ukraine. If they had wanted to they would have done that years back after Russia took Crimea. It's 7 years now Ukraine is still pleading to join the alliance. The only help they have been rendering is military supplies and financial assistance. NATO does not want any confrontation with Russia over Ukraine it does not worth it. |
Plead:Forget that narrative. NATO in its annual summit in Bucharest in 2008 had finalized the plan to bring Georgia and Ukraine into the alliance but the result of that plan was Russia's invasion of Georgia. That invasion alone derailed Georgia and Ukraine's membership process. Moldova another country planning to join NATO is finding it difficult because Russia has troops stationed in Transnistria, Moldova. NATO understands what Russia can do if they take any further step to expand towards Russia so they are trying to avoid a confrontation with Russia. It doesn't worth it going toe to toe with Russia over some countries that don't have much significance to NATO. |
seunny4lif:Thank you. @ the bolded At the outset NATO countries in western Europe kicked against the idea of admitting former eastern bloc countries into NATO but uncle Sam wouldn't listen. France, Britain, and Germany reluctantly acquiesced to the inclusion of Baltic states into NATO in 2004. During the last NATO summit Jens Stoltenberg still stressed the strain of bringing in countries that are insignificant to NATO's established aims. |
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emae009:NATO is not ready to take Ukraine into the fold. |
A day after NATO and Ukraine began Black Sea military exercises, Moscow announces it has tested Crimean air defence systems.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/29/russia-tests-crimean-defence-systems-amid-sea-breeze-drills
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U.S won't see this. ![]() |
Slawormiir won't you apply? ![]() |
I'll never forget his teachings on Love, charity and service to mankind. His humility and silence in the face of criticism and persecution from other jealous pastors who don't like the grace of God upon his life. The beauty of life is not how happy you are but how happy others are because of you. - Prophet T. B Joshua In all these things we are more than conquerors. Rest on great man of GOD. |
For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Rest on great man of God. |
michresakidjo:U.S missile intercept test failed 3 days ago. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-fails-intercept-test-missile-target-2021-05-29/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/military-weapon-system-test-fails-intercept-target-77980936&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjev7iClvbwAhWyRkEAHfIrBaYQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw3AUSW0JyDhaRDVAqnICo4y Do you now get what Martyanov was explaining in scully95 post by saying U.S lags behind Russia in air defence system and hypersonic technology? The Yemeni Houthis have proved to the world that U.S defence systems are unreliable. You should understand why U. S allies are even gunning for Russia's S-400. |
michresakidjo:No. It's not a show of inferiority complex. When a nation displays its armaments to show off its capabilities it is passing a message to adversaries. There are two types of deterrence Deterrence by denial Deterrence by punishment When a nation practices deterrence by denial it is demonstrating to an adversary that it will not achieve its goals if it attacks. That is why countries like North Korea, China, Iran, Russia display their military might. But if the adversary is now bold enough to attack you. A nation can now activate Deterrence by punishment which aims to convince the adversary that even if it attacks it will suffer a devastating retaliation. That was what Iran did when it hammered U.S bases in Iraq with ballistic missiles injuring over 100 U.S troops after U.S killed their top General in a drone attack. Iran had been testing and parading those missiles for years uncle Sam thought Iran was parading toys they now gave Iran the opportunity to test the efficacy and accuracy of those missiles on their head in a real war scenario. Those countries you call revisionist states understand what they are doing. And the truth is America lags behind Russia and China when it comes to hypersonic technology. Do more research and you'll see. U.S hypersonic weapons test failed last month but Russia and China have been testing them successfully without glitch. Check the links below to read about the failure of U.S hypersonic weapon test. https://africa.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-hypersonic-weapon-test-ended-in-failure-after-the-missile-failed-to/epgkdqy https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/07/air-force-hypersonic-missile/ https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/06/politics/air-force-hypersonic-missile-test/index.html |
kingbee90:OK I am an Afonja Muslim. Are you satisfied now? |
CelestineNelson:Pastor Benny Hinn wrote crap in that book. He was so biased in his analysis. I won't recommend that book to anyone who is thirsty for knowledge. |
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kmcutez:You even have time to lecture fishbrians. Everyone who has done a thorough research understands that this artificial Israel has no connection with the Israel in the Christian Bible. Even Israeli historians of international repute have been telling the truth for years. They have challenged their fake country for the continued ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians yet some people won't just take time to read and get knowledge into their fish brains. I am a Christian but I won't trade intellectualism for bigotry. All these guys supporting Israel for its crime think that's what God says they should do. Why would a loving God support land grabbing and the anhilation of a particular tribe. If Israeli historians are calling their country an artificial/fake state then the opinion of a fishy brain Nigerian does not matter at all. |
No... GOD is not a wicked GOD that would choose destruction to speak to inhabitants of the earth. If HE is calling everyone to repentance and chooses to destroy them through natural disasters then what is now HIS gain? Didn't your Bible tell you that God does not take delight in the death of a sinner? So why would HE choose death and destruction as a means to convey the message of Life? Or do you think non Christians are the only people who die whenever natural disaster occur. No, born again Christians die too. So are you saying our God also takes delight in destroying the lives of those he has saved already? The word of God is enough for the world. God speaks to the world through His Word by his anointed ministers not through natural disasters. Stop creating a wrong revelation of God. Reveal him the way he has revealed himself and learn to rightly divide the word of God. You need to work on your theology Mr Righteousness2. |
inumidun2010:I used to think like this but you don't have to measure your life with what happens to a man of God. Our time has been ordained by God. Adeboye's son has completed his own journey according to what is written of him. Your own life and grace is different from that of Adeboye and his son. So run your own race and be focused if the Lord says you are spending 100yrs here nothing can change it. And this is not affliction for Adeboye. Affliction is out of it. Don't tell me demons or Satan killed his son. |
Privatepart00:Don't mind that artificial state called Israel. The country is just trying to put more pressure on America its puppet so that there won't be a diplomatic breakthrough. They have been threatening a military strike on Iran since 2010 all we have seen them do so far is sabotage operations that have not done anything to stop the giant and diverse nuclear programme of the Islamic Republic. Anyone who understands the body language of both countries would know that Israel is really scared of Iran. So all their repeated sabre-rattling is just a bluff. |
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michresakidjo:Wow... That's why he is adept when it comes to outsmarting his western enemies. |
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... Afghan military is even lamenting that America left over night without informing them. It came as a rude shock.