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Appleyard:
What else can I do? I tried as much as possible to avoid much of what I see here. But, one have to give some of these folks the benefit of the doubt that they can still learn one or two things despite the staggering dearth of sound reasoning demonstrated here. I've been engaging in geopolitical discussions for more than 15 years on this forum, and so far, it's been a wonderful experience.

Prof. Appleyard | HOD Dept. Of Geopolitics of Nairaland

Appleyard:
What else can I do? I tried as much as possible to avoid much of what I see here. But, one have to give some of these folks the benefit of the doubt that they can still learn one or two things despite the staggering dearth of sound reasoning demonstrated here. I've been engaging in geopolitical discussions for more than 15 years on this forum, and so far, it's been a wonderful experience.

Appleyard:
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Without a doubt, China has a better infrastructure than the USA in the aspects of metro, railway, road, canal, bridge, and skyscraper creativity.

I thinks this your claims are not entirely true. For passenger rail and metro , China n Japan no1. The US lags behind due to the fact that 1.its a car loving nation 2.lacl of political will to get it done 3. Ficking environmentalists n so on n so forth. And private startup like Brightline is fixing that already.But what they lack in passenger they compensate 2ith freight.
For roads and bridges I don't thinks so
U need to cast your mind to The US highway system one 9f the best in the world. For skyscraper that one na another matter 1st skyscrapers in China is just some of d ways they compete with the west and some of them are ghost cities while some are not even needed . Designs. You need to check out skyscrapers being designed by Sport car making companies like Bugatti 8n the Us and u will be marvelled. Imagine being able to take ur car aling with u to ur condo. I mean any level 3vem if u stay on the topmost floor. What about the billionaires row ultra thin skyscrapers. I can go on nd on..

Alamkir:
I hav been observing it. But I dnt want to talk

So you are saying they are cowards that cant use their real akant to post. I am neither of them. I am me.
DystopianMuse
I forget Writerniig get multiple aza Alamu obo kir self get multiple aza una think say na everybody go be like u
Cant u see say I be woman. A going tru an heartbreak just using this thread to cool off.

Alamkir:
I hav been observing it. But I dnt want to talk

So you are saying they are cowards that cant use their real akant to post. I am neither of them. I am me.
DystopianMuse

WriterNiiig:
The streets Ukraine shelled are not still standing, right?


🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

News Farmer, we are taking of Middle East not Ukraine. Continue farming your news

That's all u know. 🤡 🤡

WriterNiiig:
You should be more concerned about the over 112 missile attacks on US airbases in 2 months by poor rag tag militias that aren't even a standing army.

Non of those missiles were intercepted by the so called world power.

Rockets made from water pipes are hitting US bases like it's some sophisticated missile hahahaha. 😂

but the bases are still standing gidigba . Dey Play
News Farmer

DystopianMuse:
HIMARS with two direct hits destroys the rare and newest artillery reconnaissance complex 1K148 "Yastreb-AV" of the Russian Armed Forces worth about $250 million.
Just less than 24hrs it was been deployed
It was destroyed in less than a minute it raises it Radar
The Russian telegram channel where people were celebrating the deployment seems to be in disbelief
Ukraine posted the video online
Russia is yet to comment officially

THINGS I LOVE TO SEE ON A WEDNESDAYS

HIMARS with two direct hits destroys the rare and newest artillery reconnaissance complex 1K148 "Yastreb-AV" of the Russian Armed Forces worth about $250 million.
Just less than 24hrs it was been deployed
It was destroyed in less than a minute it raises it Radar
The Russian telegram channel where people were celebrating the deployment seems to be in disbelief
Ukraine posted the video online
Russia is yet to comment officially

Tonididdyx:
I'm not here for Russia USA banter.
I simply put it to you, the Russian military and her daily innovative tools are pure overhyped

Overhyped?? you mean the best military on the wurld farmer be hyping the weapons for here since

English and man u legnds all they know is sitting their stupid ass in the studio and analyse rubbish. Give them job they can perform. Na them go know player wey lazy, wey overweight running mouth like parrot give dem work 0. Remind me of loudmouth neville always anti arsenal . Valencia job many loses 1 win in about 15. Wen all those 1 see say he wan spoil their life they sack a. t alk is cheap

Yes u are right drone tech nd solar tech china leads. But for vehicles theres more to it. Foall china couldnt crack it with ICE they had to switch to EV. In regarads to overtaking tesla nd leading in ev generally it has to do with with people hasbeen discussing here cheap quality, massive subsidx,battery production, dumping . Anti competitive practices. Even tesla that used to be in their good books is now facing it.

nigeriansamurai:
ok let me tell you the one i know... In mechanical engineering today china has more practicing mech engineers than the US and in robots, drones, and i think solar technology. even in the vehicle sector china is slowly beating the US, and believe me i think that the only reason the US may be beating china in military engineering is due to the difference in budget... i saw a news on this thread sayin a chinese(maybe japanese, ive forgoten) company out sold tesla... Look i am not sayin you are wrong but... The US is better than china because they maintain a high standards example. you dont see a american made product defected as much as you see in chinese onces this is one of the advantages of maintaining quality, they have market trust... china used to beats the US (until recently) in terms of exports.

Exactly why xi came. To decieve the americans. They are back to business. Werey needs us fdi for their falling economy. But they are still targettin foriegn firms nd experts using stupid nationalsecurity law or so. Couple with botched zero covid .policy xi staked his entire legitimacy on Even their greatest cheerleader wall street including blackrok are now scaling bak investment. They are facing shege. r

Tiopii:
Yea, and Putin signed a policy last year bout bringing back most of the core production companies back to the US. And the realities of this is hitting China, that was why Xi was in the US some months ago to reassure the US political class bout safeguarding their interest and also met with Biden.
Even India is seeking more ties with the US in bid to bring some companies to India. And the espionage and reverse engineering was like the major factor couple with China's closer ties with Russia.

far superior milintry if na us now we no go hear word here
na new innovation dem don destroy so people that arelivin on a borrowed time

Segun2222:
A few hours ago Russian state media were bragging about their "superior" new Yasreb-AV counter battery radar which Russian troops have started using in Ukraine.

A few minutes ago the Ukrainian military released a video of the system being destroyed by two GMLRS rockets.🙃

Not just labor factor alone even the labor aint cheap any longer n couple with current geopolitical most companies are japaing or diversifying from china. India vietnam mexico n others have huge role to play now. Beta my foot with countless espionage n reverse engineering with cheap and lack of quality and tofu dreg manfacturing

Tiopii:
Naah, China isn't better in manufacturing than the US. it is just cheaper if China does the manufacturing, it's more like outsourcing. China is known for cheap labour. don't confuse both.

God speaking tru a terrorist. Ki ki ki. Una mind no go touch ground

WriterNiiig:
⚡Iran's Leader Ali Khamenei, in his meeting with the family of slain IRGC-QF chief Qassem Soleimani, suggested that God speaks through his mouth.

"I delivered a very warm and eloquent speech, but I hadn't prepared it. God kept uttering the words. It was my mouth and God's words."

Things i love to see n hear on a wednessday morin

WriterNiiig:
⚡US reaches deal to extend military presence at Qatar base.

The United States has reached a deal to extend its military presence at a base in Qatar for another 10 years, Reuters reports.

The base in question is the Al Udeid Air Base, which is located in the desert southwest of Doha and hosts the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East.

FIrst time u go make sense for this thread. Clap yoursef

Vl3ly:
a fool at 40 ..........

teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt
--professor Salim al-Hassani
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Here Hassani shares his top 10 outstanding Muslim inventions:

1. Surgery

Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut to stitch wounds -- beforehand a second surgery had to be performed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps.

2. Coffee

Now the Western world's drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the 16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy by a Venetian trader.

3. Flying machine

"Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly," said Hassani. In the 9th century he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later, said Hassani.

4. University

In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost 1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the center will remind people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that the story of the al-Firhi sisters will inspire young Muslim women around the world today.

5. Algebra

The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician's famous 9th century treatise "Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala" which translates roughly as "The Book of Reasoning and Balancing." Built on the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes. The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.

6. Optics

"Many of the most important advances in the study of optics come from the Muslim world," says Hassani. Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy's theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.

7. Music

Muslim musicians have had a profound impact on Europe, dating back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba, according to Hassani. Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet.

8. Toothbrush

According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.

9. The crank

Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system. By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This techno

aswear. Those ones na just beer parlor group drinkers. India and china got issues. And i am 100 parcent sure russia china relations is just a friendship of convinience e no go last long they were neva freinds na us hate make them gum bodi south afrika (: dont even mention and india still need the us ake all of dem dey play. And u go still menthon spoilers like melei $rizin when other are de$rizin . We shall see

Segun2222:
you would think brics started this year

Alri alri like som1 said . We sha see. Cheers gudbi

Appleyard:
You just wasted time elaborating the point I made earlier.

1. Howe can the US default when it has the licence to print unlimited Fiat paper whenever it wills due to the fact that the Dollar is a global reserve currency? It can, and has been printing money from thin air, this forcing inflation down the throat of the global market.

2. Wide acceptability made possible SOLELY by the BrenttonWood arrangement. Don't be naive. , Until that arrangement, no one gives a dime about the US Dollar. There is a reason why the US has its military on the asss of every Oil Producing nation on earth. Take out that arrangement and the dollar would just be another ordinary Fiat paper like the Yuan, Rouble, Franc, etc.
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The BrenttonWood arrangement that made it compulsory for all nations to sell and buy oil only in Dollars. That effectively secured the place of the US dollars as the most dependable and used currency on the global financial markets. Which country and industry doesn't need oil and it's derivatives?

The rest of your points are a no-brainer because some other globally recognized currencies meet those points. Example, the Euro, which was becoming too much of a threat to the US who cleverly came up with "Mission Ukraine" to destabilize the EU market that foolishly sanctioned their economies, in the quest to punish Russia, the lifewire of their industrial competitive advantage. I must admit, the US knows how to play dirty but smart geopolitics.

OH. Thanks for sharing. I never knew because arabs are the one been given the credit

Nemesis4you:
No numerals is Hindu invention

The Arabs simply translated them and to their credit unlike the Europeans called them as 'hind sa' in Arabic meaning Hindu numbers, during the medieval times Europeans wrongly attributed the credit to Arabs

Now the blunder of Europeans is being corrected and modern numerals are known as Hindu numerals or Hindu-Arabic numerals

Let him carry his empty head about the threa. The prophet encourages his followers to seek knowledge even if it is as far as china. But b4 he continues to argue rubbish here he should research muslims and arabs contributions to science in generala, physics and astrology . Some dope inventions theyve made. For starters the current 123 hes reading is arabic numerals. Inventions boku .

Watcharena:
you don't know anything about Quran if you say it discourage seeking for knowledge. Let me educate you about this ,the first verse that was revealed in the Qur'an is iqra meaning read ,it was ordering the believer to and seek for knowledge,


Again you said there is no single miracle mentioned in the Quran,may be you did not read the portion that talked about the birth of Jesus a. s.,you did not read the part that talked about a prophet who ascended to heaven through all aqs mosque, you did not read the part that talked about a prophet who's shirt was used to heal the blind ,you did not read the portion that talked about discovery of well called zamzam ,you did not read about how the message of Islam came to the prophet Muhammad s a w. You did not read about the appearance of a ram to replace his son when a prophet wanted to sacrifice his son. And many others

Let him carry his empty head about the threa. The prophet encourages his followers to seek knowledge even if it is as far as china. But b4 he continues to argue rubbish here he should muslims and arabs contributions to science, physics and astrology . Some dope inventions theyve made. For starters the current 123 hes reading is arabic numerals. Inventions boku .

Watcharena:
you don't know anything about Quran if you say it discourage seeking for knowledge. Let me educate you about this ,the first verse that was revealed in the Qur'an is iqra meaning read ,it was ordering the believer to and seek for knowledge,


Again you said there is no single miracle mentioned in the Quran,may be you did not read the portion that talked about the birth of Jesus a. s.,you did not read the part that talked about a prophet who ascended to heaven through all aqs mosque, you did not read the part that talked about a prophet who's shirt was used to heal the blind ,you did not read the portion that talked about discovery of well called zamzam ,you did not read about how the message of Islam came to the prophet Muhammad s a w. You did not read about the appearance of a ram to replace his son when a prophet wanted to sacrifice his son. And many others

Appleyard:
The global sale of oil wired around the US dollar via the Brentton Wood arrangement, and the SWIFT payment system that controls much of the world's financial settlement initiatives is the major reason the US-led west has the ability to sanction any country that do not follow their diktats. If an economic body like BRICS comes up with their own reserve currency similar to the Euro, and their own SWIFT alternative settlement system, considering how huge it is with more members seeking to join, it will drastically undermined the dominance of the
Dollar and reduce the effect of the western sanction bullyinng tactics and leverage over the rest of the world, which is increasingly getting fed up with the US-led western economic grindsmanship.

Already, BRICS represent 29% of global GDP, accounting for more than $30 trillion dollars of global wealth. And with new members set to join (many of which has positive GDP growth potentials,) the gap between it and the G7 nations would continue to shrink drastically. That is not a good sign for the US-led west abuse of "soft power" to harass other nations. Welcome to multipolarism.

So you think the US dollar evolves around Petro dollar alone or economi3e revolvearoun GDP alone.

The US has some other features while it's king
1. The faith in US system or Govt not to default
2. Wide acceptability (some countries that accept ruppe for example have had hard time spending them)
3. Stability/// some safe heaven currency that investor flock to during crisis
4. Can you trust let's say Yuan for example. A devalued currency can be reserve currency
5. Fed reserve transparency
6.The stability of the political system of the issuing country
The size and prospects of the economy
Global integration of its markets and economy
A transparent and open economic system
A credible legal system
The quality of its sovereign debt
The ability to bear costs associated with a reserve currency


The size, depth and liquidity of financial markets
Many factors .. Petro dollars
Even if dollar is to be dethroned it's not now and won't be easy.

Vl3ly:
Mr man or woman you can ask your fellow on this thread ,I don't think we can continue to be quoting each other with this your cursing attitude

I see that you are new on this thread ask your fellow here and they will tells you that am among the person that posted there successful hypersonic test here,even there several failed test, i posted it here

I will go and look for the post

Don't look for anything. You started this shit
You posted there successful test here and failed test here yet you don't have enough facts to be asking irrelevant questions about them having hypersonic missiles.
Ogbon sodiq

nigeriansamurai:
the US may lead the world in cyber tech but; it is a very know fact that the US is behind China and Russia in terms of hardware and industrial tech development and manufacturing. the US depends heavily on China for industral manufacturing and fabrication of tech and materials. like the popular saying "EVEN THE AMERICAN DREAM IS MADE IN CHINA"

The US depending on China for manufacturing and industrial tech bla bla has many reasons behind it , don't make it seems as if they lack the capability and manufacturing jobs are coming back to us or other friendly countries , friendshoring or whatever it's called .
And China is not just manufacturing for US . It's the world's factory
and this does not apply to millitary techs we are talking about here. You can't say us manufactures it's weapons in china. Even the parts from the supply chain can not be from China for obvious reasons
That we are talking here

nigeriansamurai:
actually the US is yet developed her own hypersonic missle... research are still ungoing but, they are yet to develop one... the development research itself is very expensive. effective weapons of our current age are not just something even Russia, US or anybody can whip up over night, they take years to develop.

Lair!!!!
Just do a bit research about The LRHM Systems. Then there is a particular AR-188- Www something I
cant remember but it has been discontinued in production but some are still with the Pentagon. Then there's this Dark Eagle Stuff .just make your research. The development and research is very expensive for a system some of their rivals like china and Russia has and very critical for them. ??So they won't spend to get it or what.
Just like saying China won't spend to get to produce there own high end chips because it's very expensive.

WERey dey post quote. Let us continue our comarision. U fi talk say us no get nuke self. Go jst dey pollute upandown.

Vl3ly:
Already happenings...

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself. Napoleon Bonaparte

sainttwist1:
martyrdom in hiding

You dey mad gan. You ask a question thinkin us has no hypersonic weapon yet . I provided u with an answer. U were shamed where u put eye road no pass there. Now u asking me to post spec like say na phone u wan buy. Do am urself na. Foolish fellow

Vl3ly:
come post it here with features

I won check something with North Korea -Hwasong 8
Maybe it can pass this lowest stage