nateevs: You are the one that is no different from a MAGA crowd dude. You think a whole people should be condemned to death, because of a minority militant wing in their government.
That's extremism of epic proportions. Outlandish Nazi-like claims, that opens the doors and justification for ethnic cleansing on a scale we have not seen in our life time. It makes a mockery of why your ancestors sacrificed lives to defeat the Nazis.
What you are doing now, is how Nazis rose to power.
There's is nothing AntiWest about speaking truth to the West. I have an explicit NO-FASCIST principle, no matter which people it is against.
YOU want to live in a world that allows us to define a person or group as terrorists when we feel like exterminating them, then break bread with same people when it serves our geopolitical interests. Then you want us all to hush hush about it, because The West says so. Hypocrisy that stinks to the high heavens.
If I am the conspiracy theorist, why don't you tell us then why the UK, US and Israel collectively delisted HTS as a terrorist organisation in 2025? Tell us.
How naive are you to think that the US aids Israel with over $300bn, but then allows Turkey to install an Al-Qaeda/ISIS affiliated terrorist right on Israel's border with no say? That's nutcase geopolitical analysis.
seunny4lif: Syria gov has accused Isreali forces of ceasefire broken after Israeli drones were in the south Syrian skies a few hours ago and just struck the convoy of State Security Forces headed into Suwaydaa, injuring several of President Ahmad Sharaa’s forces.
LordAdam16: One AFP, the media house, employee died of starvation. The EU backed off ethnic cleansing, at least outwardly. Similarly, they do not want to add deliberate starvation of kids to their long rap sheet.
Seriously, I don't think both sides--the Europeans and Israelis--are ready to grapple with life after the Gaza war. The US will pin it on Trump, AIPAC, and feckless Biden.
I am so confident there will be major revisionism after the war.
-Lord
I hope so. As for Israelis, they will only regret their actions if the global ostracization continues. 85% of their society is okay with what their government is doing in Gaza and West Bank
Watcharena: so IDF with endless access to US funding can't take on hamas without starving civilians who are not party to the conflict ?
This is the only tactic they have left. The blind bombing has failed, and Palestinians have mastered the art of guerilla warfare. Lying to the media about casualty numbers will not change the fact that they're losing troops.
The whole logic is moronic sef. You don't starve a million civilians plus the beloved prisoners unless the goal is to torture and ethnically cleanse the population as they've been not-so-subtly saying in their speeches. Hamas even offered to release all prisoners, but they want them to disarm so that 'settlers' can extend their terrorism to Gaza with full state support.
LordAdam16: A less talked about secondary reason for the ongoing Western push for a ceasefire is that famine has started in Gaza. It will become widespread in the coming weeks without a ceasefire. No Western politician wants to be associated with the sickening images that'll emerge.
Yesterday's 25 countries statement and Trump publicly insisting on a ceasefire is them trying to get ahead of it. They plan on placing the blame squarely on Satanyahu if the famine expands and we start seeing severely malnourished kids.
-Lord
They've already tainted themselves beyond redemption. There will be endless reports of atrocities once international journalists are allowed back into Gaza.
WritterNg: I don't think China have even offered any support to Russia since the war began, their Foreign Minister confirmed it weeks ago. He said if China had assisted Russia, the war would have ended a long time ago.
What the west calls "support" is simply Russia buying stuffs from China and China buying Russian oil and gas. Simply TRADE!
They don't want both nations to trade with each other at all.
Ukraine buys tech products from China, the whole EU buys tech from China, the United States buys 70% of its tech from China. It's as easy as placing an order on Alibaba.
The rest of the world buys literally everything China produces.
Going by their logic, China is supporting and assisting Ukraine & US/NATO in their war against Russia.
Exactly. They have a way of pushing narratives so well that sometimes you find yourself subconsciously assisting them
Kingsnairaland: So it no longer Ukraine is winning it sanction which holds no water
Your tariff to China which trump begged China to make a deal with him
Given their history, China probably understand the importance military might more than any other country, and they understand how the West perceives them. One would think it is some kind of dystopian hellhole run by monsters bent on dominating the world. Are they building infrastructure and giving out cheap loans with no humiliating conditions? Accuse them of colonialism. Are they deradicalizing elements of their population? Accuse them of genocide. Did they lift 800 million people out of poverty? Yeah, but they're still dictators. All these accusations from people that have no problem with the IMF, Israel, and Gulf countries. They're just desperate to perpetuate their global dominance.
Allowing Russia to fail would be a go-ahead for the West to channel all of its resources into sabotaging China. I can't say much about Brazil and India, but China will continue to give Russia all the support it needs.
Obedience40: Where is the muti-national syrian civil war promised by our in-house military "experts" and "seasoned" foreign affair commentators??
How come there are no more updates on the hyped fictional military confrontation between Israel and Turkey??
Where's the much hyped Russian summer offensive?? The most anticipated offensive maneuver of the century not seen since the Greeks used the "Trojan Horse" to capture the city of Troy!!, When will the first FAB bomb drop?? and the once "insignificant" now "significant" front line city of Pokrovsk be captured!!
What a cliche!! that Nigeria has so many talented "military experts" languishing on a faceless forum when they could be useful in the battle against insurgency in the north.
To our "military experts", your decade of international military experience and expertise on military matters can help the Nigerian military solve her local military "Gordian knot" in the north.
Be calming down. None of the intelligent analysts that made that prediction have this week or even this year in mind. In fact, nobody with a good understanding of geopolitics would have thought that's what they meant.
The fundamental issues in Syria remain in place. They are not singing Kumbaya now.
Obedience40: Don't mind that fellow FoolishBoy419, I know he has been licking his wounds after I floored him over his fantasy of Syria being able to secure her borders, dude went radio silent, even the whole Apple and China debacle, dude was surprisingly silent, even the sonofwords had to enter into the fray after a long Forced sabbatical.
I have been on this thread for some time now, I have carved a niche for myself, I don't need validation from anyone. My contributions to the thread are there for all to see, Our friends simply do not want opposition. They tend to start scribbling nonsense when their propaganda get caught up in there face.
Don't worry yourself bro, soon you they will say you are 23jerryking.
amadivv: . Spare me the performative angst, your entire argument hinged on misinterpreting Cook's words while ignoring why Apple is America in the first place.let educate you Tim cook praised China manufacturing efficiency? Congratulations you discovered supply chain exist but let's quote what he actually said in full context. "The USA is unmatched in innovation, China supplies labour and scale, America supplies the brains.pole trillion dollar value comes from it's California designed chips,software and ecosystem_ not shenzhen factories without cupatino those "football fields of engineers" would be manufacturing flip phones .you parade musk and cook as proof;your idols literally endorsed American supremacy.you rant about facing reality but avoiding hard truth_ without U.s p/design China's factories are empty shells,Russian, Sweden and Netherlands combined does not match USA , where is their Apple?. You are confusing assembly line with ownership .Obedience was right all along on the contrally you and your Co's are the ones embaracing una selves.
You don't need to use two accounts, Mr. Obedience 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hoaxen: And then you guys then interpret this to mean US at the mercy of China?
My post was to show that China will suffer more if push comes to shove.
Check out what happened to Chinese suppliers because of the tariffs. See what happened to Huawei.
And that, my friend, is a reckless conclusion. The truth is that no one knows. Just days ago, Australia threw a middle finger at USA for telling them to state what they'd do in case China invaded Taiwan. Last year, ASEAN countries told the West not to make them choose between the West and China. Add into the fact that Trump has been alienating his allies and the fact that China is the largest trading partner of almost all the countries you listed, including the EU. It's rather comical to assume what choices they'd make if push came to shove.
And yes, USA is at the mercy of China in certain sectors. China survived almost everything USA has thrown at them. They're rapidly developing their semiconductors now but how about USA? Just one card and their car makers started panicking. If China feels like it, they can halt the mass production of F-35s and American missiles for years, because USA has repeatedly tried and failed to start refining the necessary magnets for them. Now add in America's reckless money printing and debts. They are a lot more vulnerable than you think but in spite of this, I'm not going to pretend they're pushovers unlike how you think about China.
They need each other, and you can't easily what would happen in real life scenarios.
Modified.
What has happened to Huawei? They brushed off all the sanctions Trump threw at them in the first tenure. Give them time and the new package would become another blessing. Too bad Trump has chickened out on the Nvidia ban.
dvkot: You are quite slow aren't you? Both China and US needs each other, we all saw how Trump tariffs war went, we know who back down first and offer to negotiate.
US has the market china wants, China controls the rare earth US desperately needs, US or EUROPE can't replace China and thus they can't manipulate china. China knows it power but it doesn't play that card often unlike the west.
HardBishop: E be like say you never know who China be😆😆🏃. Chinko that's afraid of anything wey go hurt their economy, o.k how many times China don help Russia in this Ukraine war. China wey dey fear sanction?😆😆. Listen forget talk, they will never dare offer huge assistance to Russia if anything full confrontation with NATO. is it India, wetin India get Kwa? Haba WRITTENG small sanction Trump knack Dem dey feel the heat? Haba Dan Allah. I Listenbros forget real talk, nobody go comot help Russia if at all NK, Haba to face french, British American military might? Ha well is well stop dreaming
This ignorant post is exactly where the argument began, all because Writer rightfully said Russia and their allies produce more munitions than Nato. A simple research into how Trump's trade war is going for USA could have prevented this. US automakers went on panic mode, Trump had to relax the Nvidia chips restriction, Huawei is catching up with the technology, and now they're waiting for China to resume selling other rare Earth's because all previous attempts to get alternatives have failed.
You guys love jumping into conversations without reading the original premise.
The premise is that pro China advocates claimed that US is at the mercy of China because everything is made in china. And that it can easily cut off the west if it likes. So we reducated you guys on how China is even more dependent on the west than the west is on China.
Now he is pretending I don't have eyes. I think I have taken enough dosage this morning.
And by the way, they improved on the design. The Iranian drone couldn't loiter while the American one can. See the camera that's absent on the Iranian version but present on the American one? 😉
The US version also has swappable warheads which the Iran does not seem to have.
shoodboi2: Multiple Shahed versions made by Iran have different warheads. Some also loiter and can carry cameras, so all that are not unique to this shameless copycat from the US.
They even copied it down to the color.
Ignorance, ignorance, ignorance. They remind me of a popular rap battle parody on YouTube where one guy was saying random, unrhymed gibberush and getting cheers from his friends while the more-skilled opponent kept getting silence and boos.
Hoaxen: And the processors of these phones are manufactured where? No be Taiwan? The operating systems android and iOS is from where?
The device memory is from where?
Because something says "made in China" does mean it's entirely made in China. Made in China can also mean "Assembled in China".
Even if everything was 100% made in China, who will they export to? Of what use is producing something, if you can't sell it. China has an export based economy. Much of their wealth come from export.
How many Western companies work with 100% indigenous components? Chai.
It's only on this thread that exports can be portrayed in negative light. The last time Europeans banned Russian oil, how did it turn out for them?
23jerryking: perhaps this will bring you healing, ignorance has really done you so much harm.
You're not dealing with illiterates oga. Creating "your own version" of an original idea can very validly be called copying. If you can't agree with this, then you all owe China a heartfelt apology for all the accusations you've been throwing at them for the past 30 years.
1 United States 2 South Korea 3 Japan 4 Taiwan 5 Vietnam 6 Russia 7 Australia 8 Malaysia 9 Germany 10 Brazil 11 Indonesia 12 India 13 Thailand 14 Singapore 15 Netherlands 16 United Kingdom 17 Canada 18 France 19 Italy 20 Philippines
Asides from Russia and Vietnam, who else on the list is willing to support them if they have beef with the west?
What is this supposed to mean? Do you think changing suppliers is as easy as pressing a switch? Do you have any idea how long Trump has been trying to change this reality?
But if they really want to secure Suweida, they'll have to deploy troops. Can't do much with airstrikes alone in 2025. Or they'll start a massive assassination campaign to force decision makers to call off the assault.
-Lord
That might already be in progress. Unverified sources in Syria said 3 officials were unsuccessfully targeted.
Lawag3: IDF: An initial inquiry into reports regarding injured individuals in the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, suggests that fragments from a shell fired during operational activity in the area hit the church mistakenly. The cause of the incident is under review.
The IDF directs its strikes solely at military targets and makes every feasible effort to mitigate harm to civilians and religious structures, and regrets any unintentional damage caused to them.
Yeah mass was held in the church they claimed Israel bombed
Remember when they killed children who were only fetching water? Yeah, that was a mistake too.
By the way, we've only been dignified with an "explanation" from the IDF because Trump called Netanyahoo after the church shelling (apparently, this disturbs him more than the deliberate targeting of civilians).