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Isimiade09:
na them be this o

Lol...bro na my phone o...I no dey with dem o

mysticwarrior:
my brother their claim is a bold face lie, that drone was shot down inside Iranian territory, do u really expect the US to claimed that they were wrong? America is a proud nation and they won't lower their heads in shame by claiming wrong.

I suspected something of this nature, that was why I wasn't assertive in my first insinuation because I believe the US 'claimed'. They might actually not have been telling the truth.

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Note that The US claimed to be on international airspace, so their proposed attack would be justifiable.

mysticwarrior:
yes I don come again, Flying a drone across Iranian airspace without authorization is a violation of sovereignty, external Aggression and a threat to Iranian national security, the Iranian security forces did a very good Job by bringing the American drone down, their action was highly commendable as they show no respect and sign of weakness to the Americans. I was expecting Washington DC to respond swiftly in less than 48 hours, but up till now the Americans are still not bold enough to respond to a slap of such magnitude, what a shame.

It's not that they really could not respond. The US's response could have claimed 150 civilian lives.

Iran is a growing threat to the US's power in terms of military capabilities. Donald Trump knows this and is finding means possible to put a halt to it.

Just suppose the US president had not changed his mind. What might have happened? The first US strikes would have been limited in scope, targeting Iranian missile sites or radars, either associated with or similar to the ones that shot down the US drone. They would have been accompanied by a clear diplomatic warning to Iran (as appears to have been delivered over-night on Thursday) that this was indeed a limited attack, solely in retaliation for the loss of the US aircraft.

Mr Trump also reportedly offered an olive branch; according to reports the message to Tehran - which was relayed through Oman - included a further request for talks.

Say the strikes had gone ahead. What would happen then? The next move would be Iran's. According to one report, it responded last night that it was not interested in talks, and gave a warning of its own: "Any attack against Iran will have regional and international consequences," one un-named official told the Reuters news agency.

So where might such a conflict go and what would it look like? There are many variables to consider, and it is easier to say what will not happen. The Trump administration may be an implacable foe of the Iranian regime but there is not going to be a full-scale ground invasion of Iran to topple the regime. This is not Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Iran is an altogether more complex challenge both militarily and politically. Some in the White House clearly want regime change. They are likely to be disappointed. So rule out a major land war.

Any follow-up Iranian attack on US ships or aircraft would almost certainly be met by an escalation from the Americans. Iranian naval installations, air bases and so on would be hit by aircraft and cruise missiles with the focus, in part, on the Revolutionary Guard Corps whose naval arm appears to have played a prominent role in recent events.

Of course the United States can deliver punishing strikes against Iran's military infrastructure. But Iran has the means to strike back too. It can use a variety of measures from mines, swarming small boat attacks or submarines to disrupt operations in the confined waters of the Gulf. Oil tankers could be attacked forcing the Americans to take steps to protect them too.

Where the US clearly has an extraordinary advantage is in intelligence gathering and situational awareness. But as the downing of the very sophisticated and hugely expensive drone illustrates, there are significant US vulnerabilities too. All Iran may think it needs to do is to damage or sink a few US warships to make the price of this conflict one that Mr Trump will not want to pay.

Any war would be characterised by this "asymmetric" aspect. This term suggests a war of the weak against the strong - two sides with very different goals and very different metrics for success. If a war does break out the US will seek to pummel Iran's armed forces. It would probably go about it in its time-honoured fashion; initially taking down Iranian air defences and so on. But the Iranians simply need to do enough damage to turn US public opinion against the conflict - to make it appear open-ended and uncertain.
Iran, if under sufficient pressure, might also seek to spread the conflict more broadly, urging its proxies in Iraq, Syria or elsewhere to attack US targets. In extremis it might even try to prevail upon Hezbollah (in concert with its own forces in Syria) to launch rocket attacks on Israel. The goal would be to demonstrate to Washington that what Mr Trump might see as a short-punitive campaign actually risks setting the region on fire.

But why would either country allow themselves to drift into a war? After all, modern conflicts are not "won" in any conventional sense. The Americans should have learnt this lesson all too well from Afghanistan and Iraq. And Iran surely cannot think it can "beat" the United States in any meaningful sense? But the reality is that somewhere between punitive attacks on the one hand and a full-scale conflict on the other, both countries may believe that they can make strategic gains.

The US wants to contain Iran. Severely damaging its military capabilities - especially those of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - would serve this purpose. A serious reversal for Tehran might ultimately impact domestic politics in the country, though a war could equally have the unwanted result of consolidating support for the current regime.

Iran may be pursuing its own high-stakes version of a "regime change" policy too. It may see the current US administration as aggressive, but equally as indecisive and lacking support from its key western allies. By drawing the Americans into a costly and open-ended conflict, the Iranian leadership may believe that they can absorb the pain while damaging President Trump's chances in the next Presidential race. An Iranian reading of the US political scene may see the Democrats as more likely to return to some kind of nuclear deal and as more willing therefore to relax economic sanctions.

The problem for Tehran is that time is not on its side. The economic pressure of sanctions is hitting hard. Iran has relatively few cards to play beyond threatening chaos. Thus it may see escalation as a route out of this crisis. President Trump on the other hand, according to his own tweets, says he is "in no hurry".

Let's hope all this discussion is academic. President Trump appeared ready to strike back at Iran after the downing of the drone and then had second thoughts. Many will hope that it is these second thoughts that prevail in the president's mind over the coming days.

A war with Iran would indeed be costly and unpredictable. It would neither resolve the problem of Iran's nuclear programme nor of Iran's growing prominence in the region. That was the indirect outcome of Washington's last major war in the Middle East - the destruction of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Conflicts, it should be remembered, have unintended consequences.


Source : BBC News

Banning sniper will just make those with suicidal tendencies pliable to other options, not forgetting the economic effect of banning a major pest control commodity

You have no new houses: no change in your number of houses

There is no change in the money in your personal account

All your cows are gay, hence no change.


How do you want to foster change in Nigeria, Much more, moving us to the next level.


I SMH for you gullible supporters..

Uhmmm....Okay...

What you are about to hear is from a front row seat first born. Yes I'm a first born in all ways describable as a first born and when I tell my siblings to sit, they dare not remain standing. This is not because I beat them or maltreat them, far from that. Let me explain what happened.

My siblings have not always been respectful to me while we were much younger, in fact, my mom will nag at me when I touch them. But what happened??
Let me tell you. An uncle came..This uncle flogs them anytime they talk back at me, doing this made them cultivate the habit of respect for me.

What I'm trying to butress here is that if your sibling did not respect you while you guys were younger, it will be harder when you guys are much older.

So respecting you has to be of her own accord, Thus you do things attributed to an elder.

Another reason could be that you guys have been far apart for too long, so, trying to take the mantle of authority and control her might not sit well with her.

What you should have done:

You should have tried to reinforce that bridge that had weaken in your relationship before you started imposing authority.


I can't really imagine my brother or my sister slapping me, their elder brother. If I was in your shoes, I would have done same. Since your parents know that she hit you back, and they went ahead to support her. It means this bro..trying to bend her is a lost cause, otherwise, you guys will keep on fighting.


My advice:

Since you are still in school, and you are still receiving allowances from your parents, Let her be. You are not responsible for her future, your parents are. If they can not shape her to be decent, you can't also. If you use force, you might break her (injure her), and that's bad.

Do this: Try to distance yourself from her a little, let her live her life, experience is not the best teacher, but trust me, it's the toughest. I'm quite convinced that she's seeing you as a nagger, someone frustrating her life and happiness. Let her make her mistake and let her learn. Protect only when the danger might be too much. trust me, she will come around. you guys can start as friends first before you start imposing authority as an elder sibling.

Thank you.

ABCthings:
You want a good country but encourage corruption,what she wrote is better than expo,not suprised you're Korrupt.

If she passed with this "fictional work", then those who passed her are what

Good friend. What advice do you want from us na.
You should be the one advising yourself. Can you
marry someone that cheated on you while in a relationship together? After you have asked yourself, then answer the question. You alone know what you want. Abi do you want us to be the one to tell you that once a woman cheats on her partner, she's 99.9℅ liable to do such again at any given instance, with of course a very solid, ground breaking backed up excuse?

ryfoz:
Hi boss, on a Leeco level too now o

Exactly like yours...though mine is rooted and running 9.0 (as e dey hot)

Bro!!! Why na. The rooting process tho. Was it stressful?

I don't feel like typing much o. But let me help someone's life. One fact about life is that you don't know the value of what you have until you lose it. The funny thing is that those that know this fact still value what they have less until they lose it - funny right? okay.

I have the utmost conviction that you, OP, have a mind that is easily swayed, that you have a mind that can be easily manipulated. Infact, am quite certain that why you are asking this question is because of your wanting of the lifestyle of those around you - This is bad. There is a difference between being very ambitious and being easily controlled by material gratifications.

You can't eat your cake and have it. You can't have everything.

That being said. Threaten him with separation. If he does not improve, then maybe he does not really like or love you, he just wants a smart and educated wife.

I can tell that you don't love him. Either you let him go or you learn to love him. Admiring someone does not mean you love them. You cannot learn to admire someone, it's something that 'just' comes, and as it 'just' comes, it goes that way also. You can learn to love, such love stays.

Choose what you want wealth or a good family. Though you are still very young to explore other options or atleast explore the other realm of life, but you can't really be too young a long as society allows.

Conclusuvely, figure out what you really want and don't be swayed by the lifestyle of other people (No two relationship is the same).

folake4u:
Who your funny EPP?

With what you typed, I can be my left balls that you are a kind of girl that falls hard - especially the funny ones.

Debramaye:
even if it's your girlfriend you'll leave small change for her knowing she's cooking for you and not inspecting everything that's like calling Someone a thief on top services she's rendering and about stove, I've never cooked on stove but from the looks of it I know it's a bad work around for someone who's not used to cooking on that thing, she even gave him back his money plus extra to show class, abeg I won't regret saying this but guys who do petty stuff like this are broooooookeeeeee, stingyyyyyyy and stupiiidddd especially when they know such can be done themselves without all that senseless involvement

I don't think you understood what I wrote. The guy bleeped up only because he went ahead to inspect the foodstuff she bought. That does not just scream stingy and stupid or broke, it also shows you the level of distrust he has for her (not necessarily to poison him, it could be financialwise). That's why I wrote that they may have a history she didn't see fit to include in her epistle.

All you guys the at are hollering broke guy and stuff. The only mistake the guy made was to inspect the foodstuff while she was preparing the dish. Still, it might be because he did not trust her to manage money very well - you dont't know their history.

Mind you, 3k will prepare a sumptuous egusi soup as well as a stew.

Let me give you a breakdown.

Egusi = half derica #400

crayfish = #100

pepper = 20

okporoko = 50

Titus = #400

meat = #400

palm oil = ilarin #100

maggi = #20

onga soup = 10

vegetable = 50

Total = #1,550. balance. #450



If you use these ingredient, you will prepare confam! egusi soup.

OK.

Let's head to stew.

Tomatoes & pepper = #250

tomato paste = #50

maggi = #20

onions = #30

groundnut oil = #100

curry & thyme = #40

fish = 400

spice = 50

Total = #940. balance = #60

Total balance = #510

#510 should be more that enough for transport.


The 1k she added was to the orishirishi she wanted. If the guy wanted orishirishi, he would have given her more cause I kno that some people here are ready to counter.

FortuneDeGreat:
I'm sorry if you consider my comments an insult. But take it or leave it, there's a historical ties between the Igbos and binis, take it to the bank.

I think I understand ur misconception of my utterance
The Edo I am referring to is Edo state, formerly Bini kingdom.
I think you are talking about the Bini people( Edo people).

FortuneDeGreat:
Are you this daft and slow minded that you can't grasp a point, I told you and I repeat, neither Edo nor Niger delta is an ethnic group, they're just a political creation.

Talk of your own tribe which is esan and leave the binis to talk theirs.

Any people on earth has origin, if you're a bit confused on yours sorry, everyone isn't like you, some people know their origin, if you're unable to give a clear definition of your people's origin how then will you be able to talk of that of other people?

First you're not bini or Igbo or what's the fuss all for. In a layman's language - wetin concern you?

Bringing insult to a discussion that that is for trading knowledge.

In which part of my comment did I throw a shade of insult at you?

Well I don't like trading insults on nairaland because it seems very juvenile to me.

Maybe what I said about some Igbos claiming to be Edos struck a nerve...

Just so you know, I know my origin, and since you know yours, why don't you tell me.

FortuneDeGreat:
Thanks, so next time try and specify and don't just call Edo a tribe, moreover your tribe and the Igbos have no link or historical ties, the Bini was the mention so exclude yourself ok?

I just understood something. Those of you claiming that Edo is close to the Igbos are obviously Igbos trying to dreg themselves with the Edos. That being said.
You want me to answer abi? okay I will, first tell me which part of Edo you are from. Meanwhile, let me educate you a little.

Yeah, The Edo I was referring to there is bini.

The great bini kingdom shares no tie whatsoever with Igbo. Any relationship that exist between Niger Delta and Igbo is as a result of the handwork of the colonists.

Even Onitsha that claim to be ascended from the great Bini kingdom were simply neighbours that lived within it environs and later travelled eastward.

know your history, better still ask men from your hometown who have seen it all.

Thank you.

FortuneDeGreat:
Edo is not an ethnic group, it's just a political cum geographical structure, what's the name of your ethnic group cos I know there are many in Edo.

I am from Esan, on of the three major ethnic groups of Edo state. Some call us Ishan.

lordm:
If you are a counselor please quote me. I really need help

Help as regarding what?

Gangstar Wait for savage o

Edodefender:
judging from your profile you are obviously a kid, we have some culture similarity with yoruba but there are more Igbos groups that claim ancesstry with the Benin

Who are you calling again kid. You just got me cracking. Well I don't need to explain anything to you. Since you are the ancestors I will leave you to it. Just don't say this stuff in the midst of real men that know their ancestry.

Seeing this girl trying too hard to fit into a community that she has no business with is pathetic to say the least. If you want more recognition, learn from davido. No come let me dey close eye shame for person.

Edodefender:
oga keep quiet.

Ikwerre, ika, agbor and many more South East group claim Benin ancestry, but speak a version of igbo language.

Mr man take your time o. Yes some regions that share close geographical location with the great benin empire could not help the cultural influx that took place which saw the mutation of their languages. But if you know Benin story wella, you will know that we share history with the Yoruba people rather than the Igbos.

Guest007:
Yes, to SERVE and protect... since they're not great on the lata, white kid is a genius.

Who told you that they are not doing great in the latter. Abeg no talk am again o

Edodefender:
I'm an Edo guy, we are closer to Igbo's than any other Nigeria ethnic group

How are we close to the Igbos, which precolonial history do we share with them. Bros be like you be fake Edo o.
Abi na 'them tell me say I be Edo you be?'

czarina:
Let me wait for Nairalanders to come say the usual;

"this is a country that works. Not this shithole".

Then, they'll round off with; "God punish Buhari"

guess you have seen enough criticizing speech to go around.