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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 8:10pm On Dec 15, 2023
"Arab kings" are mostly warrant officers installed by the British, just like some "warrant kings" in Nigeria.
Foreign AffairsRe: "No Peace Un­til Rus­sia’s Goals In Ukraine Are Achieved", Says President Putin by Ghostagain: 5:40pm On Dec 15, 2023
dangermouse:
When you know how those weapons get to Russia despite the ban on weapons supply to them them it becomes clear to you that it was and still done in a way the parties can have deniability.
Russia makes its own weapons mate, Russia is not Ukraine nor Nigeria. It has all the raw material and the technical know how which it needs.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 5:11pm On Dec 15, 2023
WriterNiiig:
⚡Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Advisor:

We believe Iran can stop the Houthi attacks.
Iran must stop Houthi attacks in the Red Sea because it gives them weapons.
😂My reply:
NiiigWriter:
⚡Jake Silluvan, Wheti House National Security Advisor:

We believe the USA can stop the Ukrainian attacks.
The USA must stop Ukrainian attacks against Russia because it gives them weapons.
Foreign AffairsRe: "No Peace Un­til Rus­sia’s Goals In Ukraine Are Achieved", Says President Putin by Ghostagain:
dangermouse:
What brought about the US cracking down on Chinese drone and weapons manufacturers based in China Cos some chips sold to some Chinese' weapons manufacturers were found on weapons used by Russians in Ukraine.

North Korea recently made a deal with Russia on weapons swap with Russia providing them with technicalities on nuclear know how and the lauch of spy satellites to the space. Its an on going thing now. Its no propaganda.

Ukraine given equal the weapons available to Russia would have won this war a long time ago.
The fact that the USA "cracked down on Chinese drone and weapons manufacturers" is not proof that China was proving those equipments to Russia.
Your so called deal between north Korea and Russia is based on the word of your American friends and substantiated by nothing but their untrustworthy mouths. Also even some of your American sources talked only about Russia procuring some shells from north Korea, I don't see any problems with that.

Ukraine has been supplied in weapons for more than 100 billion dollars by 31 countries including the USA, the UK, France, Germany...those countries supplied so much weapons to Ukraine that they now lack weapons.

"Ukraine given equal the weapons available to Russia would have won this war a long time ago.":
I really don't see the point of this hypothetical line here, I can also claim that if I had the same initial investment from my parents as Elon musk had from his parents then I would be 2 times richer than Elon musk. What is the point of this useless and unverifiable statement ? Are we teenagers ?

Point is Russia is winning, and winning very heavily. No need to create an alternate universe where Ukraine is winning, reality is interesting enough as it is.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 1:56pm On Dec 15, 2023
WrriterNig:
⚡In a village council session in Ukraine, Deputy Serhii Batryn, 53, detonated grenades, injuring 26, and thought to have killed one member, but now it is reported that 6 are in critical condition.

Batryn, who criticized local authorities on social media, was also injured.

Video footage shows an argument before Batryn, unexpectedly armed with grenades, said, “May I?” and started chucking the live grenades in the closed-door session.
https://vidmax.com/video/225220-a-deputy-tosses-2-grenades-into-counsel-meeting-in-ukraine-injuring-26-6-in-critical-condition
Foreign AffairsRe: "No Peace Un­til Rus­sia’s Goals In Ukraine Are Achieved", Says President Putin by Ghostagain:
dangermouse:
Fair enough, but Ukraine has started producing some of their weapons by themselves. Russians are being supplied too by china, North Korea, and Iran.

World politics or not, the fact remains that Ukraine has exposed Russians military as weak and over hyped by beating them off and taking back territories they rook from them during the surprise invasion by Russia.

They are fighting now for mostly territories taken before the war.
1. China is not supplying Russia.
2. All that Iran supplied Russia were hundreds of drones and the blue print to build the drones. Russia has since modified the blueprint to make the drones much better and Russia produces them now.
3. You don't seem to understand the concept of "war of attrition". Russia gladly gives away land (temporarily) to save manpower and equipment and inflict catastrophic casualties on Ukraine/NATO. Ukrainian generals have openly voiced that "taking back those lands wasn't worth it", and soon enough, Russia will return back to those lands with minimal resistance from Ukraine's depleted and exhausted forces.
4. What north Korea provides to Russia is mostly workers.
5. Russian military has recently been ranked the best in the world by a USA defsec journal.
6. You are falling for the propaganda which you like, the reality is that Ukraine is hopeless and Russia has stuck to the winning strategy of war of attrition right from the beginning rather than act emotionally or for public relations. Russia doesn't care about appearances, that is Ukraine and NATO's thing (look like Hulk Hogan while you are actually a poor starving guy from Somalia). When it is all set and done, everybody will be forced to realise that Russia has won.
Foreign AffairsRe: "No Peace Un­til Rus­sia’s Goals In Ukraine Are Achieved", Says President Putin by Ghostagain:
mpire:
Are you always this stup1d or this is a lifetime achievement for you? How did you make it this far in life being this f00lish?

You're an iidiot, plain and simple.
Your comment applies to yourself perfectly.
You seem to confuse NATO war propaganda with actual facts. All that data you posted is pure propaganda.
Russia is winning and Russia is beating NATO very badly.
That is why zelenski keeps running to Washington to beg for money. That is why the NATO is running out of weapons while Russian stocks of weapons have increased compared to what they had at the beginning of the war.

It is ok for you to not be smart enough to see through propaganda, but it is just disgusting when you start insulting other people's intelligence based on your ignorant beliefs. You need to reach the intellectual level in which you consider the possibility that you may be wrong and the person with data opposing your beliefs may be right. From then on you treat opposing views with respect and use logic to work through what is true and what is false.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 7:41pm On Dec 14, 2023
WrriterNig:
⚡Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán left the room while leaders made the decision to open accession talks with Ukraine, three EU diplomats told the Guardian.
I really don't see how adding Ukraine to the EU will make the EU a better place. What does Ukraine have to contribute except dept, corruption, war and Nazi ideology ?

Ursula and Macron and Scholz, is your aim to bankrupt the EU ?
What positif do I gain from this as an EU citizen ?

When individual countries would have suffered enough from adding a bankrupt and corrupt country into the EU, the EU will only disintegrate. The EU used to be the enjoyment club, but now it is becoming the suffering club.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 4:54pm On Dec 14, 2023
WrriterNig:
🇷🇺 🇺🇸
Russia has all the raw material to build its weapons, that also reduces costs.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 3:41pm On Dec 14, 2023
Hopefully, I will meet president Putin one day.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 3:36pm On Dec 14, 2023
WrriterNig:
⚡President Putin:

Many European leaders pretend to emulate [tough stance of] General de Gaulle, who fought for France's interests, but in reality, they [succumbed to the US] are like Marshal Petain, who became submitted to the will of the invaders during WWII.
President Putin and I have this thing in common: we are both specialists in fields distinct from history but we both understand the importance of true historical research and we both do on occasion conduct historical research (he has much more means than I do to conduct historical research though 😂).
It is amazing when he talks about historical events and personalities. 👍
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 12:17am On Dec 14, 2023
WriterNiiig:
⚡South Korea‘s defence minister warned Wednesday that North Korea would face a “hell of destruction” if it engages in any “reckless” action that “destroys peace”.

Pyongyang last month put a military spy satellite into orbit and has since said that its eye in the sky was providing images of major US and South Korean military sites.

The event has fractured an inter-Korean military agreement established to de-escalate tensions on the peninsula, with both countries ramping up security along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating them.

“If North Korea does something reckless that destroys peace, all that awaits them is a hell of destruction,” Defence Minister Shin Won-sik said in a meeting with top military commanders.
He sounds so tough, he probably scared at least one person: himself 🤔

I thought social media Jacki Chan were only on nairaland, I see some people build "armies" out of these loudmouths 😂
CultureRe: Oldest History Books Say Yoruba Not Benin Founded Lagos by Ghostagain: 11:02pm On Dec 13, 2023
XAUBulls:
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Just for your info, @christistruth is a known low iq guy, each time he comments on topics outside of "culture" everybody calls him out for bring an idiot. He only makes sense to Yoruba ethnic champions who don't care that he has no logic.

After explaining things to @christistruth several times over several years, he just can't learn and makes again all the mistakes which I educated him on.


1. Benin kingdom is not Benin city ! Benin city is only the capital of Benin kingdom.

2. Warri was a part of Benin kingdom

3. Lagos was an other part of Benin kingdom.

4. I have already proven what I said, most especially in front of @christistruths' eyes, several times over several years, but it just doesn't enter his scull. He's too dumb.

Below is a pre-colonial map of Africa, it was published in 1747, I already posted it at least 3 times on this thread.
I posted many other pre-colonial maps and texts. But I guess you prefer @chrustistruth's tales by moonlight because he strokes your ethnic ego.

CultureRe: Oldest History Books Say Yoruba Not Benin Founded Lagos by Ghostagain: 10:12pm On Dec 13, 2023
OyinO:
Enjoy yourself. All the insults you've been piling on others, what gain have you obtained therefrom?
It is strange that you felt insulted while I was merely saying that there are mistakes which are honest mistakes and others which are ignorant mistakes. Don't blame me for your own lack of self-esteem. My statement was a general statement.

Now let me talk about you: not understanding what a PRE-COLONIAL map is and their importance to historical research, that shows a lack of understanding of the concepts of time and history. Learn what historical research is about and do away with the "oral-tradition" scam.

Once again: never blame someone else for your own feelings. Your feelings are your problem and yours alone.
If you feel that you are insulted, too bad, not my problem. The words I write, those are my problems, a logical reading of my words (rather than an emotional one) shows no insult to you, rather a general statement.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 4:45pm On Dec 12, 2023
For everybody's info, most African countries (including Nigeria) are very weak militarily compared to western countries. And the west still has no ressources which it badly need.

What makes you guys think they won't recolonize Africa and make you taste what their blood brothers are doing to Palestinians?

Never say never 😉

N.B. This is to make the silly supporters of European colonization to open their eyes.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Ghostagain: 3:13pm On Dec 12, 2023
Why are so many people on nairaland so ignorant?
Listen to this kid:
Alpharey:
Nobody identified anywhere in the world as European Jews because of religion. Some Jews are Christians, they even have Muslims amongst them. Take back this your lies because it cannot sell. Apart from religion, Jews are a tribe of their own just like Igbos, Hausas and Yorubas, and have ancestral land because they did not fall from heaven. You forget to mention what Muslim Jews or Christian Jews should be identified with.
"Christian Jews" and "Muslim Jews" 😓
This faceless forum is filled with children.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain:
Alpharey:
Nobody identified anywhere in the world as European Jews because of religion. Some Jews are Christians, they even have Muslims amongst them. Take back this your lies because it cannot sell. Apart from religion, Jews are a tribe of their own just like Igbos, Hausas and Yorubas, and have ancestral land because they did not fall from heaven. You forget to mention what Muslim Jews or Christian Jews should be identified with.
How old are you ?
You just spewed an incredible amount of ignorance.
Why does it always go this way with nairalanders?
I give education, I get called "liar" or insulted in other forms, then the nairalander proposes his ignorant beliefs in substitution to education. I could be your teacher if I wanted.
Why won't you just use your brain and learn ?
"Muslim Jews", "Christian Jews" 😂 you must be a teenager.

Little kid, what is messing with your brain is called Zionism, that is the belief that European Jews decend from king David and are entitled to the land of Palestine which they brutally took over from the natives and renamed Israel.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 2:34pm On Dec 12, 2023
Alpharey:
So where have these people called Jews lived in the olden days. Or are you telling us that they were hanging in the Air from origin.
Many people in Nigeria (including you) always try to fill in the holes when they don't understand something, but instead of doing research, you just take whatever story someone tells you, you don't apply logic, no skepticism at all. That is wrong. Also there are some info which are unaccessible to mankind.

Judaism is a religion, just like Christianity. European Jews are Europeans whose religion is Judaism.

It is not even complicated.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 11:58am On Dec 12, 2023
nedu2000:
But it is true, you are only as powerful as how your home ground is. The jews achieved so much in terms of science/technology, commerce but we are at the wrong end of people who isn't worth cleaning their shoes all 'cause they resided in foreign lands.
Jewish have been victims of pogroms over the past 500yrs up until 1948
European Jews didn't reside in foreign lands before 1948, they resided in their ancestral lands and faced religion related persecution. The country called Israel is not the land of the land of European Jews, it is the land of Palestinians. European Jews took it over from them in 1948 and have been slowly exterminating them since then. Now it is the Zionists whom are the ones committing pogroms on the owners of the land which the Zionists named Israel.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 11:28am On Dec 12, 2023
pquaver:
Why will it make sense to you? The fulami you said should leave igboland hoe do u know where they are from? How do u know they aren't Nigerians?
1. I told you there is no such thing as igboland or yorubaland since no pre-colonial map has them on it.
2. Your obsession with Fulani should be taken to a psychiatrist, not to me.
3. I said if fulanis are Nigerians and paid for their land or rented their accomodation then nobody can kick them out, but criminal fulanis are to be dealt with by the police and any entity which the law allows to deal with them.
4. I don't know where you get the words which you credit to me, I never said them
5. Look, don't talk to me again, you need to go and consult with a psychiatrist, not with me.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 8:43am On Dec 12, 2023
Occurstaem:
Okay. Lagos is a Biafra land. Are you now happy?
History is not about what you want or what you believe, it is about what you discover on eyewitness written documents.
Learn the expression "historical research", nobody cares about your feelings or your beliefs, we care about historical research.

Precolonial map of Lagos below:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8595583b.r=Benin?rk=150215;2

PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 8:41am On Dec 12, 2023
Occurstaem:
Wow 😲
Yoruba, look at what we did to ourselves.
Your ignorance of history did it to you.
You guys are even bad at recent history.
In case you didn't notice, I proved my claim already.
Not my fault that you can't accept proven facts.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 8:16am On Dec 12, 2023
SonOfDSoil01:
you lack sense. So no one is an indigene in your deluded mind? I guess the cave you came from does not belong to anyone either? So why then do we use state of Origin if not for ancestral identification. Or you think any fool can claim Lagos.

Okoro try and apply for Lagos bursary if you claim to be as equal to the aborigines and let them tell you how your ancestors migrated in search of greener pastures to Lagos and now they are being fed and content they now want to bite the finger that fed them? a word is enough for the wise grin
You people's definition of indigenous is "the group of people who lived there first" and that information is available to God only. But actual information which is available to mankind is "the pre-colonial country in which Lagos was a sub-territory" and that is Benin kingdom.

You confuse state policy with history. The French government can declare me indigenous in France today, that wouldn't make it historically true.
Politicians are not magicians, and they are not necessarily history researchers neither.
You don't seem to be smart.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 8:11am On Dec 12, 2023
Occurstaem:
I now get why the Igbos are saying Lagos is no man's land.
They need to be spoken to in the language they understand just as ex-president Buhari had said.
Historical research seems to be you people's greatest fear. Lagos doesn't belong to "yoruba" deal with it.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 8:07am On Dec 12, 2023
Occurstaem:
Don't worry, you shall get served what you deserve.

It's we Yorubas that caused all these nonsense. Too liberal and accommodating to a fault.
An other Ewarrior, again.
How come anytime someone exposes real history, you guys start fuming ?
This is so bizarre. And that is why I refer to you as "history haram".
You are allergic to true history.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain:
madridguy:
grin grin grin You need to emancipate your mind from the fake eyewitnesses record with little or no substantial proof.
The Yorubas have showed the world how they are the owner of the crown of Benin.
The world " Oba " is a Yoruba word and also showed the whole world, where some late Obas of Benin were buried in Ife, Osun State. They have also challenged the Oba of Benin to tell the whole world, his family compound in Lagos State to back up his claims. Atleast the Tapa people who has been settled in Lagos have compound and place named after them.

Let the Benin people come up with a single verifiable evidence to back up their claim.
1. Eyewitness written documents are the documents which are consulted while conducting historical research. They are called first hand knowledge.
2. The "yorubas" do not own the crown of Benin, the Oba of Benin does.
3. It is actually impossible to prove "the word Oba is a Yoruba word", indeed languages evolve overtime and words are borrowed from other languages: e.g "friend" and "foe" were borrowed from Scandinavian languages and to us all they are English words. The reason we know the origin of those words is because European languages had written forms before the introduction of those words. Meanwhile West African languages only recently got written forms, the Europeans gave them to us.
What we know about the word Oba is that only the Oba of Benin had it as title until late in the colonial era when the Oni of Ife copied it and all other yoruba monarchs followed suit.
4. No Oba of Benin has ever been proven to have been buried in Ife, actually Benin is much older then Ife.
Also I have an eyewitness written document from the pre-colonial era which describes the burial of the Oba of Benin, it took place around the palace.
5. I think you don't fully understand the concept of king. The king doesn't need to have a compound in each of his cities, he generally has one in the capital. Also in the pre-colonial era, all the places in Benin empire (including Lagos) had sections reserved for the Oba of Benin who would reside in them whenever he visited.
6. I already showed proof that Lagos was part of Benin kingdom, but you seem to still want to debate it.

PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 7:36am On Dec 12, 2023
SonOfDSoil01:
keep twisting history to suit your narrative from your demented flat head…
I brought proof, therefore I'm twisting nothing, you are the one telling a lie.

PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 7:34am On Dec 12, 2023
madridguy:
Stop listening to rubbish stories just like the 20 pounds being given to your forefathers after the war.
The Yorubas have been living, progressing and doing well in EKO before the arrival of the British.
I'm not listening to stories, you are! I only claim what eyewitnesses wrote down. You, what is the source of your claims ? (yoruba fairytales)
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 7:32am On Dec 12, 2023
kcubani:
Why do yoruba people buy houses in USA and UK,
Has anyone brought their house down?

Yoruba is more dangerous than Hausa
Well, this should have been expected the moment you noticed yoruba claiming Lagos in which they are just migrants like any other migrants. Their level of fanatism is what motivates these tribalistic attacks.

When people just start claiming land based on fairytales (e.g zionists and Israel), you know they are up to no good.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 7:23am On Dec 12, 2023
madridguy:
Same way the Ibos migrated to the SE region.
The record of the influx of migration into Lagos is available to all. It started in 1861 when the British took it over from Benin kingdom/empire and flooded it with slaves and then local escapee slaves joined in...then Brazilians, Sierra leonians, Liberians...
In Nigeria, you guys are too lazy to do proper historical research, you prefer to believe fairytales of oduduwa instead.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 7:15am On Dec 12, 2023
madridguy:
Go and sit down and be proud of your region for once. Stop dragging Lagos with the Yorubas. Make your region attractive and see investors rushing there.
I urge you to "stop dragging Lagos" as well, yorubas are no different from any other migrants in lagos. You migrated into Lagos just like other migrants did.
PoliticsRe: Ohanaeze Berates Bode George For Sayings Igbos Should Focus On Developing The SE by Ghostagain: 7:11am On Dec 12, 2023
flokii:
Benin Kingdom was under the Yoruba rulership in Ile-Ife, they spoke Yoruba languange in the Oba's palace in Benin back in the days.
Actually Benin kingdom was ruled by an emperor going by the title Oba whose sit of power was a city named Edda and later referred to as Benin city.
There is no Ife in Benin history. What you just said is an ethnocentric yoruba fairytale which tries to claim Benin, and which is of course unsubstantiated like all you've said so far.
Your fabled Ife is not even in the map and was a small village until 1912 when the British started urbanising it.
Also, the fairytales about Ife were written by politicians who wanted to create a uniting "history" to bound unrelated people's who call themselves "yoruba" today.

"yoruba" was never spoken in the palace of the Oba of Benin (west Africa is not Europe and "yoruba" is not French), the Oba's language is Edo, it always has been and always will be. The Edo language is a divine language to the Edo people including the emperor of Benin.

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