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 Crime / Re: Woman Killed And Burnt For Demanding Her Father's Inheritance In Ebonyi (pic) by gowaga68: 10:27pm On Mar 23, 2022 |
I no go talk ... Wait o, what religion do they ...? |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Says Polish Idea Of Peacekeepers In Ukraine Could Lead To Clash With NATO by gowaga68: 2:10pm On Mar 23, 2022 |
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| Foreign Affairs / Re: Why Is Ukraine Not Going Offensive by attacking Moscow by gowaga68: 1:47pm On Mar 23, 2022 |
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| Foreign Affairs / South Africa's Ramaphosa Blames NATO For Russia's War In Ukraine by gowaga68: 1:17am On Mar 23, 2022 |
South Africa's Ramaphosa blames NATO for Russia's war in Ukraine JOHANNESBURG, March 17 (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday blamed NATO for the war in Ukraine and said he would resist calls to condemn Russia, in comments that cast doubt over whether he would be accepted by Ukraine or the West as a mediator. "The war could have been avoided if NATO had heeded the warnings from amongst its own leaders and officials over the years that its eastward expansion would lead to greater, not less, instability in the region," Ramaphosa said in response to questions in parliament. But he added that South Africa "cannot condone the use of force and violation of international law" - an apparent reference to Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has characterised Russia's actions as a "special operation" to disarm and "denazify" Ukraine and counter what he calls NATO aggression. Kyiv and its Western allies believe Russia launched the unprovoked war to subjugate a neighbour Putin calls an artificial state. Ramaphosa also revealed that Putin had assured him personally that negotiations were making progress. The South African leader said he had not yet talked with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but that he wanted to. On Friday, Ramaphosa said South Africa had been asked to mediate in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He did not say who had asked him to intervene. "There are those who are insisting that we should take a very adversarial stance against Russia. The approach we are going to take (instead) is ... insisting that there should be dialogue," Ramaphosa added. "Screaming and shouting is not going to bring an end to this conflict." Ramaphosa's African National Congress party, which has governed South Africa since white minority rule ended in 1994, had strong ties to the former Soviet Union, which trained and supported anti-apartheid activists during the Cold War. For that reason, South Africa is sometimes eyed with suspicion among Russia's rivals in the West, although it has still enjoyed a high level of diplomatic clout relative to its economic size since its peaceful transition to democracy. South Africa's historic refusal to take sides meant "some are even approaching us on a role that we can play (mediating)," Ramaphosa said on Thursday. "We never want to pretend we have a great influence that other countries have, but we are being approached. (To) condemn one (side) ... forecloses the role we could play," he added https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safricas-ramaphosa-blames-nato-russias-war-ukraine-2022-03-17/ |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Will Use Nuclear Weapons When Under Threat - Dmitry Peskov by gowaga68: 10:39pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
Like you didn't read the whole news before making this comment abi? Fahdiga: |
| Crime / Re: Mother Pours Petrol On 10-year-old Daughter, Sets Her Ablaze In Ogun (pic) by gowaga68: 9:08pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
She should be sent to jail and drop the keys inside lagoon. Islie: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Israel: Arab Attacker Who Stabbed Four To Death, Shot Dead by gowaga68: 9:05pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Israel: Arab Attacker Who Stabbed Four To Death, Shot Dead by gowaga68: 9:01pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
You see how you reason   Read to know the cause of any action done by Palestinians then come back to recheck your comment. Your likes are the ones in support of Ukraine yet see nothing wrong in what Israeli is doing to Palestinians. Note: I'm not in support of the action taken by stabbing nor killing just being curious on how you guys easily jump to hating another religion and forgetting to touch the main thing (double standard). It's well. CarolineOlawale: 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs / Russia-ukraine Talks: What Are The Issues Between Kyiv And Moscow by gowaga68: 5:44pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said everything will be on the table for discussion with Russia as he renewed calls for talks to end the nearly one-month war, but added that any compromise with Moscow would be put to a referendum. The two sides have held several rounds of talks, with the status of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and the fate of breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and Kyiv’s attempt to acquire NATO membership topping the agenda. No breakthrough has been achieved so far, but Zelenskyy on Monday again called for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as Ukrainian cities are reeling from war and devastation, and with nearly a quarter of the country’s 44 million people displaced from their homes. Russia has sought assurances that Ukraine will renounce any plans to join NATO – a demand Kyiv seems willing to agree. President Putin has accused the United States of using Ukraine to threaten Moscow. The Russian leader has also justified the invasion saying Moscow was defending against the “genocide” of Russian-speaking people by Ukraine. He recognised the breakaway regions days before launching the invasion on February 24. Ukraine says Putin’s claims of genocide are nonsense. Here is what you need to know about the peace talks so far: Who are the negotiators? The Russian negotiating team is led by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky. Ukraine’s negotiating team is headed by Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. What are the key issues? The question of the territory is a large sticking point for both countries. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, and on February 21, it recognised the two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine – the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic – as independent states. Since the invasion, Russian forces have taken control of a swath of territory across Ukraine’s southern flank north of Crimea, the territory around the rebel regions and territory to the east and west of Kyiv. Russia has at least another 170,000 square kilometres of territory – an area about the size of Tunisia – under its control. Overall, Russia is laying claim to about a third of Ukrainian territory. Ukraine has rejected any recognition of Russian control over its territories and repeatedly insisted on retaining sovereignty over these areas. “Our positions are unchanged,” Ukrainian negotiator Podolyak said. He has said Ukraine insists on a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Russian troops and strong security guarantees. In comments made to local Ukrainian channels late on Monday, Zelenskyy said the future of the Crimea and Donbas territories could be up for debate and a possible referendum. What does neutrality mean? Russia has called for Ukraine’s neutrality, which is likely to be a central part of any negotiations. Under international law, neutrality means the obligation of a state, brought about by unilateral declaration or coercion, not to interfere in military conflicts of third states. Russia has insisted on Ukraine being a neutral state, with its own non-aligned military. Before the war, Putin listed as one of his demands non-NATO membership for Ukraine, and the withdrawal of NATO forces from the Russian border. This was rejected outright by the United States. And while some analysts say the issue of neutrality is about securing what is considered vital to Russian strategic interests, Kyiv has already acknowledged that a neutral Ukraine would no longer be a NATO partner. “A neutral Ukraine would need to seek security ties outside of NATO to prevent a recurrence of an invasion,” said Katharine AM Wright, senior lecturer in international politics at Newcastle University. What does ‘de-Nazification’ mean? Putin says Ukraine has allowed Nazi-like groups to commit “genocide” against Russian-speaking communities in Ukraine, which Kyiv has dismissed as baseless. The Azov Brigade, part of the National Guard of Ukraine, has been accused by Moscow of being a Nazi organisation engaged in carrying out war crimes. Formed in 2014 from volunteers who fought against Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, its founders have expressed extreme right-wing, white supremacist and anti-Semitic views. Ukrainian presidential aides have repeatedly mentioned the role of Azov in the defence of the port city of Mariupol where it is based. For his part, Zelenskyy said it is Russia that is behaving like the Nazis by visiting destruction on Ukrainian cities. Where have the talks taken place? Some talks have been in person at the Belarusian border or in Belarus, while other rounds have taken place via video conference. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/22/explainer-what-are-the-main-issues-in-the-russia-ukraine-talks |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Ukraine: Ihor Kotvitskyi's Wife Caught Fleeing With $28m, €1.3m In Briefcases by gowaga68: 5:07pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
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| Foreign Affairs / Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by gowaga68: 4:59pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
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| Foreign Affairs / Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by gowaga68: 2:22pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
This clearly speaks for its self. Using emotional intelligence while the matter at hand doesn't require such. KaluwisxPRO: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Why The Ukraine Crisis Is The West’s Fault by gowaga68: 9:20am On Mar 21, 2022 |
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| Family / Re: House Clearance Sales.. Come In Here!!!! by gowaga68: 2:47am On Mar 21, 2022 |
Is the TV still available? Naanni: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: 200 Ukranian Special Forces, Soldiers Killed By Russian Air Strikes (Graphic) by gowaga68: 2:00am On Mar 21, 2022 |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Why The Ukraine Crisis Is The West’s Fault by gowaga68: 1:57am On Mar 21, 2022 |
Nothing do you. Without cruise this country go tire us Cardealer2021: |
| Politics / Re: Protests Erupt In Italy, Bulgaria Against Arms Supplies To Ukraine by gowaga68: 1:51am On Mar 21, 2022 |
Maybe this will enlighten you a bit https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/seven-decades-nazi-collaboration-americas-dirty-little-ukraine-secret/ I'm not in support of war rather equality (from all countries to respect each other's sovereignty). tommynico:
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| Politics / Re: Protests Erupt In Italy, Bulgaria Against Arms Supplies To Ukraine by gowaga68: 1:49am On Mar 21, 2022 |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Why The Ukraine Crisis Is The West’s Fault by gowaga68: 1:38am On Mar 21, 2022 |
| Foreign Affairs / In Ukraine, The US Is Dragging Us Towards War With Russia by gowaga68: 1:35am On Mar 21, 2022 |
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening". Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders. In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven". The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination. The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin. Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler. Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington's planned seizure of Russia's historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century. But Nato's military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained "pariah" role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself. Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend's provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine's population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country's ethnic diversity and is both autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow. Most are neither "separatists" nor "rebels", as the western media calls them, but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland. In the US media the Odessa atrocity has been played down as "murky" and a "tragedy" in which "nationalists" (neo-Nazis) attacked "separatists" (people collecting signatures for a referendum on a federal Ukraine). Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal damned the victims – "Deadly Ukraine Fire Likely Sparked by Rebels, Government Says". Propaganda in Germany has been pure cold war, with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung warning its readers of Russia's "undeclared war". For the Germans, it is a poignant irony that Putin is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe. A popular truism is that "the world changed" following 9/11. But what has changed? According to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a silent coup has taken place in Washington and rampant militarism now rules. The Pentagon currently runs "special operations" – secret wars – in 124 countries. At home, rising poverty and a loss of liberty are the historic corollary of a perpetual war state. Add the risk of nuclear war, and the question is: why do we tolerate this? www.johnpilger.com The following footnote was appended on 16 May 2014: The quotation from a doctor who says he was "stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals" was from an account on a Facebook page that has subsequently been removed. Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup. Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the massacre in Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people trapped inside. Watch the police standing by. A doctor described trying to rescue people, "but I was stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals. One of them pushed me away rudely, promising that soon me and other Jews of Odessa are going to meet the same fate. What occurred yesterday didn't even take place during the fascist occupation in my town in world war two. I wonder, why the whole world is keeping silent." Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting for survival. When Putin announced the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border, the Kiev junta's defence secretary, Andriy Parubiy – a founding member of the fascist Svoboda party – boasted that attacks on "insurgents" would continue. In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow "trying to orchestrate conflict and provocation", according to William Hague. His cynicism is matched by Obama's grotesque congratulations to the coup junta on its "remarkable restraint" after the Odessa massacre. The junta, says Obama, is "duly elected". As Henry Kissinger once said: "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but what is perceived to be true." culled from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs / Why The Ukraine Crisis Is The West’s Fault by gowaga68: 12:50am On Mar 21, 2022 |
According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine. But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine—beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004—were critical elements, too. Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected and pro-Russian president—which he rightly labeled a “coup”—was the final straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West. Putin’s pushback should have come as no surprise. After all, the West had been moving into Russia’s backyard and threatening its core strategic interests, a point Putin made emphatically and repeatedly. Elites in the United States and Europe have been blindsided by events only because they subscribe to a flawed view of international politics. They tend to believe that the logic of realism holds little relevance in the twenty-first century and that Europe can be kept whole and free on the basis of such liberal principles as the rule of law, economic interdependence, and democracy. this grand scheme went awry in Ukraine. The crisis there shows that realpolitik remains relevant—and states that ignore it do so at their own peril. U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare, it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy. THE WESTERN AFFRONT As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they thought would keep a reunified Germany pacified. But they and their Russian successors did not want NATO to grow any larger and assumed that Western diplomats understood their concerns. The Clinton administration evidently thought otherwise, and in the mid-1990s, it began pushing for NATO to expand. Other things to look at: 1.Russia invoked Article 51 of the UN charter where it carried out the military operation out of self defence. Looking at the biolabs, plans by the Ukraine to seize the Donbass by force, NATO bases at the Ukraine like those at Yavorov, there is a good case. 2. Ukraine has been killing its own russian population for years now. They also have straight up nazi battalions in their military who are killing and beating people. 3.The“unjustified war of aggression”began eight years ago. It has been an aggression against certain Ukrainian people by the diabolical characters emboldened & empowered since US/EU coup, & it has been an aggression against Russia that can only be read as mobilization to destroy. Culled from: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2014-08-18/why-ukraine-crisis-west-s-fault 1 Like |
| Technology Market / Re: Home Of Alabaconnect: Cheap Tv Section by gowaga68: 10:10pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
What's best price for this? Tho, I'd prefer 55" ALABACONNECT: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: France Freezes Assets Of Russia's Central Bank Totalling 22 Billion Euros by gowaga68: 9:44pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia's Elite Plan To Assassinate Putin, Pick Bortnikov As Successor by gowaga68: 9:39pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
Fake news . Any news from Ukraine na pure propaganda if they are leaking out info about Russia. lalasticlala: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: 200 Ukranian Special Forces, Soldiers Killed By Russian Air Strikes (Graphic) by gowaga68: 9:20pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
Can you say of any American president who has ever regretted their actions? We were fooled to believe Saddam Hussein had WMD.. they went in and out. Did they see any of such weapons? MrNipplesLover: 2 Likes
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| Politics / Protests Erupt In Italy, Bulgaria Against Arms Supplies To Ukraine by gowaga68: 4:09am On Mar 20, 2022 |
Protesters confronted US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Bulgaria, on Saturday, as he met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/protests-erupt-in-italy-bulgaria-against-arms-supplies-to-uk 57 Likes 6 Shares
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| Politics / Re: The Moment Bianca Ojukwu Slapped Osodieme Obiano (Video) by gowaga68: 4:33pm On Mar 17, 2022 |
1M of her likes won't try that even in Dreamland. mbahdi: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: ICJ Orders Russia To Immediately Suspend Invasion Of Ukraine by gowaga68: 9:01pm On Mar 16, 2022 |
Oil dey your head. hopefulLandlord: 1 Like 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Irbil: Iran Launches 12 Missiles At Israeli 'Strategic Centers' In Iraq by gowaga68: 8:10am On Mar 14, 2022 |
You shouldn't have commented on this thread since you didn't take your time to read on the happenings. Israel striked 2 Iranian in Syria while Iran strik back in Iraq. Israel strike in Syria. Iran strick back in Iraq. That's how I understand the matter. Hyperchi: |
| Foreign Affairs / What Is A No-fly Zone? Russia/ukraine War by gowaga68: 12:45am On Mar 11, 2022 |
A no-fly zone over Ukraine is not an option being considered by NATO, its Secretary-General Stoltenberg said last week. What is a no-fly zone?
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| Foreign Affairs / Re: Zelensky Says Millions Of People Could Die If World Does Not 'close The Sky' by gowaga68: 11:44pm On Mar 10, 2022 |
Pure trash. You that know the cause why haven't you gone to join the war? franchasng: 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Hits Back At Western Sanctions, 48 Countries Will Be Affected by gowaga68: 11:28pm On Mar 10, 2022 |
You quoted "Russia is the UK's 19th largest trading partner, with trade between the two nations totalling £15.9bn." but forgot to understand the meaning of Largest trading partner don't forget it wasn't stated as dependant o. foryourmindlol: |
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