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opalu:
Evangelism will keep Christians so busy that they dont have time for heresies. It is lack of Evangelism that heretic teachings evolve from even genuine Preachers.
Evangelism is preaching the simplest basics and basis of our Salvation to the lost so as to save them. When you become too big to win souls you will become too idle thus twisting and tweaking the scriptures happen.

Gbam....Thank you for this.

APC has nuked us in Nigeria already so what else should we expect?

Parachoko:
Is AFRICOM HQ still in Germany?

In North Korea

Na wa o

China launches multiple ballistic missiles into Taiwanese waters as largest ever military drills begin

The Chinese army launched multiple ballistic missiles into waters around Taiwan on Thursday as China's largest ever military drills encircling the island began.

"The Ministry of National Defence stated that the Chinese Communist Party fired multiple Dongfeng series ballistic missiles into the surrounding waters of northeastern and southwestern Taiwan from approximately 13:56 this afternoon," the Taiwanese defence ministry said in a brief statement.

It later confirmed that 11 missiles had been fired, nearly double the number that were fired in July 1995 during the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.

In response, Taiwan activated “relevant defence systems,” a senior military official said at a briefing. Taiwan’s defence ministry condemns “the irrational actions,” which undermine regional peace, the official said.

China's military has kicked off unprecedented war games as Beijing ramps up its intimidation campaign against the self-ruled island following United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit.

China on Thursday morning added another zone for its military drills encircling Taiwan – bringing the total to seven – and extended the duration of the war games until Monday at 10am (0200 GMT), Taiwan’s Maritime Port Bureau announced, according to Taiwanese media.

The new zone for military drills is located in the waters east of Taiwan, about 130 kilometers from the Port of Hualien, according to Liberty Times. This intensifies and extends the duration of the unprecedented war games encircling the island that China has launched in response to Ms Pelosi’s visit.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence said in a statement that it will "uphold the principle of preparing for war without seeking war".

The zones were chosen for their importance in a potential campaign to seal off Taiwan and thwart foreign intervention, Major General Meng Xiangqing, a professor of strategy at the National Defense University in Beijing, said in an interview on Chinese state television. One zone covers the narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait. Others could be used to block a major port or attack three of Taiwan’s main military bases, he said.

The zone near Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, where there are crucial bases, “creates conditions to bolt the door and beat the dog,” said General Meng, using a Chinese saying that refers to blocking an enemy’s escape route.

Hypersonic missiles and stealth fighter jets

The air and naval live-fire exercises, some of which are crossing into Taiwan’s air and maritime space, began hours after the US House of Representatives speaker left Taiwan on Wednesday, after conducting the first visit by such a senior US politician to the island in 25 years.

The drills will use some of China’s most advanced weapons, including DF-17 hypersonic missiles and J-20 stealth fighter jets, according to a report by the state-run newspaper Global Times.

“The exercises are unprecedented as the PLA conventional missiles are expected to fly over the island of Taiwan for the first time,” the paper said.

China’s drills amount to a de facto blockade of the island, Taiwan’s defence ministry claimed.

Unidentified aircraft, likely drones, were seen flying on Wednesday night above the area of its Kinmen islands and Taiwan fired flares to drive them away.

Major General Chang Zone-sung, of the Army's Kinmen Defence Command, told Reuters that Chinese drones came in a pair and flew into the Kinmen area twice at around 9pm (2pm UK) and 10pm.

"We immediately fired flares to issue warnings and to drive them away. After that, they turned around. They came into our restricted area and that's why we dispersed them," he said.

The heavily fortified Kinmen islands are just off the southeastern coast of China, near the city of Xiamen.

"We have a standard operating procedure. We will react if they come in," Maj Gen Chang said, adding that the alert level there remained "normal".

Maj Gen Chang said he believed the drones were intended to gather intelligence on Taiwan's security deployment in its outlying islands.

Last week, Taiwan's military fired flares to warn away a drone that "glanced" its Matsu archipelago off the coast of China's Fujian province and was possibly probing its defences, Taiwan's defence ministry said.

Besides exercises involving ground troops, the air force and navy, the Eastern Theatre Command said earlier there would be missiles hitting waters off Taiwan’s eastern coast, where its air force is located.

Military drills were slated to be held near Taiwanese military bases at Hualien and Taitung. Exercises would also target blocking the Bashi Channel and the airspace over the southwestern port city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second-largest city.

Foreign officials condemn aggression
A US Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol plane and American MH-60R anti-submarine helicopter Seahawk entered an area southwest of Taiwan near Kaohsiung just as the PLA was starting its war games in the area around noon, the South China Morning Post reported.

Meanwhile, the Taiwanese air force was scrambling Mirage 2000 and F-5 fighter jets earlier in the day to monitor the situation at the start of the games, Taiwanese media reported.

The PLA also stationed a Chinese missile destroyer, likely to be a Type 055 Renhai class, east of Taiwan, defence analyst HI Sutton said on Twitter. The Type 055, equipped with weapons to counter missiles, ships and submarines, has the country’s most advanced integrated electric propulsion system, allowing it to travel up to 10,000 nautical miles without refueling.

The G7 Foreign Ministers issued a statement on Wednesday, saying "There is no justification to use a visit as pretext for aggressive military activity in the Taiwan Strait" and that China's "threatening actions... risk unnecessary escalation".

"We call on the PRC not to unilaterally change the status quo by force in the region, and to resolve cross-Strait differences by peaceful means," the statement said.

In response, China cancelled a planned bilateral meeting with Japan.

A top US official on Wednesday called China's military drills in response to Ms Pelosi's visit irresponsible and warned of the danger of the situation spiralling out of control.

"We believe that what China is doing here is not responsible," said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in an interview with National Public Radio.

"Whenever a military engages in a series of activities that include the possibility of missile tests, of live fire exercises, of fighter jets buzzing around the skies and ships moving around on the seas, the possibility of some kind of incident is real."

Thank you to the #G7 for supporting regional peace & stability. #Taiwan is committed to defending the status quo & our hard-earned democracy. We’ll work with like-minded partners to maintain a free & open Indo-Pacific.

— 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen (@iingwen) August 4, 2022
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said on Twitter on Thursday that Taiwan was "committed to defending the status quo and (its) hard-earned democracy".

Following her high-profile trip to Taiwan, Mr Pelosi was in South Korea on Thursday and her agenda included a visit to the border with the nuclear-armed North.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/04/taiwan-fires-chinese-drones-amid-tensions-beijing/

Cc: lalasticlala mynd44

He is indirectly telling the West hee needs another round of weapons. I still don't understand why the west can't see that Ukraine can not win this war. Will they send another weapons greater than HIMARS cause this ZelensClown is complaining again. This has been the circle since the beginning of this war. Whenever Russia destroys the war equipment Zelensclown would start crying for another round of amunitions when will this end. When will the west see that Ukraine is no match for Russia regardless of the weapons they keep sending.

rottennaija:
The German foreign minister has declared that her country would support Taiwan in any armed confrontation with China.

Germany that has said it can't plunder its military cause of Ukraine. Lol

Their eyes don dey clear. They know Ukraine won't win this war even as western arms keep pouring into Ukraine.

The former Labour leader said sending weapons to Kyiv won’t bring about a solution and the West must instead secure a peace deal

Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the UK and the West for supplying Ukraine with weapons as he said “pouring arms in” will only “prolong and exaggerate” the war.

The former Labour leader said sending weapons to Kyiv as it tries to defend itself against the Russian invasion will not bring about an end to the conflict.

He said it is “disappointing” that “hardly any of the world’s leaders use the word peace” when discussing the war and claimed too many “use the language of more war and more bellicose war”.

Mr Corbyn, the independent MP for Islington North, also said that “much more effort” must be put into securing a peace deal and if the UN cannot negotiate a ceasefire then it should make way for an organisation which can.

The comments, made in an interview with Al Mayadeen, an independent Arab satellite news channel, are likely to prompt a ferocious backlash from Tory and Labour MPs alike.

Jeremy Corbyn on the repercussions of the #Russia-#Ukraine war on #European countries.@jeremycorbyn @MoussaSrour pic.twitter.com/LkY21g7Q03

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) August 1, 2022
Tobias Ellwood, the chairman of the Defence Select Committee and a former defence minister, labelled Mr Corbyn’s comments “deeply irresponsible”.

He told The Telegraph: “He is illustrating yet again why he would have been such an inappropriate prime minister for the nation because he doesn’t understand that the geopolitical consequences of supporting democracy occasionally means using hard power.

“This is deeply irresponsible for a senior politician. I hope his comments are not seen to (undermine) the wider support for, and the commitment to, supporting Ukraine following this unprovoked invasion by Putin.”

The UK has been one of the leading backers of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, as his forces try to repel the Russian invasion.

Britain has sent hundreds of millions of pounds worth of military aid to Ukraine in recent months and Mr Zelensky has repeatedly praised Boris Johnson for standing by his country in the fight against Vladimir Putin.

But Mr Corbyn criticised the decision to send weapons as he said: “Pouring arms in isn’t going to bring about a solution. It is only going to prolong and exaggerate this war.

“We might be in for years and years of war in the Ukraine. But then the world woke up and suddenly realised that Russia and Ukraine are the world’s biggest grain exporters and something has to be done so they came to an agreement and I hope it holds to export grain through Odesa and through the Bosphorus to the rest of the world. That is a good move.

“But at the same time putting more and more arms into Ukraine isn’t going to bring about it.”

Mr Zelenksy has made clear that he will not agree to cede any land to Russia to secure a peace deal.

Mr Corbyn said there must be “more, much more effort, put into peace”.

He said: “What I find disappointing is that hardly any of the world’s leaders use the word peace. They always use the language of more war and more bellicose war.

“Ukrainians are dying, Ukrainians have gone into exile, thousands and thousands, and Russian soldiers are dying, conscripted young Russian soldiers are dying. This war is disastrous for the people of Ukraine, for the people of Russia and for the safety and security of the whole world.

“And therefore there has to be more, much more effort, put into peace.”

Mr Corbyn said the UN “ought to be centre stage” in peace efforts and added: “If the UN cannot negotiate a ceasefire of some sort then bring in somebody else who can.

“The African Union, League of Arab States, there are many forums around the world that have no direct economic interest one way or the other between Russia and Ukraine who might be able to broker a peace. But there has to be peace, otherwise what are we looking at?”

Mr Corbyn also said that the war is having a “huge” impact on Europe in terms of energy supplies. He claimed that Germany “cannot exist without Russian gas”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/02/jeremy-corbyn-criticises-uk-prolonging-war-ukraine/

rottennaija:
The German foreign minister has declared that her country would support Taiwan in any armed confrontation with China.

They‘ll send 2 helmets

Lmfao..

Teaser4:
Igbofam na Mynd’s alt…..

Really?

seunny4lif:
If this is true then it’s really bad
I thought he worked as a Software engineer

OP, I believed you because all his created threads have been change to nobody

Him don fool people here say him don work for Lockheed Martin, British BAE Systems, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Russia o. I no know how people go dey fall for scam like this.

DerrickzB:
As usual, pack rubbish and dump!!!

Tomorrow this news would be debunked and this rat would run and hide or give very silly excuses!! I Dey here

Na you dey mind dem. Western media are helping U.S to advertise HIMARS.

Even this HIMARS just killed my pet dog
This HIMARS na wah o

Kelvin3476:
Cry Lord .
E the hurt una to see how the Russians the collect wotowoto from Europe 2 poorest country. PUTARDS CRY NEVER START

Lols. You didn't even see the sarcasm. Lols
How is Russia collecting wotowoto. Propaganda dey give you costipatio.

America just love provocation. That country is a trouble maker.

Only Russians are getting killed. I never see this kind war in history o. Na only one side dey die

PubgAvicii:
Don't be afraid, your item will get to you, my item arrived Nigeria on 29th June and spent 28 days before getting to me, and it was a phone worthing 270k but at end it got to me

Why the phone now look like itel like this
270k phone
Na joke o
Did you pay custom fee?

Will U.S go toe to toe with China a nuclear power because of a small island as Taiwan? Does it worth it? I mean will the fight worth it considering the might of both countries and their Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) status. Make una dey think o.

The rouble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever - our sanctions have backfired

Western sanctions against Russia are the most ill-conceived and counterproductive policy in recent international history. Military aid to Ukraine is justified, but the economic war is ineffective against the regime in Moscow, and devastating for its unintended targets. World energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring, supply chains are chaotic and millions are being starved of gas, grain and fertiliser. Yet Vladimir Putin’s barbarity only escalates – as does his hold over his own people.

To criticise western sanctions is close to anathema. Defence analysts are dumb on the subject. Strategy thinktanks are silent. Britain’s putative leaders, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compete in belligerent rhetoric, promising ever tougher sanctions without a word of purpose. Yet, hint at scepticism on the subject and you will be excoriated as “pro-Putin” and anti-Ukraine. Sanctions are the war cry of the west’s crusade.

The reality of sanctions on Russia is that they invite retaliation. Putin is free to freeze Europe this winter. He has slashed supply from major pipelines such as Nord Stream 1 by up to 80%. World oil prices have surged and eastern Europe’s flow of wheat and other foodstuffs to Africa and Asia has been all but suspended.

Britain’s domestic gas bills face tripling inside a year. The chief beneficiary is none other than Russia, whose energy exports to Asia have soared, driving its balance of payments into unprecedented surplus. The rouble is one of the world’s strongest currencies this year, having strengthened since January by nearly 50%. Moscow’s overseas assets have been frozen and its oligarchs have relocated their yachts, but there is no sign that Putin cares. He has no electorate to worry him.

The interdependence of the world’s economies, so long seen as an instrument of peace, has been made a weapon of war. Politicians around the Nato table have been wisely cautious about escalating military aid to Ukraine. They understand military deterrence. Yet they appear total ingenues on economics. Here they all parrot Dr Strangelove. They want to bomb Russia’s economy “back to the stone age”.

I would be intrigued to know if any paper was ever submitted to Boris Johnson’s cabinet forecasting the likely outcome for Britain of Russian sanctions. The assumption seems to be that if trade embargos hurt they are working. As they do not directly kill people, they are somehow an acceptable form of aggression. They are based on a neo-imperial assumption that western countries are entitled to order the world as they wish. They are enforced, if not through gunboats, then through capitalist muscle in a globalised economy. Since they are mostly imposed on small, weak states soon out of the headlines, their purpose has largely been of “feelgood” symbolism.

A rare student of this subject is the American economic historian Nicholas Mulder, who points out that more than 30 sanctions “wars” in the past 50 years have had minimal if not counterproductive impact. They are meant to “intimidate peoples into restraining their princes”. If anything they have had the opposite effect. From Cuba to Korea, Myanmar to Iran, Venezuela to Russia, autocratic regimes have been entrenched, elites strengthened and freedoms crushed. Sanctions seem to instil stability and self-reliance on even their weakest victim. Almost all the world’s oldest dictatorships have benefited from western sanctions.

Moscow is neither small nor weak. Another observer, the Royal United Services Institute’s Russia expert Richard Connolly, has charted Putin’s response to the sanctions imposed on him since his 2014 seizure of Crimea and Donbas. Their objective was to change Russia’s course in those regions and deter further aggression. Their failure could hardly be more glaring. Apologists excuse this as due to the embargos being too weak. The present ones, perhaps the toughest ever imposed on a major world power, may not be working yet, but will apparently work in time. They are said to be starving Russia of microchips and drone spares. They will soon have Putin begging for peace.

If Putin begs, it will be on the battlefield. At home, Connolly illustrates how Russia is “slowly adjusting to its new circumstances”. Sanctions have promoted trade with China, Iran and India. They have benefited “insiders connected to Putin and the ruling entourage, making huge profits from import substitution”. McDonald’s locations across the country have been replaced by a Russian-owned chain called Vkusno & tochka (“Tasty and that’s it”). Of course the economy is weaker, but Putin is, if anything, stronger while sanctions are cohering a new economic realm across Asia, embracing an ever enhanced role for China. Was this forecast?

Meanwhile, the west and its peoples have been plunged into recession. Leadership has been shaken and insecurity spread in Britain, France, Italy and the US. Gas-starved Germany and Hungary are close to dancing to Putin’s tune. Living costs are escalating everywhere. Yet still no one dares question sanctions. It is sacrilege to admit their failure or conceive retreat. The west has been enticed into the timeless irony of aggression. Eventually its most conspicuous victim is the aggressor. Perhaps, after all, we should stick to war.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/putin-ruble-west-sanctions-russia-europe

BritishNaija:
Apart from running from thread to thread mentioning everone, Why don't you contribute for once? Russia will never defeat Ukraine. This is Aghanistan 2.0

Do you know the gains of Russia so far in Ukraine and the territory they now contolled? Don't compare Ukraine to what happened in Afghanistan in the 80's. Analyse both critically. Not even this time that Zelensky is recruiting 70yrs old as reservists. Lols

Access Bank is still not going.

seunny4lif:
Ukraine government have been saying Kherson offensive since over 3 months.
Last week they said they cut off 2K Russia troops then later said they were about to cut 2K Russia troops off then later said the fighting have not begun

Propaganda might be good for people at home but propaganda don’t work in frontline.
Ukraine kept losing lands every day and the more the war continues they more people will forget about it like Syria and Libya war.

Winter is coming, nobody will remember Ukraine again
Meanwhile Russia troops already surrounded Ukraine’s second-biggest power plant.

Exactly. When winter kicks in it will be difficult for thos countries supporting Ukraine to continue their support cause people at home will be annoyed that they are suffering and their countries keep sending aid to Ukraine.

Germany already said two weeks ago that they can't plunder and empty their military arsenal because of Ukraine.

Kingsnairaland:
Joke or not I saw online where they say Pentagon is thinking about training Ukraine to learn how to fly the jet.

F22 or F15?

Kingsnairaland:
F-22 from USA if I was Russia I would make it a red line.

They can't even send it... I was mocking Ukraine and US with that. They've said HIMARS is hindering Russia's advance o. Yet another plant has been captured.

So HIMARS couldn't stop Russia from capturing this plant. What will now stop Russia upon all these weapons they keep sending. E b lyk say Uncle Sam go send F-22 raptor to Ukraine las las

Meanwhile Anthony Blinken looks forward to meeting Lavrov to discuss Ukraine.

BritishNaija:
Please can you Try to explain What you are trying to say, As i really do not understand.

Seriously serious?
You see what we have been saying that this section is not for you. That guy just educated you but you couldn't comprehend it.

jackslow:
some of you are leaving in absolute darkness or assumption,US it self does not have the technical know how to keep a space station afloat at the moment ,so how is china going to steal a file that does not exist , it's either Russia wich is their friend assisted them or they did there own research

The guy na mumu. E matter don taya me. I won't reply him anymore.

God1000:
He committed an unspeakable and unforgivable crime, history will judge him harshly

Amen.

BritishNaija:
Just stating the fact. Beside China is ahead of Russia now, Thanks to the continous Cyber espionage against the the US to steal files.

Shut up. China got its space tech transfer from Russia.