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Lurker4Long:
Murtala Muhammed is worse than last time I was here.
My luggage is missing and nobody can tell me where it is. And considering there are holes in the conveyor belt, wouldn't be surprised it just fell off.

Trying to buy some clothes, and none of the shops accept non-Nigerian cards. ATMs can only dispense a maximum of 20 000 naira per transaction, and seeing that I've now withdrawn 5 times, my bank deemed it suspicious -considering the location and the highly unusual behavior; can't remember last time I withdrew cash - and blocked my card.

On a positive note, the local detail have fantastic in trying to iron out issues.

Postscript: My cards work at Shoprite, where I went for toiletries.

Nemesis4you:

Faithful007:
You made a lot of silly gaffes. First America didn't invade up to ten countries.

Secondly the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq were not failures. The two governments were deposed. Iraq still runs a democracy till today. For Afghan, after the occupation of the US ended, the installed government of Afghanistan was the failure not the US.

Hostomel airport facilities has been destroyed by artillery fire and is practically useless now. Russian troops have mostly left there to other fronts.

Heavy fighting is still ongoing in Maruipol. The city isn't taken yet. There's also nothing to indicate that Russia intends to or will succeed in taking Odessa. That's wishful thinking from your head.

I talked about close air support missions and not flying sorties at 50k ft to release cruise missiles.

Iraq had a modern airforce that was made up of several SU-22, Mig 25, Mig 29. Due to the strength of the airforce and military. Op Desert Storm was the war that saw the highest losses of US aircraft. Not very high though

Lurker4Long:

jl115:
Why is it fortunately for him?....are you an A$$hole in real life?? Just joking bru!

BTW where do you live?

jl115:
say hi to kabe1

GreenandGold:
Russia deploys plenty of propaganda, it's their main tool. Russia adopted the USSR war strategyof:

- Lying about its military objectives
- Lying about the military objectives of the enemy
- Lying about the strength of the enemy
- Falsifying its losses and the losses of the enemy

How do we know this? There's a USSR version of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, according to their version; the SADF lost 100s of tanks, arty and aircraft while suffering 1000s of casualties WHEN in actuality there was never even that amount of armour and personnel deployed in the first place. ...and their version also states that the SADF's objective was to capture the whole of Angola and the FLAPLA with Soviet coordination managed to stop it against all odds.

So take whatever the Russian media says with a pinch of salt, in all honesty, their military campaign was a short-fall of their "advertised" military capability.

NB: I will not bother talking about their tactical shortcomings, they paraded them for the whole world to see.

GreenandGold:
If 10 years ago someone could have said Nigeria would be building such ships in less than a decade, no one could have believed them.

It's a job well done to the shipbuilding industry in Nigeria.

Faithful007:
Now you've revealed your bias. Before I saw this statement I was wondering how someone as smart as you will fall to cheap Russian propaganda.

When Putin said there were no plans to invade Ukraine less than a week before the invasion while Biden said he was sure there would be an invasion very soon. I'm sure you believed Putin not Biden.

Western intelligence were right on the date and time of the commencement of the invasion. It was shifted by two days after it was revealed but still happened at the predicted time.

America predicted that the main objective was to capture kiev and split the state. What happened after that, Russia tried to cut off kiev by attacking from belarus and trying to sieze Hostomel airport so they can insert troops from the southern side and capture kiev quickly.

When you want to seize a capital city, one of the main objectives is to capture the main airport so that you can create an airbridge and insert troops. America did the same thing in Baghdad on the first day of the invasion.

Russia had no business attacking from Belarus or seizing Hostomel airport if the capture of Kiev wasn't the plan.

Putin tried to move via a convoy, but logistical problems and effective defense coordination prevents a takeover of Kiev to this day.

As attacking Kiev wasn't going to plan. Ukraine moved more troops to the east.

Russia military faces stalls in Ukraine for two reasons. Ukraine's infantry is better coordinated. Russia does not have the air superiority to conduct close air support operations because of high tech short range missiles possessed by Ukraine. This gives Ukraine a chance to fly anti tank drones and engage the Russian infantry on ground.

Putin is trying to scale down because of how difficult things have become not that he didn't plan to take Kiev in the beginning.

Politically Russia will win because of one thing, the war is on Ukraine's turf and Ukraine will surely give in to Ukraine's demands. But militarily, Russia have failed in the invasion of Ukraine.

Coming to what you said about the non contested environment in iraq, do you know that the Iraqi Air Force was the largest and most modern airforce in the middle east before operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom?

kabe1:
Nigerian Defence Industry

Nigerian Navy seagoing diesel barge currently under construction at the Naval Dockyard in Lagos.

SuperSixSeven:
General Binkov`s take on the war in Ukraine..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqq6zYYpvUM?t=374

sczeska:
We can have that engaging discussion when you’re ready to be objective.

sczeska:
Ok, big brain play from putin.

sczeska:
If the Ukrainian ability to wage war has been severely degraded like you claim, the Russians would be flying riot over Kyiv and eastern Ukraine, not lobbing stand off munitions from hundreds of miles away and employing artillery strike and digging in on the ground.
It became clear after the first week that they’ll bleed so much trying to oust zelensky. This new goal they claim to achieve is just an off ramp.

You can’t lose a war if you keep changing your goals.

Russia has already disturbed the water, it would be in their best interest to finish this now, press zelensky and force him to the table to completely demilitarize and agree to neutrality. (IMHO)

GeneralFarouq:
it just common sense that an army will replenish... As far as Russia is concerned they ve won their objectives

SuperSixSeven:
This one Bayraktar TB2 left in their inventory is really doing miracles in Ukraine...

SuperSixSeven:
This is day 30 and since 10 days the Russian army offensive appears to be stalled. In other words this is not going according to their plan because you do not plan an war of attrition.

Kiev is not encircled
Weapons reach UKR troops from the western border
UKR command and control still effective
Moral of the population is not broken
Air Superiority?? If they would have they would use fighter bombers and not Cruise Missiles at this point.


It was not in favor for the Russian army to attack Ukraine from 4 directions. The RU Forces are dispersed now, they lack manpower and logistics to advance and take URK key cities (except Mariupol) or dominate contested areas.

Reminds me of the wars in former Yugoslavia. This can go on for months.

kabe1:
Atleast 50 terrorists were killed as troops of Operation Desert Sanity successfully cleared Chingori and environs and Alafa, Darusalam, Arkam, Kuraba, Ukuba.

They also recovered many weapons and armoured vehicles in the insurgents enclaves.

SuperSixSeven:
But one surprising observations i made from watching Twitter videos is that the Russians move their tracked vehicles mostly on roads making their operations very predictable for Ukrainian ATGM squads. Are they avoiding the dirt because the spring season that makes the ice melt and the ground too muddy? Is it because of they fear their logistics cannot follow? I wonder why they do not advance more often into enemy territory off road to gain more element of surprise.

SuperSixSeven:
Agree with everything except those 2 points - you should elaborate a bit.