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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 9:16pm On Aug 25
grandstar:


I have to be honest with you- it's torture hearing the woman talk.

She always sounds like a not-so-smart student who has been asked a tough question and is trying to wriggle herself out of it. That's how she always sounds.

What does Guatemala have to do with the border?

Why not say, "I'm from California. Of course I've been to the border. I plan during my term in office to secure the border. I want to draft a comprehensive immigration policy that benefits the United States, and not stop-gap measures.

I also plan to work more with Guatemala, and other countries where most of these migrants are coming from.

How can we help lift their economies? It's poverty that's making many embark on the dangerous journey to get here. If their economies were booming, many would prefer to stay home.

Many already in the States may voluntarily return."


Everyone knows she is not the best the Democrats have to offer.
She is just the avatar on the ticket, so they all have to bury their reservations and cover for her.

We'll see if that's enough to get her across the finish line in November.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 9:10pm On Aug 25
Ibime:


Only hypocrisy is those who attempted to repeal Section 230 in 2021 up in arms about France which has no section 230 and routinely fines other tech companies for the same violations, with the only stipulations that they work with the authorities to clamp down on those using their platform for illegal activities, which Telegram had refused to do, so they have to force Purov into working with them

Your views on Section 230 repeal attempts? You are the only intelligent commenter on this subject, though biased, maybe you can square off the section 230 brouhaha and make sense of it


First, the topic we're hashing out is the West's vindictive and ruthless MO relative to the East.
In fact, in an earlier comment, you already conceded that the likes of Germany and the UK are not free speech absolutists because of their history.
Durov's arrest is the latest example that the West is just as psychopathic as any rival power but glosses it up in suits and virtue signaling.
When push comes to shove, the West will suppress dissent as harshly as Xi and Putin. Different methods, same outcome.

Section 230 repeal is a different kettle of fish.
That is an intra-Western conflict. The liberals have a chokehold on mass media (from news to social networks).
The conservatives are trying to break this stranglehold and have been unsuccessful.
Another thinly-veiled attempt was the proposed TikTok ban under Trump.
Many of you on the left opposed the ban until TikTok became a tool for pro-Palestinian activism.

Currently, the West is the Emperor without clothes
The West destroyed a German-Russian pipeline and blamed Russia.
You were an outspoken proponent of this narrative.
That's just one of a litany of horrific examples of the West abusing its privilege.

Hell, the economic reasons for brownnosing the West is another letdown.
As a % of GDP, remittance outflows from the UAE and Saudi Arabia exceed every major Western country.
Indians run the UAE. Russia is the prime economic nerve center in the Caucasus.
Eliminate the illegitimate Western economic warfare against the Global South and there'll be just as many Third World migrants in the Second World as in the First World.

This is a young female American living by herself in Rural China. Check out the quality of life of the older locals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0wqUVULvgI

When I see many of you go out of your way to talk up the West, especially while simultaneously dunking on the Second World, it betrays a lack of understanding of what is possible when the West is not allowed to run roughshod on the rest of the planet.
It's the difference between being in a family with just one breadwinner versus another where multiple members have fat stacks.
The West, for all its attractions, is a major disappointment. It is in all our best interests that its primacy is at the very least challenged.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 6:29pm On Aug 25
WritterNg:



Wrong comparison.

Dugina was a Russian citizen who was assassinated by Ukranian terrorists. She wasn't seeking asylum or anything. She was just going about her business.

I still maintain that Russia is the best place to run to if you're fleeing the West.

UAE and the rest all depend and to some extent are controlled by the West. And if they're offered in once in a lifetime deal, they'll gladly serve you on a platter to western authorities.

I don't know of anyone that went to China seeking political asylum.

If Dugina a Russian citizen can be assassinated in Russia, an asylee can be assassinated as well.
Snowden first flew to Hong Kong, then China arranged with Russia to have him.
Russia has a longer history of accepting asylees and has a robust security architecture for asylees from its Soviet days that China isn't keen to replicate.

Still, if Pavlovski shows up in Beijing, he'll be on a Chinese intelligence private jet to anywhere he wants to be.
That's if he doesn't strike a deal with the Chinese.
Russia will likely offer him a better asylum deal.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:47pm On Aug 25
WritterNg:


Kim Dotcom, founder of Mega Folder is also on the run from New Zealand authorities.

Although i suspect he's already in Russia, judging by his posts.

I'm sure many billionaires and CEO are already considering obtaining a second passport.

It'll be wise not to choose UAE, Saudi, Turkish, Qatar, Nicaragua citizenship because those ones can easily bow to pressure from the US and EU.

But NEVER Russia!

Dugina was assassinated in Russia.

UAE, Qatar, Nicaragua will give you a heads up when the pressure is intensifying. Then you can be smuggled to China, DPRK, or Russia.
Nowhere is truly safe. You're only choosing who you'd trust.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 5:30pm On Aug 25
Android17:
Gbam.

Don't tell me Russia BAD BAD BAD but when the west do the same and even worse you make excuses or deflect by telling me it happens in Russia or China as well. That's just nonsensical.

Now you can understand why our Western Diaspora comrades on the thread viciously defend every Western action.
Mk person no enter no-fly list or collect court date because of wetin dem yarn online.

Finally, make the pretense end. China, Russia, US, France, UK... No difference.
Once the powers that be reason your matter, na cell straight or you get accident.
Fundamental human rights na lamba. Do pass yourself, you go collect straight up.


-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:14pm On Aug 25
WritterNg:
⚡Rumble founder, Flees Europe over fears of arrest.


He'll probably head to Russia.

Russia, China, UAE, Qatar, Nicaragua...

He should keep his location secret.
Before his plane malfunctions.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 3:23pm On Aug 24
raumdeuter:
https://www.nairaland.com/8194428/indians-taking-over-jobs-oil

This sounds like America

We know what we are doing.

-Lord
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 1:19am On Aug 24
raumdeuter:


Yes. RFK dropped out and endorsed Trump

The entrance. The response.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1827130507588518281

-Lord
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 12:55am On Aug 24
Raumdeuter, you seeing this:
Trump + RFK Jr in AZ.

-Lord
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 2:44pm On Aug 23
afrodoc2:


Trump is the more certain airhead.

Trump's elder brother's best friend was the admission officer at that university back then. Then the father oiled it further with money.
There is a reason Trump no want make dem release him result. E no go funny to see say Presido na olodo grin

The family no get any evidence of being book smart or being intellectually gifted.

His grandfather made the initial family fortune by running an ashi joint before moving into real estate business. Trump's father studied to be a carpenter before inheriting the family business.

Trump started donating money to the Uni around the time his kids got into the Uni. Most likely following his father's play book.

Kamala also has elements of air headedness but e no dey her genes. She probably fell into it because she was able to use her looks to get by and didn't have to apply herself.

Kamala Harris's mother had master's degree in Endocrinology at 21 and PhD at 28. Her father had PhD in Economics at 28 and was a professor by 34. Her sister was a Law Professor by 30. Her maternal uncle has a PhD in Economics. One has to work hard in a negative direction to become an airhead from that kind of gene pool. cheesy

So even after all the genetic advantages and her parents working as Public Ivy scholars, she couldn't get admission in an Ivy League nor could she read law at a T30 school. And she still failed her first bar.

Meanwhile the Trumps who are not intellectually gifted are a billionaire family and MaryAnne and Trump were able to break the cycle and become Ivy League alumni. Their kids are also Ivy League alumni.

Anyway as long as you and the others can accept that Kamala is an airhead, I'm good.
That was the OG bone of contention.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 2:36pm On Aug 23
GloriousGbola:


https://poetsandquants.com/2020/07/07/to-help-get-him-into-wharton-trump-allegedly-paid-someone-to-take-the-sat-for-him/?pq-category=business-school-news

BlueRayDick:


Ọmọ!

It's tough if ur own professor can come out to say u are the dumbest godadmned student he ever had 😂

At the end of the day, Trump studied Economics at an Ivy League and graduated.
Or did he also ask someone to take all his tests or pay every Professor and the school to pass him?
The opinion of one professor does not change the fact that he graduated from U.Penn with a BS in Economics.

The University of Pennsylvania is not a degree mill where you can sort lecturers like you guys are familiar with.
However you got in, you have to earn your stripes to get your baccalaureate.

Whichever way you slice it, there is no comparing an economics graduate of the Wharton School of Business and someone who went to a non-T30 law school who failed her first bar and never secured a job in the private sector.
That same someone who right now refuses to conduct an interview because everyone knows her ceiling is reading from a teleprompter.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 2:17pm On Aug 23
Ibime:


Trump went to an Ivy school because his father donated. If I'm lying, show his secondary school result that took him there which his lawyer banned the school from releasing

Even after getting there, he paid his way to a low degree and still refuse to release his result

Person wey done pass law school got no business comparing to that

Of the five children of Fred. Two went to Ivy League. Mary and Trump.
Fred who was the heir apparent did not.
Mary went on to become a Judge. Trump ran the family business.

Why did Fred Trump pay for Trump and Mary to get Ivy League education but not the other 3 and especially his name sake Fred Jr who he wanted to succeed him?

Harris is an airhead. That much is clear.
You also are unable to contest that.
A lawyer who cannot ace a softball interview while running a presidential campaign is a disgrace to her profession.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 1:23pm On Aug 23
Ibime:


Wetin Trump finish with?

2.1, 2.2, 3rd class. . . . or do we have to contact his lawyer?

Trump went to an Ivy League, studied economics, and graduated.

The assertion is that she is an airhead and I brought receipts.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 12:55pm On Aug 23
Ibime:
Someone with degrees in political science, economics and law wey pass bar is an airhead

But someone whose lawyers threatened all his schools and colleges from releasing his results is a genius


Harris is an airhead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPHRbXo3nY

She went to Howard and then University of California, Hastings College of Law that is not even a T14 or T30 and failed the bar at her first attempt.
Majority of her classmates passed in their first attempt.
She has never worked in the private sector. She will not have even landed an interview with any BigLaw firm.

Trump went to an Ivy League (U-Penn). Vance did. Vivek did. DeSantis did.

How can you be hiding a lawyer from the press because you're scared that she can't properly answer questions or articulate her position.
A lawyer.
She is a dumb f*ck who has failed upwards.
If she was Nigerian, her ceiling will be charge and bail.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 4:03am On Aug 23
A40:
I'm shocked that Don Lemon posted this. The other day it was Chris Cuomo his brother in CNN propaganda also saying some truths about the DNC

Be like once you comot Democrat plantation you start thinking like a normal person

https://x.com/rsg/status/1816917797881954768

This tweet best captures the Democrat party I remember and liked. Not this Frankenstein monster that brings abortion vans to their convention.

It's not even about Trump it's that I truly believe a Kamala presidency will destroy that country

Now that I think about it, the Classical Liberal platform was a Trojan Horse.
They adopted those common-sense policies because they'd suffered catastrophic defeats twice vs Reagan and vs Nixon.
The minute they captured the state (by controlling most levers of American public life) and established the permanent majority via immigration, they abandoned all pretenses.

Look at Kamala. She was all for banning fracking; open borders and abolishing ICE (compared it to the KKK); defunding the police and bailing rioters.
Now she needs to win the election, she has done a 180 on 12 major policy positions, including those three.
However, if she wins, she will saunter further than Biden to the left.

As raum reiterated, after Trump, the next GOP nominee will be Hitler redux and they'll recycle the same BS.
When you draw attention to their horrible record and positions, they'll retort with "But the alternative is a racist, fascist, misogynist..."
They did it to Bush, McCain, Romney, Trump. Whether it's Vance, Vivek, Haley, or DeSantis in 2028; it'll be the same tired sh*t.

Kamala has not done an interview or had a presser in an entire month.
She's apparently leading in the polls without a policy page on her campaign website.
If she has her way, she'll only read teleprompters until she's declared the winner.
The US is effectively already a one-party state at the federal level. Trump is going against the grain and that alone is deserving of spirited support.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 10:31pm On Aug 20
WritterNg:
⚡🇷🇺 Mi-171A3 & Ka-226T

I find Russian aircrafts very appealing to look at.

They've got the best designs, only problem is boring paint jobs and maintenance.

The US/NATO does a better paint job.

Yeah, Marine One is gorgeous.

-Lord
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 9:05pm On Aug 20
larride:


It's either someone was shiponing money for those Jet maintenance or those doing the maintenance were doing rubbish.

That plane don get fault twice when the President traveled oversea within 6 month and once with the VP that they had to charter a private plane back to the country.

I remember a certain state visit that Tinubu did to an African country that he went in his own personal PJ because the Presidential jet was faulty.

This year, the official planes of Secretary Blinken and President Trudeau broke down.
Trudeau plane had issues twice in four months and he's had issues with CF1 planes a record four times as PM.
Canada's FG bought 9 planes in 2023.

Nigeria's major issue is transparency.
The authorities are always acting like bandits.
There should be accessible (by FOI requests) EOL estimates and updates on the Presidential fleet composition.

Fleet management is quite involved. Mothballing, adding, or replacing planes should be scheduled way in advance.
Contingency plans should also be established.
For instance, if they really need an emergency replacement, Air Peace operates Boeing 737s and many global lessors and operators will be willing to lease a plane with a minimum contractual duration of a few months to as long as is needed (at a premium). The contracts should be ironed out ahead of time. Not scrambling when unforeseen issues crop up.

For obvious reasons, the optics of buying a jet must be managed carefully. As such, leasing and then planning a budgeted expense is prolly preferred.

That said, the deal itself is quite okay and the A330 is at the lower band of a mission-capable flagship presidential aircraft. Although, I'd have preferred they bought new aircraft and spec it to their operational needs. Buy used for auxiliary units in the fleet.
This rush job of buying whatever is available on the market then retrofitting it within weeks is less than ideal.

At the end of the day, Nigeria's government is WYSIWYG.
There's a shocking level of incompetence that defies reason.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 4:38pm On Aug 19
GloriousGbola:


Even if the cost of dollars have tripled - then it should be at 156b. This is close to a 1600 % increase - even stranger as Nigerians everywhere have reduced their consumption of petrol.

Na real wa

More numbers are coming out and it turns out we've paid as high as 500B (August 2022) in a month prior to 2023.
It appears The Cable cherrypicked the perfect duration for shock value. It worked.

800B ($0.5B) is wild though.
FY 2022 subsidy was $10B.
At the rate we're going, we might end up paying the same or more subsidy in $ terms without the relatively stable supply during Buhari's administration.

It'd be something to pay more subsidy than GEJ and have worse scarcity than Buhari.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 4:28pm On Aug 19
larride:


Same thing they did during that December 2022 fuel scarcity.

That Mele Kyari is still NNPCL GCEO still remain a mystery.

He has kompromat on Tinubu.
That has to be the only reason.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 2:08pm On Aug 19
0m0luabi:
I don't think there is anything wrong in paying Israel terrorist act of bombing Palestinians civilians and children with terrorist act on the Israel civilians.

I can see the logic.
Israel kills scores of civilians and militants daily.
So sending them into Israel to delete civvies sounds like a layup.
But I doubt it'd be positive for Palestinians in the PR War.

Anyway this is what Israel gets for its assassination policy.
Haniyeh forbade suicide bombing. Sinwar DGAF.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 1:29pm On Aug 19
Vic2023:
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: A bombing attack in Tel Aviv, with several Israelis reported dead

Hamas should not go down this path.
It was abandoned for a reason.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 1:19pm On Aug 19
liveLongNprospa:
Lmaoooooo

52B per month to 800B per month in under 1 year.

What is this sorcery?

And there is still scarcity.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 6:48pm On Aug 16
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Thailand🇹🇭 new Prime Minister..

Pastor Kings is she beautiful?

Have children with a good looking person.
E get why.

Anyway, she is from a political dynasty like the Bushes of the US.
Many of these Asian second-world countries are just lowkey holding it down fr.

Thailand's inflation rate is 1.5%.
Interest rate is 2.5%.
Exchange rate of USD/TBH as of today is less than it was in 1998.
Unreal stability!

The King is worth $40B+ and has a slush fund of more than $1B (N1.6 trillion) per year for his expenses.
He was given four Boeing 737.
The new PM's family--the Shinawatras--are Chinese and are a dollar billionaire family.
Corruption is not Nigeria's problem. Our elite are CERTIFIED ID**TS!

I hope her tenure is fruitful and doesn't end in a coup.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 3:20pm On Aug 16
WrriterNg:
OLIVER STONE:

"We're fighting over nothing.

We're fighting over pride and fear of Russian and Chinese 'empires'—BRICS taking over the economic world.

Well, that's happening, and it will happen, and nobody's going to stop it unless you go to war.

Unfortunately, America should not go to war for trade, ever.

Economically, we may end up as number two, we may end up as number three, we may end up dropping back, but we're alive and we're part of the world.

I don't see what's wrong with that.

We don't have to be the bully.


We don't have to be the dominant factor.

We talk about a hegemonic world where the United States is in control—that's not realistic anymore.

The world is multipolar, and unfortunately, we haven't been able to accept that.

I don't understand why we can't accept it unless you're some kind of frozen conservative in this country who sees any foreigner as a danger.

I think the problem is the United States has got to educate itself."

Few people and entities give up power voluntarily.

The US is in the second stage of grief - Anger.
It'll get over it but hundreds of thousands of people will die during this infantile but fatal tantrum.

The funny thing is that if the US actually changes course and embraces a multipolar world, it could return to being #1 in 2-3 centuries.
It has enough land to fit more than a billion people. It still retains lots of advantages. Resources, geography, education and research, tech.
And for all its faults, it is still incredibly appealing. If you hate all the woke stuff, there are places like Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania; where you can live your life without being bothered by all the geopolitics, culture wars, and militarism.

Similar to how you can live in cities like Chongqing (becoming my favorite city in China), Shenzhen, Wuhan, Guangzhou, or in rural China and just live your life without being bothered by the CCP and their aspirations. Just enjoy your time, go on vacation (lots of picturesque places to visit in China and Asia), low crime, everything is available, cheap, and convenient to acquire.

But apparently, many in the corridors of power in Washington cannot envisage a world where they can't boss everybody about and dictate everything on the planet. When just 100 years ago, their parents and grandparents lived in a multipolar world. The hubris and unwillingness to consider an alternative is a tragedy. Needless pain, chaos, death, and suffering are allowed to fester because they seek to thwart or delay the inevitable.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 2:47pm On Aug 16
WrriterNg:


💯

It's been over a week and Ukraine haven't moved past Sudzha which is just at the Russia Ukraine border.


Rushing in is easy. But can you sustain it??


The Russian response to the Kursk incursion made me conclude that the Russians are really intelligent folks.

Zelensky is fighting a PR war.

He should push them to advance further.
Way easier to kill Ukrainians in outstretched positions within Russia than in fortifications inside Novorossiya.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 2:20pm On Aug 16
Appleyard:


But, what is the Russian end game in this? Is it to lure Ukro troops from their defense lines and make the Russian objectives of taking targeted territories more attainable? Or to form another meat grinder deep inside Russia, which would be easier than Bahkmuth because the Ukros would have huge problem supplying their units in Kursk once the Russians turned around to face them squarely? Or is Russia purposely encouraging this Kursk incursion to drain Ukraine of its remaining best fighting force and then open another front? Russia still has a huge force sitting in Belarus and another in the Zaporozhia direction. Whatever the endgame might be, one thing is certain, Ukraine will never come out of Kursk in good shape.

From the early days of the War, a strategic concern had been building.
We've seen many instances of Russia destroying concentrations of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine.
However, Ukraine has been able to amass large aggregations of men and materiel across the country without Russia taking them out.
Maybe it's due to AD. Or Ukraine doing too many things at the same time (since they outsource a lot of the planning to the 14 Eyes and the West), that RU has to prioritize. But that inability made the Kursk incursion a possibility.

All they had to do was designate a Kalibr or Iskander for every grouping that exceeds 2,000 men - enough to cause damage - and run down the clock on the Eastern Front.

Add that to the list of limitations. They also can't stop the free flow of weapons into Ukraine. And they also can't destroy Ukrainian military industry since they can always just move underground. This has been a boon for the production of small drones, since they import parts from Asia which does not have the same deficiencies as the West.

Essentially, Ukraine cannot win the war. But they can be a very costly nuisance. The Kursk gambit reflects this.
It shouldn't lead to anything significant, but it was always an asterisk. Ukraine amassed soldiers on the borders of Belarus, Transnistria, and Russia. They could have pushed into any of the three. Belarus would be a provocation since they aren't currently a belligerent. Moldova firmly opposed moving into Transnistria. So they went into Kursk. The partisan infiltrations into Belgorod over the past 18 months provided critical insight into Russian defenses and response times. They also softened the underbelly with the deep strikes on airfields and radars.

Russia has the trump card because they have the superior force, a lot of land, larger population, and an intact MIC.
By some estimates, Ukraine can only support an incursion of about 100KM. That's the farthest they can go before supply chain and logistic snags wreck them. The deeper they go in, the larger the defense perimeter of the Ukrainians, which they'll have to man with more troops. It also allows Russia lots of surface area to press for pinchers through the flanks. It is a strategic gift.
It's the Prigozhin affair again. Let them roll in and make Russia the newest cemetery for Ukrainians.
From a PR perspective, this is not ideal. But if I can see it, I'm pretty certain Command would have told Putin that his slow, methodical approach would always have this as a potential outcome. Got to take the good with the bad.

This is also reminiscent of the Kharkov offensive. Ukraine had swift, lightspeed attacks. Captured a lot of ground. It fizzled out. They've been on the backfoot since. And right now a repeat seems implausible. Russia is learning a lot on the fly right now.

I had called for a general mobilization since last year. Equip a 5m man army. Take everything east of Dnieper and connect a land bridge to Transnistria. End the war and prepare for other theaters. Russia will need a lot of operators and resources to back its clients in Africa - Libya, Sudan, CAR, and its new Sahel friends; the Middle East (Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon); its Asian commitments - the Big One (a potential Taiwan invasion), North Korea, India, expanding its Pacific Fleet; and South America - Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, and maintaining its strategic interests on the continent.

But Putin wants a slow war . And that provides more time and boundless opportunities for more ship sinking, airfield strikes, terrorism and assassination, taking out pricey radar and AD installations, and Kursk-like incursions. These are the drawbacks of a slow war. Right now, many in the West think a Russian mobilization and all-out attack is justified, but Putin still would not bite.

Certainly Netanyahu has provided a stark contrast even though he has not and cannot achieve his objectives. He has helped buttressed the merits of Putin's approach. Ultimately, this is how he has opted to fight this war. When Medvedev fought the Georgian War, he deployed troops at a 5:1 advantage, disabled Georgian air and naval forces. Then it became a turkey shoot.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordAdam16: 5:35pm On Aug 14
basilico:


They have become experts at gaslighting. I heard KJP saying without batting an eyelid that Biden economy is the best ever . No press corp person challenged her assertion. They say anything and get away with it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChgmevK-brk

It is a disgrace.

They were horrible to Governor Sanders when she was PressSec.
Now the professional fact checkers are sitting there dumb as rocks while KJP spits falsehoods.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordAdam16: 4:41pm On Aug 14
raumdeuter:


Like I always asked Democrats have ruled for 12 of the past 16yrs, yet we keep hearing how Republicans didnt do this and that

What have they done in the last 12/16yrs

Trump had just 4 of the 16 years and everyone wants a repeat.

The incumbent wants a reelection before fixing the economy.
She is going to share her economic vision while in office less than 95 days to the election.

This is all down to the media.
They refuse to cover their failures and when the Right tries to we're viciously attacked.
They aren't just playing defense for the Dems, they also play offense.

Imagine if there were two wars with hundreds of thousands dead under Trump; we wouldn't hear the end of it.
They'd be calling a new war in Europe the most consequential foreign policy failing since WW2.
But here we are.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordAdam16: 7:09pm On Aug 12
raumdeuter:

There are news chanels dedicated to criticizing Trump, do military govts allow that? If he was what you are projecting do you think CNN MSNBC etc will still be open? Actually as sitting president Twitter suspended his account and he couldnt do anything about it. Is that the military govt?

All these scare tactics dont work again

All they've got is "Orange Man Bad".
The Mainstream Media is perhaps the Dems biggest asset.

All those polls in the past that set up Trump v Generic Democrat and gleaned that the Generic Democrat wins handily.
They're pulling that with Harris. She is the Generic Democrat.
THREE F*CKING WEEKS into her candidacy and she has NO platform.
She has NOT conducted an interview.

THREE F*CKING WEEKS.
And they're defending the basement campaign.
You don't care about her positions, her flip flopping, her horrendous record as a border czar.
All that matters is "Orange Man Bad".
Trump is a dictator. He is Hitler. He is this. He is that.

Eventually Harris' legs will be held to the fire. Not if the Media can help it, but it'll happen.
And her campaign will implode like it did in 2020.

-Lord

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:32pm On Aug 11
Dream25:

I have talked about this many times here.. Then we still have few reasonable and intelligent Pro West here..

Hitler greatest mistake was invading Soviet Union, he could've been unstoppable with a neutral or allied Soviet.. With a strong Japanese ally in the Asia Pacific region, no opposition can stop them..

Who wan stop am?

Back then, everyone still had a winner-takes-all mentality.

The US was the first to wise up to the idi*cy of that worldview. And it did so because of its inability to conquer Canada.

-Lord

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 5:53pm On Aug 09
Unlimited22:

No be only KKK, na Grand Wizard
😂😂😂


No be only SS and SE 😂😂😂😂

😂🤣😁

As long as after you laugh finish, you siddon house in 2027; I'm ok.

-Lord
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: EPL Chatroom - All Discussions by LordAdam16: 5:44pm On Aug 09
Unlimited22:
Na So Sodiq Tade bin dey shout 12m votes in the bag throughout 2022.

Make una continue to dey deceive unasef

I really wish Obi doesn't appear on the ballot in 2027 make Atiku go up against Tinubu

E go clear all of una for eye

Continue consoling yourself that it was Obi that made a serial loser to keep losing.

Make una write open letter advise una MCM!

Because the Agulu suicide bomber fit no get the memo on time.

We dey expect better KKK results in 2027, una 1 use una stubbornness wreck this country again.
We just need SS and SE to give Atiku a slim win; NW, NE will turn up.

-Lord

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