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Politics / Re: APC Presidential Primary: (Live Updates, Pictures & Results) by MangekyoAlt: 11:05pm On Jun 07, 2022
Ameachi is throwing shades at Tinubu.

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Politics / Re: APC Presidential Primary: (Live Updates, Pictures & Results) by MangekyoAlt: 10:38pm On Jun 07, 2022
marsman:

Get the hell off my mention you Goddamn fool. I have no time to engage baboons with single digit IQs like your self
You keep mentioning me to tell me to piss off from your mention? How dumb can you be, huh? Shut the fućk up and sit your stupid ass down in one place. Forming analyst up and down as if you've even got anything in that your thick skull. Inbreds like you should be swept under somewhere. Dimwitted fućk
Politics / Re: APC Presidential Primary: (Live Updates, Pictures & Results) by MangekyoAlt: 10:27pm On Jun 07, 2022
shegz24:
Buhari and Adamu wan die grin

grin grin why them no probe Tinubu since abeg? Nawa cry
Politics / Re: APC Presidential Primary: (Live Updates, Pictures & Results) by MangekyoAlt: 10:21pm On Jun 07, 2022
marsman:

Moronic Youth. Some of us are talking based on careful observation. Were is Benin going before? Lawan abi. Idiot
What yeye observation? Sharap monkey
Politics / Re: APC Presidential Primary: (Live Updates, Pictures & Results) by MangekyoAlt: 10:13pm On Jun 07, 2022
marsman:
Majority of the South South vote should be moving to Jagaban's camp now.
what a joke. Add benin Republic join. Foolish youth
Politics / Re: APC Presidential Primary: (Live Updates, Pictures & Results) by MangekyoAlt: 10:08pm On Jun 07, 2022
I'm disappointed in akpabio

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Politics / Re: Buhari Denies Endorsing Ahmad Lawan As Consensus Candidate - Sources by MangekyoAlt: 4:59pm On Jun 06, 2022
Fake news
Education / Re: Nigerian Defence Academy Admission Processes..........68-76RC by MangekyoAlt: 4:51pm On Jun 06, 2022
Stormtrooper11:


Go with skin cut. You can wear the white shirts and blue shorts under your normal clothes.

What?!?! Your postcard was signed on the back and one copy collected na. Try and find it quickly.
Bro I just don't know where I kept it. I have been searching for it for days now.
Education / Re: Nigerian Defence Academy Admission Processes..........68-76RC by MangekyoAlt: 4:51pm On Jun 06, 2022
Scoutvibe:

Hair style - low cut
We are to wear mufti from home and change in Kaduna before reporting to nda.
Base on that postcard remember that your postcard is been sign on that day by the officer incharge. Look for it very well ok incase you didn't see it snap another one.
I pray we all make it
Thanks
Politics / What Is The Way Forward For Abokîs? by MangekyoAlt: 1:55pm On Jun 06, 2022
Are abokis not taught how be tolerant in school? Like come on. Each time losers troll their Prophet, they lose their cool. Some would even call for the death of such persons.
Please our leaders should try to educate these guys a little more

Foreign Affairs / Re: What The West (still) Gets Wrong About Putin (june 1st) by MangekyoAlt: 6:03pm On Jun 02, 2022
Drenimarcus:
Lmao, what is she smoking? Russia has gained tremendously with this SMO. I speak to Russians daily. It was at first difficult as they had to navigate through the sanctions imposed on them, but Russia was prepared! Things has stabilized in Russia, in fact most of Russians who left are now returning. It is why Putin stated that the government should start paying large families who have 2-4 kids.

The Victory Day alone should be an eye opener for anyone who has God-given sense to know that Russia will never capitulate. SMO is going nicely, Only 2 cities left for the fall of Donbas with one 80% captured.
The EU is at odds with the U.S., Britain and its neighbors. The countries cannot agree on the extent of the threat posed by Russia and Ukraine's chances of winning. It is the West capitulating because they never expected Russia to withstand all the sanctions imposed on it. Russia has 10k plus sanctions imposed and is still standing. That tells it all.

I have said it before the start of this SMO and saying it again. The world will split into 2 parts: small countries will run to China and Russia for economic and military support. It is already happening.

They had better go on their knees and beg Mother Russia to send grain and unblock ports or well hunger will kill the west grin

I cannot even stay one minute on reddit anymore. Because most of the subs I'm on, whenever the Russia's advances in ukraine are being brought up, they say it's just small advances in eastern Europe (on small villages and towns). Meanwhile, read this article. It revealed through a detailed map the size of area russia has currently taken from Ukraine. I mean land masses bigger than the size of the UK and Italy.

I saw a page on this frontpage citing some illterates saying the EU banned 90% of oil they receive from Russia, and that the ban would hurt putin more than those who imposed it. (I'll link that thread later).
The Russian govt has said redirecting their oil, if banned by any customer, to others and finding other customers wouldn't be difficult. But that isn't even the point in trying to make.
The point is, what western media's peddled for gullible people to believe is the exact opposite of actual reality. The EU said they would be banning Russian Imports of oil through LNG and tankers , not pipelines. Meanwhile please take a look at the picture I attached. Apparently 2/3 of EU import of Russian Oil is through pipelines. This is obvious to everyone. Well how is that, they are reporting that 90% of Russian Oil Imports have been banned, when they clearly didn't even ban pipeline which is the medium which they use to receive more than 80% of the said oil?
To me, this exposes that they just give out inaccurate publishments of their actions against Russia, probably to save face.

Meanwhile, back to the topic I made, I don't exactly agree with all the points this woman made. But as a western scholar who is obviously a pro western, she went as far as to debunk the ongoing trend in the west is that Russia or rather, Putin as she puts it, has failed woefully when in reality, in the Kremlin they could be seeing the operation as an ongoing success since Ukraine is being rendered useless ATM

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Foreign Affairs / Re: What The West (still) Gets Wrong About Putin (june 1st) by MangekyoAlt: 5:10pm On Jun 02, 2022
God1000:
This war has so far achieved the opposite of what he wants
With the way you commented so fast I doubt if you even read more than 3 lines. Where was it stated in the article that he has achieved exactly what he hoped to at the start of the invasion?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: What The West (still) Gets Wrong About Putin (june 1st) by MangekyoAlt: 5:07pm On Jun 02, 2022
I don't exactly agree with ALL her points, but a good read nonetheless... No doubt

Cc; Drenimarcus Uprightness100 Svlla basilico Seun Mynd44 Lalasticlacla Alamkir

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Foreign Affairs / What The West (still) Gets Wrong About Putin (june 1st) by MangekyoAlt: 5:05pm On Jun 02, 2022
What The West (Still) Gets Wrong About Putin (June 1st)

By Tatiana Stanovaya, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/01/putin-war-ukraine-west-misconceptions/


One of the reasons it’s so difficult to understand Russian intentions—and what is at stake in the Ukraine war—is the significant divergence between how external observers see events and how they are viewed from the Kremlin. Things that appear obvious to some, such as Russia’s incapacity to achieve a military victory, are perceived completely differently in Moscow. The fact is that most of today’s discussions over how to help Ukraine win on the battlefield, coerce Kyiv into concessions, or allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to save face have little in common with reality.


Here I will debunk five common assumptions about how Putin sees this war. The West needs to look at the situation differently if it wants to be more effective in its approach and decrease the risks of escalation.

Assumption 1: Putin knows he is losing.


*This stems from the mistaken idea that Russia’s main goal is to seize control of large parts of Ukraine—and therefore, when the Russian military performs badly, fails to advance, or even retreats, that this amounts to failure. However, Putin’s main goals in this war have never been to acquire pieces of territory; rather, he wants to destroy Ukraine in what he calls an “anti-Russia” project and stop the West from using Ukrainian territory as a bridgehead for anti-Russian geopolitical activities. As a result, Russia does not see itself as failing. Ukraine will not join NATO nor be able to exist peacefully without considering Russian demands on Russification (or “denazification” in Russian propaganda-speak) and “de-NATOfication” (known as “demilitarization” in Russian propaganda terms)—meaning a halt to any military cooperation with NATO. To follow through on these goals, Russia needs to sustain its military presence on Ukrainian territory and keep attacking Ukrainian infrastructure. There is no need for major territorial gains nor taking Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital (even if he dreamt about it in the beginning). Even the annexation of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which Moscow sees as only a matter of time, is an auxiliary, local goal to make Ukraine pay for incorrect, pro-Western geopolitical choices over the last two decades. In Putin’s eyes, he is not losing this war. In fact, he likely believes he is winning—and he is happy to wait until Ukraine concedes that Russia is here forever.*


Assumption 2: The West should find a way to help Putin save face, thus decreasing the risks of further, possibly nuclear, escalation.

Imagine a situation where Ukraine accepts most of Russia’s demands: It recognizes Crimea as Russian and the Donbas as independent, commits to a slimmed-down army, and promises to never join NATO. Will that end the conflict? Even if, to many, the answer appears to be an obvious “yes,” they are incorrect. Russia may be locked in a battle with Ukraine, but geopolitically, it sees itself as waging war against the West on Ukrainian territory. In the Kremlin, Ukraine is seen as an anti-Russian weapon in Western hands—and destroying it will not automatically lead to Russia’s victory in this anti-Western geopolitical game. For Putin, this war is not between Russia and Ukraine—and Ukrainian leadership is not an independent actor but a Western tool that must be neutralized.

So, whatever concessions Ukraine could make (regardless of how politically realistic they may be), Putin will continue escalating the war until the West changes its approach to the so-called Russian problem and admits that—as Putin sees it—the roots of Russian aggression are the result of Washington ignoring Russian geopolitical concerns for 30 years. This has been Putin’s real objective for a long time, and it remains unchanged. Unrealistic Russian demands rejected by Kyiv are even a way for the Kremlin to increase the stakes in a Russia-West confrontation, testing the West’s ability to stay united and consistent. The West today is looking at the problem in the wrong light: In seeking to stop Russia’s war, it focuses on Moscow’s artificial pretexts for its invasion of Ukraine and overlooks Putin’s obsession with the so-called Western threat as well as his readiness to use escalation to coerce the West into a dialogue on Russian terms. Ukraine is only a hostage.




Assumption 3: Putin is not only losing militarily but also domestically, and the political situation in Russia is such that Putin could soon face a coup.


The opposite is the case, at least for the moment. The Russian elite have become so worried about how to guarantee political stability and avoid protests that they have consolidated around Putin as the only leader able to firm up the political system and prevent disorder. The elite are politically impotent, scared, and vulnerable—including those portrayed in Western media as warmongers and hawks. To make a move against Putin today is tantamount to suicide unless Putin starts to lose his ability to rule (physically or mentally). Despite new splits and cracks within the ranks and unhappiness with Putin’s policies, the regime stands firm. The main threat to Putin is Putin himself. Although time may be against him, the waking up of the elite is a process that will take much longer than many people expect. It will depend on how present Putin remains in day-to-day government.


Assumption 4: Putin is afraid of anti-war protests.


The truth is that Putin is more afraid of pro-war protests and has to take into account the eagerness of many Russians to see the destruction of what they call Ukrainian Nazis. Public mood could drive escalation, prompting Putin to be more hawkish and resolute, even if it is a result of the Kremlin’s own propaganda. This is extremely important: Putin has awakened a dark nationalism he is more and more dependent on. Whatever happens to Putin, the world will have to deal with this public aggression and anti-West, anti-liberal convictions that make Russia problematic for the West.


Assumption 5: Putin has been deeply disappointed in his entourage and greenlit the criminal prosecution of senior officials.


This is an intensely discussed issue in the West. It arises from speculation about the arrest of Putin’s former Deputy chief of staff Vladislav Surkov; the detention of Sergey Beseda, a top security officer responsible for Ukraine; and purges among Putin’s inner circle. All these rumors should be viewed with extreme skepticism. Firstly, there has been no confirmation of any of them. (Rather, high-placed sources suggest that neither Beseda nor Surkov have been arrested.) Secondly, Putin is likely upset and disappointed with his staff, but it’s not his style to purge his inner circle unless serious crimes have been committed. Intentions are all that matter to Putin, and if Russia’s secret services miscalculated or even misinformed him without malign intentions, there will be no prosecutions. Finally, the military campaign in Ukraine has been closely managed by Putin from the outset with very little room for subordinates to show any initiative.


All this means that the Western dilemma—to double down on support for Ukraine because Putin is losing or to appease Putin because he is desperate and dangerous—is fundamentally misguided. There can be only two possible outcomes. Either the West changes its approach to Russia and begins to take seriously the Russian concerns that led to this war or Putin’s regime falls apart and Russia revises its geopolitical ambitions.


For the moment, both Russia and the West appear to believe that their counterpart is doomed and that time is on their side. Putin dreams about the West suffering from political upheaval, whereas the West dreams about Putin being removed, overthrown, or dropping dead from one of many diseases he is regularly rumored to be suffering. No one is right. At the end of the day, a deal between Russia and Ukraine is only possible as an extension of an agreement between Russia and the West or as a result of the collapse of Putin’s regime. And that gives you an idea of how long the war could last: years, at best.

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Business / Re: Titan Trust Bank Completes Takeover Of Union Bank by MangekyoAlt: 3:41pm On Jun 02, 2022
Fake news

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Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 3:21pm On Jun 02, 2022
Bragalane:
But if you are asked as the minority you claim how much Tinubu as stolen from you or the wretch you own as a father you will be speechless. You no see say na thunder go kee your entire household if you can not mention how much Tinubu stole from you minority tribe plus the entire Igbo tribe in case you are lying or not even lying. Na thunder go Kee all of una.



Blah blah blah. Redirect those words to your whoring mother, who is currently sucking Thiefnubus dick without your empty skull even knowing. Demented piece of shit
Celebrities / Re: Amber Heard's Reaction To Her Court Case Loss by MangekyoAlt: 2:15pm On Jun 02, 2022
Ballzproblemm:
accept your L in peace evil b*tch,your story was so inconsistent that the judge found you guilty on every charge
Link to read everything that transpired?
Politics / Re: Ask Me Anything About Austria Now! by MangekyoAlt: 2:07pm On Jun 02, 2022
How is the inflation there?
And is the war having any effects on the economy?
Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 1:51pm On Jun 02, 2022
alfarouq:


Why are you making it sound like you supported a Northerner to emerge president.

We all know that if it were to be within the SEasts power, a Northerner will not emerge as president in 2015 and beyond.

The North hustled and strategized for it and got it even when you guys opossed it.

So spare us all this long epistle and get working if you really want the presidency.

Jonathan and Amaechi can still run for APC.
We aren't our yet
Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 10:54pm On Jun 01, 2022
Nigerialabalaba:

Mr M.O.N.K.E.Y.Pox, if u be minority, den get sense nau and no dey jam-blab for sense. abi u be drunken fisherman ni?Don't be unfortunate like awon omo ibo wey bitterness don cast dem useless terrorist lives.

You lack common sense. See the way you dey type like mumu. So I should shut up because I'm exposing Thiefnubus incompetence? Ogbeni no be you get nairaland. No dey attack me. Go find one of una wives, Igbos carry go one corner make una dey insult unaselfs Dia. Bigots. I no get ur time but no call me ibo, because I no see any sense in supporting your demigod Tinubu. Be like say u no even know say for the entire South, na only that South west Tinubu for get small supporters. Him supporters dry well well for here ejoh

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Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 10:42pm On Jun 01, 2022
Nigerialabalaba:

Omo Ibo, u go wail till 2031 as nobody go allow una jinx hin career with una badluck.
Uwazuruike sabi una wella especially awon omo ibo miscreants running amok here for nl
Mr AGBOlade, where did you get the information that I'm ibo? From your skull?
Im neither ibo, nor hausa, nor yoruba. I'm minority. The idea that anyone who doesn't align with Tinubu is ibo, is someone I find worrying. Although, I don't blame you lots since you see Igbo people too screaming afonja on every thread that is exposing their own problems

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Politics / Re: BREAKING: APC Governors’ Meeting Deadlocked As Search For Consensus Candidate Be by MangekyoAlt: 10:35pm On Jun 01, 2022
FAKE NEWS grin

Them Wan do their mago mago somehow when Tinubu no suspect anything.
By the time Tinubu realizes the gbese make he don fall, even loud cry no go fit change anything

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Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 10:30pm On Jun 01, 2022
helinues:


That's Tinubu's headache don't you think?

Tinubu. Say his name properly

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Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 10:19pm On Jun 01, 2022
helinues:
So Gov Diri and Okowa are the 2 state governors from SS who betrayed Wike. Interesting.


Let's wait and see who will betray Tinubu in APC own. Them go many well well

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Politics / Re: Atiku Vs Wike: How State Delegates Voted At PDP Presidential Primary by MangekyoAlt: 10:15pm On Jun 01, 2022
But seriously, wouod Wike have even stood a chance of he had won this ticket?

Even though we from the south south would've somewhat voted him, or shared our vote with him with Peter Obi, I'm not sure if yoruba people and Abokîs would've voted him at all.

If pdp had agreed on zoning to the south east, alright it would've been better. If it's Peter Obi, we would've voted en masse from for him, here in SS. SE too, with north being divided between him and whoever APC fields.

We have been shouting at Abokîs that they've ruled for 8 years, and for the sake of equity, power MUSR return to the south, even though zoning doesn't even exist in our democratic constitution.

Meanwhile, In the same South, we've ruled for a quite a while SW ruled before us. For the sake of this same equity that we've been demanding from Abokîs, make we give the south east wey never rule, nobody gree.
I even see skull miners saying presidency isnt given to any region, and that SE should work for it. Well if that is the case then no need to beg Abokîs to give us power na. They have the numbers to even win back to back to back 20 years. The sooner we stopped being hypocrites the better for us all.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Gov. by MangekyoAlt: 10:02pm On Jun 01, 2022
Uprightness100:


Suicide for who? Everything playing is Bible Prophecy. Go and search the Bible and Understand what is playing out and what will play out. Iran nuclear will be struck anymoment.
Israel will never let Iran get a Nuke. They will strike iran's Nuke.
It will lead to the psalm 83 war, Isah 17 wiping off of Damascus and Ezekiel 38 Gog Magog Collation against Israel.
The End of all the wars is that Israel will be victorious because GOD will personally come down and fight for them.

I'm not exactly sure. When I said that, I was comparing their military strength, obviously.

Also, you've clarified by saying they would strike against Iran's nuclear sites. That's okay, even though Iran would retaliate with their long range missiles.

The thing is, you posted that Israel is conducting a drill, that is practicing actual invasion of Iran, isn't that it?
They (Israel) wouldn't even contemplate it because it would end in a complete bloodbath for them.

Iran's manpower ridiculously large compared to Israel, not to talk of the hostile people they would be facing. In military equipment, although Israel undoubtedly has better hardwares, performance wise, Iran has the numbers. https://armedforces.eu/compare/country_Israel_vs_Iran sites globalfirepower feel free to take a look.

I don't believe Israel should be physically attacking anyone with their troops. Even as a Christian, I don't believe they would win. But a scenario where isreal gets attacked, I've no doubt they would win
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Now Has Enough Uranium For Nuclear Weapon, U.N. Watchdog Reportedly Says by MangekyoAlt: 9:40pm On Jun 01, 2022
bigpicture001:


Its. Difficult to believe u are saying this
I don't support nations being allowed to build Nukes, don't mind what I said. I just have the tendency to support any country that is having a go now at the USA.

Meanwhile, the idea that you can raise alarms because someone thousands of miles away wants to build highly destructive weapons, in Nukes, while you have those same highly highly destructive Nukes in their thousands in storage, is the biggest double standards one can think of.

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Politics / Re: Check Out The These Tweets by Reno Omokri by MangekyoAlt: 9:16pm On Jun 01, 2022
I feel like mentioning Tinubu on this thread grin

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Gov. by MangekyoAlt: 9:12pm On Jun 01, 2022
Uprightness100:
Preparations for an attack on Iran?

Hundreds of Israel Airforce platforms simulated an attack on targets far from its borders overnight. The drill over the Mediterranean Sea saw fighter jets, transport planes and refuelers take part.

Attacking Iran would be suicide

Inasmuch as I'd support Israel to win, it would be a bloodbath.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Iran Now Has Enough Uranium For Nuclear Weapon, U.N. Watchdog Reportedly Says by MangekyoAlt: 8:45pm On Jun 01, 2022
grin grin grin Those lapdogs that USA placed as UN senior officials should be removed ASAP

Iran should be allowed to build tens of thousands of nuclear weapons for all I care.
If truly we want a nuclear free world, those monkeys in the white house should start by disarming themselves, before warning others against building.

These days, no one cares anymore. Russia and China have both been using their vetoe power to shield North Korea from further US proposed sanctions at the UN, while the SMD in NK keeps building more Nukes and ICBM.

SCAmerica, along with their shameless British lapdog, have never invaded any nuclear armed country. Meanwhile, looking at how the Taliban thoroughly dealt with USA with their British and nato lapdogs and caused them to flee in a humiliating and embarrassing way, it's obviously that the overrated bloc can be defeated by any competent army. But building Nukes would guarantee that you'll never be invaded by the blood sucking demons. The highest they can do is sanctions. North Korea is a good example

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Gov. by MangekyoAlt: 9:06pm On May 31, 2022
Very good. On to the next

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Crime / Re: Interpol, EFCC Arrest 3 Nigerians In Operation Killer Bee by MangekyoAlt: 6:40pm On May 31, 2022
Operation killer bee?
Since when these murthfuckas start to dey watch Naruto?

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