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Nemesis4you:
What kind of invasion is this by the Russians


https://mobile.twitter.com/cryptical_fish/status/1498690724346441728?

This sort of explains to an extent why they have been slow

Nemesis4you:
What kind of invasion is this by the Russians


https://mobile.twitter.com/cryptical_fish/status/1498690724346441728?

This sort of explains to an extent why they have been slow

Stormtrooper11:
Are you sure SANDF is that capable??

Lurker4Long:
Things are about to get interesting for our Namibian cousins.

At least 3 billion barrels: TotalEnergies' Venus is Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest ever oil discovery

TotalEnergies’ enormous Venus-1 discovery offshore Namibia holds at least 3 billion barrels of recoverable oil and is Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest ever oil find, according to a confidential report from an industry-leading consultant.

Upstream broke the news on the huge discovery last week, just a month or so after revealing exclusively that Shell had also made a big oil discovery in Namibia with its Graff-1 wildcat.

https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/at-least-3-billion-barrels-totalenergies-venus-is-sub-saharan-africas-biggest-ever-oil-discovery/2-1-1174983?fbclid=IwAR2IKxdcgsHmz-Ptg5W9qVkvW1V-x7xKRjU7McspSSUwhZZvVeIojMoyzOk

Lurker4Long:
Things are about to get interesting for our Namibian cousins.

At least 3 billion barrels: TotalEnergies' Venus is Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest ever oil discovery

TotalEnergies’ enormous Venus-1 discovery offshore Namibia holds at least 3 billion barrels of recoverable oil and is Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest ever oil find, according to a confidential report from an industry-leading consultant.

Upstream broke the news on the huge discovery last week, just a month or so after revealing exclusively that Shell had also made a big oil discovery in Namibia with its Graff-1 wildcat.

https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/at-least-3-billion-barrels-totalenergies-venus-is-sub-saharan-africas-biggest-ever-oil-discovery/2-1-1174983?fbclid=IwAR2IKxdcgsHmz-Ptg5W9qVkvW1V-x7xKRjU7McspSSUwhZZvVeIojMoyzOk

Odunayaw:
Russian logistics is worse than I imagined

Nemesis4you:

Lurker4Long:
https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/at-least-3-billion-barrels-totalenergies-venus-is-sub-saharan-africas-biggest-ever-oil-discovery/2-1-1174983?fbclid=IwAR2IKxdcgsHmz-Ptg5W9qVkvW1V-x7xKRjU7McspSSUwhZZvVeIojMoyzOk

chrisooblog:
Talking of the Ukraine-Russia war guess we can assume it will be awhile before the 24 new fighter jets acquired by NAF arrive?

chrisooblog:
Talking of the Ukraine-Russia war guess we can assume it will be awhile before the 24 new fighter jets acquired by NAF arrive?

jl115:
Leonardo is an Italian company...so you should be fine(depending on how much parts Russia supplies) , what I am more concerned about is that Leonardo itself has denied that Nigeria has placed any orders

Odunayaw:
The M246? It is Italian (EU)

GreenandGold:
Botswana will not like the news, now Namibia will buy bigger boats to fight over the swamps

Lurker4Long:
The World Court ruled in favour of Botswana. The 2 countries then signed a Border Treaty in 2018. At a govt level the issue has been resolved. Certain traditional leaders on the Namibian side however, remain adamant that no border will deter them from "their ancestral land".
The last time there was an incident, in 2021, the Namibian govt essentially told them they're on their own, by agreeing with Botswana that "criminals" on Botswana territory will be dealt with harshly.

Lurker4Long:
If Russia didn’t have nuclear weapons and natural gas, it would be just another stagnating economy run by a tinpot dictator. Compared to the United States, the EU and China, Russia’s GDP is an accounting error.
Having been there 5 times in the last 10 years, outside of Moscow and St Petersburg, everything screams Third World. Our then client Naspers has a major shareholding in VK Group - owner of Russia's largest social media company VKontakte - and classified ads company Avito, and always struggled to get South African executives to relocate to Russia.

Back to the economy, since the fall of the Soviet Union, even sub-Saharan Africa has outperformed Russia.

(in the former Soviet Union) the system whereby influential posts in government and industry were filled by Party appointees.
"the system of nomenklatura, which reserves important appointments to the Party apparatus"
those people appointed to posts in government or industry under the nomenklatura system.
"most of the caviar was kept for the nomenklatura"

In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia

kikuyu1:
Yes. There was a time just after the break up Russia was referred to as "Burkina Faso with nukes."
I had a good pal who went on a series of IMF trips to administer the infamous universal shock therapy (slash social spending, sell EVERYTHING, reduce worker and environmental protection, freeze all hiring and previously agreed wage increases etc, etc) after his MBA and I still rmbr his disbelief.
At the time most of Moscow outside the leafier areas consisted of tiny dreary Commie era apartments.
Uniformly grey and soulless stretching as far
as you can see. Imagine 20 kms of such buildings extending outward from the city in a concentric ring. Inside they ALL had claustrophobic corridors with peeling wallpaper last replaced on the early 70s, 20 yrs previously! Leaky plumbing and terrible heating provided by inefficient old style radiators meant everyone froze in winter and sweltered in summer .
They were tiny, with even 3 bedrooms flats only slightly bigger than London single bedrooms. In the interior things were worse- even second tier towns consisted of a CBD, a residential area for the nomenklatura

Edit: don't believe either sides SM. The reality is the Ukes CAN'T stand up to Russia.

chrisooblog:
Talking of the Ukraine-Russia war guess we can assume it will be awhile before the 24 new fighter jets acquired by NAF arrive?

Lurker4Long:
China, India, South Africa, Algeria are the major countries that abstained during the UN Special General Assembly vote on Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Interesting how this shakes up.

NTSA:
V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft in kenya.

jl115:
Yes.... The US military has around 150 of its weapons stolen every year.... The SANDF averages around 20....so yeah, your post is irrelevant

Lurker4Long:
China, India, South Africa, Algeria are the major countries that abstained during the UN Special General Assembly vote on Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Interesting how this shakes up.

GreenandGold:
Countries that have a history of being assisted by the Soviets for their independence were the ones that abstained.

Lurker4Long:
Too simplistic: Uganda, Bolivia, Pakistan, Senegal have no such history. Armenia was just recently abandoned by Russia. Iran had conflicts with the Soviets. Many countries voted for the resolution who were assisted by the Soviets. Eritrea voted for Russia, and the Soviets armed the same Ethiopians fighting against Eritrea's independence movement.
Foreign relations is always about self-interest, not some simplistic notion of loyal fealty to past friends,

Odunayaw:
Ages ago. Recent proof shows NAF higher ups even confirming that it is coming