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NwaNimo1:
Putin must visit......

[img]https://c./7ow-MNsqzfwAAAAC/putin-vladimir-putin.gif[/img]

.....na so him go enter town!

Stop flooding every post with your yeye meme. You're wasting my precious data unnecessarily

Russia will likely set up another government after taking Kyiv.
But its army can never leave in order to protect whichever puppet is in charge.
Afghanistan 2.0 loading.

Coward! 4th round of severe sanctions on the way. Sanctions and blockade would have made safe miracles in Iraq but the intention was different

JosephXavier:
I've seen the plan of Vladimir Putin

He wants to round up kyiv, their seat of power and force them to surrender or, if they fail to surrender and the resistance continues, smoke their president out and murder him as US murdered Gaddafi

He is implementing it gradually and things are working according to script for him in the expense of the lives of his soldiers

Wives loosing their husbands, children loosing their fathers, mothers loosing their sons, friends loosing friends and family loosing their loved ones

It's a terrible situation which shouldn't be experienced

If Ukraine president would agree, he should seek a diplomatic end to these because most nations who they thought would support them failed them leaving and to their fate

As Igbo guy men will say "ugba Na personal" meaning that it is Ukraine territory that is being destroyed and bombarded and it's citizens being rendered homeless and their lives destroyed

Things will never be the same again in Ukraine after this

The rebuilding process won't be easy

It is time to resolve this politically

US and European Union don't want a nuclear war

We in Africa have relatives in Europe who might be affected if push comes to shove, even if the war didn't get down to Africa

We are not even safe from the nuclear fall out if the bomb explodes in Europe

Realists:
Africa was never safe from the Evil west monopoly & death merchants. Imagine the bad effects of Gaddafi government being toppled by them.
Karma is serving European union & USA the profiliration of arms, death, economic collapse the way they did Africa.

Utter Nonsense!

NwaNimo1:
Putin must visit......

[img]https://c./7ow-MNsqzfwAAAAC/putin-vladimir-putin.gif[/img]

.....na so him go enter town!

Hahahaha...did you Photoshop Vince McMahon into Putin or what?

Born2conquer:
Ukraine is winning on social media

ur lord has initiated another round of talk, ceasefire is on the table according to Russian officials. Let's give these guys some credit for thier resistance

msrcusgarvey6:
Coward! 4th round of severe sanctions on the way. Sanctions and blockade would have made safe miracles in Iraq but the intention was different

First of all, you can comment without going on the offensive

Secondly, Do you really think Putin didn't think all these through before making that decision??

Putin is not as dumb as some African leaders

Need I remind you that he was once a KGB?

These are not ordinary intelligent officers neither are they Nigerian soldiers

Average IQ person can't be in KGB

Uprightness100:
What is happening in Ukraine is really unfortunate but I tell u, this war is not really about Ukraine. What is Happening in Ukraine goes beyond Ukraine.

The Exercise in Ukraine is all about Putin(Gog) Expelling the Sleeping Giant aaka Nomerica from Europe.
It is all about Changing the Security architecture in Europe, which will Have Direct Implications in the Middle East and Globally.

Israel is his target! If he achieves his aim in Ukraine, Israel will be the next as Russia, Iran, turkey and the many people and Nations will come for Her. They will Surround Israel to Choke and finish but something Mysterious will happen that will Shake the Earth.

If you Desire to know what will Happen to them, come with me to

Ezekiel 38:18-23


Also see Ezekiel 39:2,7-8
Be on alert folks! These are the End of the Endtimes! The Rapture can Happen anymoment! KING JESUS is coming

Shut up !! In the next 1,000yrs the world still Exist, with your little brain you want to decode the biblical prophecies, Something people 10x intelligent than you could’nt do is what one stupid deeper life gay tryna do, you better stop disgracing yourself here or try predicting nairabet game slowpoke !!!

Uprightness100:
What is happening in Ukraine is really unfortunate but I tell u, this war is not really about Ukraine. What is Happening in Ukraine goes beyond Ukraine.

The Exercise in Ukraine is all about Putin(Gog) Expelling the Sleeping Giant aaka Nomerica from Europe.
It is all about Changing the Security architecture in Europe, which will Have Direct Implications in the Middle East and Globally.

Israel is his target! If he achieves his aim in Ukraine, Israel will be the next as Russia, Iran, turkey and the many people and Nations will come for Her. They will Surround Israel to Choke and finish but something Mysterious will happen that will Shake the Earth.

If you Desire to know what will Happen to them, come with me to

Ezekiel 38:18-23


Also see Ezekiel 39:2,7-8
Be on alert folks! These are the End of the Endtimes! The Rapture can Happen anymoment! KING JESUS is coming

Werey

If Zelensky only agrees to a ceasefire when he sees he will be caught, Putin will kill him

Even if Putin takes over Ukraine now but he doesn't know what awaits him. He go be like film trick . It might take little time

naptu2:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2/russian-military-says-has-control-of-kherson-in-southern-ukraine

donforeign:
This matter dn tire me abeg ..
Ukraine try abeg.....
All those nairaland warlord wey say na so 10seconds Ukraine dn finish , how una see am ..yeye people...
Ukraine una try abeg. U have my respect for life

One thing u must know is that Russia only used 10 percent of her military might. Lol, Russia wanted to a complete military warfare that involves 50 percent of her military might, omo, Ukraine would have seen fire.

Ask ur self why USA and the west didn't attack Russia as they have done in countries like Libya. It is because the USA and her allies have vital information about the military might of Russian armed forces. If this were to be a s nation, USA and her allies would have attacked Russia.
No European country wishes to attack Russia. Ukraine has begged them tire but they have refused.

Ovhayu:
Regardless of how bad the west is trying to paint Russia, they're making progress?

What's this one talking about. It's a shame they are still making progress and not taken it over.

Princedapace:
One thing u must know is that Russia only used 10 percent of her military might. Lol, Russia wanted to a complete military warfare that involves 50 percent of her military might, omo, Ukraine would have seen fire.

Ask ur self why USA and the west didn't attack Russia as they have done in countries like Libya. It is because the USA and her allies have vital information about the military might of Russian armed forces. If this were to be a s nation, USA and her allies would have attacked Russia.
No European country wishes to attack Russia. Ukraine has begged them tire but they have refused.

Russia war planner u do well o. Let them send 100% military now. How u tke know say Ukraine dn beg tire ? Stop adding too much Maggi. Let Russia attach any NATO countries and if there's no retaliation, I will take Dem serious. Putti just they opress Ukraine cos they don't have nukes and they have bigger military that all. Na Russiana go suffer am last last.

On the road in eastern Ukraine, everywhere is the front line
Al Jazeera witnesses the scramble to defend eastern Ukrainian cities as Russian forces close in.
Empty streets of Mariupol on February 26 [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]
By Liz Cookman
Mariupol and Dnipro, Ukraine – On the morning we intend to leave Mariupol, it’s not yet clear if it’s possible to get out – there are reports the city has been surrounded by Russian forces and artillery attacks reverberate through the grey sky like thunder.
I had been in Mariupol for almost one month, but after Russia crossed the border on February 24, it was not so much a matter of if the port city in eastern Ukraine would be targeted in the advance, but when.
The city is key to President Vladimir Putin’s plans to establish a land corridor between Russia, breakaway territories in the Donbas region, and annexed Crimea. Cargo that passes through the port is key to Ukraine’s economy.
Mariupol’s eastern suburbs, 10km (six miles) from the front line with Russian-backed separatists, have already suffered years of violence, but during the last week, Russian troops have moved in from every direction and the area has been pounded incessantly with rockets and other projectiles.
Each day, the fighting on the outskirts of the city moves closer to the centre, the cracks and booms growing louder.
A school is destroyed. People watch from the window as burning orange flashes fly through the sky, wondering if their building is next.
The city has suffered casualties, although an exact figure is not clear.
At the city’s main hospital, I interview generous-hearted Ukrainians donating blood for the injured.
New military checkpoints spring up seemingly in moments, blocking roads with hastily felled trees, while a petrol station attendant advises my car full of journalists to leave and get far as far away as possible as it hurriedly shuts its doors, presumably expecting an imminent attack.
There is often no electricity, no heat and no internet. Friends I’ve never heard swear before start cursing.
This region speaks mostly Russian, many have relatives in Russia – the killings are a crime that is hard to compute.
Ukrainians now face a terrible choice: stay and face weeks, perhaps months, of deadly assault, or try to leave for the uncertainty of dangerous open roads and a life displaced.
But trains and buses out of Mariupol have stopped and for many, the window to escape safely may have already gone.
A translator, sick of nights in dusty bunkers, plans to come with us if we go but then can’t bring herself to leave her parents behind. They don’t have the paperwork they might need later, especially if they need to flee the country, and her father is of fighting age – it’s uncertain if he can travel.
On Friday, a soldier at the front sends me a message: “We barely got out alive yesterday. We have pulled back.”
“Welcome Russia!” a neighbour cried into the night sky as we debated whether to stay or go. What happens in a city surrounded by enemy troops if some residents want them there, but most do not? Stories of Russian saboteurs abound across the country, but are even more potent in a city that was once considered pro-Russian.
It was another uncertainty we did not want to risk.
As we drive out of the city on Sunday, I and a small group of two photographers, including Emre Caylak – also working for Al Jazeera, and a radio journalist, notice that a mural of the trident coat of arms of Ukraine has been crossed out with graffiti.
We are privileged in having the means to escape; we drive out from the northeast and are allowed to leave, even though there are rumours that Ukrainians who tried to were not. “Watch out for mines,” the checkpoint guard soldier tells us.
The landscape of flat, open agricultural fields feels both a comfort – we can see for hundreds of metres all around as – and a curse for its lack of shelter. The road is littered with burned-out cars, churned up mud from the tracks of tanks and all along soldiers are setting up new checkpoints.
As we pass cities, troops prepare to defend them, scrambling to dig new trenches. On the outskirts, villagers take down road signs to confuse Russian troops. Iron anti-tank barriers known as Czech hedgehogs are scattered everywhere.
Ukrainians taking down road signs to confuse Russian forces [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]
To our south, Melitopol and Berdyansk have reportedly been occupied by Russian forces. We are heading for industrial hub Dnipro, approximately 300km (186 miles) from Mariupol on the western side of the Dneiper river that marks the start of eastern Ukraine.
So far the city has mercifully seen less violence than Kharkiv to its north, where attacks – allegedly with cluster bombs – have been called war crimes by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, some military experts believe there is a plan to take cities to the north and south of Dnipro, before sweeping down to cut off the east up to the border with Russia.
Passing through the country, it is clear to us that nowhere is safe in this war, and everywhere is the front line.
As we skim the city of Tomak, we get a call to say it has likely been occupied. The stress of the situation has everyone paranoid – we stop for coffee and to take a picture and a woman demands we show our ID.
In Zaporizhzhia, we get petrol and there’s a news flash that the Russians are moving in on the city’s nuclear power station. Nowhere did we see more frantic attempts to fortify the city than here.
Arriving into Dnipro after hours of travelling and checkpoints, we can finally breathe again. It is a city of grand Soviet buildings and open streets, and while Mariupol felt suspicious and stifling, Dnipro has united in efforts to coordinate humanitarian aid to others.
We see people collecting food, water, clothing, and even making Molotov cocktails to throw at tanks.
Identities change before your eyes, as people acquire new labels that could define their future: volunteer, refugee, soldier, widow.
It’s only days since the start of this terrible war, but it feels like it has been months. Time has become lost in a stream of phone notifications, each one could bring news of more disaster, while every loud noise is a possible attack.
Days no longer have the same structure – instead of time for work and time for rest, they are divided by sirens and no sirens; before curfew and after.
Makeshift bomb shelters in places that long served as storage for broken furniture and knick-knacks are now a lifeline, with residents filing in to check long-ignored electricity cables and put in light bulbs, and to sweep away huge, draping cobwebs and years of accumulated dust.
By 9:30pm on our first night in Dnipro, the sirens sound for the sixth time and we head into our hotel’s shelter again.
A child works on his homework, practising reading aloud, learning literacy skills for a future I desperately hope will be peaceful.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
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The Truth is coming out but the World need peace....

4 hours ago (21:49 GMT)
Kherson mayor says Russian troops in the streets
The mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, Igor Kolykhayev, has said Russian troops were in the streets and had forced their way into the city council building, the Reuters news agency reported.
Ukraine’s government had earlier played down reports that Kherson had fallen into Russian hands.
Kolykhayev urged Russian soldiers not to shoot at civilians and publicly called on residents to walk through the streets only in daylight and in ones and twos. “We do not have the Armed Forces in the city, only civilians and people who want to LIVE here!” he said in a statement.
The city is under Russian soldiers’ “complete control”, Russia’s Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said separately.
He said that the city’s civilian infrastructure, essential facilities and transport are operating as usual and that there are no shortages of food or essential goods.

US now indirectly calling for diplomacy...

ICC to begin investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine
Prosecutor says referrals by dozens of countries after Russian invasion enables court to ‘immediately’ launch probe.
A local militiaman carries a child as he helps a fleeing family across a bridge destroyed by artillery, on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, March 2 [File: Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]
By Al Jazeera Staff
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has said he will “immediately proceed” with an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine dating back to 2013, when protests erupted against a Russia-friendly government in Kyiv.
Karim A A Khan said late on Wednesday that the probe was starting after 39 countries that are parties to the Rome Statute that established the court –
including Canada and France – petitioned the ICC to begin an investigation.
“These referrals enable my Office to proceed with opening an investigation into the Situation in Ukraine from 21 November 2013 onwards,” Khan said in a statement, adding that its scope would encompass “any past and present allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide committed on any part of the territory of Ukraine by any person”.
The announcement comes a week after
Russia launched an all-out attack on Ukraine, drawing condemnation and sanctions from major world powers.
The ICC prosecutor had made public his intention to launch an investigation on Monday, saying that there was a “reasonable basis” to believe that war crimes have occurred during the conflict.
“I have notified the ICC Presidency a few moments ago of my decision to immediately proceed with active investigations in the Situation. Our work in the collection of evidence has now commenced,” Khan said in Wednesday’s statement.
Established in 2002, the Hague-based court investigates and prosecutes genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Last week, Khan warned the warring parties that his office had jurisdiction over Ukraine because the Ukrainian government accepted the ICC’s mandate in 2015, despite the country initially not being a party to the Rome Statute.
In the days since Russian troops began their offensive last Thursday, the violence has intensified in several major Ukrainian cities, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to flee the country in search of safety.
Russian forces entered the southern port city of Kherson late on Wednesday, its mayor was cited as saying by the Reuters news agency and The New York Times.
But the Russian military’s advance on the capital Kyiv “remains stalled”, the Pentagon said earlier in the day, as Moscow’s forces regroup and face logistical challenges and Ukrainian resistance.
The United States established a task force on Wednesday to go after wealthy Russians in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, vowing to seize their assets and to ensure that a series of financial restrictions are being enforced.
But as the fighting in Ukraine continues, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said diplomacy was still possible to resolve the crisis.
“It’s much more difficult for diplomacy to succeed when guns are firing, tanks are rolling, planes are flying,” Blinken told reporters. “But if Russia pulls back and pursues diplomacy, we stand ready to do the same thing.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

People of colour struggle to escape Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine rejects claims of discrimination by border guards and says it operates on a ‘first come, first served’ approach.
Universities across Ukraine have been popular with international students due to the high-quality education on offer and relatively low fees [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
By Amanda Coakley
Záhony, Ukraine-Hungary border – After six years in Ukraine, Ayoub, a 25-year-old Moroccan pharmacy student, had built a life he was proud of in Kharkiv, a city in the country’s northeast. He learned the Russian language, which is widely spoken in the city of 1.4 million, studied Ukrainian culture, and made friends from around the world. He was due to graduate in three months, but
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced him to flee the country, and exposed him to a level of racism he had not previously experienced.
Initially, he had planned to wait out the invasion in Kharkiv, hoping the Russian assault would stop. But when that possibility appeared increasingly unlikely, he joined classmates to make a long trek across the country to the Polish border.
In Lviv, a city 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Polish frontier, it became clear to Ayoub that he, along with other non-white international students, would be stopped by Ukrainian guards from leaving the country.
“They wanted Ukrainians to go first, so it was white people who got priority. Taxi drivers were also charging us crazy money, but I thought there will always be opportunists, even in war. It wasn’t until I reached one of the ‘checkpoints’ on the approach to the Polish border that I was actually pushed back and told to wait,” he told Al Jazeera.
Instead of waiting, he decided to try crossing into Hungary, where he arrived on Wednesday.
“When I spoke to the guards in Russian, they told me I should be speaking Ukrainian and questioned whose side I was on. That was really upsetting because I had worked so hard to learn Russian, not just speak it, but read and write it as well.”
Moroccan students board a train to Budapest [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
Universities across Ukraine have attracted international students due to the high-quality education on offer for relatively low fees, ranging between $4,000 and $5,000 a year.
Students from countries such as India, Nigeria, and Morocco have helped to make Kharkiv a vibrant university city and their fees have contributed to the local economy. Many have stayed in Ukraine after graduating and taken jobs in the country’s hospitals and businesses.
But some international students said their schools did not offer them assistance to leave the country as Russian forces launched the invasion. In an email seen by Al Jazeera, dated February 24, the day of the invasion, students at one university received an email notifying them that classes would move online. Two days later, students at the same institution received an email announcing a “vacation” from February 28 to March 12.
“No one helped us to leave or coordinated anything, we were just left on our own,” said Deborah, a 19-year-old student from northern Nigeria. She asked Al Jazeera not to use her real name.
“My friends went to the Polish border and were treated awfully by the Ukrainian guards. It wasn’t just Black people like me; it was anyone who wasn’t white,” she added.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuted allegations of discrimination by border guards and said it operated on a “first come, first served approach” that “applies to all nationalities” with priority given to women, children, and elderly people in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Ayoub is annoyed that his teachers still expect him back in class on March 12. “I understand they want to keep morale high, but I am afraid they will charge us, or stop our studies if we don’t go back. I don’t understand why they cannot just suspend everything until further notice.” The experience has been so emotionally draining, Ayoub doesn’t think he will ever feel the same way about Ukraine again.
It is a sentiment shared by Deborah and her sister Aliyah, 19, who also studies in Ukraine. “This country has given me so much. The people of Ukraine don’t deserve this war and like everyone, I cannot understand why this has happened. Seeing pictures of these beautiful cities being shelled is awful. But I’ve seen a side that I cannot forget,” Aliyah added.
In recent days, word has spread among the international students fleeing Ukraine that they will likely have an easier time crossing into Hungary than Poland due to the smaller numbers of people waiting to get in. Of the refugees Al Jazeera spoke to, none reported problems boarding a train to the small Hungarian village of Záhony.
“I can see when you’re under crazy pressure and your country is being attacked you can act in terrible ways, but at the end of the day, everyone was running from the same danger,” said Deborah.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

JosephXavier:
I've seen the plan of Vladimir Putin

He wants to round up kyiv, their seat of power and force them to surrender or, if they fail to surrender and the resistance continues, smoke their president out and murder him as US murdered Gaddafi

He is implementing it gradually and things are working according to script for him but at the expense of the lives of his soldiers

Wives loosing their husbands, children loosing their fathers, mothers loosing their sons, friends loosing friends and family loosing their loved ones

It's a terrible situation which shouldn't be experienced

If Ukraine president would agree, he should seek a diplomatic end to these because most nations who they thought would support them failed them leaving and to their fate

As Igbo guy men will say "ugba Na personal" meaning that it is Ukraine territory that is being destroyed and bombarded and it's citizens being rendered homeless and their lives destroyed

Things will never be the same again in Ukraine after this

The rebuilding process won't be easy

It is time to resolve this politically

US and European Union don't want a nuclear war

We in Africa have relatives in Europe who might be affected if push comes to shove, even if the war didn't get down to Africa

We are not even safe from the nuclear fall out if the bomb explodes in Europe

Putin knows what he's doing, at least if sanctions would work, he'd have slowed down by now.

The Ukrainian president should tell the world he's not joining NATO and he's not a satellite country of Russia - they're neutral. So he can find peace for his people. He must have realized by now that he is on his own.

“It’s much more difficult for diplomacy to succeed when guns are firing, tanks are rolling, planes are flying,” Blinken told reporters. “But if Russia pulls back and pursues diplomacy, we stand ready to do the same thing.”

Shegiya United States. They should not have allowed Ukraine to go into this in the first place - it's unnecessary.

I know everyone will go back to Putin. What America does not accept should not be allowed on others.

gamechanger547:
The Truth is coming out but the World need peace....

4 hours ago (21:49 GMT)
Kherson mayor says Russian troops in the streets
The mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, Igor Kolykhayev, has said Russian troops were in the streets and had forced their way into the city council building, the Reuters news agency reported.
Ukraine’s government had earlier played down reports that Kherson had fallen into Russian hands.
Kolykhayev urged Russian soldiers not to shoot at civilians and publicly called on residents to walk through the streets only in daylight and in ones and twos. “We do not have the Armed Forces in the city, only civilians and people who want to LIVE here!” he said in a statement.
The city is under Russian soldiers’ “complete control”, Russia’s Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said separately.
He said that the city’s civilian infrastructure, essential facilities and transport are operating as usual and that there are no shortages of food or essential goods.

The propaganda is too much. They even claim to have killed 6000 Russian soldiers. Lies everywhere.

This is like an act of terrorism, NATO fighter jets should bomb all these Russian tanks from the sky.

CoronaVirusPro:
That's a USA military hardware FGM-148

That's the beauty of America!


.......That's just the way it is.....

They cannot feed the poor but have money for wars

you should have just stopped at the 3 lines of statement. The 4th line is dumb to type in a public space

Caseless:
Putin knows what he's doing, at least if sanctions would work, he'd have slowed down by now.

The Ukrainian president should tell the world he's not joining NATO and he's not a satellite country of Russia - they're neutral. So he can find peace for his people. He must have realized by now that he is on his own.

Very simple

All the countries in NATO, how much have they benefited from it?

They only become US puppet

sleek82:
you should have just stopped at the 3 lines of statement. The 4th line is dumb to type in a public space

Are you kidding me?

A line by Tupac Shakur?

Tell me something else please

Caseless:
The propaganda is too much. They even claim to have killed 6000 Russian soldiers. Lies everywhere.

The now claim they have killed 9,000 Russian soldiers while they're the ones going down.

The Russians haven't committed their full combat troops and equipment presently in Ukraine in combat against them even with them firing from Civilian areas and using civilians as human shield.

Ukraine need to seek for peace and end this conflict before it fully escalate beyond what they can handle.

Peace is always better than War.

US Suspend ballistic Missile test Previously set for this week to avoid escalation with Russia.

Al Jazeera news.

7 hours ago (21:18 GMT)
US postpones ballistic missile test: Pentagon
The Pentagon says the US has postponed an intercontinental ballistic missile test previously set for this week to avoid escalation with Russia.
“In an effort to demonstrate that we have no intention in engaging in any actions that can be misunderstood or misconstrued, the secretary of defense has directed that our Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test launch scheduled for this week to be postponed,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
“We did not take this decision lightly, but instead to demonstrate that we are a responsible nuclear power.”

because Russia is taking things easy with them because they are brothers? Putin objective of the war is different from what you western fools think. [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]

donforeign:
This matter dn tire me abeg ..
Ukraine try abeg.....
All those nairaland warlord wey say na so 10seconds Ukraine dn finish , how una see am ..yeye people...
Ukraine una try abeg. U have my respect for life

msrcusgarvey6:
Coward! 4th round of severe sanctions on the way. Sanctions and blockade would have made safe miracles in Iraq but the intention was different

You guys easily deceive yourselves.