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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg:
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What is Elon Musk whispering in Trump's ears?

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by SpaceX: 5:05am On Feb 03, 2025
World president taking action
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 5:20am On Feb 03, 2025
SpaceX:
World president taking action
President for only you and your family.

If na world president why dem slap Tarriffs back on am? lol

Canada and Mexico don ban US products from their shelves.

Only fools like you still clinging to the old world think the US is great and infallible.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 6:13am On Feb 03, 2025
⚡Los Angeles law enforcement officers are planning for a massive arrest following a massive anti-ice protest that’s taking place in downtown Los Angeles
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dvdpity: 6:42am On Feb 03, 2025
WritterNg:
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Meddling in South African affairs. What has south African lands has to do with apartheid trump?
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by lanre316: 6:53am On Feb 03, 2025
freakyamanda:
So who is going to defend the native Americans from the US govt? Russia and China can now start bombing US for their atrocities against them.
What's stopping them? Let them go ahead
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by christopher123(m): 7:15am On Feb 03, 2025
dermmy:
Off course they are 6th gen prototypes. Do they look like your usual 4th/5th gen aircrafts. Oh may be you are confused cause they don't look like f22 and f-35 which you claimed Russia and China copied😂.
Leave that dude ...he is confused
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Watcharena: 7:46am On Feb 03, 2025
US is now in a Position that if they act , they're doomed ,if they don't act , they're still doomed
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by lanre316: 8:00am On Feb 03, 2025
Watcharena:
US is now in a Position that if they act , they're doomed ,if they don't act , they're still doomed
Uneasy is head that wears the crown.

USA has always faced that dilemma all through their history of greatness

Here are some historical instances where the United States found itself in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation:

Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Acting : Increased military involvement led to significant casualties, financial strain, and domestic unrest.
Not Acting : Risked the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, contradicting the policy of containment.


Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)
Acting : The failed rescue mission damaged U.S. prestige and resulted in loss of life.
Not Acting : Appeared weak and indecisive on the international stage, emboldening adversaries.


Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Acting : The invasion failed, leading to embarrassment and strained relations with Latin America.
Not Acting : Could have been perceived as unwillingness to counter communist expansion, particularly concerning Cuba.


Iraq War (2003-2011)
Acting : Invasion and occupation led to prolonged conflict, high casualties, and financial costs.
Not Acting : Risked leaving Saddam Hussein in power, potentially allowing continued human rights abuses and regional instability.


Syrian Civil War (2011-present)
Acting : Military intervention could lead to another prolonged conflict and geopolitical complications.
Not Acting : Allowed humanitarian crises to worsen and extremist groups to gain footholds.


Afghanistan War (2001-2021)
Acting : Continued military presence led to significant loss of life and resources with no clear end.
Not Acting : Withdrawal risked destabilizing the region further and allowing terrorist organizations to regroup.


Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Acting : Military action against Cuba could have escalated into nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Not Acting : Allowing Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba would have shifted the strategic balance and threatened U.S. security.


Korean War (1950-1953)
Acting : Engaging in conflict risked escalation with China and the Soviet Union, leading to high casualties.
Not Acting : North Korean aggression could have led to the fall of South Korea, altering the geopolitical landscape in Asia.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by lanre316: 8:09am On Feb 03, 2025
Additionally, here are some historical instances where the United States either failed to act or acted too late , leading to significant calamities, humanitarian crises, or geopolitical consequences:


The Rise of Nazi Germany (1930s)
Failure to Act : The U.S. initially adopted an isolationist stance, refusing to intervene in Europe as Adolf Hitler consolidated power and expanded Nazi influence.
Consequences : Delayed action allowed Nazi Germany to invade neighboring countries, commit atrocities, and initiate World War II, resulting in millions of deaths and the Holocaust.


The Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)
Failure to Act : The U.S., despite being aware of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, did not intervene militarily or diplomatically.
Consequences : Approximately 1.5 million Armenians were killed, setting a precedent for future genocides and emboldening perpetrators of ethnic cleansing.



The Rwandan Genocide (1994)
Failure to Act : The U.S. and the international community hesitated to intervene as Hutu extremists slaughtered Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Consequences : An estimated 800,000 people were killed in just 100 days. The lack of intervention was later described by President Bill Clinton as one of his greatest regrets.



The Bosnian War and Srebrenica Massacre (1992-1995)
Failure to Act : The U.S. and NATO delayed military intervention as ethnic cleansing and genocide occurred in Bosnia.
Consequences : Over 100,000 people died, including 8,000 Bosniak men and boys massacred in Srebrenica, labeled as Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 8:35am On Feb 03, 2025
⚡Elon Musk says he discussed USAID with President Trump who agrees that it is beyond repair and should be shut down.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 8:37am On Feb 03, 2025
⚡A car bomb attack in Manbij killed 15 civilians and wounded 15 others.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 9:57am On Feb 03, 2025
WritterNg:
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What is Elon Musk whispering in Trump's ears?
lol..elon has his signature all over this
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 9:58am On Feb 03, 2025
EU is finished, they are going to buy expensive US LNG and also increase defense spending, while trying to stay competitive with China which Russia now supplies cheap gas 😂😂
Trump tariffs is coming to EU.. Russia with over 6000 sanctions will just be laughing
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by DystopianMuse(f): 10:31am On Feb 03, 2025
dvkot:
EU is finished, they are going to buy expensive US LNG and also increase defense spending, while trying to stay competitive with China which Russia now supplies cheap gas 😂😂
Trump tariffs is coming to EU.. Russia with over 6000 sanctions will just be laughing
LOL. CLOWN IN ALL THIS WHAT IS RUSSIAS POSITION.. USELESS AS USUAL 😄😄😄😄😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 10:56am On Feb 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
THE OLD WORLD ORDER IS OVER!!

WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD.
🌎
💯

DEAD AND BURIED.

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 11:03am On Feb 03, 2025
By the way, who else has noticed that the bleating to strike Iran, particularly its nuclear facilities has significantly reduced if not ceased, since Iran started its year-long military exercise?

The only language the Hegemony understands is strength.
If you like be meek, you'll get destruction and chaos.

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 11:42am On Feb 03, 2025
WriteerNg:
THE OLD WORLD ORDER IS OVER!!

WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD.
🌎
Ladies and gentlemen, Secretary of State Marco Rubio with the sauce:

Well, and that’s the way the world has always worked. The way the world has always worked is that the Chinese will do what’s in the best interests of China, the Russians will do what’s in the best interest of Russia, the Chileans are going to do what’s in the best interest of Chile, and the United States needs to do what’s in the best interest of the United States. Where our interests align, that’s where you have partnerships and alliances; where our differences are not aligned, that is where the job of diplomacy is to prevent conflict while still furthering our national interests and understanding they’re going to further theirs. And that’s been lost.

And I think that was lost at the end of the Cold War, because we were the only power in the world, and so we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem. And there are terrible things happening in the world. There are. And then there are things that are terrible that impact our national interest directly, and we need to prioritize those again. So it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was not – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet. We face that now with China and to some extent Russia, and then you have rogue states like Iran and North Korea you have to deal with.
Sourced from the official State Department website. Transcript of his interview with Megyn Kelly.
https://www.state.gov/secretary-marco-rubio-with-megyn-kelly-of-the-megyn-kelly-show/

The old world order is dead and buried.
Everyone on the planet is on the same page on that.

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 11:57am On Feb 03, 2025
DystopianMuse:
LOL. CLOWN IN ALL THIS WHAT IS RUSSIAS POSITION.. USELESS AS USUAL 😄😄😄😄😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol.. Wetin concern Russia...it's your helper that's putting a tariff on you.. Who will you run to? China or Iran, people are even calling for Canada to join BRICS 😂😂
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 12:00pm On Feb 03, 2025
My position has not changed, i want chaos and destabilization to be between US and it colonies... Weather it's thorough Trump tariffs of elon musk e no concern me grin
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by 23jerryking(m): 1:44pm On Feb 03, 2025
I wanted to compare the so much talked about DeepSeek AI vs ChatGPT but the incessant server problem on DeepSeek is not making it easy at all. For now let's leave that table. Perhaps sometime in the near future we can actually be able to tell apart one from the other as far as results are concerned.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:55pm On Feb 03, 2025
Use qwen 2.5
New China Ai
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:56pm On Feb 03, 2025
DeepSeek is under attack

Qwen 2.5 Ai is the next that China brought out while they find a way to fix over loading in DeepSeek
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 2:00pm On Feb 03, 2025
⚡Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday slammed trade wars as “unnecessary and stupid”, as US President Donald Trump threatens to target Europe with a volley of tariffs.

“We have to do everything to avoid these totally unnecessary and stupid tariff walls or trade wars,” Tusk, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told reporters as he arrived for leaders’ talks in Brussels.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 2:00pm On Feb 03, 2025
Open Ai chat gpt have improved after China brought out DeepSeek

So gpt is a little bit on top

But now that qwen 2.5
Added text to video mode

It climbed to the top
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 2:07pm On Feb 03, 2025
⚡"Buy Canadian Instead"

Canada's British Columbia liquor stores removed alcohol from US in response to Trump tariffs.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 2:10pm On Feb 03, 2025
23jerryking:
I wanted to compare the so much talked about DeepSeek AI vs ChatGPT but the incessant server problem on DeepSeek is not making it easy at all. For now let's leave that table. Perhaps sometime in the near future we can actually be able to tell apart one from the other as far as results are concerned.
You're right on this.

I suspect it might be due to traffic and cyber attacks.

There are reports that DeepSeek suffered cyber attacks as large as the entire internet traffic in Europe.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 2:31pm On Feb 03, 2025
⚡More than 600 USAID employees have being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. The rest received emails saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3rd.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Watcharena: 2:39pm On Feb 03, 2025
US is in for a long thing
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 2:46pm On Feb 03, 2025
Watcharena:
US is in for a long thing
I keep saying it.

Russia was placed in this world to check the excesses of the US/West.

Their troubles started when they started attacking Russia.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 2:52pm On Feb 03, 2025
⚡Canada's Ontario Premier Doug Ford:

Starting today and until U.S. tariffs are removed, Ontario is banning American companies from provincial contracts.

We’re going one step further. We’ll be ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink. Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 3:26pm On Feb 03, 2025
⚡Trump says spoke to Canada's Trudeau on tariffs, will speak again later Monday - AFP
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