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Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by AndroBlaze: 10:28pm On Apr 22, 2025
WriterrNg:
The Afghanistan war took the US how many years again??

Oh I remember, 20 years. Did the US defeat the Taliban? No

And this is the poorest country in the world with no money or support from anyone like Ukraine. A bunch of goat herders with rusty AKs walking bare footed.

How much was wasted again? $4 Trillion. Before they finally fled in disgrace. We all watched it on television. It wasn't even that long ago.

Oh I forgot to add that the entire 30 NATO nations donated troops, money and weapons to help the US fight the poorest nation in the world.


The day you'll realize how weak the US is.... Is the day they fight a proper army with advanced weaponry like Ukraine. They've only fought rag tag militias throughout their entire history, and they haven't even won any.

In January 2022, Ukraine had the largest land and mechanized army in Europe, second only to Russia. The U.S/NATO armed Ukraine to the teeth for 10 solid years, Google it. Ukraine is also the largest country in Europe.

The Ukraine war is the bloodiest and most sophisticated war in history. US military leaders said so, not me.
Oga USA defeated Taliban within days as they even surrendered....the fact that they came back 20 years later to overun a government supported by the USA does not change the fact that they were defeated within days.

Or do we now say that the Syrian ragtag rebels defeated Russia instead of Assad in Syria because Russia was still supporting him and fighting the war for him after years of their initial success?

Anyway, when the Ukrainian war started practically every military power and top analyst (which includes the Pentagon and CIA) expected Russia to defeat Ukraine in a matter of days, even Putin himself thought so...we were all alive then so please stop rewriting history to make your failed bully come Tyrant look better.


https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/kyiv-russia-ukraine-us-intelligence/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-within-72-hours-if-russia-decides-to-invade-ukraine-sources.amp

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-Putin-lost-in-10-days
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Ubenedictus(m): 10:29pm On Apr 22, 2025
TechCapon:
he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided
you know the pope never said any of that
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by WriterrNg: 10:44pm On Apr 22, 2025
AndroBlaze:
Oga USA defeated Taliban within days as they even surrendered....the fact that they came back 20 years later to overun a government supported by the USA does not change the fact that they were defeated within days. Or do we now say that the Syrian ragtag rebels defeated Russia instead of Assad in Syria because Russia was still supporting him and fighting the war for him after years of their initial success?

Anyway, when the Ukrainian war started practically every military power and top analyst (which includes the Pentagon and CIA) expected Russia to defeat Ukraine in a matter of days, even Putin himself thought so...we were all alive then so please stop rewriting history to make your failure of your Tyrant look better.


https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/kyiv-russia-ukraine-us-intelligence/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-within-72-hours-if-russia-decides-to-invade-ukraine-sources.amp

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-Putin-lost-in-10-days
So who's in power right now in Afghanistan? Since the US already defeated them in days. Or what does loss mean in your own dictionary?

Where is the US today? In Afghanistan?

Stupid comparison.

Russia is still in Syria, currently backing the current Syrian regime. They're working on several joint projects together even.

Putin never said he'll defeat Ukraine in days. Ever!

Russia currently occupies 20% of Ukraine, in only 3 years. Russia now controls 70% of Ukraine's mineral resources, including rare earth metals which are situated in the territories under Russian control.

The difference between Russia and the United States is that when Russia takes any territory, it is permanent. Check their history, that is how Russia got so big. Ukraine is never getting them back.

The paper tiger US have been unable to successfully hold onto any territory for long, even though they've only fought weak and poor ragtag militias.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by omat20(m): 10:46pm On Apr 22, 2025
Na lie. Russia is predominantly orthodox Christianity. They have their leader and don't plege allegiance to Pope of the Catholic church
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by TechCapon(m): 10:55pm On Apr 22, 2025
Ubenedictus:
you know the pope never said any of that
but under his reign, gay marriage was accepted by the catholic church
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Sherishmi1: 11:01pm On Apr 22, 2025
Tinubu fit say he wan go Vatican for the burial this weekend again bayi
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by AndroBlaze: 11:02pm On Apr 22, 2025
WriterrNg:
So who's in power right now in Afghanistan? Since the US already defeated them in days. Or what does loss mean in your own dictionary?

Where is the US today? In Afghanistan?

Stupid comparison.

Russia is still in Syria, currently backing the current Syrian regime. They're working on several joint projects together even.

Putin never said he'll defeat Ukraine in days. Ever!

Russia currently occupies 20% of Ukraine, in only 3 years. Russia now controls 70% of Ukraine's mineral resources, including rare earth metals which are situated in the territories under Russian control.

The difference between Russia and the United States is that when Russia takes any territory, it is permanent. Check their history, that is how Russia got so big. Ukraine is never getting them back.

The paper tiger US have been unable to successfully hold onto any territory for long, even though they've only fought weak and poor ragtag militias.
I am clearly wasting my time on a silly Soviet apologist looking to rewrite history.

So in your mind Taliban came back after 20 years to defeat USA, but Syrian Rebels who only needed 5 years to come back and defeat Russia does not count because Russia still have a base their....lol lol lol....

In fact I hope you get your Biafra...as you will then say you came back after 70 years to defeat Nigeria, UK and USA combined and never surrendered in 1970. Clown.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr7rkzz2gmo.amp
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by elonize(m): 11:14pm On Apr 22, 2025
OLAADEGBU:
[color=orange]SaharaReporters[/color]
shey as e get nuclear weapons. ICC respect their selves..if na Africa here,dem go dey fly go d country to mk arrest.
Putin say e dey house,mk those ICC ppo go der go arrest am 1st I 1 c smtin😁
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by tnerro1(m): 11:28pm On Apr 22, 2025
TechCapon:
he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided
The bot will some ban you, said the same thing and was banned for some hours, and any thing on pope i no fit comment during those hours
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by thinkmoney(m): 12:34am On Apr 23, 2025
themosthigh:
That is to show you that Russia is a 3rd rate power. Even Isreali prime minster is under international arrest warrant and he travels everywhere. Even the Saudi Crown prince can go anywhere after butchering someone. Can you imagine someone trying to even arrest an American president or even ex president. Them no born you well. B 2 bomber go dey air, and A 10 warthog go straff una whole country.
see, don’t talk in the affirmative if you are ignorant. It irritates some of us and we are tempted to curse.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Charbliss90: 1:13am On Apr 23, 2025
Your education is a waste [noquote author=TechCapon post=135086843]he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided[/quote]
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by XploraBen(m): 2:48am On Apr 23, 2025
AndroBlaze:
I am clearly wasting my time on a silly Soviet apologist looking to rewrite history.

So in your mind Taliban came back after 20 years to defeat USA, but Syrian Rebels who only needed 5 years to come back and defeat Russia does not count because Russia still have a base their....lol lol lol....

In fact I hope you get your Biafra...as you will then say you came back after 70 years to defeat Nigeria, UK and USA combined and never surrendered in 1970. Clown.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr7rkzz2gmo.amp
I don't know how some of you reason on this platform.

It beats my imagination how you guys can just tag anyone who does not acquiesce with you as Igbo/Biafra apologist.

I'm not a Western asslicker or a Russian propagandist, but I detest the inclusion of bigotry in a discourse that shouldn't have any semblance of it.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by eallstar: 4:51am On Apr 23, 2025
Watcharena:
I wish Palestinian children had the opportunity to be evacuated from danger zone
What about benue and plateau state?
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Sultan5(m): 5:23am On Apr 23, 2025
AndroBlaze:
I am clearly wasting my time on a silly Soviet apologist looking to rewrite history.

So in your mind Taliban came back after 20 years to defeat USA, but Syrian Rebels who only needed 5 years to come back and defeat Russia does not count because Russia still have a base their....lol lol lol....

In fact I hope you get your Biafra...as you will then say you came back after 70 years to defeat Nigeria, UK and USA combined and never surrendered in 1970. Clown.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr7rkzz2gmo.amp
This is a very stupid reply to be honest. What has Biafra got to do with your discourse. Some of you are caused to forever be a bigot. No atom of sophistication just nonsense bigotry.

How you even compare Russia helping Syria with US actively fighting in Afghanistan is crazy self. Wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt but this your last paragraph just eliminated all doubt.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Dpaulie(m): 5:26am On Apr 23, 2025
shoodboi2:
What type of fraudulent news is this? The Kremlin never said Putin isn't attending the Pope's funeral because of ICC or whatever. They only said he isn't attending the funeral.

Common sense should tell you that his country is at war, so it's illogical for him to keep flying everywhere while his men are on the battlefield.

*But a more likely reason he isn't attending likely has to do with Russia being of the Orthodox Christian faith rather than Catholic. *

Catholicism is a minor religion in Russia.
But visited when pope was alive
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Danisaint112(m): 6:18am On Apr 23, 2025
TechCapon:
he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided
Bro don't shift goal post. He lost my respect too after that very move but you and I know that's not actual reason Putin won't be attending. Kremlin has told you themselves.

Another which they won't tell you they fear is –Sniper 👇
( -_•)▄︻芫≡══--💥 🇷🇺

You get it? 😈 If you don't get it forget it.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by zoedew: 7:17am On Apr 23, 2025
Watcharena:
I wish Palestinian children had the opportunity to be evacuated from danger zone
Good morning. What is your wish for Hamas!
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by WriterrNg: 7:49am On Apr 23, 2025
AndroBlaze:
I am clearly wasting my time on a silly Soviet apologist looking to rewrite history.

So in your mind Taliban came back after 20 years to defeat USA, but Syrian Rebels who only needed 5 years to come back and defeat Russia does not count because Russia still have a base their....lol lol lol....

In fact I hope you get your Biafra...as you will then say you came back after 70 years to defeat Nigeria, UK and USA combined and never surrendered in 1970. Clown.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr7rkzz2gmo.amp
F000lll!!

The US lost to goat herders with less than 50 tanks and no single support from anyone plain and simple.

Russia is fighting the largest army in Europe, the most funded army on the planet with a $450 billion budget, far more than Germany, France, UK put together.

A budget 8 times that of Russia. An army that was armed to the teeth for 10 years by NATO and still continues to be armed with not only weapons but foreign troops disguised as mercenaries from 40 different countries.

40 against 1.

At the end of the war, Russian military will become the most lethal in the world and their missiles more accurate and destructive than ever.

If doesn’t matter what you think r eta rd.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Ahigbo1: 7:58am On Apr 23, 2025
TechCapon:
he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided
Say only what you know of!
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Ubenedictus(m): 9:33am On Apr 23, 2025
TechCapon:
but under his reign, gay marriage was accepted by the catholic church
nope, gay marriage is still not accepted in the Catholic Church
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by MrGerald(m): 9:57am On Apr 23, 2025
shoodboi2:
What type of fraudulent news is this? The Kremlin never said Putin isn't attending the Pope's funeral because of ICC or whatever. They only said he isn't attending the funeral.

Common sense should tell you that his country is at war, so it's illogical for him to keep flying everywhere while his men are on the battlefield.

But a more likely reason he isn't attending likely has to do with Russia being of the Orthodox Christian faith rather than Catholic.

Catholicism is a minor religion in Russia.
His funeral is not only about Catholics, some of the world leaders wether catholic or not would be attending, Putin also visited him
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by flyinnizam(m): 11:09am On Apr 23, 2025
ogaemma:
Dry raking.
That is the second most powerful man in the world.
Arrest Putin and get ready to start World War III.
Useless ICC.
Go and arrest those who brought bandit's from Mali, Tchad, Niger Republic, Mauritania to Nigeria.
You know them.
One of them was in London and was invited to a court in France recently.
just talk anyhow...arrest Putin and someone will take power in russia and won't be interested in putin situation. How old are u sef
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by AndroBlaze: 12:17pm On Apr 23, 2025
XploraBen:
I don't know how some of you reason on this platform.

It beats my imagination how you guys can just tag anyone who does not acquiesce with you as Igbo/Biafra apologist.

I'm not a Western asslicker or a Russian propagandist, but I detest the inclusion of bigotry in a discourse that shouldn't have any semblance of it.
I'll apologise if you got upset at my last paragraph but in my personal experience of arguing politics on this platform, it is the same set of people (IPOB apologists & counterparts) that engage you in sentimental based arguments that cannot be reasoned with. You called out my bias, which I might have to accept, but the example I gave still flows with the argument of when do you declare a war was won.

Though my gut tells me he falls under one of the persuasions I described earlier, I've reviewed his 5000 or so posts and the only thing I can conclude with 100% certainty is he is definitely being paid to launder Russia's interests as all his 5000 posts are about the Ukrainian war on a site created to discuss Nigerian interests huh ..... obviously now that they can't fight like men on the battlefield, they have become experts and local champions in cyber warfare and misinformation.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by NybenSBF101(m): 12:57pm On Apr 23, 2025
Krismas:
grin 21 MQ-9 Reaper drone valued at $610million USD destroyed by Houthi
Over $1billion USD wasted with zero results
Damaging two American aircraft carriers
Killing civilians is not a result for America, so what has America achieved?
Yemen has no functional government, no economy and not even you will love to emigrate to Yemen.

Soon, the head of Houthi leader will be dead
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Krismas(m): 1:22pm On Apr 23, 2025
NybenSBF101:
Yemen has no functional government, no economy and not even you will love to emigrate to Yemen.

Soon, the head of Houthi leader will be dead
grin Yemen is ruled by the Houthis. Thats functional government.
Yemen is poor, cos of economic blockades and bombing from Saudi and Americans.
Yet Yemen is a slave to no one. And are wiping the floor with America and Israel as we speak.
Then speak for your slavish self, as u can never imagine where i will love to emigrate to.
As soon as the Houthi leader dies, a new one emerges. So don't worry about that.
Just as America wasted $2trillion to replace Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan,
America will lose much more in Yemen
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by XploraBen(m): 2:25pm On Apr 23, 2025
AndroBlaze:
I'll apologise if you got upset at my last paragraph but in my personal experience of arguing politics on this platform, it is the same set of people (IPOB apologists & counterparts) that engage you in sentimental based arguments that cannot be reasoned with. You called out my bias, which I might have to accept, but the example I gave still flows with the argument of when do you declare a war was won.

Though my gut tells me he falls under one of the persuasions I described earlier, I've reviewed his 5000 or so posts and the only thing I can conclude with 100% certainty is he is definitely being paid to launder Russia's interests as all his 5000 posts are about the Ukrainian war on a site created to discuss Nigerian interests huh ..... obviously now that they can't fight like men on the battlefield, they have become experts and local champions in cyber warfare and misinformation.
One rule for me, is that there will always be an exception to everything.

While I don't dispute that there are IPOB apologists in the politics section, I still believe not all those with sentiment-based arguments fall into this bracket, unless you know these set of people offline.

Back to the discourse that made you use the analogy of Biafra, the United States didn't succeed in winning the war against the Talibans. Even for the fact that the U.S. is 100 times more powerful than the Talibans, they still made concessions and left behind military hardware worth $7 billion.

The moniker you are arguing with is no doubt a paid propagandist. But based on the battlefield realities of today in the Russian-Ukraine war, which I know from following many independent channels on YouTube, Russia still has the upper hand in all areas. If not for the massive financial and military support of the US and other Western backers, the Ukrainian army should have capitulated probably since 2023.
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by Wildkat02: 3:36pm On Apr 23, 2025
TechCapon:
he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided
Stop being stupid and talking rubbish. Putin is simply scared of being arrested and tried at ICC because there is a warrant on his head
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by OctavianAC(m): 4:28pm On Apr 23, 2025
TechCapon:
he lost Putin's respect and frankly the respect of the world when he brought in nonsense LGBT rubbish into the catholic church.. saying gay marriages are allowed inside the church. How will Putin respect such a person? undecided
Can you provide the source of what you are saying?
Re: Putin Will Not Attend Pope Francis’ Funeral Due To ICC Warrant, Says Kremlin by jmichael259(m): 8:54am On Apr 24, 2025
tiswell:
Putin is not a hardcore, he's a liberal Christian
Liberal? Go to Russia and see many religious groups including those of christianity that are currently under ban, heavy prosecution and torture.
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