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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkiir: 7:36pm On Jul 29, 2025
LordAdam16:
Worse, when you scroll, you may inadvertently miss the posts of sane users.

-Lord
Exactly
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 7:46pm On Jul 29, 2025
Alamkiir:
Everything na cruise to trump, Putin that's seriously working to change the fortune of his country
Trump is a showman everything for him is about attention, unlike putin who's not much of a media guy
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:18pm On Jul 29, 2025
IMEI:
What's the point of arguing with people who'll never concede to superior arguments? Unless you enjoy endless (read pointless) engagements

🤷🏾‍♂️
This shoemaker parading as lawyer again. grin grin
If you were worth your salt, he would engage you. He engages me because I am worth my salt. Everyone knows Mr usmanpogo very well on this thread. I can conveniently say there isn't a single person who will pin pointedly say he is biased or takes sides. He is one of the only three people I follow on the whole of Nairaland, not because of anything but because I learn from him. That doesn't mean I will not challenge him if I feel he is wrong.

Don't drag him down to your level. Mr Lawyer that doesn't know he is the one that is supposed to prove a claim.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by sainttwist1(m): 8:26pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
The best way to answer your question is to first of all ask: "Has the Nigerian army committed war crimes in its fight against Boko Haram?"

It is not necessary to go about on a needless explanation. It is likely Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza..........continue reading. I hope you will not be among those who pick one line from a whole argument and discard the rest like freakyamanda

The truth is that it is difficult to come to a conclusion on whether Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza. War crimes is not just about killing 10, 20 civilians and even in the case of Gaza, 1000 civilian deaths is not likely to qualify as war crimes. That is a brutal fact. We have seen people who have been journalists in the day and Hamas fighters at night. We have seen the activities of UNRWA members in this whole shenanigan. And that is exactly why pro Israel and and pro western supporters down play what you seem to take serious.

You are fighting Hamas and a population that is largely sympathetic to Hamas. A faceless group that will never come out and identify themselves as Hamas members when there is a battle. A group that has no battle line and will never ever employ conventional tactics to fight a battle. Citizens hide Hamas fighters, maybe out of fear or anything else, I wouldn't know. Talk about starvation, there have been confirmed reports of Hamas members or its proxies looting aid trucks. If those ones are prevented from assessing the aid, we shout starvation of the citizens. Was the aid ever meant for Hamas in the first instance? All these things make it difficult to say with certainty that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza.

Israel fought against Iran, no one said anything about genocide. As Israel systematically dismantled Hezbollah leadership, there were no cries of genocide. The reason is simple. There were targets that could be isolated from ordinary civilians. This is not the case in Gaza. Hamas fighters are invisible. Nobody writes Hamas on their foreheads. A 12 year old or a woman could scream "help me" and run into the midst of soldiers for protection only to wield out a Kalashnikov and slaughter 10 to 20 soldiers. America learnt that the hard way in Afghanistan. Yet, somehow, war analysts on Nairaland expect a soldier who has milliseconds to decide between his life and death to spend time deciding who is Hamas or not? Like seriously?

And that's exactly why I asked if the Nigerian army has committed war crimes in its fight against Boko Haram. Both are very similar situations.

If I agree that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, then I will have to agree that the Nigerian army has also committed war crimes in the north east.

Moving on, there is another question I will like you to answer. Has Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine? In this instance, we have ordinary citizens who can clearly be differentiated from the armed forces but which Russia has repeatedly attacked and killed. If Israel and Russia were to be arraigned in the ICC and convicted, there is no doubt Israel will get a lesser conviction than Russia. It's not about bias, it is what the situation required.

What do you say?
well said brother

But some people in nairaland who think with their........... Will start one unnecessary argument

You just summarized everything
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:27pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
This shoemaker parading as lawyer again. grin grin
If you were worth your salt, he would engage you. He engages me because I am worth my salt.
I actually laughed out loud at the bolded...our resident comic

As for the rest, usmanpogo it seems you have a fan...for him to be famzing receiving your attention says a lot
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:32pm On Jul 29, 2025
IMEI:
As for the rest, usmanpogo it seems you have a fan...for him to be famzing receiving your attention says a lot
Yes, he has a fan and he has several fans. This isn't about pandering to him or anything. When you see people who are intelligent, acknowledge it. I acknowledge it. He is way way intelligent.
He was the first to tell me about American foreign policy from the 18th century. I never knew that. And many more.

As for you, the only thing you have created is blabbing and asking another to prove your claim of being a lawyer. Na me follow you go school?
O ga ooo
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 8:36pm On Jul 29, 2025
⚡Explosion at Horizon Biofuels Inc. plant in Fremont, Nebraska 🇺🇸

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:37pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
This shoemaker parading as lawyer again. grin grin
If you were worth your salt, he would engage you. He engages me because I am worth my salt. Everyone knows Mr usmanpogo very well on this thread. I can conveniently say there isn't a single person who will pin pointedly say he is biased or takes sides. He is one of the only three people I follow on the whole of Nairaland, not because of anything but because I learn from him. That doesn't mean I will not challenge him if I feel he is wrong.

Don't drag him down to your level. Mr Lawyer that doesn't know he is the one that is supposed to prove a claim.
I thought I was a shoemaker?

Anyways, I don't know what was in what I typed that compelled you to give me your Nairaland history...it seems you're scared he'll take my advice and ditch you, which might inturn make you question your existence

Calm down with the Lawyer thing, on Nairaland, I'm an anonymous poster like you, not a lawyer. So dial down the insecurities
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:41pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
Yes, he has a fan and he has several fans. This isn't about pandering to him or anything. When you see people who are intelligent, acknowledge it. I acknowledge it. He is way way intelligent.
He was the first to tell me about American foreign policy from the 18th century. I never knew that. And many more.

As for you, the only thing you have created is blabbing and asking another to prove your claim of being a lawyer. Na me follow you go school?
O ga ooo
You talk as if I owe you anything

You seem to thirst for mentorship...well you can start by being a good student, which requires humility by default
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:44pm On Jul 29, 2025
IMEI:
I thought I was a shoemaker?

Anyways, I don't know what was in what I typed that compelled you to give me your Nairaland history...it seems you're scared he'll take my advice and ditch you, which might inturn make you question your existence

Calm down with the Lawyer thing, on Nairaland, I'm an anonymous poster like you, not a lawyer. So dial down the insecurities
Abeg, who paid this guy school fees grin grin. The person should go and seek a refund immediately.
So, you can't even determine a sarcastic statement. Shey you no do literature for school ni? Your matter don dey tire me oo.
Be like I go send you back to work in my block industry. 🤣🤣
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:47pm On Jul 29, 2025
IMEI:
You seem to thirst for mentorship...well you can start by being a good student, which requires humility by default
Yes, I thirst for mentorship. It's because I am never tired of learning and re learning.
Unfortunately, the mentorship I thirst for is not from your type who don't know they are required by law to prove a claim they make. No set my brain into reverse gear Abeg.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI:
Hoaxen:
Are you not the same person who claimed that Gbadebo19 thinks highly of himself?

You accuse others of being full of themselves, meanwhile, you alone has:
1. Boasted that your posts are so intelligent that only those who are as "intelligent" as you can understand them.

2. Called those who do not swallow your propaganda without question, fools.

3. And now you call your arguments "superior".

My my, what a big Ego you have. tongue
If you're not careful, you might drown in it. 😢
Just like you're Gbadebo19's alternate, you seem to live in an alternate reality where everything's in reverse

Everything you accused me of up there has been inverted by you, either that or your mental processing is skewed
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:49pm On Jul 29, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Explosion at Horizon Biofuels Inc. plant in Fremont, Nebraska 🇺🇸

En hen!!!!
Writterng right now with a boner!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:55pm On Jul 29, 2025
Read more than 4 sitreps today. Nobody is reporting the imaginary fab 250 bomb Mr Masterviolence claimed was dropped on Pokrovsk.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:57pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
Abeg, who paid this guy school fees grin grin. The person should go and seek a refund immediately.
So, you can't even determine a sarcastic statement. Shey you no do literature for school ni? Your matter don dey tire me oo.
Be like I go send you back to work in my block industry. 🤣🤣
Let's not talk about school because, neither you nor anyone in your family, including whatever children you may have, can or will ever attend any of the schools I went to

Secondly, you constantly bring up me being a lawyer which is a fact I usually allude to in response to comments from you exclusively. Now whether you claim I'm fake or whatever, I can categorically state I am indeed a Lawyer, but for all your empty boasts, you can't because you're not. You're still a Law student and that's if you haven't dropped out

Outside of this thread, you can't roll in my circles...this isn't some empty boast, it's a fact because I'm distinct from you on all levels

You amuse me always, like the class clown usually does
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 8:58pm On Jul 29, 2025
It's been 24 hours and over. Bush baby has been unable to provide evidence of the West funding JNIM. He It has rather resorted to reporting my post. And I only prophesied ni ooo. I didn't do more than prophesy ooo. 🤣🤣
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 9:01pm On Jul 29, 2025
IMEI:
Let's not talk about school because, neither you nor anyone in your family, including whatever children you may have, can or will ever attend any of the schools I went to.
Another assertion without proof.
Oga lawyer, "he who asserts must prove" 🧏🧏🧏
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 9:01pm On Jul 29, 2025
The way I have effectively curtailed some people's freedom of speech on this thread... ...............🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 9:04pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
Yes, I thirst for mentorship. It's because I am never tired of learning and re learning.
Unfortunately, the mentorship I thirst for is not from your type who don't know they are required by law to prove a claim they make. No set my brain into reverse gear Abeg.
When you type things like these, they just make you look foolish

It's evident your knowledge of Law is very elementary, because the kind of things you try to use to one-up me are things that 100level students concern themselves with

You want me to entertain nonsense talks of Statements of claims and the likes? Go do that with your fellow Law students...like I said, we're worlds apart
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 9:06pm On Jul 29, 2025
⚡Trump:

I probably won't attend the G20 summit this year in South Africa.

I think maybe I'll send somebody else, because I've had a lot of problems with South Africa.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 9:08pm On Jul 29, 2025
Gbadebo19:
Another assertion without proof.
Oga lawyer, "he who asserts must prove" 🧏🧏🧏
Since you think Nairaland is a courtroom, who's the judge?

You're not as smart as you think
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 9:18pm On Jul 29, 2025
⚡Japan stated that of the $550 billion Trump claimed as investment commitments from Japan into US, only 1-2% are actual investments.

The remaining 98% are loans to the US at full market value.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Jovi10: 9:37pm On Jul 29, 2025
usmanpogo:
It appears you and Mr Obedience have no qualms with terrorism. I observed you and Obedience explicitly endorsing terrorist elements.
You don't have to like the regime in Burkina faso but endorsing terrorism is all shades of wrong.
Those two are ready to sell their family members for the glorification of their masters.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 10:47pm On Jul 29, 2025
Obedience40:
A terrorist is a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims

A terrorist group is a group that uses or threatens violence, often against civilians, to create fear and achieve political or ideological goals


Now to my questions

do your "hero" Sinwar fit the definition of who a terrorist is??

Do the groups Hamas, Hazebolla and the Houthis fit the description of what a terrorist group is??
Good. But your definition is vague, open to multiple interpretations, and excludes states from being categorized as state sponsors of terrorism.

Firstly, are you implying that violence and intimidation meted against civilians for political purposes only qualifies as terrorism when it is unlawful. Are you saying such violence is not terrorism when it is lawful?

I should add that most countries do not have any law against their governments using violence against their own population or even foreign populations (whether for political aims or not). So, your definition also clearly excludes states from being perpetrators of terror activities, whether within their own state or in foreign states.

Secondly, your definition also does not capture multiple events that constitute unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Let me use two examples from Nigeria as examples so you can relate with them:

The first is MEND aka Niger Delta militants. They were not considered terrorists even though they primarily used unlawful violence against civilians in pursuit for political aims. They killed soldiers at intervals but that was when the soldiers came after them or were guarding facilities they were attacking.

Their primary targets were civilians, especially oil workers who they often kidnapped or killed. Let us also not forget that this same MEND popularized car bombing in Nigeria, particularly in the late 2000s, until Boko Haram took their place. But no one calls them terrorists despite what they did.

The second is the October 1993 hijacking of a Nigeria Airways flight by four men from the Movement for the Advancement of Democracy. They seized an airplane filled with passengers, flying from Lagos to Abuja and diverted it to Niamey, Niger where they called for Sani Abacha to resign and return to democratic rule.

The men were arrested after Nigerien troops stormed the plane and their actions clearly qualify as terrorist according to your definition, but no one calls them such.

(There are other foreign groups but I deliberately used Nigeria since I believe you should know about them and can better relate with them.)

Then let me make a final example of a foreign group that was labelled a terror group even though it does not meet your definition.

That is the Irish Republican Army. They wanted to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite it with Ireland. The UK categorized them as terrorists even though they primarily used unlawful violence against the British military, police, and paramilitary rather than civilians.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 10:48pm On Jul 29, 2025
Hoaxen:
Rather ironic coming from someone who supports chants like "Glory to mother Russia" or "globalise the intifadah". It's a wonder why you guys haven't enlisted in the Russian military or in Hamas since you guys are always worshipping them.
Is there any reason you have not enlisted with the IDF, Abu Shabab, JNIM, or Jolani's forces in Syria since you guys have also worshipped them?
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by amadivv: 10:55pm On Jul 29, 2025
Hoaxen:
Rather ironic coming from someone who supports chants like "Glory to mother Russia" or "globalise the intifadah". It's a wonder why you guys haven't enlisted in the Russian military or in Hamas since you guys are always worshipping them.
.l swear na that Mother Russian own wey dey off me. angry angry angry angry angry angry.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 11:16pm On Jul 29, 2025
Hoaxen:
lol 😆
Did you forget so soon?

First 👇


Second 👇


Third 👇


You can't make a single sentence without worshipping yourself.

It reminds me of the professor and the fisherman and do you remember what happened to the professor?

You are like the professor multiplied by ten.
"Not everyone has a sharp wit and intellect, but with the way you easily understood my post, I doff my hat for you"

How you see this as anything other than a compliment to Shoodboi is astounding

Shoodboi's reply was in sharp contrast to your allies', who had completely misunderstood my post...it seems you took issue with me pointing out the shallowness of your allies' comprehension


"The fools are desperately trying to infuse meanings to what I said inorder to invalidate my disgust at israel's actions"

And then your comment:

"Called those who do not swallow your propaganda without question, fools"

1. I don't try to indoctrinate anyone, so associating me with propaganda is a miss

2. I have no other words to call people who insist on a false opinion, despite rebuttals clarifying my actual position except fools

"What's the point of arguing with people who'll never concede to superior arguments? Unless you enjoy endless (read pointless) engagements"

And then your comment:

"And now you call your arguments superior"

1. I didn't reference any of my previous posts, I was directly quoting usmanpogo...any sensible person would know I was endorsing his arguments as superior

2. It is a fact that the monikers usmanpogo was going against never concede even a point, regardless of whatever evidence that's put up. It has happened time and again

3. Others agree to being wrong once in a while, but those guys never


How you interprete any of that to mean self-veneration on my part, is curious to say the least
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