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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by DystopianMuse(f): 12:40am On Jan 01
AYATOLLAHS REGIME GOING DOWN. ÓLE OLE ÓLE.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by 23jerryking(m): 6:53am On Jan 01
Kingsnairaland:
What is really hard in making food cheap

Government should invest in farming take sea water put it in pipes send it to each government farmland and cultivate enough food for the masses

Feed your people with cheap food
No one will protest

Even if cars and clothes are expensive just make sure food is cheap and affordable

Rather than investing only on satellite to space weapons

It easy to invest on farming large scale
If you must treat the sea water then treat it and feed your crop
But how well do crops fair against the salty sea water...
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNg: 7:09am On Jan 01
⚡Several people were killed and others injured after an explosion tore through a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana.

Authorities said the cause of the blast is still unknown.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNg:
⚡Iran is assembling and producing deadly weapons like UAVs in Venezuelan facilities like El Libertador Air Base — US warns!

United States has accused Iran and Venezuela of engaging in the "aggressive and reckless proliferation of deadly weapons," specifically through the transfer and local production of Iranian-designed combat drones (UAVs).

U.S. officials describe this as an expansion of Iran's military footprint in the Western Hemisphere, posing threats to regional stability and U.S. interests.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by bryght4u(m): 8:12am On Jan 01
Happy New Year, guys.
2026 shall favour us all!
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNg: 8:30am On Jan 01
bryght4u:
Happy New Year, guys.
2026 shall favour us all!


AMEN!
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 8:34am On Jan 01
bryght4u:
Happy New Year, guys.
2026 shall favour us all!
happy new year all!

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNg: 8:36am On Jan 01
⚡North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un promises "invincible alliance" with Russia in 2026, during New Year speech.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by 23jerryking(m): 8:39am On Jan 01
Happy New Year everyone 🍾💐
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 8:41am On Jan 01
WriterrNg:
⚡Iran is assembling and producing deadly weapons like UAVs in Venezuelan facilities like El Libertador Air Base — US warns!

United States has accused Iran and Venezuela of engaging in the "aggressive and reckless proliferation of deadly weapons," specifically through the transfer and local production of Iranian-designed combat drones (UAVs).


U.S. officials describe this as an expansion of Iran's military footprint in the Western Hemisphere, posing threats to regional stability and U.S. interests.
dem go complain tire

china dispatched two chinese-flagged tankers to venezuela
😂🤣😃
after that first seizure, xi is like, "e go b mistake"
dem never born dem well to seize my ships
send more, no need for naval escort

in 2026, when they push, push back harder

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 8:45am On Jan 01
WriterrNg:
⚡Iran is assembling and producing deadly weapons like UAVs in Venezuelan facilities like El Libertador Air Base — US warns!

United States has accused Iran and Venezuela of engaging in the "aggressive and reckless proliferation of deadly weapons," specifically through the transfer and local production of Iranian-designed combat drones (UAVs).


U.S. officials describe this as an expansion of Iran's military footprint in the Western Hemisphere, posing threats to regional stability and U.S. interests.
Yeah. We can spend a trillion on arms and sell to our allies but it is a major, dangerous escalation for my enemies to do the same. Colonial mentality will not leave Americans and Europeans in this century
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 8:48am On Jan 01
Happy new year everyone. 😃
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 9:01am On Jan 01
FoolishBoy419:
Yeah. We can spend a trillion on arms and sell to our allies but it is a major, dangerous escalation for my enemies to do the same. Colonial mentality will not leave Americans and Europeans in this century
they are in iraq on the border of iran
but iran cannot transfer weapons tech to venezuela

they are just making noise
let the shooting start
the nyt published this week that the CIA coordinated the attack on russia's oil facilities
so it stands to reason that the favor will be repaid when the venezuela war kicks off

as far as the axis are concerned, the gloves are off
generally, tankers have opaque registration and ownership details
the hegemony has exploited this
for instance, the bella 1 tanker that is currently doing its candy crush is iranian but is directly owned by a company in turkey, has crew primarily from russia and india, and sails under the flag of guyana
they painted a russian flag on the ship and russia promptly added it to their shipping registry and the harassment ceased

the chinese ship that the us seized was not sailing under the flag of china

so both russia and china are now adding fleets plying routes subject to hegemonic piracy directly to their respective shipping registries
attacking or boarding ships flying their flags is an act of war under international law
there is no ambiguity
giving both the casus belli to respond as they see fit

the axis working overtime to kill the monroe doctrine in 2026

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by bryght4u(m): 9:57am On Jan 01
LordAdam16:
they are in iraq on the border of iran
but iran cannot transfer weapons tech to venezuela

they are just making noise
let the shooting start
the nyt published this week that the CIA coordinated the attack on russia's oil facilities
so it stands to reason that the favor will be repaid when the venezuela war kicks off

as far as the axis are concerned, the gloves are off
generally, tankers have opaque registration and ownership details
the hegemony has exploited this
for instance, the bella 1 tanker that is currently doing its candy crush is iranian but is directly owned by a company in turkey, has crew primarily from russia and india, and sails under the flag of guyana
they painted a russian flag on the ship and russia promptly added it to their shipping registry and the harassment ceased

the chinese ship that the us seized was not sailing under the flag of china

so both russia and china are now adding fleets plying routes subject to hegemonic piracy directly to their respective shipping registries
attacking or boarding ships flying their flags is an act of war under international law
there is no ambiguity
giving both the casus belli to respond as they see fit

the axis working overtime to kill the monroe doctrine in 2026

-Lord
This is what has been expected of China for a long time, especially for goods and cargo to/fro Venezuela.
Me thinks Xi is finally waking up.
It's zero use trying to abide by a "rules based order" when the one who drafted the said "rules" is also it's pre-eminent violator!
If the US is free to play Ludo in the Indo-Pacific then China and Co can play Whot in Venezuela - it's fair game, what is good for the goose should be good for the gander, the mosquito and even the ant!
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 10:36am On Jan 01
Kingsnairaland:
What is really hard in making food cheap

Government should invest in farming take sea water put it in pipes send it to each government farmland and cultivate enough food for the masses

Feed your people with cheap food
No one will protest

Even if cars and clothes are expensive just make sure food is cheap and affordable

Rather than investing only on satellite to space weapons

It easy to invest on farming large scale
If you must treat the sea water then treat it and feed your crop
Sea water is salty, can't grow anything.
Fresh water is what is used for farming.
I don't know if Iran has a large fresh water body to sustain commercial agriculture.
Fresh water are mostly river water. Ocean is salt water, Lake is mostly for fishing since is is not moving, so not good for human consumption nor do I think it is good for commercial farming.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Mikasaobi: 10:45am On Jan 01
Happy new year, let’s start the year with the child prison in the chosen land.



This place—called the only child prison in the world—is situated in Israel.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208566/

It is understood that in no other country are children systematically tried by juvenile military courts that, by definition, fall short of providing the necessary guarantees to ensure respect for their rights. All children prosecuted for offences they allegedly committed should be treated in accordance with international juvenile justice standards, which provide them with special protection. Most of these protections are enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 10:59am On Jan 01
bryght4u:
This is what has been expected of China for a long time, especially for goods and cargo to/fro Venezuela.
Me thinks Xi is finally waking up.
It's zero use trying to abide by a "rules based order" when the one who drafted the said "rules" is also it's pre-eminent violator!
If the US is free to play Ludo in the Indo-Pacific then China and Co can play Whot in Venezuela - it's fair game, what is good for the goose should be good for the gander, the mosquito and even the ant!
sometimes they act like they're using charms

asia is the global hub of shipping
the us navy is outnumbered and outgunned in asia pacific

so if they're not on colos
what is giving them the chutzpah to blockade venezuela
or seize axis ships
or even attempt to intimidate china by approving the largest arms package for taiwan

they were simply betting on china not responding

the iran-china cargo vessel they interdicted
they essentially robbed the ship of its cargo and let the ship and the crew go
iran responded by seizing their ship and its cargo

xi has to send a strong message if they mess with his chinese-flagged vessels
for instance seize multiple japan/south korea to us bound vessels owned by the us in retaliation
it will automatically spike insurance rates and f*ck with their currencies

last month the chinese foreign ministry essentially said f*ck the monroe doctrine, we will trade as much as we desire with venezuela
the blockade is illegal
it is time to walk the talk

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 12:00pm On Jan 01
emmaodet:
Sea water is salty, can't grow anything.
Fresh water is what is used for farming.
I don't know if Iran has a large fresh water body to sustain commercial agriculture.
Fresh water are mostly river water. Ocean is salt water, Lake is mostly for fishing since is is not moving, so not good for human consumption nor do I think it is good for commercial farming.
happy new year chair

food is not iran's problem
iran's problem is that because of sanctions, only seven countries account for 82% of their total exports
china, iraq, uae, turkey, afghanistan, pakistan, india - all of whom are in their neighborhood

to put this in perspective, their persian carpet revenue declined 95%
pakistan, turkey, and india without sanctions have subsumed their market share
lots of things that the likes of turkey, india, indonesia export can be made in iran at excellent quality

the more immediate problem is that china's alternate financial plans are not proceeding quickly enough
as a result, international trade remains very inefficient
if i want to export cassava to anyone on the planet, i make arrangements, and receiving payments will not give me sleepless nights
an iranian company that wants to export to anyone except china will have to figure out a mode of payment
for instance if they want to send it to south africa or nigeria, the rand or naira is not that useful to them
so the company will have to source for someone who also wants to sell to iran and arrange a barter or use a kludgy system to balance payments

if an alternate system existed, iran will be growing at high single digits
even with the constraints, brazil-iran trade has been rising steadily year after year
all of BRICS+ and many non-aligned countries will trade effortlessly with iran if there was an alternate system
take a random brazil - iran dual trade in national currencies, such a system will allow brazil to quickly exchange the tomans they recieve for a unt of a basket of currencies or some other axis currency that they can then use to purchase stuff on the international market from another country and vice versa. all done quickly and efficiently over a blockchain or something similar

the second part is the story of china's domestic consumption
if unsanctioned countries are struggling to break into the chinese market, what hope do iranian companies have
and the chinese market should be their primary lifeline
besides minerals like oil and natural gas, there's not much else iran can produce cheaper and better than a domestic chinese company

these reasons are precisely why the mullahs bent over backwards and even took the suicidal decision not to acquire a nuke in exchange for sanctions removal
they look at turkey, malaysia, thailand and know they are capable of matching if not eclipsing whatever those countries can output
their mates are the likes of south korea and spain
but they can't achieve their potential because they're restrained while the others aren't

this is the fundamental quagmire of iran
but it gets even worse because of the special impediments of the economic system adopted by the mullahs
so the average iranian is like we're in a bad position because of your foreign policy and yet you let cronyism, nepotism, and corruption thrive to make a bad situation worse
the little they have is not efficiently managed but the mullahs have the nerve to enforce restrictive religious laws

in fact, the two best gifts for the mullahs in iran are the persistent hegemonic belligerence against russia/china and satanyahu
if russia were in nato and china wasn't fighting an economic warfare with the west, they would not have invested so much into sanctions busting and economic corridors that exclude the west. without those, iran would have already had its arab spring or gen z upheaval; like a long time ago
and without satanyahu, eventually the reformists would have installed a reformist ayatollah who would proceed to systematically take apart the revolutionary regime bit by bit under the shadow of reforms

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by bryght4u(m): 12:02pm On Jan 01
LordAdam16:
sometimes they act like they're using charms

asia is the global hub of shipping
the us navy is outnumbered and outgunned in asia pacific

so if they're not on colos
what is giving them the chutzpah to blockade venezuela
or seize axis ships
or even attempt to intimidate china by approving the largest arms package for taiwan

they were simply betting on china not responding

the iran-china cargo vessel they interdicted
they essentially robbed the ship of its cargo and let the ship and the crew go
iran responded by seizing their ship and its cargo

xi has to send a strong message if they mess with his chinese-flagged vessels
for instance seize multiple japan/south korea to us bound vessels owned by the us in retaliation
it will automatically spike insurance rates and f*ck with their currencies

last month the chinese foreign ministry essentially said f*ck the monroe doctrine, we will trade as much as we desire with venezuela
the blockade is illegal
it is time to walk the talk

-Lord
The US isn't on colos.
It's classic hubris, especially fueled by being the world's numero uno thug/thief/terrorists that has been unchallenged for 3 decades since the fall of the USSR.
That hubris would be their doom.
It'll lead them to a fatal error in decisionmaking really soon, especially as she tries to come to terms with the new reality that her might no longer stands unopposed/unchallenged.
They're still calculating the Axis' response to an invasion of Venezuela and so are treading carefully.
Pretty soon, one fool would damn the consequences and drag poor Trump into a conflict that would be the end of them as we know it.
I pray they take the bait
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 12:03pm On Jan 01
⚡Around 40 deaths in Swiss bar explosion, according to Italian foreign ministry.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 12:24pm On Jan 01
⚡Around 40 people have been killed in an explosion at a ski resort bar in Switzerland with at least 100 injured, police say.

A blast ripped through the packed tourist bar in Crans-Montana, Valais before a fire erupted as revellers welcomed in the New Year.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 12:26pm On Jan 01
⚡Russian guided bomb strike on Ukraine's Kharkiv Ecopark injured lions, killed birds, and destroyed winter shelters for predators and birds, said the park’s owner Feldman.

Tigers also escaped their enclosure.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dermmy(m): 12:26pm On Jan 01
WriterrNg:
⚡Zelensky:

Russia does not end its wars on its own; there has never been a war in history that it ended of its own free will—only under pressure, only under coercion, which it then calls a “goodwill gesture.”

This has been true throughout its entire existence, as confirmed by Poland, Türkiye, Finland, Syria, Georgia, Abkhazia, Ossetia, and Chechnya—because almost the entire territory of Russia was assembled through wars.
You knew this yet you chose the path of war.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 12:27pm On Jan 01
⚡Iranian President Pezeshkian:

Last night, where I was staying, I showed the Governor, the manager, and the financial deputy that one room had 14 lights on—when one would have been enough.

The heating was so excessive that we had the window open, wasting heat.

“Eat and drink, but do not be wasteful; for Allah does not love the wasteful.”

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 12:34pm On Jan 01
⚡Russian MOD announced that a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter was shot down yesterday.

It appears that it was shot down over northern Zaporizhzhia Oblast by an R-37 air-to-air missile launched by a Russian Su-35 in the vicinity of Kam'yanka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as the Su-27 was approaching its launch lines to launch glide-bombs at Russian positions (likely in the Hulyaipole direction).

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 1:12pm On Jan 01
⚡Fifth Russian Il-76TD Cargo plane from Russia to Tehran, Iran.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Saladdin: 1:51pm On Jan 01
WriteerNg:
⚡Fifth Russian Il-76TD Cargo plane from Russia to Tehran, Iran.
Let the goodies keep flowing please. The dot on a map must cease to be a regional power this 2026.

This time around every of their strategic assets and building must be fair game. They target a hospital, you reply in kind. They target a food warehouse you bomb a desalination plant.
They try to assassinate Ahmed Vaidi, you go for Israel Katz head.

Measure for measure. This is is the only response that those satanic people understand.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Rilwayne001: 2:30pm On Jan 01
WriterrNg:
⚡This footage shows, allegedly, one of the Ukrainian drones shot down while flying toward Putin’s residence, carrying a 6-kilogram high-explosive charge, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Putin has really failed in this war.

If ordinary Ukraine could do this to him, imagine if he’s in a war with the USA
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Mikasaobi: 2:51pm On Jan 01
Rilwayne001:
Putin has really failed in this war.

If ordinary Ukraine could do this to him, imagine if he’s in a war with the USA
Hollywood strikes again.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 2:57pm On Jan 01
⚡A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper UAV has reportedly crashed in Afghanistan.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 3:18pm On Jan 01
⚡Netanyahu:

Somaliland has six million citizens, moderate Muslims. They want to join the Abraham Accords. And I think that’s very good.

Why not support a democratic, moderate Muslim country that wants to join the Abraham Accords? I think everybody should do that.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 3:21pm On Jan 01
⚡Israeli Brig. Gen Amit Sa’ar died after aggressive brain cancer.

He had been the head of the Research Division in Israel’s Military Intelligence (Aman) from 2020 until retiring in April 2024, and he was in that role during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.

After the attack, he publicly accepted responsibility for intelligence failures, though he was never accused or convicted of any crime.

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