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Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by ProfGday(m): 11:05pm On Jan 09
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spiSeyi:
International politics version of Nigeria politics
BRICS = ADC
NATO = APC
UN=INEC
Xi Ping = Peter Obi
Putin = Atiku
Trump = Tinubu
Benjamin Nathayu = Wike grin
South Africa= Rivers State
You can add your own grin
Lagos- China
Borno- North Korea
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by GenFunction: 11:07pm On Jan 09
Mrfixitt:
BRICS and LACE musicians are they still alive ?
Yes o.
And they are throwing war parties.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by BodePolScience: 11:11pm On Jan 09
seunmsg:
Toothless BRICS. American mounted a blockade on Venezuela ships from taking oil to Russia and their allies and they couldn’t do anything. Two days ago, the US still seized the Marinera Russian flagged vessel and took all the oil in it. As usual, Russia couldn’t do shit. So, What nonsense drills are they now doing?
Wahala! So they can't do shit? You expect Russia to start blowing them up the following day? That's not how war is fought. War involves time, tactics, careful planning and logistics. It seems you're impatient.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by AfonjaPriest: 11:12pm On Jan 09
Say it with me loud and clear..
America is finished!
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Floky215: 11:17pm On Jan 09
CaseSensitive:
If You think USA can face China alone in a conventional war, then I don't think you've been paying attention at all.
So much for your China... grin cheesy grin

Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by SlavaUkraini: 11:19pm On Jan 09
JealousCobra:
Two Russian ships seized and Putin can press the nuke, paper tiger leader
Lol 😂 😂 😂

Tell Them especially that Putin boy

Kaliningrad aka WriterNg aka WriteerNg
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by SlavaUkraini: 11:23pm On Jan 09
saphiere:
May God punisssh every male that has ever crossed my path
Crossed your path

or the Men that have crossed your legs and went deeper while you moan in pleasure
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by akpumping7720(m): 11:29pm On Jan 09
saphiere:
May God punisssh every male that has ever crossed my path
embarassed embarassed embarassed
Oooooh Lord of mercy. Some badt guys have shown this sister pepper. For a lady to be lamenting like this.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Omoreal01: 11:56pm On Jan 09
China no dey disappoint especially when it matters most. Emperor need to be push to shame. Make Africa Union tighten the unity among them; no natural resources to the West until we are well respected!
RandDigital:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb8_ap3VleY?si=W9dBBrKnCrLlGc4h

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have arrived in South African waters for a week of naval drills as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’s military intervention in Venezuela and its seizures of several oil tankers.

China’s defence ministry said in a statement on Friday that the exercises, set to kick off with an opening ceremony on Saturday, are “joint operations to safeguard vital shipping lanes and economic activities”.

Strikes on maritime targets and “counter-terrorism” rescues will be part of the drills, it said.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian ships were seen moving into and out of the harbour that serves South Africa’s top naval base in Simon’s Town, south of Cape Town, where the Indian Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean.

It was not immediately clear if other countries from the BRICS group – which also includes Brazil, India and the United Arab Emirates, among others – would take part in the drills.

A spokesperson for the South African armed forces said he wasn’t yet able to confirm all the countries participating in the drills, which are due to run until next Friday.

South Africa’s defence force said the event will allow the navies “to exchange best practices and improve joint operational capabilities, which contributes to the safety of shipping routes and overall regional maritime stability”.

The exercises come amid heightened tensions after the US military attacked the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Saturday and abducted the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro. The Trump administration has also been seizing Venezuela-linked oil tankers in international waters, including a Russian-flagged vessel in the North Atlantic that Washington said had violated US sanctions.

The seizure drew rebuke from Moscow, with the Russian authorities describing the incident as a violation of international maritime law.

But Trump dismissed international law in an interview with The New York Times on Thursday, saying only his “own morality” can curb his administration’s aggressive policies.

Washington has also threatened to take action against Tehran over the Iranian authorities’ recent crackdown on mass demonstrations in the country.

The joint BRICS naval drills are expected to further strain ties between the US and South Africa, which has been especially targeted for criticism by the Trump administration.

The exercises were initially scheduled for November of last year but were postponed due to a scheduling clash with the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

Asked about the timing of the event, South Africa’s Deputy Defence Minister Bantu Holomisa said it was planned long before these tensions we are witnessing today”.
“Let us not press panic buttons because the USA has got a problem with countries,” Holomisa said. “Those are not our enemies.”



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eph-9U9QxlQ?si=KlyZTrra8f4Slww_

South Africa’s willingness to host Russian and Iranian warships has also been criticised inside the country, with the Democratic Alliance – the second largest political party in the coalition government – saying it was opposed.

“Calling these drills ‘BRICS cooperation’ is a political trick to soften what is really happening: Government is choosing closer military ties with rogue and sanctioned states such as Russia and Iran,” the party said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/chinese-russian-iranian-warships-arrive-south-africa-naval-129052438
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Wickedtruths: 12:05am On Jan 10
They seized ships off the Venezuelan coast, they are running to Africa to do drills. grin
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Wickedtruths: 12:07am On Jan 10
BodePolScience:
Wahala! So they can't do shit? You expect Russia to start blowing them up the following day? That's not how war is fought. War involves time, tactics, careful planning and logistics. It seems you're impatient.
We can see how the Russian careful planning in the military operation in Ukraine is going. grin
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Wickedtruths: 12:10am On Jan 10
CaseSensitive:
If You think USA can face China alone in a conventional war, then I don't think you've been paying attention at all.
Did it take a conventional war to defeat Japan?
As at then, Japan was beating China back to back o.

Let me just tell you, the USA as far back as 2005 started engineering earthquakes. Forget weapons, they will use technology to trigger earthquakes and tsunamis. Keep looking for bombs to fire. When they reply you, you won't be inside flooded bunkers.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by smallsmall: 12:11am On Jan 10
Jakumo:
Mad Vlad Putin is evidently not satisfied with the one million Russian troops who died in the Meat Grinder of Ukraine, so he is sending his warships to African waters to flex alongside the Chinese navy, not long after US special forces seized TWO Russian oil tanker ships found sneaking around in Venezuelan waters.

Go back to Moscow. Mad Vlad Putin. Africa is not going to align with your horrible murderous regime.

Go back to Moscow, you genocidal tyrant.
Until trump takes over your Country and start looting its Resources, like he is doing in Venezuela, that is when you will now that Putin. Xi, SA and Iran are not mad but People with Vision for a Stable Multi-Polar World where One Country cannot just ride roughshod over weaker Countries.

BRICS+, is the future of the World, this current, wayward Empire that likes to attack weak Countries like Libya, iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, Chile, Cuba, Iran, etc (, like the British Empire, or the Roman Empire), is fading, will fade, and it's end is just around the corner.

BTW: Russia is defending its "Backyard", the way America is currently claiming to defend its own "backyard" and this is nothing knew, go and read the "Monroe Doctrine".
Ukraine is just a foolish Battering Cudgel that NATO is using to threaten Russia.
Russia is fighting the whole NATO and it will eventually win, because for Russia, the fight is EXISTENTIAL.
If not for the 'reasonableness of Putin', the World will by now, be engulfed in a Hot Nuclear War, but Patience has limits, Putin has Limits to his own Patience too! undecided undecided

God bless Vladmir Putin, God Bless Russia. God Bless BRICS+
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by smallsmall: 12:15am On Jan 10
Wickedtruths:
Did it take a conventional war to defeat Japan?
As at then, Japan was beating China back to back o.

Let me just tell you, the USA as far back as 2005 started engineering earthquakes. Forget weapons, they will use technology to trigger earthquakes and tsunamis. Keep looking for bombs to fire. When they reply you, you won't be inside flooded bunkers.
Every one has such technology today!
What do you think the Russian POISEDON, Submarine lunched Missile does?
Please Go and read it up, if you dont know
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Westman001: 12:20am On Jan 10
CaseSensitive:
Power moves! America is obviously feeling it and is very much aware that there are other Sheriiffs in town - Reasons why man's moving mad lately
Which power moves. Which sheriff's ?
Do you know the oil ship that was seized recently was being escorted by Russian Navy and Russia submarine. On top all that, The USA still captured the ship.

They (BRICS) know where the real power lies, they just want to pull muscle, play around.

Trump has already propose the G7 return back to G8 as it was before. When that happen the BRICS will be forgotten.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Lanre1st(m):
By the end of 4yrs of Trump administration, Americans will regret choosing Trump as their leader.

He's making more enemies than friends, Europeans that ever be US allies are now acting as neutral, and that alone will cause US a great lose. because they used to fight all these war collectively, yes Europeans may has little warheads weapons to support but psychological, technically, philosophical to justify their inversion as necessary. These are what Trump is lacking,
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Blessed4sure: 12:28am On Jan 10
I thought BRICS was a purely economic alliance.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by TossTos(m): 12:29am On Jan 10
All this ones just dey whine themselves .. Their lord go dey laugh them.. Make B2 appear from no where , see water temple run
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Westman001: 12:35am On Jan 10
smallsmall:
Until trump takes over your Country and start looting its Resources, like he is doing in Venezuela, that is when you will now that Putin. Xi, SA and Iran are not mad but People with Vision for a Stable Multi-Polar World where One Country cannot just ride roughshod over weaker Countries.

BRICS+, is the future of the World, this current, wayward Empire that likes to attack weak Countries like Libya, iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, Chile, Cuba, Iran, etc (, like the British Empire, or the Roman Empire), is fading, will fade, and it's end is just around the corner.

BTW: Russia is defending its "Backyard", the way America is currently claiming to defend its own "backyard" and this is nothing knew, go and read the "Monroe Doctrine".
Ukraine is just a foolish Battering Cudgel that NATO is using to threaten Russia.
Russia is fighting the whole NATO and it will eventually win, because for Russia, the fight is EXISTENTIAL.
If not for the 'reasonableness of Putin', the World will by now, be engulfed in a Hot Nuclear War, but Patience has limits, Putin has Limits to his own Patience too! undecided undecided

God bless Vladmir Putin, God Bless Russia. God Bless BRICS+
I keep hearing people like you saying, the British empire has fallen. It's just funny.
There are countries and places that are still colony or territory of Britain. Still under their rules.
Some countries in the last 5-10 years gained independence from Britain.
You see the New Zealand and Australia flags, still shows how much influence the British has on them. Canada received the King of England this year and he was received like the king of the country.
The British still have currency higher than the Dollar and Euro and of the BRICS countries combined.
So think again if you think the British empire is gone. It only took another shape and form of influence.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by MemoriesAndMe: 12:39am On Jan 10
BRICS include Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa and United Arab Emirates but
why choose South Africa amidst all of them? They shouldn't test their powers on African grounds abeg o.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Kennyfancy(m): 12:44am On Jan 10
RaySimran:
In all this BRICS "power" show and alliance, I see South Africa as the pawn who's gonna cry bitterly when it eventually turn murky.

Remember they had no NUCLEAR WEAPON (which a huge percentage of the alliance had), nor any effective air defense system.
you know the game
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by CaseSensitive(m): 12:45am On Jan 10
Wickedtruths:
Did it take a conventional war to defeat Japan?
As at then, Japan was beating China back to back o.

Let me just tell you, the USA as far back as 2005 started engineering earthquakes. Forget weapons, they will use technology to trigger earthquakes and tsunamis. Keep looking for bombs to fire. When they reply you, you won't be inside flooded bunkers.
It didn’t take conventional war for Afghanistan and Vietnam to defeat the USA either. Did it? “Japan was beating China back to back?. I think “back to back” is doing some heavy lifting here. Japan defeated China in 1894 during the 1st Sino Japanese war. That’s over a whole century ago. The second Sino Japanese war in 1930s/1940 ended as part of WW2 which they actually didn’t defeat China. So which “back to back” defeat are we talking about here? China started rising since the late 1970s and has continued on an upward trajectory ever since then. China of 1970 is not even China of 2026. You’ve not been paying attention.

So USA can also engineer earthquake? As in they can really control tectonic plates and trigger a fault rupture when they wish? And they can store and direct that level of energy underground? yet somehow still hasn’t figured out how to stop hurricanes from hitting Florida?. And you will boast you went to school and educated? My God!



Please keep going. National Geographic might need new material for its sci-fi section.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Nchenches: 12:52am On Jan 10
With two weird men atop nuclear bomb buttons, it's a question of when will the third world war start for those who will survive the day after the last nuclear bombs detonated.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by CaseSensitive(m):
Westman001:
Which power moves. Which sheriff's ?
Do you know the oil ship that was seized recently was being escorted by Russian Navy and Russia submarine. On top all that, The USA still captured the ship.

They (BRICS) know where the real power lies, they just want to pull muscle, play around.

Trump has already propose the G7 return back to G8 as it was before. When that happen the BRICS will be forgotten.
Intellectually Iazy people like yourself are plenty on this forum and I can't educate yous enough. Trump "proposed". Keyword - PROPOSED. So, to you, the word "PROPOSED = ACCEPTANCE? Do basic research and find out the % of global GDP that BRICS nations controls against the % of GDP G7 nations control. BRICS is currently 40% and rising while G7 is 29% and falling. I didn't say it, the information is out there for everyone to access.

So if you've been keeping up with recent updates and can do basic maths, where does the real power lies? Putin has already mentioned he is not interested in rejoining G7. Yes Russia is an integral BRICS member but BRICS today is bigger than Russia. The alliance is now made up of 10 full members or so, and counting.

So since Russia is shadowing its oil ship with submarine, they should just launch an attack straight away because its oil ship (which was empty by the way) was captured? It’s not even Russia’s ship at all. Some entity likely put the ship under the Naval register and told it to escape to Russia. This gave the Russians an opportunity to set out a red line and told the American, “Under no circumstances would you attack our ship or any ship carrying the Russian flag.”

The whole thing was used by the Russians to send a signal to the US “Look we understand you’re seizing tankers all over the place, but if a tanker is properly registered in Russia and flying the Russian flags, you must not seize it and if you do for whatever reason, Russians onboard must be released” And that’s exactly what the US has done. This is not Call Of Duty on PS5. You don't escalate at any slight provocation. Educate yourself on what warfare chess move is being played.

America is in drastic decline and in huge debt and for once, other powers are standing up to the bully that America is. That's why we're having all these wars and unrests - Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine etc. That's what a declining empire does - they overstretch and escalate unprovoked.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by bigpicture001: 1:19am On Jan 10
From a diplomatic group to economics group, now a military group...

This is what china ND Russia really wants
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Mirasteel: 2:18am On Jan 10
Lanruze:
Small bum-bum dey shake ooooo.

The entire BRICS would help South Africa become another American colony fast.

No country on planet earth including the combination of China & Russia can match the United States militarily.

None !

America under Trump has increased it's Defence budget after it upgraded it's operation mode of attack to a "stealth" mode.n
Keep hyping America until it crumbles.
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by MichaelSokoto(m): 3:41am On Jan 10
Mrfixitt:
BRICS and LACE musicians are they still alive ?
na u kpai dem?
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by Ipisi(m): 3:50am On Jan 10
CaseSensitive:
Intellectually Iazy people like yourself are plenty on this forum and I can't educate yous enough. Trump "proposed". Keyword - PROPOSED. So, to you, the word "PROPOSED = ACCEPTANCE? Do basic research and find out the % of global GDP that BRICS nations controls against the % of GDP G7 nations control. BRICS is currently 40% and rising while G7 is 29% and falling. I didn't say it, the information is out there for everyone to access.

So if you've been keeping up with recent updates and can do basic maths, where does the real power lies? Putin has already mentioned he is not interested in rejoining G7. Yes Russia is an integral BRICS member but BRICS today is bigger than Russia. The alliance is now made up of 10 full members or so, and counting.

So since Russia is shadowing its oil ship with submarine, they should just launch an attack straight away because its oil ship (which was empty by the way) was captured? It’s not even Russia’s ship at all. Some entity likely put the ship under the Naval register and told it to escape to Russia. This gave the Russians an opportunity to set out a red line and told the American, “Under no circumstances would you attack our ship or any ship carrying the Russian flag.”

The whole thing was used by the Russians to send a signal to the US “Look we understand you’re seizing tankers all over the place, but if a tanker is properly registered in Russia and flying the Russian flags, you must not seize it and if you do for whatever reason, Russians onboard must be released” And that’s exactly what the US has done. This is not Call Of Duty on PS5. You don't escalate at any slight provocation. Educate yourself on what warfare chess move is being played.

America is in drastic decline and in huge debt and for once, other powers are standing up to the bully that America is. That's why we're having all these wars and unrests - Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine etc. That's what a declining empire does - they overstretch and escalate unprovoked.
Oga all these your Cho Cho everywhere no go work oooo

The Truth is Russia cant just allow a direct confrontational war with USA at this moment.
America and Europeans are seriously keeping them busy with Ukranians.

The BRICS are just joking because it is only Russia and China that has military might in their so-called alliance. South Africa is just being plain Stupid by trying to bring war unto Africa Soil.

BRICs should go and rest abeg
Re: BRICS Warships Arrive For Drills In South Africa - PICTURES by CaseSensitive(m): 4:06am On Jan 10
Ipisi:
Oga all these your Cho Cho everywhere no go work oooo

The Truth is Russia cant just allow a direct confrontational war with USA at this moment.
America and Europeans are seriously keeping them busy with Ukranians.

The BRICS are just joking because it is only Russia and China that has military might in their so-called alliance. South Africa is just being plain Stupid by trying to bring war unto Africa Soil.

BRICs should go and rest abeg
Russia can't allow a direct confrontational war with the US. You think US wants a confrontation with Russia? America and Europe is keeping Russia busy? With what? America is withdrawing from the war. They lost! Europe is no where to be found.

BRICS is fundamentally an economic bloc. The drills are focused on maritime safety, anti-piracy cooperation, and protecting shipping lanes, not a military pact or alliance of any sort. You don't have to reply if reading and analysis isn't your forte. Now bounce.
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