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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:26am On Feb 06
WriteerNg:
⚡U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran:

"We created a dollar shortage in the country.

It came to a swift and, I would say, grand culmination in December when one of the largest banks in Iran went under. There was a run on the bank. The central bank had to print money.

The Iranian currency went into free fall, inflation exploded, and as a result, we’ve seen the Iranian people out on the streets."


I still dey wonder why Iran never dey trade oil in their own currency.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Fash20: 8:28am On Feb 06
WriteerNg:
⚡Al Jazeera claims to have obtained the US-Iran deal framework proposed by Turkey, Qatar and Egypt:

1. Iran agrees to commit to zero uranium enrichment for 3 years, and then agrees to under 1.5% enrichment after that

2. Its stockpile of Highly Enriched Uranium would be transferred to a third country

3. Iran agrees to not transfer weapons and technologies to its regional nonstate allies

4. Iran pledges to not initiate the use of Ballistic Missiles

5. Iran and the US agree to a nonaggression agreement.
You are under sanctions... why not negotiate an ease
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 8:41am On Feb 06
23jerryking:
The boys on the other side of the divide have proven time and time again how uninformed they really are when it comes to geopolitics. I was very neutral at first but they tagged me an enemy just for trying to counter their sentimental opinions about other people. And I asked myself "who took the trouble sponsoring these lots through schools"? The funds could have been put to better use
You were never neutral. Your earliest posts on this thread were insults directed at anyone who supported Russia or said anything that implicated or countered the west.

Your number one supporter was the charlatan posing as a lawyer who jumped at every opportunity to back you.

Despite that, I considered you neutral and always told you to tone down on the insults but you never did, and instead gave me my share of your verbal artillery. You were never neutral.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2:
lanre316:
Exactly! I was neutral too, pointing out both the mistakes and achievements of the West while highlighting the good and bad sides of the Axis of Evil but they ganged up against me calling all sort of names for not taking any sides until I say "F.. it!" and went full beast mode against them and their propaganda lies.
You were never neutral too. And you never even claimed neutrality. You were openly anti-Russia and anti-common sense from the very beginning. Why are you guys all trying to claim neutrality? Even you? You? You were not.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 8:45am On Feb 06
WriteerNg:
⚡U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran:

"We created a dollar shortage in the country.

It came to a swift and, I would say, grand culmination in December when one of the largest banks in Iran went under. There was a run on the bank. The central bank had to print money.

The Iranian currency went into free fall, inflation exploded, and as a result, we’ve seen the Iranian people out on the streets."
Listening to what these evil people are doing openly to iran, what is China doing to support Iran and what are they putting in place to avoid using such move on the axis?
Because the cane a man use in flogging the first wife is still in the corner to flog the latest wife.
I just want the axis to break US hedge of using the dollars against opposing countries.
Can you imagine the magnitude of power US is holding to destabilize other countries?
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 8:47am On Feb 06
WriteerNg:


I still dey wonder why Iran never dey trade oil in their own currency.
The currency is useless because it is not an internationally recognized legal tender outside the shores of iran.
It is like Nigeria selling their own crude in Naira, it changes little because outside nigeria, no one else needs the naira despite needing to import many things with recognized currencies like dollars.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 8:56am On Feb 06
Jovi10:
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣 Omo no use this brain born children o ah!
Is there any evidence that the video was even shot by Russians? I have checked its origin and it’s always western sources claiming it was released by pro-Russian telegram channels. But I and many others saw it first on western media.

People have pointed out that the guy is likely a POW captured by Ukrainian soldiers who then strapped a mine to him to for a propaganda video.

This explanation makes sense. What is even the point of putting a mine on a soldier? The mine won’t explode if the guy or even the mine itself is shot. The mine won’t explode if you set the guy on fire.

It will even be more believable if the guy wore a suicide vest but a mine? Nah. This is clearly a Ukrainian propaganda video.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:01am On Feb 06
Jovi10:
Mines are used for suprise attack. Omo this will be my last response to Una. As I dey follow Una argue it dey drain my brain of intellect. Ah nawa o . See as human beings dey reason? They just swallow anything they see on western media, no personal investigation at all. Segobe

I slant for una
No, continue arguing.

Wait until they tell you nines are strapped on the head to head the enemy.

Some of you just love wasting your precious time arguing with folks that has twisted minds.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:06am On Feb 06
⚡French Chief of the Defence Staff Fabien Mandon:

The Baltic can now be closed whenever we decide — and that is bad news for Russia.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:09am On Feb 06
⚡Large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Kropyvntskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, right now.

The target is Kanatove Airbase, just outside the city. So far, it has been hit by:

- 2 Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballlistic missiles launched by 2 MiG-31K fighters from Savasleika Airbase.

- 5 Kh-69 cruise missiles launched from Su-34 fighers.

- 4 Geran-4/5 jet drones.

Another 3 Geran-4/5s are now flying to attack the airbase.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Obedience40: 9:27am On Feb 06
Kudos to the Ukrainians SBU!!🫡

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:38am On Feb 06
⚡Meanwhile Iran's IRGC are conducting missile tests as negotiations between Iran and the United States are ongoing in Oman.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Obedience40: 9:43am On Feb 06
23jerryking:
The boys on the other side of the divide have proven time and time again how uninformed they really are when it comes to geopolitics. I was very neutral at first but they tagged me an enemy just for trying to counter their sentimental opinions about other people. And I asked myself "who took the trouble sponsoring these lots through schools"? The funds could have been put to better use
A thread, which was once educative, has now become an endless repeat of clowns regurgitating LordAdamu propaganda!!

You can't even make a distinction between LordAdamu takes and others here.. especially that apple fella.. All we have now are clowns imitating a higher clown!!


No subjective analysis or takes anymore, just a case of acolytes engaged in an endless cycle of "Rinse and repeat" of propaganda dish out by that low budget wannabe David Hundeyin!!

That's why we still take time to read Masterviolence and OkpaNsukkaisBae posts..full of sentiments and propaganda thou! But at least they have elements of subjectivity in it
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 9:43am On Feb 06
Appleyard:
No, continue arguing.

Wait until they tell you nines are strapped on the head to head the enemy.

Some of you just love wasting your precious time arguing with folks that has twisted minds.
The submission and argument is at least better than a dumb one that beat chest and said a meagre 2000 drones will change the defence posture of the entire Caribbean. 🤯🤯🤯
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 9:45am On Feb 06
Obedience40:
Kudos to the Ukrainians SBU!!🫡
An awesome gift for the new year.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 9:47am On Feb 06
23jerryking:
The boys on the other side of the divide have proven time and time again how uninformed they really are when it comes to geopolitics. I was very neutral at first but they tagged me an enemy just for trying to counter their sentimental opinions about other people. And I asked myself "who took the trouble sponsoring these lots through schools"? The funds could have been put to better use
The funds could have been used to maybe
Train a pig
Buy a donkey
Or even plant trees..
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Jovi10: 9:50am On Feb 06
shoodboi2:
You were never neutral. Your earliest posts on this thread were insults directed at anyone who supported Russia or said anything that implicated or countered the west.

Your number one supporter was the charlatan posing as a lawyer who jumped at every opportunity to back you.

Despite that, I considered you neutral and always told you to tone down on the insults but you never did, and instead gave me my share of your verbal artillery. You were never neutral.
Leave them make them dey disguise. Na children them think say dey here na 🤣🤣😂😂🤣
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Obedience40: 9:53am On Feb 06
Scorpio99:
An awesome gift for the new year.
I am in awe of the ingenuity of the SBU in Ukraine, even with the little resources they have..
They have been proven to be a shinning light of the Ukraine war..

It will seem that they have built a substantial footprint in Russia especially in Moscow!!

Am pretty sure the CIA are taking notes, The SBU have shown that it is easy to conduct covert operations in Russia. The US should be tapping from the experience and expertise of the guys in the Ukraine SBU

Once again bravo to the SBU!!
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Jovi10: 9:55am On Feb 06
shoodboi2:
Is there any evidence that the video was even shot by Russians? I have checked its origin and it’s always western sources claiming it was released by pro-Russian telegram channels. But I and many others saw it first on western media.

People have pointed out that the guy is likely a POW captured by Ukrainian soldiers who then strapped a mine to him to for a propaganda video.

This explanation makes sense. What is even the point of putting a mine on a soldier? The mine won’t explode if the guy or even the mine itself is shot. The mine won’t explode if you set the guy on fire.

It will even be more believable if the guy wore a suicide vest but a mine? Nah. This is clearly a Ukrainian propaganda video.
Bro as in shame catch me for that obidience guy o. I even they reason say na him still get small sense for all of them, he comes fall my hand patapata. You see gbadebo own ehn! God 🤣🤣🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣he say them go shoot the mine I off straight. The other one said they will force the guy to lie down on the road for a tank to run him over as aww

All of them empty ori

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Obedience40: 10:08am On Feb 06
Jovi10:
Bro as in shame catch me for that obidience guy o. I even they reason say na him still get small sense for all of them, he comes fall my hand patapata. You see gbadebo own ehn! God 🤣🤣🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣he say them go shoot the mine I off straight. The other one said they will force the guy to lie down on the road for a tank to run him over as aww

All of them empty ori
like I said before I don't entertain profitless back and forth!!

This is a piece by the telegraph written by a South African based journalist.

If you like keep wallowing in your pool of ignorance..na you sabi!!


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/12/russia-using-africans-cannon-fodder-ukraine/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 10:09am On Feb 06

⚡️BREAKING

One of the demands the US has made of Iran is to stop exporting oil to China - Al Jazeera

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 10:22am On Feb 06
Obedience40:
I am in awe of the ingenuity of the SBU in Ukraine, even with the little resources they have..
They have been proven to be a shinning light of the Ukraine war..

It will seem that they have built a substantial footprint in Russia especially in Moscow!!

Am pretty sure the CIA are taking notes, The SBU have shown that it is easy to conduct covert operations in Russia. The US should be tapping from the experience and expertise of the guys in the Ukraine SBU

Once again bravo to the SBU!!
According to Christo Grozev, his name is Gen. Vladimir Alexeev, the senior most GRU commander in charge of the war on Ukraine, he was shot multiple times in Moscow today. Alexeev, himself born in Ukraine, was seen as the most sophisticated and capable architect of the invasion of Ukraine.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 10:24am On Feb 06
shoodboi2:
Is there any evidence that the video was even shot by Russians? I have checked its origin and it’s always western sources claiming it was released by pro-Russian telegram channels. But I and many others saw it first on western media.

People have pointed out that the guy is likely a POW captured by Ukrainian soldiers who then strapped a mine to him to for a propaganda video.

This explanation makes sense. What is even the point of putting a mine on a soldier? The mine won’t explode if the guy or even the mine itself is shot. The mine won’t explode if you set the guy on fire.

It will even be more believable if the guy wore a suicide vest but a mine? Nah. This is clearly a Ukrainian propaganda video.
Only the devil knows whatever you consumed that made you believe there is the smallest iota of sense in this gibberish you conjured.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by lanre316: 10:26am On Feb 06
Scorpio99:
The funds could have been used to maybe
Train a pig
Buy a donkey
Or even plant trees..
😂😂😂😂

BTW, Seun really messed up by not including laugh emoji on nairaland reactions
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 10:26am On Feb 06
shoodboi2:
You were never neutral too. And you never even claimed neutrality. You were openly anti-Russia and anti-common sense from the very beginning. Why are you guys all trying to claim neutrality? Even you? You? You were not.
Lanre has always been neutral.
Remember that time when in your delusions you said I was righteousness, I was false prophet, you even said I was your daddy. He said some things that time I thought he was on your side. I later realized he was only being a clear headed observer.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16:
WriteerNg:


I still dey wonder why Iran never dey trade oil in their own currency.
iran does not trade a lot of its oil in dollars

they are sanctioned, so they use other means to receive payment

with russia, they trade in rubles/rial
with china, it's largely the yuan and then they import from china without headache

the issue with iran is that sanctions make it difficult to trade with more countries
imagine if china was only allowed to export to axis countries
how much smaller their economy would be and the pressure it would have on finances

the intense hegemony pressure on india as a transhipment hub for russian oil is so that russia will only be able to sell to china
essentially creating the same conditions as with venezuela and iran
good thing for russia is that they were a developed economy before the sanctions, it is still early days, and their finances were robust before the sanctions

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Jovi10: 10:30am On Feb 06
Obedience40:
like I said before I don't entertain profitless back and forth!!

This is a piece by the telegraph written by a South African based journalist.

If you like keep wallowing in your pool of ignorance..na you sabi!!


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/12/russia-using-africans-cannon-fodder-ukraine/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
If to say you get brain to reason, you go use am analyse what the journalist said and look at how possible it is. It is called a mine for a reason and it's work is to be placed hidden on the ground for someone to step on or for a tank to climb on it so it can explode unawares.

No be everything you go dey swallow hook line and sinker. Bro you really disappointed me aje.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 10:55am On Feb 06
shoodboi2:

⚡️BREAKING

One of the demands the US has made of Iran is to stop exporting oil to China - Al Jazeera
This doesn't make any sense.
How can a country be publicly showing that they hate another country and don't want it to progress by forcing a third country not to trade with it.
Where is the so called free-trade world?
China is in for a long thing.
Syria oil cut-off, venezuela cut-off and ow they want to mess with Iran to cut-off.
They are slowly strangulating china without confronting her head-on.
It is up to china to support and defend their interest with other axis or see themselves in a defensive position few years from now fighting for their own life too.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 11:14am On Feb 06
emmaodet:
Listening to what these evil people are doing openly to iran, what is China doing to support Iran and what are they putting in place to avoid using such move on the axis?
Because the cane a man use in flogging the first wife is still in the corner to flog the latest wife.
I just want the axis to break US hedge of using the dollars against opposing countries.
Can you imagine the magnitude of power US is holding to destabilize other countries?
wait for panda to launch a new global initiative or make a new landmark pronouncement
brics summit go soon reach make them hold hands snap picture

dude be acting like he has ADHD




yesterday the us hosted a global minerals summit
invited 55 nations
they're already launching project vault and several other national and global initiatives to create strategic mineral reserves
they're also talking about stuff like price floors to spur private investment

they're doing all these with concrete objectives and tangible progress less than a year after china used its rare earth leverage

meanwhile over at the axis
pikin wen dem born when we start this sanctions/dedollarization push go don dey college by now




the only thing china can do now
is serve as a trans shipment hub for sanctioned axis countries

essentially create companies that are chinese but supplied by iranian, north korean, cuban companies
and then the chinese companies sell it domestically to other chinese companies that'll sell the merchandise to the rest of the planet

the issue with that is the huge trans shipment costs that'll erode profit margins
the multiple middle men needing their own %
and the sanctioned axis countries will also need to use the same route to import raw materials from the rest of the planet
creating mindboggling inefficiency

imagine if you want to start a plant in nigeria
and rather than import a machine directly from germany, you have to first send it to brazil, then the brazilian company a has to sell it to another brazilian company b and then that brazilian company b sells it to you
you have to do this for everything you'd be importing from any country that isn't brazil
and then when you have to sell, you have to sell to brazilian company b, who'd sell to brazilian company a, who'd then export to the rest of the planet
even if you're selling to morocco or namibia in africa, you'd still have to use the brazil route to trans ship the goods

meanwhile, the current reality for nigeria without sanctions
is that we can import directly from germany to nigeria and sell to anyone without hassle

this is just about trade
we've not started talking about financing or the hassles of compliance
sanctioned countries will still have to go to china to access capital markets
and you'd need an entire parallel professional services sector to service this trade mechanism
to say nothing of the significant premium lenders will demand to hand out loans to any enterprise engaged in this




if those bottlenecks can be solved
i doubt they can be
economics is stubborn
then you'll see iranian exports to china increase by an order of magnitude
while on paper china's economy will also increase
creating a win-win

when i talk about the importance of creating an alternate financial system
and look at panda doing basic sh*t like currency swap, it annoys me
the global south needs a complex parallel financial architecture so that if i want to buy persian rug from iran, tobi at lagos, emeka at onitsha, yusuf at kano would not stock their shops and end up on a sanctions list
but it does not seem like panda is ready to do the grunt work

because this is not a simple change the currency and everything falls into place
you need a new BIS
you need liquidity swap lines and repo facilities
you need a naval task force because the us will resort to piracy
you need a new capital market regime
you need several dozen other stuff for the plumbing

none of this is beyond china's ability
but xi is more focused on purging dissenters and expanding china's surplus than putting in the work to create a resilient global south
the latter is much harder than the former

-Lord
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