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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.

Germany's Merz:

We are always prepared to talk to Russia.

But we will not open parallel negotiation channels.

The key to ending this war lies in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/PUpeXerj32

— Clash Report (@clashreport) February 6, 2026

Obedience40:
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

Jovi10:
Let me tell you something. When it comes to global politics, international relations, history of what has happened to Africa and what's still happening. You can't be neutral. You're either on one side. Those who say they are neutral are either scared or because they have something they are chasing and being neutral is the way they can get it e.g visa.

There's no sitting on the fence here. Most of you who have claimed to be neutral have shown time and time again through your criticism which has been majorly on the axis but when it comes to matters that concerns the west especially USA , you either don't say anything or carefully pick your words why?

Like I said we have seen the way both of you interact on this thread and from the very first day it was pretty obvious that you're pro west. One of you have come out to own it with his full chest while the other is still pretending.


I was pro west as well but the pre Goodluck Jonathan era opened my eyes and going to school to study international relations and political science opened it more. There's nothing in this life that can make me change my views about the west.

So stop pretending to be neutral come out with your full chest like your colleague we won't beat you.

Icktioaxen:
I see that you've reduced the memes and emojis. Glad you took my advice and now you are healing. Congratulations



As for this here's an article from 2016 from the daily mail:

ISIS digs up Nazi MINES: Terror group trawls sand for fresh ammunition in North African desert where 17 million deathtraps were left by Rommel’s men in battles with Desert Rats

Here's the link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3735692/ISIS-digs-Nazi-MINES-Terror-group-trawls-sand-fresh-ammunition-North-African-desert-17-million-deathtraps-left-Rommel-s-men-battles-Desert-Rats.html

amadivv:
.You people keep dodging the real point. Nobody cares whether a mine explodes or not — that’s just you shifting the goalpost so you don’t have to address the actual issue. The real discussion is about Africans being sent into dangerous assaults, humiliated, and treated as disposable. Instead of acknowledging that, you’re hiding behind technical distractions. If you truly cared about truth, you’d talk about the treatment and dignity of those men, not argue over side details to protect a narrative.Instead of showing concern for your own people, you’re busy defending a narrative and nitpicking side details.At some point, it stops being ignorance and starts looking like Will denial.The funniest part is watching you bend over backwards to defend a country that wouldn’t even look twice at you.

JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇪🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says European leaders are secretly contacting Russia through back channels. pic.twitter.com/wgeuKfephH

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) February 6, 2026

Six people, including a five-year-old child, were lightly injured on Friday afternoon after a grenade was thrown into a beauty salon in central Grenoble, France. pic.twitter.com/dLWhDKREWW

— Clash Report (@clashreport) February 6, 2026

Jovi10:
So how will this work being strapped to a living human ? Guy no dey embarrass yourself na. I been dey think say you get sense pass others for your camp omo no fall my hand abeg.

🇬🇧 Nigel Farage suggests that "behind it all" Jeffrey Epstein "could have been working for the Putin regime."

Follow: @europapic.twitter.com/YmUbSCgDy9

— Europa.com (@europa) February 5, 2026

WriteerNg:
⚡The United States announced new sanctions aimed at curbing Iran’s oil exports, including targeting 14 vessels, shortly after of indirect talks with Iran in Oman – Reuters

Mikasaobi:
Laugh wan kill me, those guys always hit a new low 😂😂😂😂. My advice to western 🤡🤡🤡🤡 if you’re in a hole stop digging. Not long ago a 🤡 thought destruction from nuclear weapons is limited to the blast radius, now this mines nonsense.

Like you I thought obedience was a lil sharper than the rest, it’s birds and feathers bro, they are all the same.

emmaodet:
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.

LordAdam16:
you cannot compare russia and iran

as recently as 2014, russia was in the g8
russia is the 4th largest economy in the world by PPP
total russian reserves right now is $730B

putin made the gamble to ignore nato expansion so he could rebuild the russian economy without sanctions
and he succeeded

iran never had that opportunity
there was economic downturn before the revolution
immediately after the war, saddam invaded
the iraq-iran war last 8 long years and destroyed iran's economy
iran had sanctions before the war (due to the 1979 hostage crisis), during the war, and after the war
the us has maintained a mosaic of sanctions almost non-stop since 1979
they've added new sanctions this year

how iran is still standing today is the 9th wonder of the world

a billionaire tightening his belt is different from a broke former industrialist with a negative net worth
last year, russia exported more arms than iran exported oil in 2024
in 2024, in the middle of the ukraine war and biting sanctions, russia exports value was $377B with trade surplus of $175B (they imported $202B)
in comparison, iran exports value was $13B with trade deficit of $9B (they imported $22B)
and they have roughly the same population (russia is 120m v iran's 90m)

russia and iran are not in the same stratosphere
sanctions have destroyed iran, venezuela, and cuba
in a fair world, it'll count as a crime against humanity

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and personally i think this is another reason why iran should have nukes

if i am sanctioned non-stop for 45 years
i will get a nuke even if an angel says i should not
no one who is that cruel deserves to sleep soundly at night

-Lord

LordAdam16:
none of them use dollars by choice

iran trades in yuan and ruble with china and russia
likewise vz and cuba

brazil vetoed venezuela and cuba from joining brics

-Lord

Appleyard:
You’re speaking facts here, honestly. Russia and Iran no be mates at all in terms of starting point or room to maneuver.

Russia had a window with its G8 membership, access to capital, tech, markets, reserves stacked. Putin gambled: “let me rebuild first, sanctions later,” and it worked. By the time sanctions came, Russia don already get buffer. Big economy, energy leverage, arms exports, deep reserves. Na billionaire wey dey complain say economy hard.

Iran? Completely different story. Sanctions before 1979 even finish, sanctions during the war, sanctions after. War with Saddam scatter everything for 8 solid years, and the US never remove its foot from Iran neck since then. No breathing space, no reset button. Na like person wey never recover from accident before another trailer hit am.

So yeah, how Iran still dey stand today na miracle. If sanctions truly be “peaceful tools,” Iran for don vanish. Instead, dem survive—barely.

And make we no decieve ourselves: if you punish a country nonstop for 45 years, deny am growth, security, dignity… abeg, who no go look for ultimate deterrent? Even angel fit preach, hunger and threat no dey hear sermon. Na realpolitik, not morality.

Notwithstanding, Iran go survive. It's destined to.

Icktioaxen:
There's a stereotypical saying that goes like this: if you want to hide something from the black man, put it in writing. And you are making this stereotype seem true.

I'm the one who should be asking you if you read the article. Here's the full article if reading is too hard for you:



Take note of "‎ISIS and its allies in north Africa are believed to be digging up old landmines from World War Two and using them to fashion home-made bombs for use in terrorist attacks."

And "But now ISIS and Ansar Beit al-Maqdis have discovered ways of extricating the mines without setting them off and then removing the ammunition and using it to make improvised explosive devices (IED)."

dermmy:
France Urges Iran-backed Groups To Show Restraint If US-Iran Tensions Escalate

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/france-urges-iran-backed-groups-to-show-restraint-if-us-iran-tensions-escalate/ar-AA1VQgMa?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=3b13e539db854ad093e6e4d03ea40871&ei=31

emmaodet:
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.

LordAdam16:
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

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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

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

[b]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[/b]

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

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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

Gerrard59:
And they won't stop at that request o. That is to tell the Iranians what is ahead.

As for China, the war has started. They should be prepared o because this is how pressure will come on many countries to sever ties with China. Panamanian courts ordered the seizure of ports from the Hong Kong that won the contract in 2021. They want to strangle and starve China of energy and food. Their incursions into Africa is for the same. I am sure they would want to change the leadership in Brazil to be pro-America.

Gerrard59:
I swear, I thought of something similar, but did not just align my thoughts properly or well laid out. The plan involves buying Iranian goods, shipping them to China and reselling them to the rest of the world as Chinese-owned/made goods. In return, do the opposite: get those goods from elsewhere to China, then onwards to Iran and North Korea. The companies involved will be Chinese and run by them. No use of USD or even WhatsApp.

The current or erstwhile model India used in shipping oil to Europe was buying Russian crude, refining it in India and selling to the rest of the world, especially the EU. This new model will involve buying finished Iranian/Russian goods, rather than raw materials, and reselling them to the ROW as Chinese goods.