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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 8:55pm On Feb 18
emmaodet:
And this is where i have my reservations with the Axis.
There are some countries in the western sphere that does not have nukes but are rest assured they have the US backing, not the axis.
The axis are working independently instead of together despite have a common enemy that has only 1 goal which is to destroy all of them...Nothing else.
For example, if russia decides to attack Croatia or China attacks Taiwan or Japan or Philippines all who don't have nukes, the blow backs will be huge that will damage their economies and destroy a chunk of their military.
Can we say that of the Axis doing that to the US?
That is deterrence. Deterrence is not about sitting deep and soaking in pressures rather forming a system that will deter future occurences.
For example - If china or russia attacks canada, taiwan or Japan, they will be sanctioned immediately which other allies will fall in line to do the same, seize your savings/deposits with them, steal your assets and start seizing your ships that are close to any allies port.
Can we say that for the Axis?
US attacked Syria, Venezuela, Iran and there has never been a joint sanction, seizing all US ships close to axis ports, freezing their assets and sanctioning doing business with them, retrieving oil licenses of US companies like Mobil, chevron etc drilling oil in Axis countries and placing secondary sanctions on western allies still doing business with them.... These are the deterrents preventing China and Russia from taking major steps.
Rather, we have a China still doing business and smiling to the bank with dollars full in hand while issuing statements about US attacking axis countries.
Russia placed sanctions back on US after all US allies cut off but axis countries are not.
It is the reason the US find it easy to be attacking axis because they are working independently instead of working together like a system.
Europe is painfully not trading with Russia not because they want to or it pays them but sacrifice their comfort to send a message to avoid future attacks of any one of them.... this is my point
the mistakes have been made

and the hegemony is not letting the axis have a breather

venezuela, cuba, and iran in the same month while still pushing weapons to ukraine and taiwan
last week they deployed atacms 10km away from mainland china

the priority now is getting through the avalanche which you're correct in pointing out they did not adequately prepare for

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 9:21pm On Feb 18
lavrov in his latest interview to al arabiya

covered many issues

he did say that the zero enrichment demand reiterated in geneva is unacceptable




axis delulu has largely ended
but it came late

there was never a genuine chance with pre-war negotiations

the russians should know, they're living witnesses
they were ignored and jeered at until bodies started dropping

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:36pm On Feb 18
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:39pm On Feb 18
⚡The U.S. is withdrawing all ~1,000 troops from Syria, ending its 10-year military mission there.

Troops have already left key bases, and the full pullout should be completed within two months.

Officials say the move is not related to tensions with Iran.

The Trump administration believes a U.S. military presence is no longer necessary after SDF/YPG largely disbanded and agreed to integrate into Syria’s army under President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:41pm On Feb 18
⚡Germany’s population is now projected to shrink nearly 5% by 2050, much worse than the earlier 1% estimate.

The Ifo institute warns the population will fall to ~79 million (lowest since 1990).

Working-age population (20–66) down 12%.

Pensioners up 20%+.

Long-term growth stuck around 0.4%.

Lower migration and fewer births than previously forecast are driving the sharper decline.

Eastern Germany will be hit hardest.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dermmy(m):
The Vatican Pope has rejected the Trump's board of peace plan for Palestinians and refused to be part of it citing that such crcial and Important issue should be managed by the UN not Donald Trump.

This is what I have been saying. Even this Iranian nuclear deal. I don't know why Trump's America is the one dictating all the terms when we have the UN there. I have been expecting Russia and China to demand they want to be part of this negotiation cause they were party to the JCPOA but this is not the case here.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 1:19am On Feb 19
reuters

Washington expects Iran to present a written proposal with concessions that will resolve the diplomatic crisis following the failure of talks in Geneva
persia should halt their participation in this ruse

no more concessions or the promise of concessions

tell them in plain terms
acknowledge our rights to defense and nuclear enrichment as clearly stipulated in international law or start a war
no need for shalaye




we are at the same point where putin was in november 2021

he kept asking biden to acknowledge russia's interests in getting ukraine to declare neutrality and for nato to stop its encroachment
biden blew him off
all proposals were ignored
biden and ukraine were saying russia had no right to dictate

guess who is now seeking a resolution after millions have perished




thankfully, this is not a proxy war
the yanks and genocidal cunts are in direct line of fire
the arabs and turks have excused themselves

blood must flow before anything will stick
anyone who believes otherwise in tehran is suffering from premium delulu

there is no more understanding to be had with washington
release the hellhounds!

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by ariesbull: 6:38am On Feb 19
🚨 BREAKING: RUSSIAN WARSHIPS ARRIVE FOR MILITARY EXERCISES WITH IRAN 🇮🇷🇷🇺

Russia, Iran, and China have deployed naval vessels for joint exercises in the Strait of Hormuz region under the "Maritime Security Belt 2026" framework.

America is F*CKED.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:15am On Feb 19
⚡Zelensky on Putin:

I don’t need all this historical sh*t by him.

I don’t need to waste time on historical issues or the reasons why he started all this, Peter the First...


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:16am On Feb 19
⚡French President Macron:

The African continent, with the youngest population that will double in 25 years, deserves the best digital tools.

At a time when tensions are rising, there is an increased sense of urgency to direct all our digital tools toward an inclusive approach.

Let us focus on bridging rather than dividing, creating rather than destroying, sharing rather than taking.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:17am On Feb 19
⚡The U.S. is amassing its largest Middle East air buildup since 2003, positioning for possible strikes on Iran.

But Trump hasn’t decided yet.

The U.S. has deployed F-35s, F-22s, additional fighters, command aircraft, missile defenses, and two aircraft carriers to the region.

Officials say this gives Washington the option of a “weekslong air war” — not just a one-off strike.

Trump is weighing options ranging from targeting nuclear and missile sites to potentially hitting regime leadership.

Iran hopes negotiations delay strikes, but officials fear Trump could lose patience.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:18am On Feb 19
⚡The U.S. has now conducted 193 total airlift flights into the Middle East, signaling a major force buildup positioning for potential action against Iran.

The surge includes tankers, fighters, ISR, and support aircraft, with 15+ flights still in progress.

46 tankers repositioned to Europe.

Fighter deployments underway: F-16s, F-22s, F-35s, F-15s moving to Jordan (Muwaffaq Salti AB) and Saudi Arabia (Prince Sultan AB).

Additional ISR/EW assets deployed, including multiple E-3 Sentry AWACS.

No bombers confirmed yet.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:23am On Feb 19
⚡Russian Geran-2 drones struck the Lozova Boiler House in the city of Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast.

As a result, a large fire broke out and nearly 16,000 residents were left without heating.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:23am On Feb 19
⚡Zelensky:

Russians decided they need a new tsar.

They must recognize they started this war.

Apologies matter, like Germany faced its past.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:25am On Feb 19
⚡Zelensky on Donbas:

We are not delaying anything.

But that does not mean that I will accept everything or simply accept withdrawing from our territory, even from the territory we currently control.

We cannot just withdraw. It’s unbelievable. How can that be? It is our territory.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:26am On Feb 19
⚡Zelensky on elections:

They don’t want elections — they want to change me.

We are not Russia. You can’t just order an election in a week.

If a ceasefire brings real peace, we can talk about elections.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:49am On Feb 19
⚡Zelensky:

I know that Americans and perhaps some Europeans are discussing a new document between NATO and Russia.

If they create a document between NATO and Russia, they can discuss many things. But it is important to me that they discuss Ukraine’s potential place in NATO with us, not just with Russia.

They may discuss things without us. Perhaps there are things we don’t know.

If there are surprises, we will react accordingly.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:55am On Feb 19
⚡Piers Morgan: Putin and his forces have made multiple attempts to kill you. If you had the opportunity to kill Putin, would you authorize your forces to take it?

Zelensky: I’m not sure that another person would be any different from Putin. It’s not about that.

I don’t know how many times they tried to kill me.

Killing people, even killing the president, would not break Ukraine.

We are emotionally different people.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:58am On Feb 19
⚡Today's ceremonial handover of "600-mm super-large multiple rocket launchers" (better known as KN-25) on the eve of upcoming IX Congress of Workers' Party of Korea.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 8:05am On Feb 19
🤣😂😀

thecradle is suggesting that regional countries are lobbying iran to mangle the uae in the imminent war
which is exactly what you'd expect
especially from the africans--the somalis, egyptians, sudanese, maybe even the saudis

{everyone is already making plans about the war, so the turks for instance are lobbying for iran to smash the iraqi kurds)

but the uae is iran's second largest trading partner (and the largest in the region) and the uae yankee installations are not as critical as those in saudi, jordan, bahrain, qatar...
so I don't know how open the iranians will be to this request
iranian state tv though did publish a target bank for the uae sometime back
it included commercial targets
so at the very least they are seriously considering the request




the second important update is bahrain

unconfirmed reports that the iranians are considering making them one of the prime gulf targets
by this I mean, even going beyond us installations

on the surface, it's about the us 5th fleet base
but there's another little known fact
bahrain is a shia-majority country or at least near-equal sunni-shia proportion
being ruled by a sunni royal house

during the arab spring
there was a revolution that was brutally suppressed when the monarchy invited gulf personnel and weaponry
the protesters wanted an overthrow of the monarchy and an iranian style shia islamic republic
that was like 15 years ago
but in a regional war, anything can happen and old flames can be reignited

all i can say is that the bahraini monarchy should be nervous




lastly, this is no more a usreal-iran war

it is being billed as a middle east war

for instance, everyone keeps thinking the hormuz closure is solely about pressuring the us and that the gulf countries will be collateral damage
nope
the hormuz closure is actually a tool that lets the persians kill multiple birds with one stone
if you want to destabilize the gulf monarchies as has been the dream of the islamic republic since khomeini victory speech in 79
there will never be a better opportunity

in this imminent war, there are plans within plans on both sides

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 8:11am On Feb 19
5t is a pity that Iran finds herself in this situation because those they are relying on can't protect her back without giving excuses.
I stand to be corrected, you don't need a nuke before avoiding regular embarrassment from a bully. It only means the group you are in is weak and not reliable.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Japan, Australia, UK, Germany etc don't need to have a nuke before they can breath well and prosper. They are not regularly harrassed by the Axis.
It is not that the axis are weak nor don't know how to change a regime, they know there is a deterrence system on ground that will eat deep into them so they have been at their best behaviour.
Attack or harrass any of the listed countries above and you will be thought a bitter lesson.
It is the reason many country countries under US say they have no other option than to be with the US because they have seen how the other option of relying on China/Russia has destabilized those who they are to protect.
Who wants to be under decades of sanctions, who wants to be regularly bombed without any blow backs from the bully, who wants their to regularly entangled with terrorism, rebels, internal wars and so many other things if not an idiot.
These are all the faiths of the countries under the Axis
Look at UAE, Saudi, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar etc what is common to them all? you can hardly hear of invasion or rebels etc.
It is all calm, prospering economically and enjoying themselves because they know the US they are banking on is dependable.
Syria? that gets regularly bombed despite Russia's AD on stby to protect there sky. Your protector cutting deals with your enemy and keeping a blind eye when bully wants to strike. It speaks volume
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:23am On Feb 19
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 8:24am On Feb 19
There is no way we sugar coat it or give excuses, it either shows incompetency or deliberate negligence.. No ifs inbetween because i am sure there is no deal russia and china will give to US at the back that will make US feign ignorance or negligence for bombing Saudi, UAE and co ... None.
Then ther is the worrying pattern .... before the syria takeover, we were all here excited during the build-up on both side that syria will give the bullies a run for there money with the axis backing and what did we get? flawless victory.
No resistance all the way to Damascus by the bully and the excuse from the Axis?
Ohhh, we gave them all the weapons they needed, what else do you want us to do?
Are you kidding me? are you for real? Is these are you could offer? then you are not worth relying on

Then Venezuela came ... same script, exactly same pattern but a little bit modified
Fool me once, you are the fool but fool me twice and i am the fool.
During the buildup by both, i was excited again hoping Venezuela will give the bully a run for their money and even if defeated, she will inflict a major pain on the hegemon but what did we get?
Another Flawless Victory......Brutality and Fatality ,,, BBYBY subzero move
Virtually no resistance and to put more salt on the injury, the President was kidnapped live at his palace like a nobody and up till date, we don't know his whereabout.
And what did we get from the Axis? what else do you want us to do, if have given them the weapons they need but they just didn't fight.
Is that the kind of people you want to rely on? place your people, your economy, your life on?
Now we are here again with Iran, the build up is growing while the bully is busy doing their internal homework in Iran - bribing in billions of dollars, threatening, massaging and every other thing
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:25am On Feb 19
⚡Former French Chief of the Defence Staff, General Pierre de Villiers:

We prepared ourselves and structured our forces to conduct operations abroad. That has been the model since the end of the Cold War. We carry out combat operations, yes — but that is not the same as being prepared for war.

War is long. War lasts. And we no longer have the depth required for that kind of conflict.

We do not have the resilience, the structural thickness — in terms of logistics, ammunition stockpiles, manpower, or equipment — to sustain a real war.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 8:33am On Feb 19
If the bully attacks and fails, she quickly uses plan B to stop more damages by calling for deals, mediations or threatening with nukes to stop further embarrassment and losing just to breath, correct their mistakes before attacking again but if the axis are the ones losing, they won't come in to stop the panel beating to regroup and strategize rather looking on while the country gets pummeled.

If Iran had being the losing one on the 12 day war, the US and isreal would have blown iran to stone age without listening to anyone talk but because they failed, they had to threaten to stop the war..... this is another example i observed.
If russia had been on the losing side, they would have turned her to ashes but because they are the ones losing, they are trying to slow it down.

2. the US is in Ukraine under so many covers - the so called contractor retired soldiers operating the ADs, fighter jets, drawing plans and operating complex weapons.
Yet, we won't see under covered russia and chinese operators hiding under iran ircg to oeprate weapons initially given to strike and neutralize the hegemon carriers.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 8:48am On Feb 19
The last one is this -

If iran falls, i don't have a doubt in my mind the remaining axis will fall because China, Russia are the main and big guys in the axis after that comes iran in number 3 spot.
I will rather sacrifice syria, venezuela, cuba, yemen than sacrificing Iran.
Iran has the military tech-know-how like drones, missiles and scientists that shouldn't fall in the hegemon's hands.
They have tentacles - Iran has a foot in lebanon in hez, Yemen in houthis and Hamas in Gaza. SO losing them means you are losing a whole lot of powers and projections from your shores as axis.
Losing Iran goes beyond just losing the oil, you are losing your number 3 country on the line. Why is your number 3 getting harrassed regularly? it doesn't speak when of the groupo
The hegemon has been using non-state actors to destabilize axis countries before taking over e.g syrai.
How come the axis can't support iran who controls Hez to fund and equip them to overun lebanon and rule the country thereby turning lebanon to pro-axis.
Support the houthis to overrun south yemen and make yemen totally pro-axis rather than the north area.
From there, the axis spreads and not contracting
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 8:59am On Feb 19
ariesbull:
🚨 BREAKING: RUSSIAN WARSHIPS ARRIVE FOR MILITARY EXERCISES WITH IRAN 🇮🇷🇷🇺

Russia, Iran, and China have deployed naval vessels for joint exercises in the Strait of Hormuz region under the "Maritime Security Belt 2026" framework.

America is F*CKED.
You will never learn
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNg: 9:08am On Feb 19
⚡Former French Chief of the Defence Staff, General Pierre de Villiers:

The European Army is a myth that will end in a nightmare.


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNg: 9:15am On Feb 19
⚡Today's ceremonial handover of "600-mm super-large multiple rocket launchers" (better known as KN-25) on the eve of upcoming IX Congress of Workers' Party of Korea.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by emmaodet: 9:24am On Feb 19
It is not as if the hegemon is working in group happily together, rather they all have to shelve their differences to achieve a common goal against the axis. - US, canada, france, UK, poland and co all have different ideologies and way of life but they have to put it down for a common goal to attack and subdue the axis.
So, it is not as if Iran/Persia that is an Islamic country with an Islamic ideology and agender is same with russia that leans more to europe with a different goal and view compared to the Chinese who just want to trade and do business. They are all different fellows on a bed but sometimes, you have to shelve your differences to confront a Monster that is about to swallow you all...it is called SURVIVAL
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