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Putin is still a Loser and a Failure.

He is collecting 4 "Regions" while Finland and Sweden are joining NATO...

In a War he claimed was started because of NATO's Eastward expansion...

The Only Success Putin has achieved, is to Enlarge NATO and bring her closer to the Russian Borders..

And those 4 Regions would not know Peace as long as the West keep supporting and arming the Ukrainians.

Old Men with Drugs in their possession can do Deadly and Disastrous things...

Another Old Drug Baron is planning to rule Nigeria so that he can unleash Deadly and Disastrous policies on the Nation.....


God Forbid BAT-thing

It is safe to say that Buhari is Collecting his Retirement Benefits from the Stolen Crude Oil sales...

He has a hand in it...

Since he still cannot arrest those that are robbing the Nation of her natural resources..

Deltans now have a Strong chance of producing a Vice President..

And some Online Analyst thinks they would throw away that Opportunity by voting for the guy from Anambra State ?

That is the Joke of the Century

WIKE is only displaying The Signs and Symptoms of PTDS.

Aisha Buhari is Right....

Politicians that lost ordinary primaries are still suffering from Post Traumatic Disorder.

Atiku Abubakar is Ready to Lead

Nigerians are ready for a New Nigeria that works.

Vote Atiku Abubakar for the Opportunity to make Nigeria Great Again...

French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections on Sunday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to negotiate alliances with other parties.

Macron's centrist Ensemble coalition, which wants to raise the retirement age and further deepen EU integration, was on course to end up with the most seats in Sunday's election.

But they will be well short of the absolute majority needed to control parliament, near-final results showed.

A broad left-wing alliance was set to be the biggest opposition group, while the far-right scored record-high wins and the conservatives were likely to become kingmakers.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called the outcome a "democratic shock" and added that if other blocs did not cooperate, "this would block our capacity to reform and protect the French."

A hung parliament will require a degree of power-sharing and compromises among parties not experienced in France in recent decades.

There is no set script in France for how things will now unfold. The last time a newly elected president failed to get an outright majority in parliamentary elections was in 1988.

"The result is a risk for our country in view of the challenges we have to face," Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said, while adding that from Monday on, Macron's camp will work to seek alliances.

Macron could eventually call a snap election if legislative gridlock ensues.

"The rout of the presidential party is complete and there is no clear majority in sight," hard-left veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon told cheering supporters.

Leftwing Liberation called the result "a slap" for Macron, and economic daily Les Echos "an earthquake."

Alliances ?

United behind Melenchon, leftwing parties were seen on course to triple their score from the last legislative election in 2017.

In another significant change for French politics, far-right leader Marine Le Pen's National Rally party could score a ten-fold increase in MPs with as many as 90-95 seats, initial projections showed. That would be the party's biggest-ever representation in the assembly.

Initial projections by pollsters Ifop, OpinionWay, Elabe and Ipsos showed Macron's Ensemble alliance winning 230-250 seats, the left-wing Nupes alliance securing 141-175 and Les Republicains 60-75.

Macron became in April the first French president in two decades to win a second term, as voters rallied to keep the far-right out of power.

But, seen as out of touch by many voters, he presides over a deeply disenchanted and divided country where support for populist parties on the right and left has surged.

His ability to pursue further reform of the euro zone's second-biggest economy hinges on winning support for his policies from moderates outside his alliance on both the right and left.

Moderates ?

Macron and his allies must now decide whether to seek an alliance with the conservative Les Republicains, who came fourth, or run a minority government that will have to negotiate bills with other parties on a case-by-case basis.

"There are moderates on the benches, on the right, on the left. There are moderate Socialists and there are people on the right who, perhaps, on legislation, will be on our side," government spokeswoman Olivia Gregoire said.

Les Republicains' platform is more compatible with Ensemble than other parties. The two together have a chance at an absolute majority in final results, which requires at least 289 seats in the lower house.

Christian Jacob, the head of Les Republicains, said his party will remain in the opposition but be "constructive", suggesting case-by-case deals rather than a coalition pact.

The former head of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, and Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon lost their seats, in two major defeats for Macron's camp.

Macron had appealed for a strong mandate during a bitter campaign held against the backdrop of a war on Europe's eastern fringe that has tightened food and energy supplies and sent inflation soaring, eroding household budgets.

Melenchon's Nupes alliance campaigned on freezing the prices of essential goods, lowering the retirement age, capping inheritance and banning companies that pay dividends from firing workers. Melenchon also calls for disobedience towards the European Union.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/06/19/macron-alliance-projected-to-lose-parliamentary-majority.html

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

There really is no such thing as a free lunch.

An anonymous bidder paid a record-breaking $19 million for a private steak lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffet.

The sale was part of the 21st annual auction for a lunch with Buffet, produced in collaboration with eBay and the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit working on combating poverty, hunger, and homelessness.

The bidding started with $25,000 on June 12 and ended with $19,000,100 from an anonymous bidder on Friday, according to a news release from eBay.

This year's huge sum is more than four times the winning bid of $4,567,888 in 2019 -- the last auction before a hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2019's winner was cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun.

The mystery winner will enjoy a private lunch with Buffet and up to seven guests at Smith & Wollensky Steakhouse in New York City, says eBay.

Unfortunately for aspiring investors hoping to top this year's record, this is the last year of the "power lunch" with Buffet. The annual auction has raised over $53 million for Glide.

"On behalf of GLIDE and those we serve, I thank Warren Buffett for his unwavering generosity, partnership and dedication, and for his incredible contribution to our mission," said the organization's president and CEO Karen Hanrahan in the news release.

The auction was first started by the late Susie Buffet in 2000. Since 2003, eBay has managed the auction.

"We are incredibly proud that Warren Buffett's final Power Lunch has broken our all-time record of funds raised, with all proceeds supporting GLIDE's efforts to create pathways out of crisis and transform lives," said eBay CEO Jamie Iannone in the release.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/19/business/warren-buffet-lunch-19-million-trnd/index.html

Lithuanian authorities have banned the transit through their territory of goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad that are subject to European Union sanctions, according to the national rail service.

The enclave – home to the Russian Baltic Fleet and a deployment location for Moscow’s nuclear-capable Iskander missiles – is sandwiched on the Baltic coast between Lithuania and Poland, both NATO members, and has no land border with Russia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12ddUNwzjys

The transit ban could increase already high levels of tension between Russia and NATO following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in late February.

The transit ban took effect on Saturday, according to the cargo arm of Lithuania’s state rail service in a letter to clients. Following “clarification” from the European Commission on the mechanism for applying the sanctions, the transit ban was implemented, according to the letter.

A spokesman for the Lithuanian rail service confirmed the contents of the letter but declined to comment further, according to Reuters news agency.

News of the impending ban came on Friday in a video message posted by Kaliningrad’s governor Anton Alikhanov.

Alikhanov said the ban would cover between 40 and 50 percent of the items that Kaliningrad imports from and exports to Russia through Lithuania as the EU sanctions list notably includes coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology.

“We consider this to be a most serious violation … of the right to free transit into and out of Kaliningrad region,” he said in an online video posting, adding that authorities would press to have the measures lifted.

He said that if the region were not able to have the measures lifted quickly, it would start discussing the need for more ships to carry goods to Russia.

Urging citizens not to resort to panic buying, Alikhanov said two vessels were already ferrying goods between Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg, and seven more would be in service by the end of the year.

“Our ferries will handle all the cargo”, he said on Saturday.

In February, Lithuania closed its airspace to flights from Russia to Kaliningrad, forcing commercial carriers to take a longer route out over the Baltic Sea.

Lithuania’s foreign ministry did not reply to a request from Reuters for comment on the new measure, though Lithuanian deputy foreign minister Mantas Adomenas told a public broadcaster that the ministry was waiting for “clarification from the European Commission on applying European sanctions to Kaliningrad cargo transit”.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/6/18/lithuania-enforces-eu-sanctions-on-goods-to-russias-kaliningrad

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

The head of NATO said on Sunday the war in Ukraine could last years and Ukrainian forces faced intensified Russian assaults after the EU executive recommended that Kyiv should be granted the status of a candidate to join the bloc.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was cited by Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper as saying the supply of state-of-the-art weaponry to Ukrainian troops would increase the chance of liberating the eastern Donbas region from Russian control.

"We must prepare for the fact that it could take years. We must not let up in supporting Ukraine," he said. "Even if the costs are high, not only for military support, also because of rising energy and food prices."

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited Kyiv on Friday, made similar comments about the need to prepare for a long war in an op-ed for London's Sunday Times newspaper.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday he stressed the need to avoid "Ukraine fatigue" and with Russian forces "grinding forward inch by inch", for allies to show the Ukrainians they were there to support them for a long time.

In the op-ed, he said this meant ensuring "Ukraine receives weapons, equipment, ammunition and training more rapidly than the invader."

"Time is the vital factor," Johnson said. "Everything will depend on whether Ukraine can strengthen its ability to defend its soil faster than Russia can renew its capacity to attack."

Ukraine received a significant boost on Friday when the European Commission recommended that it be granted EU candidate status - something European Union countries are expected to endorse at a summit this week.

This would put Ukraine on course to realise an aspiration seen as out of reach before Russia's Feb. 24 invasion, even if actual membership could take years.

INTENSIFIED ATTACKS

On Ukraine's battlefields Russian attacks intensified.

Sievierodonetsk, a prime target in Moscow's offensive to seize full control of the eastern region of Luhansk, was again under heavy artillery and rocket fire as Russian forces attacked areas outside the industrial city, the Ukrainian military said.

The Ukrainian armed forces' general staff admitted its forces had suffered a military setback in the settlement of Metolkine, just to the southeast of Sievierodonetsk.

"As a result of artillery fire and an assault, the enemy has partial success in the village of Metolkine, trying to gain a foothold," it said in a Facebook post late on Saturday.

Serhiy Gaidai, the Ukrainian-appointed governor of Luhansk, referred in a separate online post to "tough battles" in Metolkine.

Russia's Tass news agency, citing a source working for Russian-backed separatists, said many Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Metolkine.

To the northwest, several Russian missiles hit a gasworks in Izium district, and Russian rockets rained down on a suburb of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, hitting a municipal building and starting a fire in a block of flats, but causing no casualties, Ukrainian authorities said.

Ukrainian authorities also reported shelling of locations further west in Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk, and on Saturday they said three Russian missiles destroyed a fuel storage depot in the town of Novomoskovsk, wounding 11 people, one critically.

The Ukrainian armed forces' general staff said Russian troops on a reconnaissance mission near the town of Krasnopillya had been beaten back with heavy casualties on Saturday.

Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield accounts.

ZELENSKIY DEFIANCE

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose defiance has inspired Ukrainians and won him global respect, said in a Telegram post on Saturday he had visited soldiers on the southern front line in the Mykolaiv region, about 550 km (340 miles) south of Kyiv.

"Our brave men and women. Each one of them is working flat out," he said. "We will definitely hold out! We will definitely win!"

A video showed Zelenskiy in his trademark khaki t-shirt handing out medals and posing for selfies with servicemen.

Zelenskiy's office said he had also visited National Guard positions in the southern region of Odesa to the west of Mykolaiv. Neither he nor his office said when the trips took place, but he did not deliver his customary night time address on Saturday.

Zelenskiy has remained mostly in Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine, although in recent weeks he has made unannounced visits to Kharkiv, and two eastern cities close to where battles are being fought.

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's stated goals when he ordered his troops into Ukraine was to halt the eastward expansion of the NATO military alliance and keep Moscow's southern neighbour outside of the West's sphere of influence.

But the war, which has killed thousands of people, turned cities into rubble and sent millions fleeing, has had the opposite effect - convincing Finland and Sweden to seek to join NATO - and helping to pave the way for Ukraine's EU membership bid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-06-18/nato-warns-of-long-ukraine-war-as-russian-assaults-follow-eu-boost-for-kyiv%3fcontext=amp

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

Naturalllp:
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Hope you are aware of the current happenings in Kebbi State ?

Expect more of such in other Northern states before the General Elections.

Emi Lokan would loose Big time...

ebufa:
Let me cut to the chase...........go to these youtube channels for a clearer and more balanced view of the situation on the ground! leave the propaganda of the western slave-trading nations. Go to these youtube channels
*the duran
*military summary
*defence policy asia

I will not Go.....

You leave those Propaganda YouTube channels and join our Legit western news outlets....

joyandfaith:
I have been telling guys here that Russia invasion of ukraine is about land resources. Not about NATO. Russia has been land grabber historically. That is the reason Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass. Tsars of Russia empire would invade weaker nations and tribes, subdued and russified them. Putin is doing the same thing.

Very correct

The war was never about NATO.

The land grabbing demon of Russia is currently upon Putin.

Goddson:
If you read my message well you will know that I mearnt the troops sent for the special military operation in Ukraine is 200k, Russia has over 2million military personnel and its verified and everyone knows that.

The second picture is sarcasm and I expect you to know what it means…. Besides the message I was passing with the picture is to show how people who tried to invade/break the former Soviet Union, USSR which is now Russia failed woefully…

Well if you go by what Biden said at Poland “he said Putin has to go which meant regime change”

Why do you think USA, UK and EU are bombarding Russia with sanctions? Don’t you think it’s for the sanctions to crumble the Russian economy so that the people there can turn against the government and cause regime change..

Please you have to be very intelligent to engage me in a conversation, I’m very exposed and enlightened, I’m not a random nairaland e-warrior who comment senselessly.

Ehen..

so you are an exposed and enlightened Nairalander ? ..... OK

Biden never said Putin has to go..... Never

He said and I quote " For God's sake this man should not be in Power"

He said that in reaction to the massacre in Bucha and elsewhere..

How does that translates to mean regime Change ?

President Biden went further to later clarify that his statement was his personal beliefs and not a national policy.

No one that carries the large scale destruction of lives and property like Putin should hold Power....

That is the view of many including President Biden.

But despite our views and opinion, the wicked would still continue their wickedness.

The Finnish Government is worried about hybrid attack from Russia and the Aggressive Land grabbing attitude of Russia :

Finland's government plans to amend border legislation to allow the building of barriers on its eastern frontier with Russia, it said on Thursday, in a move to strengthen preparedness against hybrid threats amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Finland, which is currently applying for membership in the Western military alliance NATO, has a history of wars with Russia, although currently the forest-covered border zone between the two countries is marked merely with signs and plastic lines for most of its 1,300-km (810-mile) length.

The Finnish government has rushed to strengthen border security as it fears Russia could attempt to put pressure on Finland by sending asylum seekers to its borders - as the European Union accused Belarus of doing at the end of last year when hundreds of migrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa got stuck on the Polish border.

The government's amendments to the law include a proposal to enable concentrating the reception of asylum applications only at specific points of entry.

Under existing EU rules, migrants have the right to ask for asylum at any given entry point to an EU member country.

The amendments would also allow the building of barriers such as fences, as well as new roads to facilitate border patrolling on the Finnish side.

"Later on, the government will decide on border barriers to the critical zones on the eastern border, on the basis of the Finnish Border Guard's assessment," minister of internal affairs Krista Mikkonen said in a statement.

This News is coming from Helsinki the same day Vladimir Putin likened self to Peter the Great. The Russian Emperor that founded St Petersburg.

The Russian president draws parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and modern-day Russia’s ambitions.

Putin also stated that "It is our responsibility also to take back and strengthen,” in an apparent reference to Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.

Putin appeared to leave the door open for further territorial expansion, while asserting Russia’s sovereignty.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-06-09/finland-plans-to-build-barriers-on-its-border-with-russia%3fcontext=amp

‘Taking it back’: Vladimir Putin likens himself to Peter the Great

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin likened himself to Russian monarch Peter the Great, the tsar who led a conquest of the Baltic coast during his 18th-century war against Sweden.

Putin also spoke of his country’s need to “take back” territory and “defend itself” as the Kremlin’s forces continued a grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

After visiting an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th birthday of the tsar, Putin drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and modern-day Russia’s ambitions.

He told a group of young entrepreneurs “you get the impression that by fighting Sweden [Peter] was grabbing something. He wasn’t taking anything, he was taking it back”.

When Peter the Great founded St Petersburg and declared it the Russian capital “none of the countries in Europe recognised this territory as belonging to Russia”, Putin said.

“Everyone considered it to be part of Sweden. But from time immemorial, Slavs had lived there alongside Finno-Ugric peoples,” he added.

“It is our responsibility also to take back and strengthen,” Putin said, in an apparent reference to Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.

“Yes, there have been times in our country’s history when we have been forced to retreat, but only to regain our strength and move forward,” he said.

‘Sovereign or a colony’

The defeat of Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700-1721) made Russia the leading power in the Baltic Sea and an important player in European affairs.

But with Russia’s ties with the West currently shattered by the Ukraine invasion, Moscow authorities are downplaying Peter’s affinity for Europe and focusing on his role in expanding Russian territories.

Putin appeared to leave the door open for further territorial expansion, while asserting Russia’s sovereignty.

“There is no state in between. A country is either sovereign or a colony,” he said.

“It’s impossible – do you understand – impossible to build a fence around a country like Russia. And we do not intend to build that fence,” Putin added.

Peter I reigned first as tsar and then as emperor from 1682 until his death in 1725.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/6/9/putin-likens-self-to-tsar-hints-at-russian-territory-expansion

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

Emi Lokan your eyes go clear.

Northerners will reject you.

Las Las

Emi Lokan would be humbled.

His lifelong dream and Aspiration will be shattered in the upcoming General Elections.

HeavenVGate:
Elija ko, ilaje ni. Dindinrin. Giving money to your pastors in the name of God. Na ogun catch them, nothing your God can do. Now ogun is helping your god?

Na this kind talk na him that girl take die for Sokoto oo.

God of Elijah dey roast people like Sokoto Islamic fanatics oo

Are these the killers from Mali ?

Or Akeredolu dey smoke weed ?

Emi Lokan would cry Las Las...

After he loose the general election.

ebufa:
last time I checked the Russians were smoking out the Ukrainian army on all fronts in northern Donbas, Luhansk front, the imminent collapse of the Ukrainian army is gonna be precipitious! Get your fake eyelashes outta the CNN screen!

Lol....

I don't need fake eyelashes because whenever I smoke the weed from your backyard,

I see clearly and know enough not to believe the propaganda from TASS or RST.

Tiwa Savage oo

Your water water Red Toto was not enough for this guyman to keep you as his side chick.

ebufa:
i no fit laff..........what do people smoke on this forum ?

Some of them dey smoke ebufa weed....

Did you look carefully at the military men and their uniforms. .... ?

Those are Ukrainian soldiers handling Soviet era weapons donated by the west.

So after smoking ebufa weed, the OP upload those pictures. .....

SmartyPants:
So you can't see the Ukrainian patch on the uniforms of those men?

You are really Smart.

Another comment that I need to increase the Volume on.


Grabbing my Nairaland remote control....

MadamExcellency:
The weapons that have an immediate impact on pushing back Russian forces were Russian inventions but re-engineered by US and European countries for easy use by Ukrainians who mastered the use when they were part of USSR forces.

Very correct...

How can I increase the volume of this comment ....

Where is my Nairaland remote control...

Segzy22:
The Putin that has not taken over the Ukraine that is smaller Than Texas want to try the west?

Lol......

With that your screenshot and comments,

Na some people trouble you dey find for here oo

Dem nor want to hear say their village people for Russia dey loose oo

Dem nor want to hear say Russia nor fit do the job oo

Lol...