AnyanwuSilas:


That's what the Western media told you, why would Putin attack Poland and Czech that are NATO countries?
You have been brainwashed by Western media with propaganda.

You have not been brainwashed by Russian propaganda. You who probably only sees US and Russia.
Russia can worry abput a US aligned Ukraine on its border BUT Poland cannot worry about the same situation because out of inferiority and bad nurturing most of you only know US and Russia.

A lot of you guys need to deepen your education about Europe. If you want multi polarity, know that it means that every country must have interests that it is entitled to pursue.
More importantly, Russia would completely destroy itself in Ukraine and the entire world would be amazed.

madridguy:
Putin my hero. The strongest man on earth.

God bless Russia, for cutting the western powers into sizes.

God Bless America for always care about themselves alone.

God bless Nigeria and perish all our enemies.

Coward Putin. He himself so scared of death, he has more than 4 body doubles.
So scared of opposition, he killd in anticipation of opposition.

Seriously though, this amateur politician who became PM should know that there is some info that should not go into public space but i guess i ecpect too much

Now proven that the policy would definitely bring down inflation so half educated, dimwits just criticising the program should d take note.

Brendaniel:
After finding out the method used for the judgement on the election tribunal that gave victory to Oyetola over Adeleke, I would say it is a recipe for disaster, the method applied was cancelling all the votes of a polling unit because of over voting in that particular polling unit.


The questions I ask are:

1. As it happened that there were over voting in various polling units in the Osun election, what if each opposition connives to perpetrate over voting in polling units in each opposition strong holds?

2. What then is the use for BVAS in over voting if after the BVAS is able to identify the number of over votes only to end up cancelling all votes(valid) and over votes(invalid) ? That is like throwing away a baby with the bath water.

3. If there is an election tribunal like this and a rerun takes place, what if the same over voting keeps occurring over and over, would they keep repeating the election tribunal process and back to rerun again?

In my opinion, the law is just an error or a purposeful scheme to rig an election using what I call reverse voting
Just simply tamper with your opposition strong holds and invalidate their votes, So we might be having a case where a carefully selected and protected minority will determine winners of an election instead of the majority carrying the votes.


Implications:

1. It will make elections become very dirty because politicians will be all about scheming to invalidate votes in opposition strong holds.

2. It will make the voters lose confidence in the electoral process, because a voter will not be sure if his vote will be invalidated or not by someone else scheming with a politician in his/her polling unit.

3. It will make voters wear out easily and may cause voter apathy when you have reruns after stressful elections, thereby reducing voters turn-up in reruns.

4. It may not reflect the true will of the people and also reduce the total number of voter participation, just like the Osun election tribunal, the total number of votes cast for both PDP and APC after the cancellation doesn't reflect the true will of the people to declare Oyetola the winner.

5. Elections will cost more because of Tribunal, reruns and time wasting.

6. It could lead to anarchy and total chaos, like in some volatile states in the north where they riot over political results, just imagine after election and INEC says they have cancelled over 20,000 polling units across the north which were all stronghold of a particular candidate, because of over voting of less than 2000 voters, imagine what will happen in the aftermath of such news.

Solution:

In situations of over voting, Why not just deduct the invalid votes(over votes) and count the rest, the BVAS already identifies the number of over votes(invalid votes), doing so, INEC will avoid a lot of election tribunals, scheming by politicians, reduce cost of doing reruns, make more accurate results, increase voters confidence, reduce time wasting, reflect the true will of the people and avoid anarchy.

Your solution is very childish. I dont even think you understand what a competitive election means and how transparent things should be.

Over voting could have been a result of preloaded BVAS entries, double voting permitted by INEC personnel or even clever real time hacking into the system but to you it was just a problem that ordinary subtraction. Simpleton sighted.

This is why we say Nairaland is the social media space filled with the most unintelligent comments ever.

Childish thread. Much ado about the Bakhmut - Soledar initial success by Russia.
Ukraine should have tidily withdrawn weeks ago and pinnned them down at other defensive positions.
Russia cannot do much advance from Bakhmut /Soledar axis because to attempt that is create conditions for HIMARS and long range artillery strikes

The real news is that Ukraine is training a few brigades and getting set for counter offensives in the South. Weapins are flooding in.

Massiveglory:


No matter how much you are paid, with the state of the nation, you cannot have a conscience that is alive and clear and push for emilokan.

Her reasons are wuite clear. She should not have been in that committee with her membership of PSC. She is stil an APC supporter.

bassdow:


issue is Russia seems to be doing it without breaking a sweat. Even Russian ex-president have said Russia has increased Weapon production to accommodate Exports hence to me, Russians are living a Normal life, while a section of them are busy reducing their enemies to nothing.

Even the 3-countries that signified interest in Joining NNATO, up till now are still put on hold hence should Russia choose to retaliate, even NATO would just be looking - not like they could do anything when Poland was striked, though we really know not what actually happened.

Russia has chosen to be slow in response, I believe they have their reasons else why wouldn't they have just ended this whole craze in shortest time possible. Probably because they want to achieve an aim by letting the Battle prolong. Only time Russia was serious with Ukraine was when a section of the bridge linking Crimea to Russia was damaged.
Something I believe even Ukraine still regrets till now.

Why do you guys believe a lie. The invasion is a failure. Look at Soledar and Bakhmut. Up to ten months and they are still struggling.

More importantly, how does Russia win the war?. Keep 500,000 people in trenches trying to steal 1/4 of Ukraine. Even the most childish or lowest IQ of all observers think don't think Russia can keep this up to 6 months.
Putin himself knows it is not winnable.
Wecbloody civilians thinks keeping 500k troops supplied, fed and warmed in a country of hateful enemies is easy. But that's why we are bloody civilians.

Most people who think Russia wins are very young. They see it as a soccer match and Russia is higher in the ratings, alas it is not. The war was lost to Russia in the first three days. They should have conquered Kyiv.
Having a sovereign government active in Kiev with its international alliances and the sinister nature and unbending will of Ukrainian people already marks this as a failure for Putin.

In a way, I don't blame Russia. If it were a more democratic country, they won't have made the mistake. They cannot win this.
Any indication that Ukraine would lose only prolongs the war. There would never ever be an Ukrainian surrender so it is just 5 mire years of Russians being killed every week in places they occupied until someone puts a bullet in the head of the idiot in the Kremlin.

The last and only chance they have is the new invasion they are planning from Belarus and Westen Russia. Unfortunately, everyone is ready for it and Belarusians will overthrow their government or succumb to the civil war I think CIA has set up there already.

lionel4power:


Russia's Buk M3 aka Viking and Pantsir S1 air defence systems routenly shoot down HIMARS rockets mid-air.

The battlefield advantages of the HIMARS have been blunted months back.

One thing I'll say is don't underestimate Russia. Yes they've blundered throughout the war, but this is the first 21st century hyper-conventional near-peer warfare. Every country is still learning from it.

Russia may open another front when the Winter is over. This will put severe pressure on Ukraine. Remember, Belarus is yet to enter the fray. They may do so next year.

This is a long war, lessons will be learnt by both sides and the world in general. Time is on Russia's side.

The only time on Russia 's side is that which allows further destruction of their military capability. Ukraine is developing capabilities in long range loitering munitions which combined with Western weapons and Patriot missiles will prove decisive.

There is now intense pressure on military industrial capacity in China, Russia, Iran and South Korea trying to meet Russian requirements for the war. These capacities will start to deplete when these countries factor in their own requirements against Israel, Taiwan and South Korea.

By mid 2023, everything will be be clear about the direction of the war which i believe in a world shaking defeat of Russia and removal or assassination of Putin

The girl is a criminal. A spoilt, "no boundaries should be respected" person. She should continue her jail term in the US.

Ebubu:
i will vote for trump if i could.

biden 4 years has been disastrous with handlong of ukraine which has caused massive inflation world wide.

putin is afraid of trump, he won’t have done that

Simple minded, childish minded post

Obviously it would be an indeterminate election.
Dummies would say it is because of Obi diluting PDP votes but nothing of the sort
It would be due to BVAS.

Nigeria has had fake elections since 1999, if not all the past elections should also have gone into run off and coalition parties.

Buhari/Osinbajo probably have 2 extra years on the saddle and Osinbajo maybe 4 years.

The only good news is Buhari / Osinbajo for two more years.
Definitely going to happen with BVAS and Obidients shaking things up. Thank you Lord

AdamuKD:
Any student that will vote for APC next year, will be unfortunate in life.
Including his or her academics

Apc will win the elections handily. I congratulate Buhari for cruelly destroying that PDP branch of academia called ASUU with their sex for marks culture and destruction of Nigerias academic community

kabe1:
T-129 and AH-1Z are two excellent platforms.

Question is, why do we need these 2, when we could have bought 18 units of one?

Capability phasing. One is long lead, the other is being delivered in a few months

Exnavyboy62:


Was it not the same Ukraine who hyped the effectiveness of it because it was used to drop bombs on Russian units?
The same Bayraktar that the Ukrainans praised because it was used to sink some Russian Navy ships?
They even made a hi pop song about the Bayraktar and titled it "Bayraktar". Only God knows if they are still expecting a Grammy award for it .

About the HIMARS, we don't even hear about them anymore and I don't think they can shoot down the Shaehd drones but the Shaehd drones can Kamikaze them

Ignorance. You don't know Jack about military technology

Russia has always been stupid. That's the conclusion here

They are beating Russia like a small naughty child and you are saying Russia is showing sympathy.
The country is finished, wasted by Putin and incompetent and corrupt mafia leader

Russian leaders are the most stupid on earth. They started on a project far bigger than their capacity, capabilities and competence.
Now they want to show something to their people as progress as soon as possible. Frantic, hysterical, pressured, manic and totally scared of trouble they got their country and its next two generations into

Teaser4:
that’s a suicide mission… (Besides dem don reiterated several times that they are not fighting with Russia, say dem just Dey epp ukraine defend her sovereignty), cos no winner when nuke is involved, if you mean world powers wey get nuke, nah only USA come close, France and Uk own no reach….

If Kiev collect one nuke life goes on, usa won’t be stupid enough to risk New York, Washington for war-torn country like Ukraine

Nuclear war no be like conventional war, everything go disappear within seconds or minutes…. No sane country would wanna start a nuclear war with a nuclear powered country, talk less of a super nuclear powered country like Russia, who get the highest number of nuclear warheads in the world and the most advanced nuclear capabilities….

You are so childishly amateur, posting wishful thinking as reality. After Ukraine disgracing Russia has ransacked your brains, your next fantasy is zero consequence nuclear use by Russia. You think there are no tactical nukes in Ukraine?. You think there are no equivalent weapons of mass destruction that Ukraine can use to retaliate for the same effect?

You guys better grow up. This is 2022. That's a super power beaten down and dragged down in disgrace. The people who designed Russia 's fall already thought many steps ahead.

US, Britain, USSR (not Russia) beat Germany during 2nd World War. Russia a communist country quickly seized half of Germany and a lot of East European countries it helped liberate from NAZIs and converted them to its system of communist rule

Get your mouth out of Russian ass and know your history. Communism failed and those E. European countries joined the west. The USSR itself disintegrated and Ukraine and Belarus left (

paramakina202:


NATO should defeat the overrated Russian army without delay but they cant.

NATO is not fighting Russia yet. If NATO goes into the war, Russia will reach for nuclear weapons. A country that Ukraine is beating and disgracing wont stand for and conventional war with UD

shogsman:
It has begun, they know what Russia can do and is capable of unlike Thier victims of misinformation,they just chose to spread lies to aid their agenda.
Ukraine is gonna get annihilated if they don't do as they're told, that's it period

Russia is incapable and weak. They already lost the war against Ukraine and are coming to terms with just how much corruption abd dependence on oil and gas have weakened their country.

They ran like women from Kharkiv and Ukrainians are slaughtering them big time in Donbass. Encirclements are imminent at Lyman and after that it is kill and go for the Ukrainians.

Russia is now bringing T62s to the battlefield and buying Iranian drones.

How much of a coward before the truth must you be to ignore the implication that Russia IS IMPORTiNG weapons from a country under sanctions and bringing out 70 year old tanks to fight a country of just 40m located just 400km from Moscow.

You guys stop deceivibg yourselves. That country is gone

Putin has destroyed it

Appleyard:
Jesus. This war is about to wear trouser and gown. For the love of Christ, Zelensky should negotiate and end this war quickly before more areas of Ukraine are destroyed.

If the current SMO upgrade to full blown war, many innocent people will die because Russia would be bombing indiscriminately. This is really bad. I hope this war will just end.

Did you say Zelensky should negotiate? Prepare to see the break up of Russia in a few weeks. Do you want to bet,?
Watch Putin and pray God to spare his life.

It appears too many young shallow people commenting.
A man has boxed himself and country into a corner.

Nonsense. Russia is badly led and its troops are poorly motivated. They expended too much ammo and time on civilians and civil infrastructure trying to awe the Ukrainians in Donbass. For all the effort and awe, they gained just a few tens of kilometers.

The tide has changed. Ukraine also has an unchained airforce and super accurate rocket artillery from the US.

The way this ends is Putin would be forced to give up power and go on exile whioe Russia negotiates peace and a costly reparations regime with Ukraine

bidexiii:
#NA
#NE
#CION

See those field glasses, see the flak jackets, swe the AGL, see the boots and the webbings, see the radios?. That's what a well equipped infantry looks like. That's Buhari's doing

Toju200:
the perhaps the drone got there in time and then what
It will do nothing
Would you want to carry out airstrikes and take out civilians too
Our problem isn't the location of the hostages but getting them out "Safely" without civilian casualties and use of kinetics chances are like 30-20% success

The problem is Operational philosophy. You dont buy Wing Loong and use it reactively. There should be a process for operating it and many teams at the back end doing evaluation pictures and videos feeds. Evaluation includes threat assessment and rating.
Maybe soldiers should not be operating some MALE drones. They are more surveillance than combat abd a body like DSS is more organizationally suited to analyzing info and generating threat profiles than miitary who would miss subtle cues

huptin:
Even Putin admitted as much in his last speech, saying that the west is just using this war as a pretext to dismember Russia.

All I know is :

1. There won't be a winner in this war, only losers.

2 Russia's economy will take a very long time to recover

3. The rich Oligarchs aren't happy with Putin but most of them are out of Russia any way they won't be able to hurt him

4. The west will try to weaken Russia further by creating an insurgency or strong opposition, a lot of Russians that used to be afraid of Putin, would have appraised this war and realised that Russia's military prowess has been grossly exaggerated and may try to confront him

5. Putin will keep fighting internal aggression, he will alienate himself further ad further, he may try to be more Brutish but age is no longer on his side.

6. Russia and other world leaders will think very well, before they invade smaller countries henceforth, less they be Putined.

No 5 is the most striking of all these valid points you have made. Only an idiot with inferiority complex needs to invade other countries as a national leader at this time given the experience of the US in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. There is no short trtm military success that compensates for the medium and long term military defeat you will get (especially with hostile regional and global powers working against you).
Even the bestof militaries struggle against internal militancies and organised insurections as we see now in Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Syria and Libya.
Even Russia is only able to hold Chenchnya by using Chenchens and after a massive failure in Ukraine or if Kadyrov is taken out we will begin to see the disembarment of Russia which will happen very quickly. Al because of some ill advised, vain glorious invasion of a neighboring country.

The increase in body fat is 100% good for the baby's comfort, confidence and psychology.
God is perfect folks. E get why.

Russia IS getting weak according to sanctions. They are selling their oil cheap and asking for military aid from 3rd world countries.
You don't have to tell lies to yourself.

Russia is not pretending that the sanctions are not working. It is their supporters and Putins fans who are lying to themselves about the ineffectiveness of sanctions.
This is coming from ignorance and sentimental attachment

They are getting weak. Their economy is contracting and many industries will close down this year due to lack of spares. Thr Rouble is up due to low importation but this is only crashing the economy

Exnavyboy62:


Let me save us the stress of dragging this all day long. I know no country will ever entertain Invaders, there will surely be a fight till the last man, but Mr Zelensky should have a foresight of how this war affects Ukraine. His soldiers mostly the best of them keep dying on a daily basis even conscripts and foreign mercenaries are not exempted. The country's economy is going down the drain and the country itself is being reduced to rubles. And I don't think the Western support he's receiving will continue for long, the war has caused inflation of prices particularly in the west, there is hike in the price of food, oil & gas and other important produce. So he as the president has the role of protecting the interests of the Ukrainian people and also the role of making decisions to the best interest of the Ukrainian people and one of the best decision he can make right now is to move to the negotiating table and agree to Russia's terms of neutrality and not to join NATO. This is what America and NATO should have advised Ukraine to do but instead they incited Ukraine to go to war and they keep on sending military aid. The war is at the advantage of America but At the expense of Ukraine

Believe me the guy suggesting surrender is not normal. He is also un realistic. It has never happened in history that people surrender to others on the basis of perceived military inferiority.
I think he is another Putin admirer who has lost his sense of reality completely.

Ükraine needs to assert its sovereignty. Sovereignty means independence of self determination to join any security arrangement they so wish.

If that is a permanent and immovable red line for Rüssia, then it ıs already out of the domain of debate. The war will go on until the physical limits of both countries are reached.
This is the point of destruction of Russia or a weakening so serious that it loses super power status. Lets not forget that North Korea has nuclear bombs, ICBMs and has also tested hypersonic weapons but is not regarded a super power, so also can Russia have the largest nuclear arsenals and still be irrelevant