Pierocash: You are the dumbest here. When same US is telling you that out of the 100,000 troops deployed,only 10,000 were deployed into Ukraine for the war.
But zombies like you still believing the media propaganda that 10,000 troops have been killed. If 10,000 troops were deployed and Ukraine killed 10,000, so who are those Troops holding Kiev hostage? Oponu
Merisbankie: 5 cities captured Selense dae for Poland dae cry upon NATO Canadian loud top sniper dead So you want to tell me no Ukraine commander has died
Pierocash: When we told them that Russia isn't fighting a full blown war ,they said we should go and sleep that Russia is overrated.
Those Troops Putin deployed didn't go into Ukraine because of Ukraine, they stationed their armies to deal with the Nazi forces should they try to do anyhow.
How will any sane person believe that Russia is fighting Ukraine with full force and Ukraine will still be standing?
A country that a whole NATO comprising US and Germany, the whole world powers are afraid to confront,nah small Ukraine go withstand them
You guys are high on weed
Then Russia must be DUMB DUMBER AND DUMBEST.
You are telling me that Russia is not using their full power and have lost at least 10,000 soldiers since the 'special military operation' commenced ? Which DUMB Army commander or leader will sacrifice thousands of their troops and 1/4 of their equipment to avoid using FULL FORCE ?
This is not NATO troops that bomb everything into smithereens and send in troops to mop up. Russia care so much about civilians, Even the Civilians are now welcoming the Russians.
Mauripol has not been captured- lmao. It is being carpet bombed from the outskirts with some Russian special forces fighting house to house and street to street. Russia has lost 4 senior commanders including a general in this battle.
Donesk region is still 50/50 and has been like this since 2014.
The largest cities have given the overrated Russian army a very bloody nose.
And still the Russian army cannot occupy this city after almost a whole month ? So they just bomb and bomb and bomb but the soldiers are too scared to move in because they know they face complete annihilation by the Ukrainian army.
Kingsteve: And you seriously think that if Russia should nuke any region, EU, UK, NATO and US will fold their arms, and watch in horror as Putin continues his madness?
How do you guys think? Why allow sentiments cloud your common sense of reasoning logically?
Permesso: So primitive of you to resort to insult right from the start. Your big head won't let you understand that Putin has noting to loss if he goes nuclear as he declared, as if he doesn't know. If he decides to strike the West first, do you think your West will see their period to reciprocate? is like when you confront somebody that has already decided to die and wants all to go down with them (Boko-haram). Am not a Putin Fanboy young man. keep arguing and causing people up and down.
Why embarass yourself on a public forum ? All countries with modern militaries have advanced radars and missle detection systems, positioned on their land, on their ships and submarines in the sea and patrol aircraft. For the benefit of doubt, let us assume that these systems fail to detect and shoot down the nuclear missiles ; once the US for example is aware of this attack, they will rain down hundreds of nuclear missiles upon Russia from their bases in Turkey, Germany, the UK and the US, as well as from their ships, submarines and fighter bombers.
NOBODY will win a nuclear war - Putin will not be allowed to launch a nuclear war except his acolyes are also as deluded and suicidal.
'China's already on the wrong side of history when it comes to the Ukraine,' the State Department secretary told NPR in an interview published Wednesday.
He added: 'If China actually provides material support in one way or another to Russia in this effort, that would be even worse, and that's something we're looking very carefully at.'
The warning comes after President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with his Chinese counterpart in Rome on Monday – and as the U.S. reveals Russia requested equipment and economic assistance from China after invasion.
Blinken said in the interview that Russian sanctions would 'go away' when Russia fully withdraws from Ukraine for good, claiming the punishments against Putin were 'not designed to be permanent.'
He said the pull back would need to be 'in effect, irreversible' so that 'this can't happen again, that Russia won't pick up and do exactly what it's doing in a year or two years or three years.'
Blinken's comments come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to address Congress via video from Kyiv Wednesday morning. He is expected to seek more aid from the U.S., including a request for fighter jets and help in the development of a no-fly zone above Ukraine.
American troops are also being deployed to Australia as fears heighten of war between China and Australia. Tensions are on the rise in the Indo-Pacific, especially after Russia invaded Ukraine, as worries also mount that China could be preparing to invade Taiwan in coming years.
About 2,200 troops with the rotational U.S. Marine force will be based in Australia's Northern Territory during the upcoming dry season. The deployment will also include 250 Army personnel, according to the Australian Defense Force.
SarkinYarki: He is a fool !!! I blame Putin for allowing the 2014 CIA coup in Ukraine stand ..Biden is just pained all his Bio Labs and Nazi camps are being uprooted
Listen here Putin's nairaland lapdog, Russia also has Neo Nazis, Russia also commits some of the most egregious crimes against blacks including that of racism against Nigerians.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" for his violent invasion Ukraine, including attacks on civilians.
The president initially told a reporter "no," when asked if he was ready to label Putin a war criminal "after everything we've seen," but moments later Biden circled back, asking her to repeat the question, which he appeared to have initially misunderstood.
"I think he is a war criminal," Biden said of Putin.
samista: It's propaganda, it's even becoming stale. Every time they claim to have anihilated the russians yet the russians have virtually encircled and put every major city in Ukraine under siege. The truth is that Ukrainian cities are being bombed into submission and they know it that's why their president has become desperate. He made a very big miscalculation believing that the EU or NATO will physically get involved to support them. It's not going to happen and it's just a matter of time before he surrenders or is kicked out forcefully by the russians
Pal, there is no point being bitter about the huge losses of Russia troops, it happens in war. The Russian army is weak.
How many weeks now ? 3 weeks going to a month and Putin is unable to move forward or backward.
[quote]Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global petroleum market and mark another shift by the world’s top crude exporter toward Asia.
The talks with China over yuan-priced oil contracts have been off and on for six years but have accelerated this year as the Saudis have grown increasingly unhappy with decades-old U.S. security commitments to defend the kingdom, the people said.
The Saudis are angry over the U.S.’s lack of support for their intervention in the Yemen civil war, and over the Biden administration’s attempt to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Saudi officials have said they were shocked by the precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.
China buys more than 25% of the oil that Saudi Arabia exports. If priced in yuan, those sales would boost the standing of China’s currency.
It would be a profound shift for Saudi Arabia to price even some of its roughly 6.2 million barrels of day of crude exports in anything other than dollars. The majority of global oil sales—around 80%—are done in dollars, and the Saudis have traded oil exclusively in dollars since 1974, in a deal with the Nixon administration that included security guarantees for the kingdom.
China introduced yuan-priced oil contracts in 2018 as part of its efforts to make its currency tradable across the world, but they haven’t made a dent in the dollar’s dominance of the oil market. For China, using dollars has become a hazard highlighted by U.S. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and on Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion.
China has stepped up its courtship of the Saudi kingdom. In recent years, China has helped Saudi Arabia build its own ballistic missiles, consulted on a nuclear program and begun investing in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s pet projects, such as Neom, a futuristic new city.
Meanwhile the Saudi relationship with the U.S. has deteriorated under President Biden, who said in the 2020 campaign that the kingdom should be a “pariah” for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Prince Mohammed, who U.S. intelligence authorities say ordered Mr. Khashoggi’s killing, refused to sit in on a call between Mr. Biden and the Saudi ruler, King Salman, last month.
It also comes as the U.S. economic relationship with the Saudis is diminishing. The U.S. is now among the top oil producers in the world. It once imported 2 million barrels of Saudi crude a day in the early 1990s but those numbers have fallen to less than 500,000 barrels a day in December 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
By contrast, China’s oil imports have swelled over the last three decades, in line with its expanding economy. Saudi Arabia was China’s top crude supplier in 2021, selling at 1.76 million barrels a day, followed by Russia at 1.6 million barrels a day, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs.
“The dynamics have dramatically changed. The U.S. relationship with the Saudis has changed, China is the world’s biggest crude importer and they are offering many lucrative incentives to the kingdom,” said a Saudi official familiar with the talks.
“China has been offering everything you could possibly imagine to the kingdom,” the official said.
A senior U.S. official called the idea of the Saudis selling oil to China in yuan “highly volatile and aggressive” and “not very likely.” The official said the Saudis had floated the idea in the past when there was tension between Washington and Riyadh.
It is possible the Saudis could back off. Switching millions of barrels of oil trades from dollars to yuan every day could rattle the Saudi economy, which has a currency, the riyal, pegged to the dollar. Prince Mohammed’s aides have been warning him of unpredictable economic damage if he moves ahead with the plan hastily.
Doing more sales in yuan would more closely connect Saudi Arabia to China’s currency, which hasn’t caught on with international investors because of the tight controls Beijing keeps on it. Contracting oil sales in a less stable currency could also undermine the Saudi government’s fiscal outlook.
The impact on the Saudi economy would likely depend on the quantity of oil sales involved and the price of oil. Some economists said moving away from dollar-denominated oil sales would diversify the kingdom’s revenue base and could eventually lead it to repeg the riyal to a basket of currencies, similar to Kuwait’s dinar.
“If it is (done) now at a time of strong oil prices, it would not be seen negatively. It would be more seen as deepening ties with China,” said Monica Malik, chief economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.
The Saudis still plan to do most oil transactions in dollars, the people familiar with their talks say. But the move could tempt other producers to price their Chinese exports in yuan as well. China’s other big sources of oil are Russia, Angola and Iraq.
The Saudi move could chip away at the supremacy of the U.S. dollar in the international financial system, which Washington has relied on for decades to print Treasury bills it uses to finance its budget deficit.
“The oil market, and by extension the entire global commodities market, is the insurance policy of the status of the dollar as reserve currency,” said economist Gal Luft, co-director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security who co-wrote a book about de-dollarization. “If that block is taken out of the wall, the wall will begin to collapse.”
KingOfAmebo: "The West have really brainwashed you to think what is happening in Ukraine is an all out war, Putin already stated it is a demilitarization excersice, Ukraine is like a brother to Russia...Russia is against the romans happening between Ukraine and USA(Russia's enemy) so he had to stop that romance, sadly, it is now that Ukraine is seeing that the USA don't really care about them but using them to get to Russia...USA can't help them stop Russia because they too are afraid of Russia...
Make no mistake, If Ukraine were another country not close to Russia, they won't last one week should Russia engage them in a war....If an ordinary Demilitarization excersice looks like this imagine what a war with Russia will look like". Village People Spokesperson.
Let us examine your logic. A demilitarisation exercise that was supposed to last 2-3 days and was expected to include a welcoming by the Ukrainians with flowers but instead has resulted in the death of 12,000 Russian soldiers and the destruction of hundreds and hundreds of tanks, planes and troop carriers destroyed ? If you believe the nonsense you just spouted up there, I can't help you.
Ramon92: For those of you licking USA and its allies butthole, hope you remember when Nigeria requested for weapons to fight Boko haram, they declined and blocked the request meaning you're all irrelevant.
It was this same Russia that helped circumvent international laws to get us what our military are using till date via Pakistan..
Comradewhy , you keep spewing your ignorance all over this forum. Your hero Zelensky is killing his own people - begging for a ceasefire in the background while portraying himself a hero on social media, someone with little political and military experience. Your almighty USA has left him to his fate but people like you keep cheering him up.
Have you people wondered if the west will offer you the same sympathy if you were in the position as the Ukrainians?
The USA did not provide advanced military weapons because your government is a terrorist government who are in cahoots with extremists. Also because they will not hesitate to use these weapons on their own citizens. Russia and China don't give a damn if you kill all your citizens.
KingOfAmebo: "Why is USA scared of stopping Russia from invading Ukraine? Why are they just barking and not going to war against Russia for invading Ukraine? Why can't they send troops like they did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Lybia, etc.? Abi shey dem done tire or weak to fight war? Sheybi dem sabi put mouth for wetin no concern dem? Sheybi dem like war wella? Oya see war against Russia now dem no fit flex muscle... nonesense and Ukraine". Village People Spokesperson
Because once USA steps in, it is Nuclear war and all of us will be dead. However, let Russia make the mistake of killing an American soldier or stepping into NATO territory and they will receive hell.
Hanibbal: The more the west arms Ukraine the more Russia is tempted to escalate this war with powerful weapons in its arsenal. Honestly the west is pushing Ukraine to destruction and Zelensky is not seeing this.
Putin cannot defeat Russia, he can destroy the country but he cannot occupy it.
Kingsnairaland: That why USA is afraid of Russia many hidden treasures in mother Russia, Russia is a continent.
Mr Richard Stevens, who spent 22 years in the British Army as an explosive ordnance disposal soldier and later worked as a civilian bomb technician for 10 years in southern Iraq, Africa and other regions, said he had been exposed "to plenty of Chinese and Russian munitions, but I had never seen this". Mr Stevens posted photos of the munitions to a site for military and civilian bomb disposal experts that he started in 2011, and found that no one else seemed to have seen these mystery munitions before either.
The USA is not afraid of Russia, not today, not tomorrow and not forever.
They are waiting for Russia to make the ultimate mistake and then you will know who has a stronger and technologically advanced military.
3 weeks, and the Russian army is yet to capture the any major city.
Russian forces may only be able to keep fighting at full capacity for another ’10 to 14′ days, senior British defence sources have said.
Vladimir Putin’s troops are already thought to have made sluggish progress, with many struggling with supplies and suffering low morale.
But they might find it even harder in two weeks time and will struggle to hold ground in Ukraine, latest intelligence suggests.
Russia has been devastating cities with nearly three weeks of relentless shelling, but still its military is thought to be behind schedule, having missed out on the swift victory many expected.
It has faced far more resistance from ordinary Ukrainians than anticipated, leading to a brutal crackdown in the captured city of Kherson.
A senior UK defence force told the Daily Mail: ‘Ukraine has Russia on the run. It is running out of manpower and running out of energy.
‘As long as we keep pressing they’ve got ten to 14 days before reaching their culminating point. That’s when the strength of Ukraine’s resistance should become greater than Russia’s attacking force.’
In a video released early on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s ‘brave defenders continue to inflict devastating losses on Russian troops’.
He added: ‘Soon the number of downed helicopters of Russia will reach hundreds of units. They have already lost 80 warplanes.
‘Hundreds of tanks and thousands of other units of equipment. In 19 days, the Russian army has lost more in Ukraine than in two bloody and years-long wars in Chechnya.’
For the first time on Monday allies of Vladimir Putin admitted things weren’t going ‘according to plan’ as the Kremlin keeps claiming.
Russian National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov – once in charge of Putin’s personal security – said ‘not everything is going as fast as we would like’. However he still insisted that Moscow would achieve victory ‘step by step’.
Ukraine says that Russia has lost 12,000 soldiers, 374 tanks, 74 aircraft, 86 helicopters after launching its invasion on February 24.
However numbers are yet to be independently verified and Russian estimates differ significantly.
Ukraine claims to have killed three Russian major-generals out of about 20 thought to be in the country.
NATO has amassed 30,000 troops and 50 warships near Russia's border for military exercises, risking Mad Vlad's rage.
The drill, named Cold Response, has kicked off today in Norway amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the invasion of Ukraine.
The exercise includes 30,000 troops from more than 25 countries from Europe and North America, 200 aircraft, and 50 vessels.
The largest Nato exercise which is held just a few miles from the Russian border was planned long before Moscow's invasion of Ukraine but its significance has now been heightened.
"This exercise is extremely important for the security of Norway and its allies. We will practice an allied reinforcement of Norway", Norwegian Defence Minister Odd Roger Enoksen.
"It is not being held because of the Russian authorities' attack on Ukraine, but given the backdrop there is a heightened significance."
The aim of the drill is to test how Norway and Alliance members would work together on land, in the air, and at sea in line with Article 5 of NATO's charter, which requires member states to come to the aid of another member state under attack.
"I find it totally normal, perhaps now more than ever, to train together to demonstrate our capacity and our willingness to defend our values and our way of life", stated General Yngve Odlo, head of Norway's Joint Headquarters and in charge of Cold Response.
The Norwegian armed forces said it provided thorough information to the Russians, including the Russian Ministry of Defense, saying that was vital for preventing misunderstandings and unnecessary conflict.
Russia has declined to observe the exercise, which is held every two years and is due to end on April 1.
And even though it was planned months ago, it is bound to infuriate the Russian dictator who may have "roid rage" potentially caused by cancer treatment.
Western spies have speculated Putin's decision to invade Ukraine may have been sparked by his physical health condition as he appears "ashen and bloated" in recent pictures released by the Kremlin.
They believe he is suffering from a brain condition, such as Parkinson’s disease or a more generic form of dementia - or has cancer.
Another theory is that he is suffering from “roid rage” from the long-term use of steroids.
Side effects of steroids include increased risk of infection - which it is claimed could explain his paranoia about catching Covid.
Meanwhile, Sajid Javid has vowed Britain will go to war against Russia if Putin attacks a Nato country after Putin's forces launched missile strikes just 12 miles from the Polish border with Ukraine last night.
The airstrike at the Yavoriv military base near Lviv, killed at least 35 people and injured another 134.
Warsaw is part of the 30-strong defensive military alliance which also includes the UK, US, France, and Germany.
Mr Javid said: "We've been very clear from the start, with our NATO allies, that if there is any kind of attack on NATO territory then it will be war with NATO and there will be a severe response.
"Even if just a single toecap of a Russian soldier steps into NATO territory, then it will be war with Russia and NATO would respond.
"That hasn't changed throughout this conflict and there would be a significant response from NATO if there was any kind of attack from Russia.
"Our message has been very clear from the start. Any kind of attack, anything that touches NATO territory or impacts NATO in any significant way, then we would respond."
His comment comes as Nato allies including Britain and the US have massively bolstered deployments to Eastern Europe in recent months.
However Russia has lost more than 12,000 troops during almost three weeks of fighting as well as hundreds of tanks and aircraft, according to Ukrainian estimates.
There have been widespread reports that morale is incredibly low, with kit repeatedly breaking down and shortages of food and fuel.
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