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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Tests Hypersonic and Ballistic Missiles In Major Nuclear Drills (Pix,vid) by smeag0l(m): 11:27pm On Feb 19, 2022 |
What is the use of using 10000 nukes when you know that none of them can strike your enemy while all your enemy needs to do is to go to your neighbour's house and fire just one nuke? It'snot about the number of nukes. It'sabout potency. Russia has slightly more number of nukes than US but US has more devastating nukes than Russia. nedekid: 1 Like 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Tests Hypersonic and Ballistic Missiles In Major Nuclear Drills (Pix,vid) by smeag0l(m): 11:22pm On Feb 19, 2022 |
Exactly. This is the most valid point ive read on this thread today. In the world of today, every country that has a nuclear weapon needs to be feared(including Iran and North Korea). However, theres something called 'first strike advantage' in war and the US has this edge over both Russia and China. They can strike both countries from very close range causing them devastating aftermaths but China and Russia cant do the same. MT: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Tests Hypersonic and Ballistic Missiles In Major Nuclear Drills (Pix,vid) by smeag0l(m): 11:16pm On Feb 19, 2022 |
You guys need to understand some facts here. The US wont risk a way with North korea. Not because north korea can inflict any harm on them(they dont even have a functional intercontinentalballostic missile so i wonder how they want to attach the US) but because of the collateral damage on their alloes close to North korea e.g south korea, hong kong etc. The west and their leaders, although cunning, aee still very much more humane than their eastern counterparts olugabbie: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Tests Hypersonic and Ballistic Missiles In Major Nuclear Drills (Pix,vid) by smeag0l(m): 11:07pm On Feb 19, 2022 |
This is the real weapon theyll use in defeating Russia. The US knows that Russia is too far away to launch any missiles that will penetrate their missile defence systems(except for Alaska). So they may not need to use weapons. Economic sanctions are enough MT: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Tests Hypersonic and Ballistic Missiles In Major Nuclear Drills (Pix,vid) by smeag0l(m): 11:04pm On Feb 19, 2022 |
And UK, France ,Germany,Norway Israel , Japan, and India will sit down, fold their arms and watch Russia and China form an alliance without forging theirs with US? Let's just pray a war shouldn't happen. Putin knows he won't win and he doesn't plan to do that. He just wants to inflict maximum wreckage on his enemies. On the other hand, US will be the least affected. However, same cannot be said of their western allies. Decryptor: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 2:13pm On Feb 16, 2022 |
Well, i dont hate them because of western propaganda. I hate them because of the economic systems they practice. They practice a socialist/communist system. However, the leaders of those countries are closet capitalists. And they dont even practice what they profess in its entirety. A socialist system of givernment requires that the government controls everything, citizens are not allowed to set prices etc. It also requires provision to be made for social amenities by the government and for the citizens all for free or at a very subsidized rate. This is not what is happening in those two countries. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 12:34pm On Feb 16, 2022 |
Okay, since you keep mentioning Cuba maybe i should explain to you what happened in Cuba in 1962. US forces were occupying Turkey, Italy and West Germany from the end of the second world war up till 1962 so as to prevent an attack by Russia on their allies. This attack could either be orchestrated from Poland, East Germany or even from Russia. Russian president at the time, now felt the US occupying Turkey or Italy was too close to them and would give the US a "first strike" advantage in the event of a war. So they decided to also look for a way to occupy a territory very close to the US. At that time, they knew the US had a conflict with Cuba because the president turned against them after helping him win elections so they decided to use Cuba. They started bringing in missiles to cuba by flight and sea. Ehen the US realized this, the had to call Russia to take off all those weapons and Russia now brought a bargain of US also pulling out of Turkey and Italy(west Germany was not included in this deal because Russia also occupied east germany) . That was how that issue was solved. Russia instigated the Cuban crisis. This almost led to a third world war because Russian ships almost shot at a US surveillance airplane hovering around Cuba to gather intelligence on what was happening. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 7:59am On Feb 16, 2022 |
Sanctions are not meant for a country to go extinct. Theyre deterrent measures. Nigeria was once sanctioned under Abacha's regime. The main reason for the sanctions is so that Russia wont be able to fund a war. Iran tests nuclear weapons in the atlantic. US cant come and occupy their country or fight them so as to stop their activities. Thats the difference between US , Russia and China. Russia and China are still living in the 19th century where you can "conquer" or annex a country as yours. US and the entire west is now making it known to them that the world has gone beyond this mentality and that these countries are sovereign states of their own and shouldnt be breached or dictated to just because theyre close to Russia or China. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 7:38am On Feb 16, 2022 |
Like I told you earlier , this is an industry i work in and ive been opportunrd to visit one or two gas plants in some of these coubtries i mentioned. And like i told you earlier, Russia cutting off gas supply from europe may have slight implications but this can be managed. Germany, Norway, England, Netherland and France are all oil and gas producing countries, it'sjust that for Germany , the gas they produce wont be enough to seeve both domestic and industrial use. This is mainly due to population and ehixh is why they import from Russia. Same with Italy. However, they can always explore an LNG option and it is in discussions currently. I dont care whoever Russia goes to supply their gas to. The main thing is that if sanctions are imposed on them theyll find it hard to sell their gas. Not because china wont buy, but because china wont have a medium to pay them. US,UN and NATO will go as far as removing Russian banks and their routing numbers from international bank transactions. Except the chinese will pay them in chinese yen. Because, for all i know, almost all of the world's oil and gas transactions is done in USD. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 12:15am On Feb 16, 2022 |
Russia supplies gas to the entire Europe? Wow, they must have started doing this overnight. Bros, you dont tell me about an industry i work right in. Russia's gas supplies ends in eastern europe.Russia supplies just 35% of the total amount of gas used in Europe and even though they supply Germany,Holland and some other central European countries , cutting off supplies don't mean anything. Netherlands, Scotland , Norway, England ,Germany, Spain and France all produce natural gas that can serve western europe and in the event that it isnt enough to go round, theyll import LNG from the likes of Nigeria , US and Australia. I even forgot to mention Qatar ,Saudi and UAE that are just close by.Like I said earlier, go study. If you havent then dont come online to start saying things you dont know or things you dont even know how they started or how they are structured anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 10:03pm On Feb 15, 2022 |
By the way, just so you know. US doesnt need to fight Russia for Russia to be defeated in a war with NATO. NATO states of England, Germany and France are enough. These states develop waepons just like Russia, have anti-ballistic missile systems and other weaponry but you wont see them celebrating war technology like Russia and North Korea do. Theyll collaborate to fight Russia effectively while US stiffle them economically by making Japan and Switzerland refuse them access to their foreign reserves. Let's see how theyll fight a war withiut funding. You need to take a short course in international policy, macroeconomics, war and diplomacy. Youll understand why US is and will continue to be the world'sstrongest superpower. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 8:55pm On Feb 15, 2022 |
Bros, Ukraine is already in NATO and not even Russia can stop it. The era of when large countries can exert a sphere of influence over small ones is gone. I dont know whether it is Nigerian TV channels or papers you get your facts from. Putin is asking them to prevent Ukraine from NATO and theyre not agreeing to that.Stoltenberg, the NATO chief has already told Putin clearly towards Q4 2021 that they don't decide whether Ukraine will join NATO or not. Ukranian constitution has been amended for them to become a NATO member state. Everything is already set, waiting for Ukrainian president to accept their membership. What Putin is afraid of is that he doesn't want western allies to set up missile bases in Ukraine because it eill take just 5-10 minutes of launching a missile from there for it to land in Russia. Stop watching Nigerian news and if you cant afford to travel outside the country then ,at least, get a job so you can afford cable TV. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 5:36pm On Feb 15, 2022 |
So you have seen how it played out. Putin has finally said he doesnt want to go to war after he saw that the US and NATO were not joking when they also moved their own troops intp Romania and moldova in response to his troops advancing towards Ukraine. Why didnt he go to war if he were that powerful? Just two days ago he mentioned that hes counting on China for support and they also agreed. All to see whethr the west would bulge. The truth you guys dont know is that the US is more powerful than both Russia and China and will continue to be. The facts i stated in my first post on this thread already makes that clear. You all believe these countries are powerful because they develop one weapon and come to the media to cry out how theyve tested it and how powerful it is. The US runs these kind of programs in San Antonio and Hawaii and you wont hear a word of it. anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 2:33pm On Feb 14, 2022 |
How does a country seeking independence relate with anither country establishing a base in such a country?Can you please truncate your display of ignorance? anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 10:17pm On Feb 13, 2022 |
Exactly. The US will not go to war because of the devastating implications on the countries that will be affected(not the US itself). Just also to correct one point, no country has more nukes than the US. Let someone who lives in San antonio, Texas explain this to you. That someone isnt coming out to make noise about one extra nuclear warhead that he built doesnt mean he doesnt have hundreds or thousands of them. Theyve been building up silently. Just because of lunatics like those that control Russia , china and North Korea Rugaria: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 10:13pm On Feb 13, 2022 |
Russia occupied Luskh ,Donetsk and annexed crimea-All Ukranian territories because they have some might. What else can be more disruptive to world peace? China annexed Taiwan. Tell me what else is disruptive to the peace of the nations. Why doesnt US go around collecting territories and annexing countries? You guys really know nothing about international politics. I can school you on what happened since 1961 when a third world war was averted by the US because Russia set up a military base in Cuba. Do you know that a missile was fired there? Do you know what averted the third world war? You guys just come online to talk about what you dont know because you have phones. Every country in the world wants the US to remain world power because the ithers like China and Russia have a history of having erratic rulers. Lunatics who can erase the entire world anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 11:54am On Feb 13, 2022 |
These things that the US is doing are necessary to maintain world peace. Countries like Russia, China and North Korea have very irrational leaders and someone needs to put them in check otherwise theyll destroy all their neighbours. Look at how Russia is treating Ukraine. Same way China is treating Taiwan and Taipei. Same way North Korea has been intimidating their southern neighbours until the international community waded in. If these countries were not misbehaving, US will not have troops stationed perpetually in their neighbouring countries anonymous1759: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 11:49am On Feb 13, 2022 |
No neighbouring country will but the US can. However, the US will not use nuclear weapons as it is part of what they have signed through the geneva convention. But to let you know, the US has far more nuclear weapons than all these countries shouting everyday have. Ask anybody staying in San antonio , Texas to tell you more about this. A lot of people grossly under-estimate the US because they dont come out to do what other irrational country leaders like that of Russia, North Korea and China do Rugaria: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 11:45am On Feb 13, 2022 |
Exactly. And this is because Ukraine ,until recently, has not been a member state of NATO. It'sjust because of Russia's annexation of Crimea that made them join NATO. Although, the US is going to get directly involved in this war, in my opinion. Theyve been looking for ways to engage countries like Russia and China for some time now. This is the perfect opportunity. US has already entered troops to neighbouring countries to Ukraine like Moldova and Romania. NATO troops have also arrived there since last week. Biden has already told Putin to embrace dialogue or that they'll respond decisively in the event of any attack on Ukraine. Russia is overstepping their bounds in this and they'll not come out of it unscathed. wirinet: |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 8:14am On Feb 13, 2022 |
War is not the way you are thinking it is. Russia, North Korea and China even if they form an alliance all know that the US will defeat them. There are stats that point to this fact. The first is that all these countries have no allies close to the US except cuba. And theres no eay thry can get to cuba to set up weaponry to fight the US without passing through coubtries that are US and NATO allies so it is technically impossible to fight US from close range. Fighting them from afar using long rsnge missles is also loke wasting weaponry as US has some of the most up-to-date missle deflection systems. On the contrary, US can set up for war very close to all these countries as possible because they have allies all surrounding them.Secondly, the US spends the highest amount of money on defence than any other country in the world. Thirdly, amongst all these countries, Only China has more number of people in the military than US. Besides, the US only needs the total number of soldiers from just 2 or 3 other NATO allies to neutralize the ones a combination of Russia , China, North Korea, Cuba and Iran has. They onky need India , Egypt and France. Now, the rest of the soldiers from NATO are available to easily neutralize them. Then lastly, and the most important point, the US can defeat all these countries by starving them of funding. Ask me how?All of the world'sreserve currencies are either in USD,japanese YEN, Swiss francs or Euro. All the nations that use these currencies are NATO allies. It just takes a sanction to freeze reserve funds of any country going to war with NATO and then watch them run out of funds and then stop the war themselves or get vanquished. This , amongst others, is what you should think of whenever you hear sanctions. Please go study international politics, macroeconomics and diplomacy before you come type anything online. You guys just wake up and think that because a country is testing nuclear weapons and making noise about it that it means they can fight the US. Russia should go to fight Ukraine if they can and see where it will end them as a country! IbroMaka: 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US, allies ask citizens to leave Ukraine at once, amid a possible Russia attack by smeag0l(m): 10:55pm On Feb 12, 2022 |
I read a lot of comments here and I can't help laughing my ass out at the ignorance people display in matters of international politics. Putin will not attack Ukraine except he wants to set Russia behind decades back. He is already afraid of Ukraine joining NATo. This tells you that he is afraid of NATO(US & allies) itself. I also see people calling Biden names. This same Biden has moved troops and war equipemnt to neighboring Ukrakian borders and has instructed his troops to start training and synergixing with the NATO and ukraine 2 Likes 1 Share |
Investment / Re: This Legit Platform Has Been Paying Me by smeag0l(m): 1:02am On Jan 20, 2022 |
What set up is that and how do you know it is profitable RealPMer: 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Oyedepo: Criticizing Men Of God Can Cause Leprosy by smeag0l(m): 6:28pm On Jan 09, 2022 |
The first verse talks about a situation where the children of Israel were at war. They were doubting whether they'll win the way because they've been disobedient to the word of God(concerning their sojourn to the promised land and the wars with the heathen)even when it came directly from the prophets. That was why the prophet made that declaration. It doesn't apply to having divergent opinions with your pastor. The problems Nigerian Christians have is that they do not read the bible because everything in the bible has a context. The second verse you posted has nothing to do with this discussion Tobechuckwu: 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Oyedepo: Criticizing Men Of God Can Cause Leprosy by smeag0l(m): 3:23pm On Jan 09, 2022 |
This further confirms that you know nothing about the scriptures. And if you permit me , I will school you on these verses you posted here. Tobechuckwu: |
Religion / Re: Oyedepo: Criticizing Men Of God Can Cause Leprosy by smeag0l(m): 10:02am On Jan 09, 2022 |
I'm a christian and the problem with a lot of Nigerian christians including you is that they are very shallow. They believe everything their pastor says and even add their own to it without having any scriptural backing to support their claims. Anyways, most Nigerian christians don't study their bibles so what am I even saying? Tobechuckwu: 1 Like |
Investment / Re: Ipcapital-never Say Never Again! by smeag0l(m): 3:25am On Jan 03, 2022 |
If you trade forex you'll know that's the essence of regulation. Unfortunately, brokers like IPcapital lie to unsuspecting clients that they're regulated by FINTRAC. But anyone that trades forex will know that FINTRAC doesn't have the ability to provide forex regulation nor deposit protection for forex traders. It is just an anti-money laundering body. Ayodeb: |
Investment / Re: Ipcapital-never Say Never Again! by smeag0l(m): 4:45pm On Jan 02, 2022 |
No government is there to protect you. Ip Capital is not regulated by any forex regulatory body in US and Canada. Which means if they close shop and runaway with your money you're on your own. Ayodeb: |
Investment / Re: Ipcapital-never Say Never Again! by smeag0l(m): 11:07pm On Jan 01, 2022 |
I use IP capital but I can tell you that what he said is true There's no bot anywhere and what they post on mt4 are fake trades. I also read your post where you said they're regulated in US, Canada and Australia but the truth is that they're not regulated in any of these countries. At least, not by a forex regulatory body. If you want to know that the trades are fake, keep your focus on your mt4 for the entire duration at the time they trade but you'll never see any live trades. You'll only see trades in profit in your trading history. And usually, when you trade with bots, you'll always see the bot name or trade ID. You'll never see that in your trading history with IPcapital. Besides, they pay you 10% of the capital of the person you're bringing in. We all know this model isn't sustainable and when they start getting less snd less new people, the bubble will burst. There are several other things I can tell you about IPcapital but let me just stop here. Ayodeb: 6 Likes |
Investment / Re: How To Make Money With Intelligence Prime Capital (IPC) by smeag0l(m): 5:14pm On Dec 27, 2021 |
First of all, being a money services business is different from being a forex broker. FINTRAC only ensures anti-money laundering laws are not violated by organisations registered with them. They do not provide any protection for you if IPC runs away with your money. Then the answer to the response you provided in number 2, a company has to be registered as a forex brokerage to provide the kind of service IPC is providing. And this has nothing to do with whether a trader is placing the trades themselves or if a bot is placing the trades as you have mentioned. To the third point, only inexperienced traders will say they have verified the trades and they're real. For trades that have an average trade holding time of 10 minutes , you should be able to see the trades. I have sat down and watched to see the live trades and couldn't see anything. And ,for your information, there are companies like this that post fake trades on mt4. To your fourth point, the aggressive manner in which the multilevel marketing is driven shows there is a hidden agenda. What I'll advice you to do is take out your initial capital and let the profit run. To your last point, disclosing your liquidity provider had nothing to do with trade secrets. It is simply disclosing the bank or financial institution these monies are coming from so people can do their due diligence. As an experienced forex trader of so many years, my advice to you once again will be to exercise caution with your investment in them. I've witnessed schemes like this before. I'm working with a European company presently to provide a bot that can work with any broker so that people can be free from these kind of schemes and from people asking them to bring their monies for investment. Sadly, I won't be putting the project here on nairaland. Mods bannes me last week for advising people on how not to get scammed. I guess scam is now being promoted on nairaland by the mods. Lastly, you can't even ask me to use your link to join IPC because I knew about it before you and I joined long ago and have made and pulled out my capital. Omoedeki: 1 Like |
Programming / Re: I Need An MQL4 Programmer For A Quick Job by smeag0l(m): 5:00pm On Dec 27, 2021 |
So I'm cancelling this job request and posting it on upwork as I couldn't get anyone here to do it. The only person I got was requesting for an upfront payment and I can't pay money directly to him. |
Programming / Re: I Need An MQL4 Programmer For A Quick Job by smeag0l(m): 8:49pm On Dec 24, 2021 |
So I finally found someone here who can take up my offer. Although, his charge is more than what I could get on fiverr and upwork and his delivery schedule is longer, he is a Nigerian and I've decided to bless a Nigerian this period. Dominique, please can you help me act as escrow? I promised not to send monies upfront directly to people I meet here until our transaction is complete. I've agreed to pay half of the agreed sum to a nairaland mod pending when the job is completed and I'll pay the programmer the balance. |
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