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chopnaira:
Visa, MasterCard and American Express are known world wide and the first two account for over 90% of debit and credit transactions world wide outside China.

Edit: You prompted me to go look up the market share of payment processors and right now UnionPay is the market leader. Currently controls 45% of the world’s card spendings, followed by Visa 27% and Master 19%. That’s a 2020 report I just read. It’s free information go read. T for thanks

Parachoko:
Lol

Germany is not ready to make Berlin burn again because of Kiev


Zelenesky should give up

No just Germany, nobody even want war on their soil. America, Russia, China all may be powerful, they still don’t want war.

ObamaMessi:
So basically, that justifies what Russia is doing in Ukraine, right?

It means they are trying to use the same excuse the West used when invading Iraq and killed Saddam. No weapon of mass destruction was found. Go watch the movie: Greenzone.
It’s more of a documentary than a movie.

Datikwerreboi:
This is the Frank truth , China doesn't tolerate Muslims , same with Russia . But they're lots of Muslims practicing their faith in the USA

Move this to comedy section, you don’t belong here lol

Make I educate you small;
China does not tolerate any religion, got nothing to do with Muslims.
US tolerates all religion.
Russia tolerate all religion too, many Russian republics are predominantly Muslims ..the CheChens for instance and those in the Far East.

So carry your kata kata comot for here.

chopnaira:
Union pay

What the hell is that

Life exist outside of wherever you are sir…
UnionPay is pretty popular around the world, even in the US, Canada, Mexico and UK. Even in Nigeria, many card processors and Nigerian banks are on the network accept Alipay and UnionPay

chronique:
With the war on and despite all the sanctions, America is still spending over millions of dollars daily buying oil from Russia. Europe is still spending billions of euros daily buying oil and gas from Russia despite all the sanctions. That's outside the trade Russia has elsewhere. 5% of Russian oil exports goes to the US and 60% goes to Europe with 20% going to China. 40% of Russian gas goes to Europe... Despite all the sanctions, the leaders of the US and all European countries have rejected the demand that oil and gas imports from Russia be stopped cos of the way it would affect both the US and the whole of Europe. You guys need to read properly and understand what is at stake. Russia is not Nigeria. Those who are placing sanctions on them but left the oil and gas deals in tact, aren't stupid.

Yup, UK still looking to buy another 2nd worth in a few days lol it’s the hypocrisy for me.

spyglaxx:
sanctions and isolation will kill Russia. internal unrest and hunger . No country will allow Russian refuges. Russian billionaires can only come to Africa maybe.

Stay sharp! When in war especially with a less powerful nation… sanctions won’t immediately your capabilities nor will it affect your existing weapon systems nor will it affect your generals strategies.. especially with your neighbor.

Some good news finally. As long as Iran will not enrich to weapon grade and close monitoring channels are opened by the IAEA, it’s all good. Nuclear tech can be used for many civilian techs from medicine to research to power generation.

Toktee:
yes on both sides.

As things are, doesn’t seem like the war would get to the Russian homeland.

joyandfaith:
It is called reparation. The victory may even cost Russia more.

Yup!

Biodun556:
Euro is falling like never before which means the conflict is affecting all of them

It will affect everybody in Europe directly, and the rest of the world indirectly.

Horus:
There are rules in war concerning civilians. Remember the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949 (Entry into force: 21 October 1950). Maybe the US soldiers suffered from memories problems and forgot about the Geneva Convention

Yes the Geneva convention stipulated protection for civilians, especially women and children, healthcare, humanitarian path and all that… during a full scale war, every country have been accused of breaking that rule, every country. That’s why I said there’s no rule in war (in reality).

If you enemy use able to continue an attack, and you have access to their water won’t you poison the water to weaken them ? Even though the convention goes against that. That’s why I don’t blame what the US did, it’s war.

ObamaMessi:
Is Sweden a member of NATO?

Sweden and Finland are not NATO members. They declare neutrality but they are Allies of NATO, which means they both qualify for fast track admission if they choose to join the alliance.

Geniuelander:
This is Op's Source
How authentic is it ?

Unreliable source. Nigerian journalist that can’t even get local news right and now gathering intelligence operations news. Abeg mooooooove!

What do you expect, propaganda is a weapon especially during a military conflict or war.

Hanibbal:
Honestly Putin got my respect for this. Putin is very lenient in this war unlike the U.S. and its thuggery NATO alliance they'll make sure they bomb you back to stone age. I was watching a Korean war documentary yesterday a U.S veteran air force officer who served in the war said they were given orders to bomb everything on ground including civilians fleeing the war. That's U.S for you o.

True. I agree on this.

Horus:
I agree, the U.S. went to the extent of spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese rice fields during the Vietnam War to starve civilians to death. The Mỹ Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers

Remember US declared war on Vietnam. All things are fair in war, there are no rules that applies anymore. I don’t the US committed any crimes for doing that, or for dropping a nuclear bomb on Japan till they surrender that’s war! Not some invasion or special op as they are calling this one.

seunny4lif:
Maybe it’s time to declare war because Russia already faced massive sanctions
What is now left to just to turn Ukraine to Stone Age.
I hate war because I have lost few friends in Libya war 2011

Baba Ukraine is not just a neighbor, Ukraine is part of their motherland o.

I doubt if the Russian parliament would vote for a full scale war on a small Ukraine, unless Putin choose to do whatever he wants.

I think the “war/invasion” is going fine, right now EU and NaTO won’t accept Ukraine anymore and their leader already gone into hiding. Once the military surrender all will be over, OR more weapons keep coming in and the guerrilla never ends. One way or the other.

1. Ukraine is starting to lean more towards the west since the last President was kicked out and Zelensky got to power. The new president is pro west, a good opportunity for nato and EU to get closer to Russia bother and access to ghe large land mass of border between Ukraine and Russia. Well I know NATO should have expected a response from any Russia leader, the same way Any American leader would respond to Mexico or Canada aligning to Russia militarily.

2. I usually real from both sides… I read Sputnik for the pro Russian, CNN or Fox for pro western and Aljazeera or Vice for a neutral stand. For example; the audio click that said 13 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after telling Russians to Bleep off on that Island it’s all over western media, on Sputnik news their version says 80+ soldiers, and they all surrendered after their clip and were given a bus that took them to Kherson to join their family. So while Russia is till calling this Special OP, the west calls it an invasion. Both sides are right if you think about it, during an invasion you mostly use a small portion of your military and your old weapons but an invasion could sometimes be a declaration of war too just like Iraq and Syria.

3. I don’t know much about Russian economy but it’s been in the news for a while after Crimea situation that Russias been buying gold like crazy, and has so far managed to move upto 50% of its reserves into gold and some into Chinese currency. So I’m really not sure about how this sanctions will affect Russian economy without bleeding EU countries too, especially Germany and UK. The only sanctions that I know for sure that is working is the one against Putin friends, that definitely is very efficient and very personal.

seunny4lif:

I’m afraid that after this ceasefire Russia will open massive bombing campaign on those cities because that was want they did in Syria.
They told civilians to leave and then turn Allepo and Hama to Stone Age.
They did in Georgia city of GORI

Well they haven’t declared a war on Ukraine. I think they might still slow down with hopes for their leader to run into exile or their military to surrender. If they turn Ukraine to a waste land, it will be a burden on Russia to fix all the damaged infrastructure after the war.
Just my opinion though.

spyglaxx:
96,000 war hardened volunteers are set to join Ukraine in the coming days. The oligarchs have lost lots of fortunes and yachts. Sanctions are pummeling the Russian economy right and center. For how long do you think Russia will hold?

You think if this was a full scale war this wouldn’t be over in 3 days ?
Ukraine is their neighbor, it will be dump for Putin to turn his next door neighbor into a waste land. Hence his reason for insisting on special OP cos it’s obvious he’s targeting the military installations and their leader.

Toktee:
what are they using? Russia cannot do more than what they are doing now... They under estimated ukrain and they will pay for it.

Let’s stop this joke. A full scale war in Ukraine would be disastrous.

Ecomfreecourse:
yes the effect generally

In my opinion…
If a nuclear war between the East and West happen, I’d expect all US bases be nuked, and that includes the ones in Africa too. Nuclear fall outs that will easily spread across the rest of Africa due to the poor state of our borders. That is a direct effect.

Indirect effect; survivals from East, West may likely move to Africa if Africa has less direct effects. So I’d expect influx of people from around the world from worse affected areas to less affected parts of the world.
Nuclear fall outs will most definitely affect all the water, especially pacific and Atlantic.

In the end, directly or indirectly… we will all feel the impact of a major nuclear way between East (Russia, China and allies) and West (US and allies)

I pray we never get to this level before the world decide to get rid of nuclear weapons.

yyba:
Russians soldiers should follow him to poland and bring him back, did he think war is comedy ?

Sorry Russians entering Poland will be a declaration of war with NATO.

Nobody wants war! That’s a reminder for everybody. Nobody wants war on their homeland. So sad the president think he could drag NATO into this war.

PrinceOfLagos:
The way some Nigerians carry this Russia - Ukraine matter for head, you will think they've seen the four walls of international airports before

Smh

So you must see the international airport to be concerned about happening around the world? Your ignorance carry degree
When nuclear war happens between the East and West… you think it won’t affect Africa ? Smh

Isreal has been dealing with Palestinians for years, can we please extend some sanctions for them too ?

Just curious.

ryloy:
The #Ukrainian military showed what the #Russian ration consists of

Its expiration date was seven years ago


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfo7cNUazgE

Stop displaying your ignorance on a public forum. MRE meals don’t have expiry date, they only use Inspection dates. MRE meals can last more than 10yrs depending on how they are stored. It is standard for military planners to use their oldest stuff before touching their newer stuff.

Loverofpeace:
America cannot build Common Rocket engine so much for world power... something Nigeria can do.

It’s hard to explain how things work for you. But in layman’s term, America can produce the rockets and more, but for now… the Russian rocket is cheaper. SpaceX is working on reusable rockets that will be cheaper in long term considering it’s usability capabilities and will make the Russian rocket obsolete.
It’s been tested and it works, just a few weeks ago the 29 rocket based was unveils to carry the full stack.

I know this may be too much for you to comprehend but this is the best I can do for you atm.

JohnBullMySon:
Ode. 80% of the international space station was built by the US.

The Russians control the main engine part of it. Yes, NASA has the largest part of it. But like 5-6 countries all combined resources. Nobody can lay claims on the ISS as theirs though.

JohnBullMySon:
Fake news. The US makes their own rocket engines.

Not at the moment. The US is banking on SpaceX and other start up then will eventually make the switch. But for now, the Russian rockets still gets the job done.

CoronaVirusPro:
Fake bomb!

That's how they told us they have the best Military until they lost 500 soldiers and over 10 jet fighter in less than one week.

Putin should go eat fresh fish with vodka, the world now knows its military is a junk

Outside nuclear warhead, the military got nothing....

Even UGM/ESN will defeat the Russian military if Putin promises not to use nuclear weapon


Putin be calling hunters as soldiers

Olodo, your dealer is mixing his supplies. Stop buying from him.