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I read comment here and I just shake my head.

Someone even claimed that the US has minesweepers clearing mines in the Striat.

Damn! Ignorance reign supreme. Semi-literates are worse than illiterates, they can't be reasoned with.

If clearing mines were as easy as eating yam and beans then the minesweepers will conduct that operation successfully and get out intact.

[quote author=WriteerNg post=138379428]⚡French Chief of the Defence Staff Fabien Mandon:

The Baltic can now be closed whenever we decide — and that is bad news for Russia.

French Chief of the Defence Staff Fabien Mandon:

The Baltic can now be closed whenever we decide — and that is bad news for Russia. pic.twitter.com/M1C2iTpDUo

— Clash Report (@clashreport) February 6, 2026

Baltic sea is not a territorial water. From the gulf of Finland to Estonia EEZ there's still international waters in between.
Unless they intend to block the international passage by military means.
Russia still maintains the largest military presence in the Baltic Sea and doesn't even need its fleet to reach any vessel intending to block international waters as it has missiles capable of doing so and even faster with more deadly result.

I wonder what this Frenchman smoked

seunmsg:
Top 10 contributors to global real GDP growth (2026)


Source: IMF


Source

That's L for Europe, his intended audience not you and I here in Nigeria.

Europe is in steady decline and there seem not to be hope for them.
It one of the reasons why US wants to decouple them, it can keep propping them up.
Germany is struggling with a 1% GDP growth for years now and the rest if EU is in steady decline.

Bad policies, bad leaders. Hopefully, they will wake up and do something about their situation.

Nigeria too has leadership problems but there's hope and sooner or later we will get it right

LordAdam16:
china dispatched an armada from hainan
at least 8 ships (including destroyers and a sub)
there is a clip of them in formation heading towards persia
of course it's unclear when that clip was taken

ordinarily one would think they're going there to ensure shipping lanes stay open since the yanks were talking about blockades
conduct the axis drill with russia and iran (they've performed a couple of annual drills with iran and russia in the indian ocean over the past few years, so that's not a big deal per se)
and assist iran with targeting and battlespace coordination since iran now relies on chinese military infrastructure

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the truly unprecedented part is that the israelis
are interpreting the deployment as china backing up their threat a few days back when they told the us that starting a war with iran will open the gates of hell
that's not a typo

and apparently
trump went into an emergency closed-door session when the pentagon confirmed that the chinese are en route to persia

since the chinese are not in the habit of publicizing military deployments and purpose
and since china always have a small flotilla in the red sea/arabian sea/indian ocean zone
this reinforcement is being interpreted as an intervention

i'm sure the phone lines in beijing are ringing non stop

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which if you've followed chinese posture over the past few years
just seems out of left field

like how do you go from just minding your business
which has emboldened the hegemony
to sending an armada and threatening to open the gates of hell
something doesn't track

and so i'm erring on the side of caution and waiting for more corroboration
but again this is from the israelis
not even the iranians or the chinese

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lastly, if this report is accurate
one has to pity the sailors on the lincoln carrier strike group
there is no immediate relief around
and if this sh*t goes kinetic and the axis decides to make an example of them
it'll be carnage

iran will f*ck them up and china/russia will be like
remember the moskva
two can play that game

-Lord

Venezuela happened

like how do you go from just minding your business
which has emboldened the hegemony
to sending an armada

What happened in Venezuela was a huge strategic geopolitical Bleep up for both Russia and China, especially China.

I said it on telegram channels the next day after Maduro's abduction that the US just opened a Pandora box and nobody knows what kind of monster will come out of it.

Still, all eyes on Persia. There's tension but the world wants to know what the resultant outcome will be.

shoodboi2:
I am confused here. When did I say Afghanis (or even Middle Easterners or Arabs) invented algebra and space tech and that the Europeans copied them?

I said Arabs “developed” Algebra. Developed means they made considerable discoveries in the field of algebra. It doesn’t in any way mean they invented it.

As for the other part about inventing space tech, I wonder where you got that from because I never said so. I never said the Europeans copied them either. Those are lies.

Algebra
The word itself is Arabic

And yes Arabs did a lot of work(although not comparable to the Greeks) in what is now modern astronomy
Aldebaran
Altar
This stars have Arabic names

WriteerNg:
Guys let us welcome Svlla to this thread.

He is one of us. A proven warrior for Russia and the free world.

👏🏻 👏🏻

Thank you WriteerNg, for the honorable mention and welcome.
for the free world as freedom is an inalienable right of man.

The world focus will be on Persia this week, the impeding attack and subsequent consequences on the global economy and geopolitics both in the region and the world at large.

Venezuela was an awakening

There have been a more accurate count of RU losses compared to Ukraine.
Since Mediazona in collaboration with BBC Russian decided to independent count and verify based on Obituaries, public announcements, social media posts of families and statement of regional authorities. This puts the current figure at 163K losses with a probate of +54k due to excess male mortality based on information from the National probate registry and assuming that excess male death is attributed to the war.
This figure now stands at 219k KIA, both verified and probate count.

However there have not been such project in Ukraine to count Ukrainian losses as the only independently verified figures are coming from UALosses. Ukrainian government has been very tight with the figures of their losses and frowns at anyone whether domestic or foreign who tries to verify this figure.
There seem to be a huge number of missing and both reported and unreported AWOL, deserters in UA compared to the figure giving by UALosses and there's a speculation that a good percentage of the missing and Awol are KIA

Guestmale:
All the news I posted where did I get them from and I want to ask you, all those links I posted have you search internet to found out whether they are true or not.

Check my recent post

Guestmale:
Okay how about this .https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml

Don't tell me you have learning difficulties.
What is the total number of troops used in the Ukrainian war theater since 2022?

If you can answer it then you will begin to question that figure.

The internet is a tool for learning as well. Use it brother. Don't believe either side until you've done your research and enlighten yourself.

And there's a thing called AI these days which you could pose very challenging questions to.
Ask it to a do deep, unbiased research and give you results.

There's no reason to be intellectually lazy anymore.

Modified: attached screenshot. Showing almost equal number of casualties verified.
Rule of thumb: considering govt agencies will suppress casualty figures on both sides then multiply the figure by 3 or 5. Take the average to be somewhere closer to the real figure.

Conclusion: what you see on the internet have political purpose and does not reflect the real figure and also independent verification has had difficulty getting the real figure. Only after the war will the real figure be out. Most OSINT (independent and neutral) puts it on a 1:1 or 1:1.1 in favour of Russia

OSINT: I will recommend HistoryLegend YouTube channel or WillyOAM. HistoryLegend has particularly be known to be unbiased, neutral and unaligned and he also uses Groundnews (another helpful tool) to check for news bias.

Guestmale:
Are all these followings from CNN western propaganda?, though you believe CNN news of America dying in Ukraine.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4079243-russias-war-casualty-toll-in-ukraine-up-by-1060-over-past-day.html

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrainian-drone-strikes-leave-hundreds-thousands-without-power-across-russian-controlled-area.amp

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4081519-ukraine-improves-tactical-position-pushes-russian-forces-back-on-pokrovsk-front.html

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/satellite-confirms-hit-on-ammunition-depot-in-occupied-crimea-in-early-january/

https://www.the-sun.com/news/15712671/moscow-plunges-darkness-ukraine-drone-strikes/

Friend, you should try other news platforms if only for the sake of having a robust knowledge.

True Ukraine is hitting some energy infrastructure in Russia but it is nothing compared to what is happening Ukraine currently there's an emergency. An energy crisis in the country.

If you search the internet for this specific news you will see them but not in the news media or channels you shared above.

huptin:
Dont mind them. They think we are fools...1000/38. But Russia has been unable to add a single inch of ground for over 2 years!

Of all the comments I read, yours particularly stood out for ignorance.
It is clearly obvious majority hasn't been following or updated themselves with recent happenings in the war but often feel very opinionated.

The war has taking a turn that has completely neutralized UA abilities to launch an offensive (in the form of counter offensive) and although 2025, many expected some offensive from UA since we had the 2024 Kursk incursion, which was reversed, and 2023 heavily publicized counter offensive, which did not make any headway and was considered a huge blunder on the operational level due to the choice of direction of the offensive towards tokmak.

Only 2025 alone 5,000 sqKm was lost and if same feat is repeated this year then UA will lose Zaporizhia as most analysts has begun to point out.

But all this update is too much for you who has not followed the war recently.
You should catch up and bring yourself up to speed before you reply to this

LordAdam16:
the russia-india special relationship is admirable

iran that is close proximity to india and could have played better geopolitics
was doing religious rubbish with the kashmir issue

it did that because of the iran-pakistan gas pipeline
iran signed that deal in 2011 and completed its portion in 2014
while pakistan has so far refused to start construction on its part under pressure from the us and formerly by the gulf arabs
more than a decade later

if iran had been pragmatic
they could have completed an undersea oil/gas pipeline from iran to india in that time
it'll be very cheap for india and any excess will be resold on the global market
thus allowing iran to increase its output and diversify its customer base

thankfully they have made repairs to the relationship
that has enabled the activation of the INSTC
iran is now a central node for trade between india and russia/central asia that bypasses the hegemony and china
india controls the chabahar port in iran

-Lord

Iran has missed all opportunities to exert itself on the global stage. Perhaps they need a change of leadership or leadership style.
You can't be a US enemy and still be concerned about trivialities.
Iran needs serous reform. It has serous allies. It is well placed geographical. It also has serous enemies. It needs serous minded people from bottom to top.
First it needs to stave off this impending attack that may or may not happen. After that it needs to get to serous work.

It is common knowledge that Iran is the one capable of challenging US hegemony in the region.

WriteerNg:
⚡Russian President Vladimir Putin receives UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Kremlin.

I thought they said he is isolated.

Well, in other news, their seem to be alot of geopolitical realignment of recent coupled with recent years geopolitical events. Decades are happening in a few weeks now right before our eyes. If the small history we read and understood serves any purpose then one can safely predict that a global power is about to tumble off the perch or share that elevated platform with other serious competitors.
I seriously hope it will not lead to a war on a global scale. No superpower has gone down easily or shared position without serious military confrontation

WriterrNg:
⚡Russia and Ukraine complete first body exchange of 2026.

Statistics tracked since the talks in June 2025:

June — 78 Russians : 7200 Ukrainians

July — 19 Russians : 1000 Ukrainians

August — 19 Russians : 1000 Ukrainians

September — 24 Russians : 1000 Ukrainians

October — 31 Russians : 1000 Ukrainians

November — 30 Russians : 1000 Ukrainians

January — 38 Russians : 1000 Ukrainians

The cumulative total stands at 239 Russians for 13,200 Ukrainians.

Considering that Ukraine's new MoD, the tech guy just spoke about killing 50k Russians monthly.

No one told him the response won't be proportional and the ratio of KIA is very uneven on both side.

UA has ramped up bussification this year with a renewed attempt to fill out his dwindling ranks. There's a massive forced mobilization since beginning of this year, if previously they use to be concerned about the blowback and negative PR im their society now they've thrown caution to the wind.

Everyone is saying that perhaps UA will launch an offensive this year but looking at the stat of exchanged dead it is obvious that UA has lost the ability to launch any major offensive apart from localized counter-attacks in specific directions of the front.
They have lost both the strategic and operational initiatives and could only carry out a robust defense (although not mobile yet given to their stubbornness to yield ground for time) with aim of being able to achieve a mobile defence doctrine this year with their new army reforms.

UA is only holding out to find a favorable term in the negotiations but that seem very unlikely.

The only hope UA has is if Zelensky travels to Moscow and directly appeal to Putin's conscience then maybe Ukraine can have a deal that closely resembles the one of Istanbul 4 years back.

NB: exchanged dead is a true reflection of casualty rate but it gives an insight.

But also considering RU is the one advancing and so many times we've heard claims of failed attack or human waves attacks by RU on UA position, the bodies of RU dead is considerably lower.

plessis:
The final form of a hõëë is a religious woman.

That's the last stage.
After everything, they go spiritual

Too much water has passed under the bridge

[quote author=WriteerNg post=138082971]⚡MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTERS BESIEGE HOTEL BELIEVED TO HOUSE ICE AGENTS.

🚨🇺🇸MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTERS BESIEGE HOTEL BELIEVED TO HOUSE ICE AGENTS

Downtown Minneapolis is on edge tonight as a large group of demonstrators surrounds the Canopy by Hilton, claiming ICE agents tied to the Renee Good shooting are staying inside.

Crowds are banging on windows,… https://t.co/WSn8yFOJYf pic.twitter.com/SWsjnUdO2j

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 10, 2026

see Trump using the Insurrection act on Minneapolis. This is playing into his hands and he has particular disdain for the state of Minnesota, a democratic party hub and has always voted democratic party for 50years now

Kingsnairaland:
Is it not better to capture the ship than to bomb it

Why capture it. Its better this way and it will increase the shipping cost and insurance for grain ships in the black seas especially those bound for Ukrainian ports.
Capturing non military ships is Pandora box even the US is trying to look for a reasonable excuse for ceasing those tankers.
Just imagine if others starts capturing ships.
The consequences is too much for any state to bear no matter how big or powerful that state.
Unknown and non state actors or private profiteers may be covertly operating for state actors and state seizing ships and this can only happen when there's a complete breakdown of international order. It will be the era of buckaneer again.
Just imagine the mess it will cause. Piracy and a black market for stolen/pirated loot.

Russia so far has refrained from any actions that will undermine international order and so far has only target ships in Ukrainian ports

lightwind:
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France and China are the main sponsorers of TERRORISM in Africa.



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Don't really know about China as we are yet to see serious evidence but you see France, they are the main problem in the Sahel, even far worst than the Americans and the Brits.

I would rather take an American help over a French help.

See all the countries they have helped in west Africa??
Good thing some of this countries are waking up and boothing their as*ses out

And currently what is even going on Benin??

Macron and France one of the main, silent, backdoor sponsors of terrorism in west Africa?

Thank you very much Micronapoleon but Nigeria will be do without your support.

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Kingzjayzee:
See me, see affordable!

It's very affordable if you compare with current market price

Abeg no spoil business for me

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