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plaindealer:
I do know about the Spam Bot issues, I run into the same problem all the time.

NL is the most hostile and counter productive website to navigate on the internet, but always post your source regardless

Yes I do most times when I’m reporting from western sources, if na from Russian news sources, I only type “Rtnews” , if I attach link sometimes I get 24hrs ban and the topic will be deleted, since then I no dey stress myself to include the source again .

Tbh, I don’t know you guys on the other side experience something similar.

I have no personal interest, I’m sharing news here so ppl can hear from both parties, that’s all.

yes cos of antispam bot….if you wan know why ask Seun… Who tell you say I dey fear quote my source…. I Dey report news from every source, west and east….I no Dey get paid, just doing my thing no time….

Next….

texazzpete:
Imagine citing New York Post as evidence.

I don’t blame you sha. You no too dey exposed like that.

Were you expecting him to cite RT or Sputniknews, so you can call it propaganda, it’s New York Post, not Moscow Post. The news shock you abi…..

Beijing is challenging European security and values, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says

European nations need to join forces with the US to help it face the growing challenge to the existing world order posed by China, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told journalists via a video link on Thursday. Countering Beijing’s influence is important for preserving, what she called, the European way of life, the official claimed.

Earlier, Washington called China the only nation that has both the will and ability to reshape the world order and threaten Western nations’ “shared vision” of the future. Sherman now says China was a threat to Western values long before it supposedly aligned itself with Russia, which currently dominates the headlines in the West due to Moscow’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine.

“Even before President Xi [Jinping] and President [Vladimir] Putin declared their ‘no limits’ partnership in February, the PRC [People’s Republic of China] has challenged Europe’s security, Europe’s economy and Europe’s values,” Sherman told journalists in Washington, DC



While Beijing may be thousands of miles away... the PRC’s actions matter just as much for the future of Europe,” she said, adding that Washington does not seek a new cold war with Beijing.



While the US does not plan to “sever [its] economy from the PRC,” Washington cannot simply “rely on Beijing to change its behavior,” Sherman continued, while calling on European nations to align their approaches with Washington, primarily on issues such as supply chains.

Her words come one week after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order – and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do it.”

Blinken warned that Beijing’s idea of the future “would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years,” adding that US President Joe Biden “believes this decade will be decisive” in the standoff between Washington and Beijing.


He also said the US seeks to “shape the strategic environment around Beijing to advance our vision for an open and inclusive international system.” America has been rallying support among Pacific nations and Western allies amid heightened tensions with China, which have been on the rise due to issues surrounding Taiwan.

China considers the island nation to be part of its sovereign territory under the One-China policy. The nation of 23.5 million people, which has been self-governed since 1949, never formally declared independence from China.

Officials in the US, which maintains strong unofficial ties with Taipei and sells weapons to Taiwan, have repeatedly claimed Beijing is closely monitoring the Russian military operation in Ukraine, with a view to potentially launching a similar offensive against Taiwan. Chinese officials have said they would prefer a peaceful ‘reunification’, but have also warned Washington not to underestimate the ‘resolve’ of the Chinese people in case of a conflict.


USA always looking for enemies, peace no dey inside their dictionary - OP

Maybe na his papa give am money wey e take buy am…

Nah another Twitter fabu

Oti gbe mi debe, make I drop here

Ok

Judolisco:
Russia is only conducting a military exercise... If Na full blown war Ukraine for Don surrender since

if na full scale war, there will be nothing left for Ukraine to rebuild

bigpicture001:
Sky news is Russia media..?

Lol, Almighty Uk media nah the junior brother of BBC … I go mention you later when I get the link, I Dey busy now

This is New York post
Below is Forbes
France24

Discombulator:
Check this out.
They are accepting reality slowly

na so bro, I forget to upload the image I have it here too… thanks for sharing jare

seunny4lif:
Killing him at any point makes no sense
USA or NATO did not kill Gadaffi, I was in Libya then, they hit his convoy but it was Libyans that killed Gadaffi with Gadaffi golden gun.

lol bro, wetin you Dey do in Libya, I actually follow the news then too, he was killed by the insurgents with the help of nato firepower, e be like yesterday, Gaddafi was no saint but USA/nato had no rights to invade his country

bigpicture001:
This. News was dishes out by Russia media..?

Abeg grow sense

you can verify the interview on YouTube it’s all over the news, even Skynews published it

morikee:
20% is no play o considering how big Ukraine is

that’s the size of UK, I stand to be corrected

seankafor:
anyday a Ukrainian stone touches Russia

That day Ukraine will be erased from world map

Gbam!!!!

Mynd44:
Really? I refuse to believe, Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing

lol bro, I still never forgive you for knacking me one-month ban o

lecowas:
Calm down na, we are not fighting . China only cares about herself and no one else. Anything can happen, that's life

im not fighting with you either, I Dey clarify ni

lecowas:
Lol... U will find better non bias news on the Asian media outlets. I'm not u reading Russian Times always. What u read are "opinions" and not what is happening.

Never knew u modified ur post, u will soon get the full gist. Lol

thats the full news from your favorite western media, as I said earlier na only headlines you read….

Excerpts- “ China’s air regulator asked all foreign carriers last month to update ownership information and other details, RBK said, citing two unidentified sources. It said Russian airlines that couldn’t provide documents showing their aircraft were “de-registered abroad” were barred from Chinese airspace. Abcnews

I hope that’s self explanatory enough Abi you want me to expatiate for you

lecowas:
Lol... U will find better non bias news on the Asian media outlets. I'm not u reading Russian Times always. What u read are "opinions" and not what is happening.

Never knew u modified ur post, u will soon get the full gist. Lol

even Abcnews got the news from Russian media lmao

lecowas:
Lol... U will find better non bias news on the Asian media outlets. I'm not u reading Russian Times always. What u read are "opinions" and not what is happening.

Never knew u modified ur post, u will soon get the full gist. Lol

I modified cos I fest ask you for your source, then I decided to do a little google search myself.

The news source i quoted isn’t related to Russia.
I read all news source, that’s how you can spot fake news. You can simply create your threads with your full gists…that’s none of my business, next time if you wan report news on my thread, don’t copy the headlines only…. If you think China go turn against Russia, then you have zero clue about international politics

lecowas:
Lol... China has ban all Russian airbuses and Boeings from its airspace due to maintenance and safety concerns. U think one tree can ever make a forest?

Modified: China’s civil aviation authority banned Monday all of Russia’s Airbuses and Boeings from entering Chinese airspace — planes that were stolen from international lessors shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine back in February

Apparently, you failed to report the whole news, you only picked the headlines

Western media outlets, once cheerleaders for Kiev, are increasingly warning sanctions are failing and Ukraine needs to make peace


Even as the collective West continues to insist – against all observable reality – that the conflict in Ukraine is going well for Kiev, major media outlets are becoming increasingly uneasy with the situation on the economic front. More and more observers are admitting that the embargoes imposed by the US and its allies aren’t crushing the Russian economy, as originally intended, but rather their own.

Meanwhile, major publications have begun to report on the actual situation on the frontlines, rather than uncritically quoting myths like the ‘Ghost of Kiev’ or ‘Snake Island 13’ propagated by Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, as they did early on. There have even been hints, however timid, that the West should perhaps stop unconditionally supporting Kiev and promote a negotiated peace instead.

“Russia is winning the economic war,” the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott declared on Thursday. “It is now three months since the west launched its economic war against Russia, and it is not going according to plan. On the contrary, things are going very badly indeed,” he wrote.

Elliott actually argues that the recent US announcement of sending rocket launchers to Ukraine is proof that sanctions are not working: “The hope is that modern military technology from the US will achieve what energy bans and the seizure of Russian assets have so far failed to do: force [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to withdraw his troops.”



In a May 30 essay, Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins also said that the embargo had failed to force a Russian withdrawal, but argued the EU should “stick to helping Ukraine’s war effort” instead, while withdrawing the sanctions because they are “self-defeating and senselessly cruel.”

As Jenkins points out, the sanctions have actually raised the price of Russian exports such as oil and grain – thus enriching, rather than impoverishing, Moscow while leaving Europeans short of gas and Africans running out of food.[b]

[b]Note that Jenkins is wrong about the supposed effectiveness of Western weapons, given that Russian and Donbass troops have won a series of victories over the past month – from Popasnaya to Liman. On May 26, the Washington Post of all places published a shockingly frank account of how one Ukrainian unit lost more than half its strength near Severodonetsk and retreated to the rear. Its commanders actually got arrested for treason after speaking to the US outlet.

This reality couldn’t be ignored by even the Telegraph’s defense editor, Con Coughlin, who’s become somewhat of a meme for prophesying Russian defeat on a weekly basis. He is now saying Moscow might pull off a “shock triumph” – albeit in service of his argument that Kiev needs even more weapons.


The collective West’s failure to break Russia was apparent even to The Economist, not exactly a publication sympathetic to Moscow. The newspaper reluctantly admitted a month ago that the Russian economy had bounced back from the initial sanctions shock. Meanwhile, it’s the West that has to deal with energy shortages, spiraling costs of living, and record inflation. It’s Americans, not Russians, who can’t find baby formula in stores and can’t afford gas.

Perhaps that’s why this “spring of discontent” with the Western sanctions policy hasn’t been confined to the European side of the Atlantic. On Tuesday, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Christopher Caldwell in which he criticized the Biden administration for “closing off avenues of negotiation and working to intensify the war” by sending more and more weapons to Kiev.

“The United States is trying to maintain the fiction that arming one’s allies is not the same thing as participating in combat,” Caldwell wrote, pointing out that this distinction is getting “more and more artificial” in the information age. A day later, the head of the US Cyber Command admitted to conducting offensive operations against Russia on Ukraine’s behalf.


The US has “given Ukrainians cause to believe they can prevail in a war of escalation,” Caldwell wrote, which is why Kiev isn’t eager to make peace. Indeed, when none other than Henry Kissinger tried to argue in Davos for settling the conflict quickly, Zelensky’s office cursed him out. He was soon designated an enemy of the Ukrainian state.

There have been calls for an off-ramp to the war even earlier – though few and far between, and lost amid the ongoing cacophony of media cheerleading for Kiev. Back on May 18, the usually hawkish Charles Kupchan of the Council of Foreign Relations advised Ukraine in the pages of The Atlantic to “take the W,” so to speak.

“Russia has already been dealt a decisive strategic defeat,” he wrote. “For NATO and Ukraine alike, strategic prudence argues in favor of pocketing these successes rather than pressing the fight and running the tantamount risks.” NATO, Kupchan added, should advise the Ukrainian government on how to end the bloodshed, and soon.

The very next day, the New York Times’ editorial board echoed his argument, saying a decisive Ukrainian victory over Russia was “not a realistic goal” and that US President Joe Biden should tell Zelensky that there is a limit to which the US will go.

“It is imperative that the Ukrainian government’s decisions be based on a realistic assessment of its means and how much more destruction Ukraine can sustain,” they wrote.


Judging by the official statements coming from both the White House and Kiev, however, the conversation Kupchan and the NYT advised never took place. Instead, the US continues to give Ukraine a blank check, of the kind Germany offered to Austria-Hungary in 1914.

Speaking of First World War analogies, a senior political scientist at the RAND corporation – a think-tank advising the Pentagon – made one in Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. According to Samuel Charap, the creation of Belgium as a neutral state by its neighbors was to everyone’s benefit for almost a century, with Britain willing to fight Germany in 1914 to preserve it. The neutrality arrangement proposed at the talks in Istanbul in late March could provide Ukraine with the same thing, he said.

Too bad, then, that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had personally intervened to scuttle those talks back in April, telling the Ukrainians that if they wanted to make a deal with Moscow, the collective West did not.


Nebojsa Malic

Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.

@NebojsaMalic Twitter
@TheNebulator


Front page pls Seun lalasticlala mynd44 Mukina2 justwise

Angelfrost:
A lot of you type these on social media, yet live, work, and conduct business in states that are well policed by these same law enforcement agents...

Many of you can never live or do business in your own states even if your governors give you incentives.

That's why you can afford to stay in Kano, Lagos, Ogun, Abuja, Asaba, etc, and say what you like on social media.

no Dey jump, check my profile I don’t live in naija…. My reasons are personal, if you be police sorry na your case , I don’t give a flying fvck …. Stay off my mention pls

Nice one

Zero pity for Nigerian police oooo

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a letter congratulating the Queen as the UK began a four-day celebration marking her 70 years on the throne.
North Korea's Foreign Ministry said on its website that Mr Kim sent a letter congratulating the Queen and the British people.

North Korea and Britain established diplomatic relations in 2000 and have maintained embassies in each other's capitals despite a steady decline in bilateral ties.

North Korea's relations with the West have worsened in recent years as it accelerated its nuclear weapons and missile development in a push to acquire an arsenal that could threaten the United States and its allies in Asia.

North Korea has criticised Britain in recent years for supporting international sanctions against the country over its nuclear ambitions and human rights record, and for participating in a new US-led alliance to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines.

USA na trouble-monger… Uk leaders sef na puppets. Every great dynasty in history crumbles eventually, but I think USA will implode laslas- OP

DaddyFabooluz:
Russia is quite very big.

huge sef

He sabi say e no fit win….

Helsinki wasn’t ready for such complications on its way to becoming a member of the US-led bloc, its top diplomat admitted


Opposition from Turkey has turned the process of joining NATO into “purgatory” for Finland, the country's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto complained on Wednesday.

With bids by Helsinki and neighboring Sweden stalled for two weeks now, Haavisto expressed hope that an announcement on the enlargement of the US-led military bloc could still be made at its scheduled summit in Madrid in late June.

The possibility of Helsinki and Stockholm joining NATO by the end of 2022 remained, but a scenario in which the process dragged on also couldn’t be ruled out, he told reporters.

Due to the stance of the Turkish authorities, Finland has found itself in “a sort of a purgatory, which we weren’t prepared for in this form,” Haavisto acknowledged.

Finland and Sweden, who stayed out of NATO during the Cold War, decided to join the bloc in the wake of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The Nordic nations filed their applications in mid-May and hoped for a swift accession, after being backed by the US and most other members.


But Ankara suddenly said that it could block the Finnish and Swedish bids, accusing the two countries of being “guesthouses for terrorist organizations” due to them hosting members of Kurdish groups that have been outlawed in Turkey.

The Croatian president also declared that Zagreb should obstruct their applications unless the bloc addressed the alleged legal persecution of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A consensus from all NATO states is needed to add a new member to the alliance.

The Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now wants Helsinki and Stockholm to clamp down on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and other groups it considers ‘terrorist’, as well as deport some suspects to Ankara. Its other demand is for Sweden and Finland to lift restrictions on arms trade with Turkey.


The talks between the sides have so far been fruitless, with Haavisto saying during a press-conference on Wednesday that “together with Sweden we will do our homework and prepare for the questions Turkey has.”

“Now, we need strong nerves and perseverance” to continue looking for ways to overcome the deadlock, the Finnish FM insisted.

The West will not be able to buy cheap Russian crude, contrary to what the US leader seems to believe, Moscow says

Moscow will not sell oil without making a profit, so the idea of the US snatching it up at a discount after the EU banned almost all imports from Russia is far-fetched, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

He was responding to remarks made by US President Joe Biden, who while discussing his administration’s attempts to bring gas prices down, suggested on Wednesday that due to the EU oil embargo, Russia would be forced to offer its oil to foreign buyers at a huge discount.

“There’d be an overwhelming need for the Russians to sell it, and it would be sold at a significantly lower price than the market is generating now,” Biden said.


Peskov said this is not likely to happen because global oil market forces would act against it.

“Certainly, Russia will not sell anything without a profit. The demand may fall in one place and rise elsewhere. The supply chains will reorientate as parties seek best conditions for trade,” he said.

The EU agreed this week to cut most imports of Russian oil, with 75% of the trade to be stopped immediately, and 90% by the end of the year, according to the bloc’s leadership. The US banned all imports of hydrocarbons from Russia in early March.

Russian oil producers have redirected their supplies to Asian markets such as India. They are reportedly offering generous discounts to market prices for crude, which have been going up since mid-2020.


Rt news

Oh yeah

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VOICEofORIENTAL:
So if you are the EU, what would you do?

You will just fold your hands & watch Russia & China annex Ukraine?

If you are in a fight & you are not ready to take/endure blows from your opponent then you don't have bussiness being in the fight.

The EU & US are fighting against a prepared Russia.Russia said they had been preparing for this Western sanctions since 2014.

Nevertheless,no matter how many years you may have prepared for a war,it will be difficult for you to defeat over 30 countries against you.

As for both sides,none of them is enjoying the war..none of them knows exactly how the war would end...both sides are feeling the impact of the war.

But Russia will suffer more after the suffering they are subjecting Ukrainians at the moment

sentiments no follow in international politics, at the end of the day life goes on, same way Usa didn’t suffer after invading and destroying Libya, Afghan just to mention few. Nothing go happen, na Ukraine be the loser here, make we Dey see how the thing Dey go…

ken6488:
No more javalins

Russia was hesitating at the begining beleving on a quick victory

Seeing ukrane with javlins this has changed

Back to the traditional style

yes ooo, slow and steadily gaining more grounds, dem don shell Kyiv and Lviv not long ago

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