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Elvictor:
The 11th economy in the world

The 6th GDP PPP in the world

Is a third world country? Are you saying America is a third world country?

I don Laff taya wen I saw the comments, country wey dey control quite percentages of the world’s vital resources, Abi cnn dey show em something we don’t know ni cos I don’t understand. Russsia makes more money selling her resources during the war, more than peace time, they made and still making shitload of money, their economy is heading out of recession, while most western countries economies are getting ready to dive in….. nothing wey musa no go see for gate sha

Bentonite1:
Russia a 3rd world country right now same goes to Ukraine. so who's loosing both

lmao, that na pure and undiluted fallacy

uniquetechng:
There is no country in Europe with 70m population that is poor let alone Russia's 160m population.

Do well to mention a country in Europe with over 100m population thats poor, I am waiting.

which avenue you con open now, my initial statement was that “Most Eastern European countries are poor compared to the Western part of Europe “ which is a statement of fact, I didn’t mention population in my initial post. You was in Russia in 2013, i was in Russia
recently, I visited mostly the Eastern European countries. I mean before the War



Most Eastern European countries are poor compared to the Western part of Europe I stand by my initial statement, pls don’t shift goal post if I want to go deeper I’d have done that in my initially post.

If you response won’t counter the points I made above, there’s no point having this conversation. Have a good morning.

Adios !!!

uniquetechng:
Nothing is power about Russia, I was in that country sometime in 2013, its a very poor country despite their technology and oil.

How do you expect a US president to wish he is in the position of a nation that's poorer than Texas state ?

Most Eastern European countries are poor compared to the West, it’s a no brainer

alcuin:
Sanctions did not work.

Sanctions hurts both parties, which wasn’t their goal…. Nah wetin dem dey call, Sanctions fight back be that

obedience4:
I will check up the Washington post,
To create a false headline is the least anybody can do.
Once I confirmed the Washington editorial I will let ya know

that’s the point it wasn’t a false headline, I don read am yesterday sef, I first read am on a Russian news channel, then I google it, immediately and read the same news on some western news too. I was surprised a mod actually pushed it to FP

obedience4:
Please you have phone abi, just Google the telegraph and see if you would see that article,
Don't just type telegraph and the heading. .
Go to the telegraph website and check, you will see for yourself

no I don’t have a phone, if you doubt the authenticity of Telegraph how about this Washingtonpost

https://www washingtonpost com/national-security/2022/11/05/ukraine-russia-peace-negotiations/

Rest bro, dem only tell am to show willingness, make una Dey read the body of the news wella, not only headlines, dem no tell him to go and negotiate and this was a leak cos na inside talk in the corridors of power. If you know what that means…

obedience4:
Fake fake fake,

says who…. You no check his source Abi, shey that resemble Russia’s propaganda channel.

Nah almost all western media report am…

If na RT or TASS una fit scream propaganda. The truth is that Dems are gonna lose the house, as Republicans are favorites to take over, enthusiasm don Dey decline among the republicans, Americans get dia own problems too, Biden don Dey see the future ni, na why dem still Dey talk am privately… keyword there is private, like say dem dey advice him… show willingness incase shit go sideways at home

Mod push this to frontpage, I’m surprised

gaby:
The U.S, NATO, and EU will take them all in....

Signed,

Yeyeski

they must take em ni o, it’s a must sef

Chelsea will win

A U.S. flag officer talks candidly about the fading U.S. deterrent

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revealed the fading power of America’s military deterrent, a fact that too few of our leaders seem willing to admit in public. So it is encouraging to hear a senior flag officer acknowledge the danger in a way that we hope is the start of a campaign to educate the American public.

This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” Navy Admiral Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said this week at a conference. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested” for “a long time.”

How bad is it? Well, the admiral said, “As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking. It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, as fundamentally they are putting capability in the field faster than we are.” Sinking slowly is hardly a consolation. As “those curves keep going,” it won’t matter “how good our commanders are, or how good our horses are—we’re not going to have enough of them. And that is a very near-term problem.”

Note that modifier “near-term.” This is a more urgent vulnerability than most of the political class cares to recognize.

Adm. Richard noted that America retains an advantage in submarines—“maybe the only true asymmetric advantage we still have”—but even that may erode unless America picks up the pace “getting our maintenance problems fixed, getting new construction going.” Building three Virginia-class fast-attack submarines a year would be a good place to start.

The news last year that China tested a hypersonic missile that flew around the world and landed at home should have raised more alarms than it did. It means China can put any U.S. city or facility at risk and perhaps without being detected. The fact that the test took the U.S. by surprise and that it surpassed America’s hypersonic capabilities makes it worse. How we lost the hypersonic race to China and Russia deserves hearings in Congress.

“We used to know how to move fast, and we have lost the art of that,” the admiral added. The military talks “about how we are going to mitigate our assumed eventual failure” to field new ballistic submarines, bombers or long-range weapons, instead of flipping the question to ask: “What’s it going to take? Is it money? Is it people? Do you need authorities?” That’s “how we got to the Moon by 1969.”

Educating the public about U.S. military weaknesses runs the risk of encouraging adversaries to exploit them. But the greater risk today is slouching ahead in blind complacency until China invades Taiwan or takes some other action that damages U.S. interests or allies because Bejiing thinks the U.S. can do nothing about it.

Source: https://www wsj com/articles/the-big-one-is-coming-china-russia-charles-richard-u-s-military-11667597291

The city is also establishing 1,000 heating centers for its 3 million residents, as Russia pounds away at civilian targets.

KYIV, Ukraine — As they struggle to maintain an electricity grid heavily damaged by Russian missiles, officials in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, say they have begun planning for a once unthinkable possibility: a complete blackout that would require the evacuation of the city’s approximately three million remaining residents.

The situation is already so dire, with 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, that municipal workers are setting up 1,000 heating shelters that can double as bunkers while engineers try to fix bombed-out power stations without the needed equipment.

To try to keep the grid from failing altogether, Ukraine’s national energy utility said on Saturday that it would continue to impose rolling blackouts in seven regions.

The tremendous strain on Ukraine’s ability to provide power is the result of the widespread bombardment by Russian forces of critical energy infrastructure across the country, a tactic that analysts say President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has resorted to as his troops have suffered repeated setbacks on the battlefield.

The damage caused by the Russian strikes has heaped new suffering on Ukraine’s civilians and forced officials to reckon with the possibility that further damage could render them unable to provide basic services.

We understand that if Russia continues such attacks, we may lose our entire electricity system,” Roman Tkachuk, the director of security for the Kyiv municipal government, said in an interview, speaking of the city.

Officials in the capital have been told that they would be likely to have at least 12 hours’ notice that the grid was on the verge of failure. If it reaches that point, Mr. Tkachuk said, “we will start informing people and requesting them to leave.”

For now at least, the situation is manageable, and there were no indications that large numbers of civilians were fleeing Kyiv, he said. But that would change quickly if the services that relied on city power stopped.

“If there’s no power, there will be no water and no sewage,” he said. “That’s why currently the government and city administration are taking all possible measures to protect our power supply system.”

As winter approaches, the city is preparing 1,000 heating shelters that can also protect civilians from Russian missiles. Most are inside educational facilities, but the authorities have asked that their precise locations not be reported lest they become easy targets.


Source: https://www nytimes com/2022/11/05/world/europe/kyiv-ukraine-electricity-russia-infrastructure.html


General Armageddon you do this wan

Kingsnairaland:
Beautiful news Ukraine will be the burial ground for all those who hate Russia.

no cap

He ran from home like the prodigal son to fight Putin, now he’s dead but Putin is still hale and hearty. I don’t know why he didn’t choose to fight on Twitter

lhordspy:
That is what watching too many Hollywood movie and disgesting misleading news from BBC and CNN get someone.

Poor guy probably think ukraine is having it easy like the pro-western media portrays.

Yeah, He want to Tom Cruise, mission impossible. I saw that part too, he said he saw a video where a Russian tank entered a grocery store or something, that’s one of the aftermath of propaganda.
Ukrainians wey dem be agemates sef Dey run from battlefield, na one USA kid Dey hungry for death. You don’t even die for your country, you don’t die for a good cause, meaningless death cos Ukraine is still getting their assssss whopped

Hezzyluv:
He still had options.

when he was first injured, he had option to japa, but e sha wan return to USA in bodybag/Casket …eventually, he got what he bargained for..

All these western assslickers wey Dey disturb us here, suppose be like this lad, make dem go sign up , at least he don confirm for us say you don’t need a military experience. I won’t mention una names, no be to Dey support country with propagandas alone, you fit go battlefield and enjoy Russia’s missiles… you die a hero, and rot in hell if there’s one

Hezzyluv:
To commit suicide been dey hungry the guy.

his wish was finally granted….
He’s chilling with his ancestors right now

lhordspy:
Good riddance to bad rubbish..

he died for nothing, something wey no concern his papa…. He’s not even experienced sef

“Gregg, who had previously studied in Poland and had a friend in Ukraine, told the outlet that he had no military experience, which is a requirement for joining the International Legion. He posited that he was able to join up easily because he arrived when the war was still fresh and disorganized.”

Skyler James Greggs, a 23-year-old from Washington state who was interviewed by The Daily Beast after being injured in the Ukraine war, has died, his father and one of his former commanders have revealed.


Skyler’s father, Steve, and the commander have each confirmed his demise to The Daily Beast. The commander, who didn’t need to embrace his title, advised The Daily Beast that Skyler died “a hero” and that he was “a very brave, big-hearted man.”

The commander wouldn’t say the place Skyler died due to operational safety, and Ukraine’s International Legion hasn’t responded to remark requests from The Daily Beast about his demise.


Another contact within the Ukrainian military, who additionally didn’t need his title printed, advised The Daily Beast that he heard Skyler died in northeastern Ukraine, when troopers from the International Legion got here beneath artillery hearth within the final week of October. Several have been wounded within the assault.

In current months, Ukrainian forces have carried out a counter-offensive within the north-east areas, liberating greater than 300 settlements throughout a fast push in September.

Skyler joined the International Legion in April. Two months later, in June, he was wounded close to Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, when an explosive hit Skyler’s submit close to the frontline.

The Daily Beast met with Skyler in a hospital the place he was recovering from accidents. A complete of 14 fragments had penetrated his physique, together with his proper foot, proper arm, and shoulder.

Despite the accidents, he was decided to return to the frontline.

“The job isn’t finished,” he advised The Daily Beast, “I have not finished what I came to do.”

Skyler advised The Daily Beast this summer time that he determined to be a part of the International Legion after seeing the photographs of Russia coming into Ukraine and being shocked by Russia’s atrocities.


The International Legion in Ukraine consists of foreigners and operates beneath the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It is unclear what number of Americans are at the moment combating in Ukraine.

Source: https://www pehalnews in/american-who-snuck-out-of-dads-house-to-fight-putin-is-dead/2608911/


https://nypost com/2022/11/04/ american-who-snuck-out-of-house-to-fight-russia-has-died/amp/

https://www independent co uk/news/world/americas/ american-man-dies-ukraine-war-b2218104.html?amp

Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues

By Alex Marquardt and Sean Lyngaas, CNN
Updated 1:06 PM EDT, Fri November 04, 2022

Washington(CNN) Ukraine's fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military's satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage.

The small, easy-to-use satellite dishes made by Musk's private rocket company SpaceX have been universally hailed as a game-changing source of communication for Ukraine's military, allowing it to fight and stay online even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia. 

But concerns have risen recently over the dependability of SpaceX after discussions about funding were revealed and outages were reported near the frontlines. 


CNN first reported that SpaceX sent a letter in September to the Pentagon claiming it had spent almost $100 million funding Starlink in Ukraine and that it could no longer continue to do so. The letter requested that the Defense Department  take over more of the funding  for Ukraine's military, which it calculated would run tens of millions of dollars a month. 

Days after the CNN report, Musk appeared to reverse course, claiming that SpaceX had withdrawn the request. 

The hell with it," Musk tweeted, "we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free."

Negotiations between SpaceX and the Defense Department continue despite Musk's claim that SpaceX withdrepw its request, according to a senior defense official.

"Negotiations are very much underway. Everyone in our building knows we're going to pay them," the senior Pentagon official told CNN, adding that the department is eager to have commitments in writing "because we worry he'll change his mind."


On Wednesday, Musk attended a ceremony for US Space Force which also included Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Musk has also been embroiled in his high-profile and controversial takeover of Twitter.

Neither Musk nor SpaceX responded to a request for comment. The Ukrainian government, including the Ministry of Defense, did not immediately respond.

The recent outage started on October 24 and was described by one person briefed on the situation as a "huge problem" for Ukraine's military. The terminals had been disconnected, this person said, due to a lack of funding.  

The outage affected a block of 1,300 terminals that Ukraine purchased from a British company in March and were used for combat-related operations. 

SpaceX was charging Ukraine's military $2,500 a month to keep each of the 1,300 units connected, pushing the total cost to almost $20 million by September, the person briefed on the matter said. Eventually, they could no longer afford to pay, the person said.

Source: https://amp cnn com/cnn/2022/11/04/politics/spacex-ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-internet-outage/index.html

greenermodels:
So who is suffering the effects of the sanctions,NATO or Russia? These sanctions would only open new markets for Asian factories in places like India, China, Pakistan etc who would take over the customers of these European companies by offering similar products at lower prices.

BOTH but that wasn’t their goal, sanctions bite back cos Russia’s different from other countries that have been sanctioned… Rusian isn’t their mate, Russia na dia PAPA

DaddyCK:
bro but if u enjoy only men playin football.....dont u thinl thats GAY juss watchin men running up n down like rabbit? (no oofeinse)

shey you be GAYY ni? I’m not homophobic tho, you can’t live here and be homophobic, I just look away and mind my business, I no kuku fine like that, so nobody go toast me.

Confrontation with Ukraine's 'Nazis' was inevitable, Putin says

Russia's confrontation with the "neo Nazi regime" in Kyiv was inevitable, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Speaking to crowds in Moscow as he marked the country's National Unity Day today, Mr Putin appeared to repeat the rhetoric he has used before and said Western powers were trying to carve an "anti-Russian" sentiment in Ukraine.

He went on to say that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Western powers had begun to "meddle" with Ukraine and Russia, adding: "We will defend our fatherland”

The Russian president has been taking part in celebrations marking his country's Unity Day, which commemorates the popular uprising leading to the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian forces in 1612.

Mr Putin, dressed in black, laid flowers at a monument to uprising leaders Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky on Red Square.

This year, the Russian authorities are using the holiday to promote the (illegal) annexation of four Ukrainian territories.

“He’s sick, he get cancer, e be doppelgänger yen yen yen…. See how baba fresh, western nemesis ” -OP


Source: Skynews

Nah Western countries dem dey talk to, I hope they listen sha, cos dem too get wella….

Fkmodhi:
Peter OBI and Donald Trump coming by God grace...

DT is definitely coming, but make we fest collect congress na the mission for now be that…. #RedWAVE

Netanyahu Is back

North Korea launched an unprecedented 20 missiles in a single day on Wednesday

The U.S. and South Korea issued a joint warning to North Korea on Thursday, warning that any use of nuclear weapons would result in the end of Kim Jong Un's regime.

North Korea fired an unprecedented 20 missiles in a single day on Wednesday amid extensive joint air force exercises between the U.S. and South Korea. Kim's regime has made veiled threats about nuclear weapons in recent days as well.

"Any nuclear attack against the United States or its Allies and partners, including the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, is unacceptable and will result in the end of the Kim regime," Austin wrote, according to Politico.

The U.S. and South Korean militaries announced an extension to a joint air force exercise earlier on Thursday. The move came in response to North Korea an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and two short-range missiles after Wednesday's barrage

South Korean media reported that officials believe the North's ICBM failed in flight but did not elaborate. Meanwhile, North Korea's two short-range ballistic missiles fell into the sea to its east. Japan initially sounded alarms after tracking suggested the ICBM would fly over the island nation, but officials later said they lost track of it mid-flight, according to Reuters.

North Korea has grown increasingly aggressive since the U.S. and South Korea began joint military exercises in September. The country also flew 12 warplanes near the South Korean border in early October. The sortie included eight fighter jets and four bombers. South Korea responded with a flight of 30 warplanes, but the two groups did not engage.

The U.S. and South Korea's joint air force exercise, Operation Vigilant Storm, was scheduled to end Friday but will now extend into the weekend following North Korea's launches

The exercise sees allied fighter jets and bombers conducting simulated attacks across South Korea 24 hours a day.

South Korea had a failed missile launch of its own in October. The malfunction came as the U.S., South Korea and Japan were seeking to send a message to the North Korean regime after it sent its own ballistic missile flying over the island of Japan. U.S. military officials clarified that the warhead on South Korea's missile did not explode, but the propellant caused a large blast and flames.

Source: https://www foxnews com/world/us-south-korea-threaten-end-kim-regime-north-korea-uses-nuclear-weapon

Mynd44 Seun Lalasticala Mukina2 Nlfpmod frontpage

seunny4lif:
CIA have hand of this for sure, everyone that is following international news from Pakistan will know that.

Absolutely!!!!