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Totiemide:
My aunt came to stay with us back then.

She's the type that has low tolerance for spicy food but when she got knocked up, Oh! Her hate for spicy food became love.

You can't eat out of her food cuz you ll either end up drowning yourself wit too much water or open your mouth for air to enter.

If she takes pap, she adds pepper. Sometimes habanero or grounded pepper.

Then later change to longer throat. She stops eating our own food but food made by someone else like 3 flat before our own.

When she gave birth ehn, we're all relieved.
Come to think of it, the baby boy now eats pepper like kilode now.

pepper dem gang

Sweetplum:
When I get pregnant, I dunno if I ll crave for more water cos I love water

come zululand make I pump you

Naija politics sha….

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Leave them.

The 30 shekels of silver they are paid to shill for Judas they don't know they will use to buy their potters field.

I only come here to see what level of ignorance and foolishness they are peddling for their Jewish paymasters .

it’s nauseating

RevDesm0ndJuju:
We keep blaming our useless politicians for selling us out but the likes of Seun and Linda Ikeji are making bank censoring and pushing kosher brand propaganda .

When I say Nigeria is the most jewed nation on earth , this is what I mean.

Only Reuters approved narrative gets to be peddled by Linda and Seun.

Covid 19 made this painfully obvious that Nairaland is a highly compromised forum that is controlled by foreign interests.

bro this Russia saga make am clear to everyone, usernames wey Dey support putin get banned indiscriminately, I mean for no reason, that igborat keep posting unverified news here and mod Dey push am to FP, after I don call am out say na fake news. Nah complete waste of time trying to persuade em. Mynd gave my main moniker a month ban, my 3 other alt got 7 days ban. Some folks on one of my threads Dey complain say dem dey chop ban. There should be freedom of speech, nah ppl like em Dey complain wen bubu ban Twitter. Nah their Wahala sha, this place no be real life, nothing wey dem do here fit change anything about Ukraine’s reality.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Poland and Belarus are waiting for the cadaver of what is left of Ukraine after Russia completes the annexation of the eastern parts to squabble over on.

Ukraine is finished as a nation state.

You’re right bro, dem go share am like national cake

RevDesm0ndJuju:
They are not Nazis

How do you expect real Nazis to fight and die for Jewish oligarchs?

Even the ADL gave Azov a kosher certificate .

Azov was an elaborate pych ops to get western neo Nazis to go fight Russia.

Only the most daft skin head answered the call to go die for the Khazar mafiya.

Azov was formed by a Jew and its commander is a dual Ukrainian and Israeli citizen. Which kind fake Nazis is that?

Putin knows they are fake but he is calling them Nazis since the west has a deep hatred for Nazis .

Brilliant!

Well, I learn something new tonight. Thanks for the insight

By the time Putin is done with Ukraine….West won’t know wetin hit em

Kastonkastroll:
sorry but how old are you. Because you always come across like a kid with your comments.

isn’t it obvious that he’s a kid…..don’t be surprised na one 18 years old teenager you Dey follow chat

In another news some ukroops dogs were reunited with their ancestors

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Mod won’t move this to front page, they only care about Russian losses , like say na Russia steal una commonwealth. Keep doing your thing OP. I Dey feel you.

Death all Nazis and their apologists

God bless you OP
God bless President Putin
God bless mother Russia
Of course, God bless me too

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RevDesm0ndJuju:
Wrong.

The Russian economy depends largely on commodities that they have a near monopoly of and to which the rest of the world needs.

Their other major exports are military hardware which they have zero competition in terms of pricing since Russian military tech is low on prices and very cheap to maintain and operate. They only barrier to Russian military exports are the US and UK who mount diplomatic and economic pressure on intending buyers to boycott Russian armament.

That said, the Russian economy is purely a commodity based economy which is far stable even with sanctions than a liquidity based economy like that of the US.

By thinking cutting Russia from international trade via SWIFT and also seizing Russian foreign reserves held in western banks, the idiots in the US, UK and EU did not know they shot themselves on the foot .

Russia simply left the worthless fiat dollars for them and turned to key allies notably China and India.

These two nations account for 30℅ of the earth's population and they will be needing Russian gas, oil, arms and wheat.

So as long as they comply with the Russian govts demand to pay for Russian commodities in Rubles, there will be demand for same rubles.

Also consider that Russia has pegged their currency to gold. So if in future the Russians decide to sell one barrel of oil for 1gram of gold, both gold and Ruble will skyrocket .

With gold going up, the US fiat dollar is dead and buried as the US has no gold anymore (the Jews have since moved all US gold reserves to Israel to be housed in their third temple).

The US never thought this through that Russia will be pressured economically to withdraw from Ukraine over the worthless paper dollars they had in western banks.

The world needs Russia and not the other way round.

What you are seeing with the Ruble is Russia asserting her sovereignty as one of the key features of a sovereign state is to have control of their own currency which they now have.

Its the end of the paper dollar and it signals the demise of Pax America.

The only thing to ask is if the US will activate the Samson option and take the entire world down with them.

I like intelligent folks. Your knowledge will not dry bro

I trust Chelsea sha, dem go decimate those mumu Liverpool this weekend, I can’t wait sha… make all of una looserfools fans no come online o. The banter will be brutal here.
Dem go collect wotowoto

Update that scores asap

olas24u:
Good analysis in the laymans language. 3 gbosa from Japan.

kindly share your professional view, it’s an open ground

rottennaija:
ok

bro are you planning to shalaye to him? Even the news dey all western tabloids….

Selective sympathy, selective concerns, selective reactions. Welcome to the West. If this happened in Ukraine, you go don see meltdowns on every western media outlets, they’ll be screaming war crimes and be calling for Putin’s head…. Alas, but it’s cool if Isreal kill an unarmed journalist doing her job, no one will sanction Isreal. See someone up there don Dey call this propaganda, when did AJ start spreading propaganda.

We live in the world of double standards. West and hypocrisy nah 5&6. I’m not in anyway using this to justify Putin’s war. I just Dey react based on this news. In the next 2/3 days you no go hear about am again.

Wake me up when e reach FP

sanpipita:
Are you sure?

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-zelensky-a-nato-membership-would-have-prevented-the-war-2966345

Ok

sanpipita:
I wasn't asking if NATO was on the table, my question is should Russia annex Ukraine, won't it bring them closer to NATO thought they want to avoid it?

I already answer your questions. They will never attract or smell Nato, annexed or not…nato is off the table. It’s the reality they had to learn the hard way. When last did you hear Zelenski talk about NATO .

Whenever you see my thread, run!!!!
Don’t ever comment on my thread here on nairaland, nah last warning I gave you like that

sanpipita:
Can someone explain this to me, should Russia annex Ukraine won't that bring them closed to NATO? what exactly are they doing all this for? biggest strategic blunder in history

anything Nato isn’t on the table for Ukraine, not now not never. However, EU membership is feasible and russia seems to have no problems with that. I’m just waiting to know, how Kremlin will respond when Finland and Sweden confirms their membership in the coming days.

The only blunder in history here, is Zelenski that lead his country into war with a superpower country. Of course na russia invade Ukraine, but the build up no be today na unfinished scores from 2014, dem still Dey settle till date. As it stands, no matter how long this war lasts, Russia will achieve its objectives, that only means one thing, Ukraine go resemble Syria.

I don’t know if russia is planning to seize Odessa too, but if it’s successful Ukraine will be landlocked like Hungary.

I don’t see any windows for diplomacy anytime soon, russia ain’t strangers to longer wars, go ask nato&usa in Syria, Putin dealt with em, na why Assad still Dey alive today. Make we Dey observe things Dey go sha.

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jrusky:
Here we go again? Answer the question I posted to you, simple.

you didn’t ask no question, if you need answers google is your friend. Please quoting moniker, I’m trying to stay out of trouble. Bye

olas24u:
They are Russian speaking people

living in Australia?

donbrowser:
You did not notice your "likes per post" are reducing

hilarous….. Will likes feed me? You sound like a teenager…… likes won’t stop demolition of Ukraine. You Dey make me laugh abeg free me. I’m staying out of trouble I no wan chop ban. I only post about reality I don’t care about sentiments or fantasies….

jrusky:
One question I want to ask you is have you even been or live to Russia anytime in your life? If yes then I have more questions to ask you to establish if truly you are saying the truth or not but if you have never been or live in Russia Mr just shut up. Ok.

How old are you? Kiddo. Face your studies, leave trash for lawma

Russia is introducing its own currency, media and internet services into parts of Ukraine its army has occupied - especially the southern city of Kherson.


Ukraine says Russia may be planning to hold a referendum in the city - to see whether its inhabitants want to set up a pro-Russian breakaway "people's republic" - but the vote will be illegal and a sham.


Why is Russia concentrating on Kherson?

Russian forces occupied Kherson in early March - one week after the invasion of Ukraine began. It was the first major city to fall. Before the invasion, it had a population of 290,000. But, according to its former mayor, some 40% of residents have since fled the city.

If Russia aims to take southern Ukraine and establish a land bridge to Crimea, Kherson, at the mouth of the Dnieper River, on the Black Sea coast, will be key, the UK Ministry of Defence says.


What changes has Russia made in Kherson?

Russian military authorities dismissed Kherson's elected mayor from his post. Ihor Kolykhaiev had "not been cooperating" with occupying forces, Russian state news agency Ria said.

In his place, a pro-Russian administration for the city and surrounding region has been installed. Access to Ukrainian television channels has been blocked and internet service providers replaced with Russian ones. Kherson's residents have been urged to listen to pro-Russian radio stations for their news.

Ukraine says Russia's goal is to "make their false propaganda an uncontested source of information"


The new regional government is also phasing out Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, and introducing the Russian rouble.

The four-month transition started on 1 May, with the authorities banning deliveries of Ukrainian money to banks.

Kherson residents have told BBC News the military authorities have started paying people's pensions in roubles.

But many are trying to find small ways to defy the Russian forces, including exchanging any roubles they receive back into hryvnia.


Does Russia plan to hold a referendum?

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned residents Russia aims to hold a "so-called referendum" in the Kherson region, on breaking from Ukraine and becoming a "people's republic".

He has advised people not to give the Russian authorities any personal data, such as passport numbers, as they might be used to falsify votes.

The UK Ministry of Defence said, in an intelligence update in April, a referendum would be a way for Russia to justify its occupation of Ukraine.

But Mr Kolykhaiev said it would be illegal since Kherson officially remains part of Ukraine. And President Zelensky has said it fits in with Russia's plans of breaking Ukraine apart by creating "pseudo-republics" throughout the country.
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[b]How has Russia changed life in Ukraine's breakaway regions?

Russia's treatment of Kherson has followed the same pattern as its approach in Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, after a referendum declared invalid by the United Nations General Assembly.

It built a bridge between Crimea and southern Russia and moved in weapons, introduced the rouble and phased out the hryvnia.

And pro-Russian media is now dominant in the peninsula.

But the situation in Kherson is even closer to that in two regions of eastern Ukraine seized by Russian proxy forces shortly after Crimea was annexed.

The puppet leaders in the east created so-called people's republics, in Luhansk and Donetsk, where they also use the rouble and have given the population Russian passports.

Russia pays pensions and government salaries there.
In the schools, children are taught to a Russian curriculum.

And Ukraine complained to Moscow of the "Russification" of eastern Ukraine.


https://www bbc com/news/world-61338617

Felimax:
Almost a similar approach that is causing the unrest in Ukraine, though that is NATO.

On this one the US will certainly have no partner.

Usa na instigator dem Dey always look new enemies, I guess dem wan sell new ammunitions to Asia ….

As Sweden and Finland consider whether to apply for NATO membership in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a Swedish organisation has warned the move could "increase the risk of war in the nation". Gabriella Irsten, from the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, told Sky News there would be a "big risk" if Sweden joined the defence alliance, adding: "I don't think that's wise at all.

" She went on to say the move would make the country "more unsafe" and "hinder Sweden's history and role in pushing for peace and disarmament".

"We feel that joining NATO would be a step too far," she said. "We're preparing for war and not trying to stop it. We still have a chance to stop Russia invading other countries like Finland and Sweden and instead of preparing for war we think we should hinder that."
Sweden and Finland are in the process of deciding whether to apply for NATO membership amid Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, with both countries expected to make their decisions this month


https://news sky com/story/ukraine- news-live-russian-air-defences-struck-by-bayraktar-drones-in-battle-for-snake-island-12541713

VOICEofORIENTAL:
Ok wish you success in your life endeavors

i wish you the same …

What was supposed to be a satirical headline is actually just an instance of saying the quiet part out loud

A satirical impression of a headline in the ‘Foreign Policy’ magazine, authored by one Raymond L. Bloodthirst Jr., began circulating around the internet recently. It read as follows: ‘We’re Having Trouble Finding Asian Countries Willing to Shoot Missiles at China.’ The subheading then lambasted China’s neighbors for not being “democratic enough” to potentially sacrifice thousands of lives in this endeavor.

It’s very clearly fake, although some people who shared it didn’t examine it too closely and believed it was real – and one journalist on the “disinformation” beat, who apparently works for Voice of America, made a Twitter thread about the post. Well, it may be hard to really blame users who circulated the satirical headline since it is, at least in part, based in reality.

As it turns out, a recent article by the decidedly non-satirical RAND Corporation, a highly influential American nonprofit global policy think tank, had the exact same take as the satirical headline. RAND wrote on Twitter about its report: “A U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific that relies on an ally agreeing to permanently host ground-based intermediate-range missiles risks failing because of an inability to find a willing partner.”


The section of the report outlining the key findings goes on to list US allies in the region, such as Thailand, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Australia, and discuss how each of them would be reluctant to accept US GBIRMs – either because of “historical” reluctance or opposition from China. It does, however, suggest that “the most likely strategy to succeed would be helping Japan develop an arsenal of ground-based, anti-ship missile capabilities.” This would be the first step in getting Japan to accept GBIRMs, it says.

It appears that the satire was not too far off the mark. Indeed, what it succeeded in doing was critique RAND’s position by bringing the unsaid to the fore, which is the mark of good satire. It invites us to ridicule this position because of how patently absurd it is. Yes, the idea of the US placing intermediate-range missiles in China’s neighborhood is ridiculous, and when you mention the logical conclusion of this policy then it does appear just stupid.


I am reminded of one dramatic principle, Chekhov’s gun. The idea goes that a writer must make every detail of a story or play contribute to the overall narrative. Writers should not make false promises in narrative works: details that may create misleading expectations should be omitted, whereas those that are included should ultimately be involved in the narrative’s resolution. To sum it up, you should never introduce a gun in a story that you aren’t prepared to use.

Reality doesn’t always conform to art (though we can see that actual news headlines and satire are sometimes not far apart), but one has to wonder whether these GBIRMs aren’t one of Chekhov’s guns. Why else would the US want to place such weapons near China if it isn't prepared to actually use them?

This is why it is such a provocative move – because placing these missiles in China’s neighborhood necessarily implies that they could be used against China. If anything, just the threat of that force is inherently coercive and undermines China’s sovereignty and independence. It also necessarily implies that whichever country might choose to house such weapons would be complicit in this threat, i.e., they’d have to be “Willing to Shoot Missiles at China.”


Such a policy is extraordinarily destructive and undermines global peace. China is a nuclear-armed state that, although having a very restrained nuclear policy compared to other nuclear powers, would still use them if they are introduced into a conflict. Meanwhile, the United States would probably go to any lengths to win an outright conflict against China. The US remains, after all, the only country to have ever actually used nuclear weapons in a war, having dropped two atomic bombs on Japan at the conclusion of World War II.

We can see that provoking a conflict between these two countries could lead to a terminal nuclear war, which is an outcome that benefits no one and only endangers our existence as an organized form of life on this planet. That’s why people are excoriating this policy – because it is absolutely deranged. If no countries in China’s neighborhood end up wanting to house US intermediate-range missiles, that would be a positive development for humanity.

Bradley Blankenship

Bradley Blankenship is an American journalist, columnist and political commentator. He has a syndicated column at CGTN and is a freelance reporter for international news agencies including Xinhua News Agency.

[quote author=VOICEofORIENTAL post=112729890][/quote]bro these events is deeper than we know… I no wan make we Dey long thing. I’m not justifying the invasion, my hearts bleeds when I see events unfolding in Ukraine. I hope things settle down soon cos at the end of the day, na diplomacy go settle the matter.

Stay safe bro.