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Uprightness100:Satanic agents and their promises. Foolish .elensky will be feeling high now forgetting there are hypersonic missiles that can't be intercepted by western defence systems. Ukrainians should call for a regime change in Kiev lest .elensky, US and NATO brings total annihilation upon their country with the ongoing proxy war against Russia. |
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iykofias:What response did .elensky the foolish comedian expect from Russia after bombing Crimean bridge? It is no longer a tea party and the earlier he understands the better. I believe Russia has been reluctant in hitting Kiev but the referendums and Ukraine’s bombing of crimean bridge has change everything. It will saves his people/country a lot of good to come to the negotiating table now and not allow US and NATO bring Ukraine to destruction. |
Moscow is flipping the bloc's script by moving to absorb Kiev's lost lands, thus switching the fight to its own turf By infusing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of military aid into Ukraine, NATO produced a “game-changing” dynamic designed to throw Russia off balance. By undertaking the referendums in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk, Russia changed the game altogether. The ancient Greeks spoke of lemma as representing a logical premise, a matter taken for granted. This contrasted with a dilemma, or “dual premise”, where one would be presented with an either/or proposition. The Romans furthered this notion, referring to a “double premise” as argumentum cornutum, of the “horned argument,” because by answering one argument, an individual would be impaled by the logic of the second. Thus are the ancient roots of the modern idiom, “on the horns of a dilemma.” This is the ultimate objective of maneuver warfare, for example: to position your forces in such a manner as to present the enemy with no good option – should they react to one pressing threat, they would find themselves overwhelmed by the other. The Russian military operation that has been underway in Ukraine for more than seven months now has provided ample examples of the military forces of both sides being confronted with a situation that compelled them to alter their preferred course of action; the Russian “diversion” against Kiev early on in the SMO prevented the Ukrainians from reinforcing their forces in eastern Ukraine, and the recently concluded Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkov compelled a hasty Russian withdrawal from a significant swath of previously occupied Ukrainian territory. Both examples cited presented one side with a lemma, or a single problem, which needed to be addressed. But neither were able to put their opponent “on the horns of a dilemma,” forcing a response which would result in impalement regardless of the option chosen. The reason for this is simple – very rarely will competent military commanders allow themselves to be presented with a military problem for which there is no viable response. War, it seems, is hard work, and dilemmas don’t fall from trees. Or do they? Ever since Boris Johnston flew to Kiev in April to convince Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to pull out of peace talks then ongoing with Russia in the Turkish city of Istanbul, NATO has embarked on a program designed to provide Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in military and financial assistance, including the transfer of modern heavy weapons and the use of facilities on Western soil where tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops could be trained and organized without fear of Russian intervention. The purpose behind the NATO infusion of weaponry into Ukraine was straightforward – to empower Ukraine to not only lengthen the conflict, but also to undertake offensive military operations designed to evict Russia from what Kiev and its backers consider occupied Ukrainian territory, including the Donbass and Crimea. The counteroffensive in Kharkov in early September underscored the serious consequences of NATO’s actions – even though, given the massive loss of life and material suffered by the attacking Ukrainian forces, made the Kharkov victory Pyrrhic in nature, it was a Ukrainian victory, and one which compelled a Russian retreat. By transforming the Ukrainian army into a NATO army which was manned by Ukrainians, the US-led bloc had, in fact, changed the nature of the game from a straightforward Russia-versus-Ukraine “special military operation” into a “Russia-versus-the collective West” struggle where the military resources originally allocated by Moscow to the fight were now insufficient to the task. Advantage, Ukraine/NATO. Russia, however, was not taking the game-changing actions of NATO standing still. Responding to the new reality on the ground in Ukraine, Russian President Vadimir Putin opted not to simply up the ante in this new NATO-driven game of increasing military power but change the game altogether. Not only did he order the partial mobilization of some 300,000 Russian reservists to reinforce the troops currently committed to the SMO, Putin also approved referendums in the four territories where Russian forces are presently fighting – Kherson and Zaporozhye (formerly occupied Ukrainian regions), and Donetsk and Lugansk (former regions of Ukraine, de-facto independent since 2014). These referendums asked the citizens of these four territories one simple question—do you wish to become part of Russia? After five days of voting, the results from all four territories were clear—by an overwhelming majority, the participants in the referendums approved the proposition. Shortly thereafter, they were incorporated into the Russian Federation. What was once Ukraine has now become Mother Russia. Russia didn’t just change the rules of the game – it changed the game itself. Instead of Ukrainian forces fighting Russian forces on the territory of Ukraine, any future combat carried out by Ukraine against Russian forces with represent an attack on the Russian homeland itself. Where does this leave NATO? The bloc's leadership has made it clear from day one that it is not seeking direct confrontation with Russia. While its members have poured in tens of billions of dollars of material into Ukraine to help reconstitute its military, and provided critical logistics, intelligence, and communications support to Ukraine, it has repeatedly and insistently stated that it has no desire to fight a war with Russia directly and has made it clear that it would rather have the Ukrainians serve as a de facto NATO proxy in resisting Moscow. NATO has gone “all in” both economically and politically when it comes to supporting Ukraine, to the extent that some of its members, having stripped their respective military structures of equipment and material, have nothing left to give. Despite this, European political and economic elites continue to articulate their strong support for Ukraine going forward. This support, however, was predicated on the fundamental assumption that by providing Ukraine with this massive level of support, NATO would not get directly involved in a conflict with Moscow. But Russia, by transforming the battleground from one being fought on Ukrainian soil to one where it's now defending its own land, has flipped the script. NATO, having overcommitted to Ukraine, now finds itself “on the horns of a dilemma” – if it continues to provide massive material and financial support to Ukraine, it will, in effect, become a direct party to the conflict, something no one in the bloc wants. However, if it backs away from supporting Ukraine, the various Western political leaders and institutions which have made support for Kiev a sacred obligation will be seen as going back on their word. How NATO opts to proceed has yet to be manifest, but indications are that it will not be in a manner which continues to double down on supporting Ukraine no matter what. Secretary General Stoltenberg’s tepid speech condemning Russia while showing no enthusiasm for Zelensky’s “accelerated application” for membership is indicative of the less-than-resolute nature of the its support for Kiev. NATO now will find its role diminished by the consequences of the Russian mobilization and referendums. Years from now, when the history of the conflict is finally written, the decision by President Putin to simultaneously mobilize the Russian reserves while absorbing the territory of southern and eastern Ukraine into the Russian Federation will serve as one of the premier modern-history examples of putting and adversary “on the horns of a dilemma.” The effective neutering of NATO by this action will more than likely be seen as a turning point in the conflict, one which sealed the fate of Ukraine in the face of an inevitable Russian victory. -RT
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It is obvious. USA will cash out big time on the Ukraine War cos they are the major beneficiaries and do not want the conflict to end. Elensky the comedian is a big fool for allowing his country to become theatre of a proxy war between Russia and the US / her western allies & puppets. |
Putin is the Man of the Year, a leader with guts and a Master Strategist! The West has acted internationally as exceptional, as indispensable, they exalted themselves, behaved as if the rules did not apply to them etc... and hence, Kosovo and Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria etc... and now that Russia is using their own tactics against them, the West is shocked that the rest of the world is not following their lead... in a generation, they destroyed the goodwill and primacy they enjoyed following the end of the Cold War - (Ulysses Hobbes) It is about time the West is told in blunt terms "the sun doesn't rise from ya asses" -TheFreeOne
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Tucker Carlson: Did The U.S. Blow Up The Nord Stream Pipelines? Of Course, We're Blaming Putin On Date September 28, 2022 Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the possibility of sabotage to the Nord Stream pipelines on Tuesday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight." TUCKER CARLSON: I hate to start a Tuesday evening on a grim note, but one of the environmental catastrophes, one of the great environmental catastrophes of our time, is unfolding tonight off the coast of Denmark. The Nord Stream pipelines, which are enormous Russian owned conduits that carry natural gas from Russia to Western Europe, have been breached. As we speak, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are pouring millions of cubic meters of natural gas into the Baltic Sea. Pictures from the air, which you can now see on your screen, show a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. You can only guess at how many marine mammals are being killed right now – countless. But the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere. Natural gas is comprised of up to 90% methane. Methane, as Joe Biden has often told you, is the key driver of global warming, which is, of course, an existential threat to humanity and the planet. So, if you're worried about climate change, what just happened to the Nord Stream pipelines is as close to the apocalypse as we have ever come. So, the question is, how did this happen? And it turns out it was not an accident. At the very same time that leaks in these pipelines were detected, Swedish officials recorded two powerful undersea explosions, each one of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of TNT. Nothing in nature can account for that. Almost immediately, the pipelines began leaking in three separate places. So, there's only one explanation for what happened. This was an act of industrial terrorism. That was very obvious to the prime minister of Poland and he wasted no time in saying so. MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI, POLISH PRIME MINISTER: Today we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. We do not know the details of what happened yet, but we can clearly see that it is an act of sabotage, an act that probably marks the next stage in the escalation of the situation we are dealing with in Ukraine. We can clearly see, he said, this was an act of sabotage, an act of terrorism. Well, yes, we can see that. So, the question is, who did it? And of course, the prime suspect is obvious. It would be the same man who caused domestic inflation here in the U.S. and stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. That'd be Vladimir Putin. The Washington Post got right to it. "Putin," they declared, "is now weaponizing the Nord Stream pipelines." According to the Canadian ambassador to the U.N., Vladimir Putin has decided to use "pollution as an act of war." Progressive Twitter strongly endorsed this conclusion. Putin did it and that makes sense until you thought about it for just a moment. Vladimir Putin may be evil. They tell us that he is evil, but is he stupid? Probably isn't stupid and yet and, here's the strange part, if you were Vladimir Putin, you would have to be a suicidal slowpoke to blow up your own energy pipeline. That's the one thing you would never do. Natural gas pipelines are the main source of your power and your wealth and most critically, your leverage over other countries. Europe needs your energy now more than ever with winter approaching. If you can't deliver that energy, then countries like Germany have no need to pay attention to what you want. You're in the middle of a war, an all hands-on deck war, so you need all the leverage you can get. Under these circumstances, there is no chance you would blow up Nord Stream 1 or 2. Not now, obviously. In fact, it's so obvious that even as our famously dim secretary of State, Tony Blinken, seemed to acknowledge it, sabotaging Nord Stream, he said today is "clearly in no one's interest." Right, but really only half right. It is true that blowing up Nord Stream does not help Vladimir Putin. He would not do that. Why would he? But that doesn't mean that other countries wouldn't consider doing it. They would consider it and we know they have considered it because at least one of them has said so in public. In early February, less than three weeks before the war in Ukraine began, Joe Biden suggested on camera that he might take out these pipelines. ... Notice how he phrased it and he's the president. He doesn't phrase things by accident, particularly his reading off cards. He didn't say, I will pause the delivery of gas from Russia to Germany. He said there won't be a Nord Stream 2. We'll put an end to it. Will take it out. Will blow it up. How will you do this? He was asked. I promise you we will be able to do it. They thought this through and yet those watching, very much including us, didn't take Biden seriously when he said it. This is the president who has declared climate change the most pressing emergency in the history of the world. This is the man who lectures you about using a woodstove or driving an SUV because of its emissions. This is the guy who spent billions trying to mitigate cow flatulence because methane. Would that guy really blow up a methane pipeline in the middle of the Baltic Sea? It was hard to imagine. That would be an unimaginably reckless act. That would be the kind of thing you would do if you wanted to start a nuclear war. It would be insane and yet in retrospect, it's obvious they were thinking about this because Joe Biden wasn't the only person to suggest it. Toria Nuland at the State Department said pretty much the very same thing. Nuland is a lifelong war cheerleader. She worked to bring about the Iraq invasion, never apologized, kept going. She helped engineer the coup that overthrew the Ukrainian government some years back. So capable, clearly she's capable of anything... but environmental terrorism? Even for Toria Nuland, that seemed too much too extreme, and yet here she is in January. VICTORIA NULAND: With regard to Nord Stream 2, we continue to have very strong and clear conversations with our German allies and I want to be clear with you today. If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward. One way or the other, we'll stop Nord Stream. Now, looking back, those words seem chilling eight months later, as natural gas pours into the Baltic Sea and is in the atmosphere. So, you have to ask, could the Biden administration really do something like this? We can't say for sure. We don't know for sure. We can tell you that close allies of the Biden White House believe they certainly did do it. Radek Sikorski is a Polish politician who is chairman of the EU USA delegation in the European Parliament. He's connected. He's also the husband of regime stenographer Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic magazine. Sikorski is so close to Joe Biden that he's got a picture of the two of them together in his Twitter profile. So, when the pipelines blew up, Sikorski responded immediately and here's what he wrote. "Thank you. USA." So once again, did the Biden administration really do this? It's hard to believe. Given that it's an atrocity, it's effectively an act of terrorism, we don't want to make that accusation, but we should tell you that maybe not coincidentally, today, a brand-new pipeline was unveiled, a pipeline that carries non-Russian natural gas in roughly the same areas, Nord Stream 1 and 2. This is called the Baltic Pipe. It was inaugurated in Poland. It will carry natural gas from Norway through Denmark to Poland and other countries nearby. And it's likely to do very well, since now it has less competition. Making sense? What does the White House say about this? How are they accounting for what happened today? Well, they're not exactly enthusiastically denying responsibility for it. Instead, they're looking at the upside. Here's the president's publicist, noting that the destruction of yet another energy pipeline is yet another opportunity for you to buy an electric car. KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: As you all know, these pipelines weren't pumping gas into Europe at this time and NS2 was never operational, as you guys know. NS1 has not been operational for weeks because Putin has weaponized energy and we have said this, many times before. This just drives home the importance of our efforts to work together to get alternative gas supplies to Europe and to support efforts to reduce gas consumption and accelerate true energy independence by moving to clean energy economy. h. "Moving to clean energy" say that people who very may well be responsible for letting methane into the Baltic Sea and into the atmosphere at a scale that most people can't imagine. The people lecturing you about your SUV may have blown up a natural gas pipeline and created one of the great catastrophes of our time in its effect on the environment. If they did this, this will be one of the craziest, most destructive things any American administration has ever done. But it would also be totally consistent with what they do. What do they do? They destroy. These people built nothing, not one thing. Instead, they tear down and they desecrate from historic statues to the Constitution to energy infrastructure and no one in Congress is trying to stop any of it. They're just preparing for the inevitable fallout. Tonight, the Senate just advanced a spending bill with $35 million for the Department of Energy to "prepare for and respond to potential nuclear and radiological incidents in Ukraine." What? The spending bill also brings the total U.S. expenditure on Ukraine, the war, but also funding its government and energy for Ukraine to $67 billion on the eve of what could be a massive economic disruption here to our economy, $67 billion. How much is that? Well, it's more than Russia's entire military budget last year, and Congress is expected to fully pass the bill later this week with Republicans nodding along like the zombies they are. What would be the effect of this? Every action has a reaction, equal and opposite. Blow up the Nord Stream pipelines? Okay, we've entered a new phase, one in which the United States is directly at war with the largest nuclear power in the world. It doesn't mean we'll go nuclear immediately, but it does suggest there could be consequences. If we actually blow up the Nord Stream pipelines, why wouldn't Russia sever undersea internet cables? What would happen if they did that? What would happen if banks in London couldn't communicate with banks in New York? Just that one piece of it, leaving aside its potential effects on our power grid, but let's just say the banks couldn't communicate with each other for one day. What would the economic effect of that be? We would cascade downward into your house. We can have an actual collapse. We could wind up very quickly in third world conditions. Those are the stakes. Have the people behind this, the geniuses like Toria Nuland, considered the effects? Maybe they have. Maybe that was the point.
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Damn....what a firecracker. Truth hurts. Macron just got floored ![]() |
What about Gumi, is he above the law? Isn't Mamu working with Gumi regarding negotiations with bandits? |
Softmirror:No be true talk ![]() It's disheartening naija elites / politicians keeps presenting career politicians / crooks for the no.1 seat when there are intelligent and smart Nigerians home and abroad that have something to offer. I am glad we have an Obi / Datti as the third force to birth a new Nigeria. |
Osinbajo should have been APC presidential candidate but for Tinubu's greed. Shior ...APC ma lule laslas ni |
A very good decision. A new Nigeria of our dreams is achievable. Let's take naija back from divisive, corrupt moneybags and criminal elements. |
If you support Obi-Datti candidacy then you are on the side of the masses to take back naija from kleptomaniacs and divisive evil politicians/ elites that brought the country to the current verge of ruination. Vote Labour party for the birth of a new Nigeria of our dreams. |
etrouble:You mean POL 901 in rigging elections in a corrupt society? ![]() Shameless lots with no iota of decency, fairness, justice and truth. |
Shameless Eleribu journalist trying to idolise a kleptomaniac whose past is so shady that he had to deny his real parentage, primary / secondary education and cannot substantiate his wealth. His master is so fraudulent that he always want to latch on to other people's identity. The Awolowos we know but can Omatseye tell about the Iragbiji con artist who denied / erased his past for personal aggrandizement and politics. No matter what he does he is not fit to step into Awo shoes cos iku yato si orun (sleep and death aren't same). [b]I am yinka odumakin and nobody can say he had known me under any identity in my life .I have led a straight life unlike you that people know under different identities depending on where they met you in your about 80 years on earth .Yes,80! |
Collusion of government with terrorists you mean Anyway nothing surprises in naija again.Waiting for lai..ing Mohammed, security agencies and Buhari's media aides to respond as usual. |
From a man whose brain is stuck in Tinubu ass. Whether he and his corrupt, senseless leaders and agbadorians likes it or not sincere Nigerians who loves this country wants a true change from the evil APC represents. APC brought ruination to Nigerian within 7yrs and needs to be chased out of power. And Tinubu presidency who has no regard to our secular state will only continue same if not stopped. |
Chokhmah:Read my post again. I'm not talking about contesting election but their desperation in throwing to the winds germaine issues of fairness and our secularism as country. Atiku doesn't deem it right that it is the turn of Southern presidency despite the fact that current president Buhari (8yrs rule) is from his tribe and Tinubu choose a Muslim VP though Nigeria is a secular state. Both guys jettison the usual arrangement since 1999. |
It's about to go down. Vawulence unleashed ![]() Shebi Tinubu once said he's ready to fight dirty ...OK he were go ![]() Tinubu please prove Atiku wrong by granting an hour interview on Arise TV. Obi has done it and so is Atiku. Na beg we dey beg you o. |
I'm waiting for what he has to say in response to Atiku claims that Okowa can deliver more winning votes to PDP ![]() Atiku and Tinubu are desperate politicians who doesn't care if the country burns as long as their ambitions are paramount in their calculations. |
The OP made me remembered a TV news channel about a week ago or so. A politician during the interview whose name I won't mentioned keeps advising another to take care when a question regarding a very germaine issue was raised, but in those so called good wishes i sensed a coded message is being passed across. Wisdom is profitable for the wise. |
Good move. This will shore up Labour party's presence in Lagos and Peter Obi / Datti popularity. |
This better be a joke ![]() And if not then it's obvious the APC is scared of Peter Obi popularity / acceptance amongst the youths and a likely outcome of 2023 Presidential election. |
The world has changed geopoliticallly and there's nothing the west can do about it. Russia is at the forefront of the military superiority and China economically ...so what can they do? The alliance between China, Russia, Iran, India, South Africa and others bold nations are pointer to the rise of a new bipolar-multipolar world order. Putin is a bold leader with foresight who doesn't bow to egocentric idiotic leaders who thinks the sun rises fron their ass.es |
Bunch of senseless Idiats setting the country on fire cos of some bull.shit political excuses and desperation. |
Tinubu is a desperate politician who doesn't care if the country burns along religious lines. And APC in the usual manner will rig the elections if the results aren't favourable to their evil party. Osun gubernatorial election that brought in Oyetola is a case study. But they'll meet their match in sensible Nigerians and the youths who are tired of APC's maladministration and wickedness. |
The more he keeps polarising the country across religious lines. What a desperado! |
Some thought Putin was bluffing when he said colonial way of thinking and the unipolar world order isn’t coming back and now India has proved him right. Waiting for China to make the necessary move too. When will Africa wake up from its slumber ![]() The old world order is gone with the wind |
Be deceiving ya self. Are there no competetent Christians in the North? Your desperation for Aso rock is the reason for your Muslim Muslim ticket not competency, justice nor fairness. Also banking on rigging to win 2023 election. A muslim-muslim ticket under current polarised, general insecurity, kidnapping and unabated terrorist attacks on Nigerians most especially churches is nothing short of evil that APC has shown to represent. The current administration has often shown its disdain to popular opinion of Nigerians who wants fairness, justice to all regions and religions. It is a clear message to Christians that their opinion and wellbeing doesn't matter to APC. And if I may ask what is Tinubu's agenda for Nigeria? This same man pushed for Muslim Muslim ticket in 2015 but Buhari turned him down. Why is he so keen on this same religion having both president and vp positions. Aside religion is he competent, healthy and without corruption baggage? Nigerians need to take back the country from corrupt entities with 'emi lokan' sense of entitlement cos they are popular and have cronies in every arm of government. It should be 'Nigerian masses lokan(turn)' masses who has always bear the brunt of misrule and corruption of the elites and politicians. Every sensible Nigerian should know APC and PDP have got nothing to offer aside their usual ineptitude, failed promises and corruption. |
Tinubu's desperation to become president at all cost has blinded him to all sense of reason. A muslim-muslim ticket in present day Nigeria confirms the evil APC represents as a party. I believe he's banking on the power of incumbency of the party to rig election and foist himself on Nigerians. |
When a real man talks those discerning enough listens. The era of unipolar world order is gone for good, thanks to Russia for ushering in the new bipolar world. Unfortunately current european leaders aren't smart enough to realise they are gradually losing the sovereignty of their countries to the US who's been playing them like ping-pong in proxy war against Russia. And the manipulative comedian .elensky in his eagerness to do the bidding of his masters placed his country and people in harms way cos of promises and failed sanctions against Russia that has backfired across Europe. UK Bojo is out despite his braggacio on ukraine war, so who's next? Coming months will tell and winter is coming too |
olatade:I read somewhere on Nairaland wherein a close aide to Gumi claimed the attack was organised by same group that were responsible for Abuja train kidnap. So it's difficult ruling out such plausibility and it's scary to say the least cos that'll be akin to state sponsored terrorism. I hope it's not true sha. |