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🇮🇳🛢🇷🇺❌💵Indian refiners pay traders in dirhams for Russian oil

Indian refiners have started paying for most of the Russian oil purchased through Dubai traders in UAE dirhams instead of US dollars, sources told Reuters.

Although Western sanctions against Moscow are not recognized by New Delhi and the import of raw materials in this case does not violate them, banks are cautious about making payments so as not to fall under the restrictions.

Indian refiners and traders are concerned that they will not be able to continue to settle in dollars, especially if the price of Russian oil rises above the limit imposed in December by the G7 countries and Australia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indian-refiners-pay-traders-dirhams-russian-oil-2023-02-03/

Sanction dey fight back

🇩🇪🇺🇸🛢📈German companies are ready to withdraw investments from Germany because of gas prices

Germany's largest producers are ready to cut thousands of jobs and withdraw investments to the United States, since Berlin "will not be able" to provide them with energy at prices that were Russian gas, writes Bloomberg

"We are no longer competitive in Germany, but our investments for further growth will be directed to more competitive places, such as the USA," said Matthias Zahert, head of the Lanxess chemical company.

The largest chemical producer BASF and the international company Dow are also among the companies ready to lay off workers and withdraw investments from Germany.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/german-energy-reprieve-too-little-too-late-to-save-factory-jobs?srnd=premium-europe&leadSource=uverify%20wall

obedience4:
Research before posting, balloon that's was tracked all the way from Canada, and wasn't shut down because of falling debris.

the balloon has entered USA before been discovered! you can google it
USA have tried many times to shoot it down but they failed which means china technology is superior to that your oga

obedience4:
Yet you are supporting a man killing innocent people including women and children in Ukraine's

you also support donbas genocide naww

1stGenAmerican:
Newer than Russia’s Soviet Era tanks had a shortage of gas and were being left on the roadsides empty and broken.

shortage of gas? Must be joking

USA dey fear

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Expert: Chinese Balloon Could Be Dry Run to Deliver Nuclear EMP Device
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By Michael Katz | Friday, 03 February 2023 03:56 PM EST

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The high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon that is traveling across the U.S. could be a dry run to deliver a nuclear device that would wipe out America's power grid, according to a leading expert of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) devices.

"China's recent balloon flyover of the United States is clearly a provocative and aggressive act," retired Air Force Maj. David Stuckenberg, who once led the Defense Department's EMP Task Force, told the Washington Examiner. "It was most likely a type of dry run meant to send a strategic message to the USA. We must not take this for granted."

Stuckenberg, founder and chairman of the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, wrote in a 2015 paper that high-altitude balloons would be the easiest to resource, equip, and launch a nuclear device in the atmosphere that would act as an EMP and dismantle the U.S. power grid.


Specifically, an EMP is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy causing interference that can disrupt communications, fry electronics, and, at higher outputs, even damage such things as planes and buildings.

"Using a balloon as a [weapon of mass destruction/weapon of mass effect] platform could provide adversaries with a pallet of altitudes and payload options with which to maximize offensive effects against the U.S.," Stuckenberg wrote.

The paper referenced Andrew Baird, a competition balloon pilot and owner of Cameron Balloons USA, a global balloon manufacturer, who said it's feasible for an individual to design, build and launch a balloon to reach altitudes from 35,000 to 200,000 feet carrying a payload of several hundred pounds.

"It's not complicated to do," Baird said in the paper, adding someone can seek commercial support to build and launch customized high-altitude balloons under the guise of scientific research.


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Although "some aspects of balloon equipage are potentially difficult to resource, few elements required to create or launch designs are either monitored or regulated," Stuckenberg wrote. "In fact, a high-altitude balloon could be designed, created, and launched in a matter of months. There is nothing to prevent several hundred pounds of weapons material from being delivered to altitude."

Stuckenberg wrote that the U.S. needs a deeper understanding of the potential of adversaries to use low-tech strategic delivery options such as balloons.

"However, an unwillingness to explore novel and less technical approaches to WMD/WME [Weapons of Mass Destruction/Weapons of Mass Effect] delivery and/or a refusal to cast off Cold War dispositions concerning strategic threats could, similar to Pearl Harbor, allow an enemy to inflict deep trauma," Stuckenberg wrote.


"In the case of EMP, the consequences of a failure to anticipate ALL delivery modes within the reach of an imaginative enemy could be immediate and widespread."

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obedience4:
Old ke?
When Russia is still using Soviet era cold war times tanks.
The backbone of the Russia nuclear air deterrence bombers, the Tupolev are older than anyone in your village, yet they are Russia main bombers use in carrying nuclear payloads.
The tank's were made in 1960s the hay days of the cold wars, and was especially design to combat Soviet tanks, the same models the Russia are using.
Please Google is your friend, check how many European countries still using the tanks, yet the said they are old and without ammunition..

you can search Germany are in short of it's amunition since is not in the line of production

Even the oldest leopard has limited amunition

Despite the age of Tupolev there little bombers can surpass it

obedience4:
This one has no ideal of ww2, the heights the German military attained no other nations can replicate it in history,
If not for the decisions of Hitler Europe today including Russia would be a German colony.
Half of Europe was under the Nazi control, or did you not know that the Germans overrun the Soviet defence line and took half of Moscow, or did you not know that for the better part of the way the Soviet were on the defensive,
Go read up about ww2,

half of Moscow ke? You for say half of Russia olodo
Go learn history

rottennaija:
Wagner really terrified the US. They alway believe their PMC were the best in the world.

USA PMC (Mozart) don run commot for Ukraine partially, den don see shey Wagner no be farmers (Taliban)

Old tanks with shortage of amunitions

Fearless guy

North Korea’s government recently ordered North Korean trading companies in Russia to select personnel to send to Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine so they can take part in reconstruction efforts, Daily NK has learned.

According to a Daily NK source in Russia recently, North Korea issued the order on Jan. 20 to several trading companies, including the defense ministry-affiliated Cholhyon Construction and Kumrung Construction, which is affiliated with General Bureau 7 of the Ministry of Social Security.

Given that all the trading companies that received the order are affiliated with military or public security agencies, North Korea appears intent to send soldiers or police personnel – not civilians – to eastern Ukraine.

The government may have decided to do this because soldiers and public security personnel are easier to control and keep safe than civilians.


The personnel selected for the deployment to Ukraine are young men between the ages of 19 and 27; most are married, but left their families behind in North Korea.

Generally speaking, North Korean authorities prevent defections among workers posted abroad by sending married men who are forced to leaving their wives and children in North Korea.

PERSONNEL MAY ARRIVE IN UKRAINE IN MID-FEBRUARY OR MARCH

According to Daily NK’s source in Russia, North Korea told the companies to complete their personnel selections by the end of January.

Given that the companies were given about 10 days to complete their selections, North Korea will likely send the personnel to Ukraine in mid-February or March, based on the source’s account.

Because North Korean military and police-related entities across Russia were instructed to select personnel, just how many personnel North Korea will send to eastern Ukraine remains unknown.

However, when taking into account all the orders issued to major trading companies, the first batch will likely be about 300 to 500 men, the source said.

The orders did not specify what tasks the personnel will be given when they arrive in eastern Ukraine, but they are unlikely to serve as mercenaries in the war.

The basic agreement between North Korea and Russia reportedly includes clauses not to involve North Koreans in the actual war, as the participation of the selected personnel in the conflict could make it appear like Pyongyang has sent mercenaries to Russia.

Given this, the selected personnel will likely take part in reconstruction efforts, repairing buildings and roads destroyed in the war.

Earlier this week, Daily NK reported that North Korea had quietly selected two batches of workers to send to Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine, but has held off on sending them for the time being due to the war’s current situation.

A NEW WAY TO EARN FOREIGN CURRENCY?

North Korea’s move to recruit personnel to send to Ukraine from its citizens already in Russia appears aimed at not only cutting costs in terms of time and money in moving large numbers of people, but may also be a way of avoiding detection and criticism from the international community.

If North Korea does in fact dispatch personnel to Ukraine, it would provide the country with a new way to earn foreign currency.

What exactly North Korea is getting in return for sending people to Ukraine remains unknown, but some claim that the workers are to receive triple the wages North Korean laborers in Russia have traditionally received.

Moreover, given that soldiers and police officers receive fixed wages from the state even while they are deployed overseas, any extra income they receive goes into the nation’s coffers.

Daily NK’s source in Russia said that the authorities issued a sudden order to recruit personnel to be deployed in Ukraine on a temporary basis, but that after a successful first deployment, the government will expand the number of personnel being deployed into the country.

“There’s money to be made, so there’s no reason not to send them,” he said.

Translated by David Black. Edited

HigherEd:
And you think that gives them the right to occupy a sovereign territory? Should Nigeria invade and occupy south Africa because Nigerians are maltreated there?

you need to reply this below sentence first

But UK is still holding on to Falkland Islands in Argentina.

The war is not over yet, but the outcome is already clear. Ukraine has lost.

It pains me to say this, of course. Ukraine has fought a just war against an unjust – even barbaric – aggressor. And the country has fought well. Indeed, not only have the Ukrainians put up a better defensive fight than was generally expected in the run-up to the war, but they have taken the fight to the enemy, even pushing the Russians back on several fronts.


But Ukraine has lost the war nonetheless.

Why do I say this? Because, at the end of the day, Russia will have imposed its will on Ukraine while Ukraine will have achieved almost none of the goals – other than survival – it is pursuing on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.

That Russia will end up imposing its will on Ukraine now seems beyond reasonable doubt. Despite suffering terrible casualties and embarrassing battlefield setbacks, Moscow has already forced Kyiv to concede that NATO membership, and probably European Union (EU) membership too, is a non-starter. The separatist enclaves in Donetsk and Luhansk are in no danger of reverting to Ukrainian control, and the only question in the south of the country is how much territory will be added to the Crimean lands pried from Kyiv’s control in 2014.

Ukraine, on the other hand, will likely achieve almost none of its goals. To be sure, Ukraine will continue to inflict losses on the Russian forces, preventing them from taking Kyiv and other major cities and pushing them back here and there in successful, if limited, counter-offensives. But Kyiv will not achieve its operational-level objectives of expelling the Russians from all the territory it has lost since Feb. 24. It will not win a decisive battlefield victory that will vanquish once and for all the Russian invaders.

Mounting a spirited and capable defense is one thing; launching a major operational offensive is another. Ukraine has demonstrated that it can do the former, but there is no indication that it can launch and sustain the type of major combined-arms offensives required to drive the Russians out of those parts of occupied Ukraine that Moscow is really committed to holding.Nor will Ukraine realize its main strategic objectives – the diplomatic-political goals it has been pursuing in fits and starts since the early-2000s but in earnest and consistently since 2014 – either on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. Not only will Ukraine not recover all the territory lost during the war; it will not re-establish sovereignty over territory lost in 2014. Nor will it definitively break with Russia and decisively accede to the West, either through NATO membership or association with the European Union.


None of this is going to happen. Russia is not willing to concede any of this. And as has already been amply demonstrated, Moscow gets a vote on Ukraine’s future. NATO leaders are not interested in this happening, fearing that if Russian President Vladimir Putin faces decisive defeat – that is, the realization of Ukraine’s main strategic goals – he might play the nuclear card in a final desperate bid to stave off disaster both for him and his country. And Ukraine’s president has already conceded that some form of neutrality is likely to be his country’s future, conceding one of Kyiv’s main strategic objectives.

To be sure, this doesn’t mean that the fighting will stop tomorrow. Getting to the inevitable outcome – which, to reiterate, will be a strategic defeat for Kyiv and a partial (and pyrrhic) victory for Russia – will take some time, and much additional bloodshed, yet. It is in the nature of such conflicts, however, that once a mutually hurting stalemate sets in, both sides will be forced to make difficult concessions, first in the service of agreeing a ceasefire and later, perhaps much later, in the service of a more permanent negotiated settlement.

But such a stalemate is already in sight, even if at the moment both sides continue to cling to the delusion that just one more push and victory will be theirs. The fighting will eventually end, or at least return to pre-war levels.


The hard part to swallow is that between now and then many more people will die, additional destruction will be wrought upon the land and lives of the people of Ukraine, more war-crimes will be perpetrated and much more suffering inflicted and endured — and all for nought. Perpetuating the fighting will yield few, if any, gains for either side. It may be the inescapable logic of such conflicts that they end in this way, pointlessly dragging in the pursuit of victory but at the inevitable expense of innocent people. But it is a bitter pill — one that’s very hard to swallow.

But here’s the truly bitter truth: In broad brush strokes at least, the most-likely post-war settlement is pretty much the same as the settlement that was on offer before the bloodletting began in earnest on Feb. 24. While Putin was the one who pulled the trigger that fateful day, and thus bears full moral responsibility for all that has happened since, there are many others who could have made different choices in the run-up to the war. Different choices could have resulted in a pre-war settlement that would have been almost indistinguishable from the most likely post-war settlement, minus only the untold death and destruction visited on Ukraine these past weeks and months. In that sense, and only in that limited sense, there’s plenty of blame to go around.

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It’s perhaps best left to history to definitively sort out precisely who made what decisions that led us needlessly down the historical path to war. And maybe it’s always the case that belligerents must batter themselves senseless before they come to their senses.


But one thing is already crystal clear: While the war is not yet over, Ukraine has lost. Grasping that, we must first bring the fighting quickly to an end. Then we must mourn the dead. And, finally, we must get on with the task of rebuilding the country that Vladimir Putin has destroyed.

Andrew Latham is a professor of international relations at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., and a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter @aalatham.

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obedience4:
Pls explain how NATO is struggling to fight Russia.
Besides NATO ain't fighting Russia, giving weapons to a country ain't new,no be today he start.
During the viteham war, the soviets supported and gave weapons to the north, are we going to say the soviets were fighting the USA in Vietnam?
Or when the soviets invaded Afghanistan and the USA gave weapons to the mujahedeen. Was the USA and the soviets fighting each other,
Trust me if the Russian were in a direct confrontation with NATO forces a NATO flag will be flying in Moscow in later than 2 years.

but when Iran supplied drone to Russia USA said she's part of the conflict

Karnice600:
Shut up joor.
Cho cho cho cho.

Your Russia is busy claiming lands with the excuse of 'liberating native Russian speakers'. Lame tactics to get back the political perimeters of the lost USSR.
Most countries in the world today share historic/cultural ties with their neighbours.
If everyone were having the Putin's syndrome, we for don grab land commot for Benin Republic hand, talk say na part of oduduwa kingdom.

That's how mentally useless, Putin and his disciples have become.

why you didn't reply UK annexed Argentina Falkland islands

obedience4:

Only a mad man will compare the economy of Germany to Russia.
We not yet done with the fiscal year,
Please stop comparing the biggest economy in the EU to isolated Russia.
I need facts not stupid telegram screenshot propaganda channel's.

na too know dey kill person, you Sabi pass this France economist? Wey put Russia head of Germany? Olodo

Na who isolate Russia

opamoses1:
Georgia’s president said Russia must be required to abandon its nearly 15-year-long occupation of her nation’s territory as part of an eventual peace deal to end the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

“Russia has to learn where its borders are,” President Salome Zourabichvili said in an interview in the capital, Tbilisi. “The Georgian issues should be on the table because nobody should think that this war can be resolved without Russia retreating from all the occupied territories” in the region, she said.

More:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-01/georgia-wants-russia-to-leave-its-land-in-a-ukraine-peace-deal?leadSource=uverify%20wall

west is also pushing you too

seunny4lif:
Let just agree on 200K.

agreed

obedience4:
Is just few months to summer, we are still yet to see European countries citizenry freeze to death because one nation stop selling gas

we are also still yet to see Russia economy collapse and devaluation of ruble, and even inflation

And your Europe wey predict nonsense against Russia don meet em own destiny for one corner

seunny4lif:
Even Ukraine former minister that resigned few days ago said the same thing.
He said if Ukraine don’t mobilise troops within 2 weeks they will lose everything.

Ukraine troops dead should be around 200K because if EU President can said Ukraine have lost over 100K 3 months ago and Croatia President said Ukraine have lost over 150K troops then it’s obvious.
The first 3 months of the war, Russia lost heavy but since they changed to using Syria campaign methods of burn everything to ground before moving, they have made it hard for Ukraine troops.
Many foreign fighters fighting for Ukraine that got out alive blamed Ukraine government for lying about the frontline

200k ke, ukraine are in 8th round of mobilization now, where are there main soldiers talkless of 1st to 7th mobilized forces
There casualties would be btw 300k to 400k

Kelvin3476:
HAHAHAHAHA RUSSIA THAT CNT FINANCE A CROSS BRODER WAR OF THEIR OWN ?

JOKER NUMBER ONE

na who finance Vietnam again USA?

Na Russia go win this war!

Kelvin3476:
GOOD SOURCE UR ASS HOLE.
SO PRO RUSSIAN SOURCES ARE GOOD SOURCES ?
BEING BRAINDEAD ISN'T EASY AT ALL.
I READ MY NEWS THROUGH ALL POSSIBLE SITE AND NT ONE PRO RUSSIA MINUTE POST.

GO THROUGH ALL THE SITES THAT DOCUMENT ABT TANKS, AND THEN COME BK TO ARGUE ME.
PUTARDS ALWAYS BRINGING IRRELEVANT POSTS AS A PROVE

pls identify armata and tell me that the uploaded pix is wrong
Did any of your news outlets coverage the presence of USA armored vehicle in Ukraine? If yes show me 1 source

Kelvin3476:
can russia support them against israel the same way u.s is doing to ukraine ?
na where RUSSIA PICK THE MONEY FROM ?
EVERYTHING ABT RUSSIA IS CRAP, STARTING 4RM DEFENSE SYSTEM TO DOMESTIC PRODUCTS.
I CAN ONLY GIVE THEM THUMBS UP 4 A.K

you just funny did know that USA is financing this war with loan from china,, UAE , Saudi Arabia and the rest if you don't know google it

Russia will finance the war with petrol money
Oya say other thing

Kelvin3476:
WIC PEOPLES TANK WERE OVERBOARDED BY UKRAINIAN ANTI TANKS MISSILES AT THE EARLIER STAGE OF THE WAR ?

ANSWER = RUSSIANS TANK.

WIC TANKS WILL RUSSIA BRING TO THE FRONT ?
T_90?
ARMATA ?

THE T90 IS AN OLD ODD TANK .
ARMATA ISN'T BATTLE TESTED.
WHO IS HOLDING THEM BACK ?

TOT THE WANTED TO DEPLOY ANTI TANK ROBOTS ?
ARE THOSE ROBOTS NOT WORTH IT ANY LONG ?

RUSSIANS ARE AFRAID OF BRINGING ON THEIR SCRAP METALS

olodo make you dey read news from good source you no gree

Armata has been on battle field since

okeysoninv:
I know you are part of synagogue of liars. hypersonic missiles factory was bomb, nuclear centrifugal factory was bomb.. more war is coming. remember I said Israel and Iran would go to war. history has shown that the two has never fought before . Israel only have underground cell of mossad who only hit and run but yesterday the dynamic change. we will also prove to you the God almighty is in charge of affairs of mankind

the link to the news

okeysoninv:
like I told these nairaland unbelievers here last year that Israel would go to war with Iran , and Israel will bomb Iran nuke factories. what is happening today.

you fall my hand again, which Iran nuclear weapons factory did Israel bomb? This is one of your fake prophecy

Kelvin3476:
copy russia against israel ?
joking hypeman

Israel wey no get military power as you dey hype am, if Russia support Hamas as west do to Israel during Arab war, abeg forget

And e go still happen bcs Russia don dey train some Palestinian force

Forecast of Western military analysts regarding the course of hostilities in 2023:

After 11 months of continuous warfare in Ukraine, the US-backed Western coalition is in worse shape than when it began. In addition to severely impacting economic sanctions on Washington's closest European allies, Western control of Ukraine has plunged the economy into a protracted recession, destroyed much of the country's critical infrastructure, and wiped out much of the Ukrainian army.

More importantly, Ukrainian forces are now suffering from relentless losses on the battlefield, laying the groundwork for the inevitable split of the state. Whatever the outcome of the conflict, one thing is certain: Ukraine will no longer exist as a viable, independent, contiguous state.

One of the biggest surprises of the current war is simply the lack of readiness on the part of the US and the West in general. Western politicians seem surprised that economic sanctions have backfired and actually strengthened the economic situation in Russia. They also could not expect the vast majority of countries not only to ignore sanctions, but to actively explore options to "ditch the dollar" in their business deals and sales of critical resources.

The level of incompetence in planning this war is beyond anything we have ever seen before. It seems that all the preparations were focused on provoking the Russian invasion, and not on the events that will take place shortly after. It is clear that the Pentagon has never "played" the war or conflict itself as it is currently unfolding.

As discussed earlier, Russia is putting more military pressure across the front line and preparing its winter offensive. Ukraine and NATO are currently preparing a massive spring offensive based on forced mobilization in Ukraine (kidnapping Ukrainian men on the streets to mobilize up to 200,000 men) and accelerated deliveries of Western tanks and other heavy weapons over the next few months.

With the decision to deliver 100 tanks, new additional military assistance packages could be communications and reconnaissance (C4ISR), more missiles and rockets, more artillery, aircraft and more NATO ground forces.

An extremely bloody spring is coming. However, in the end, these new capabilities cannot prevent the defeat of NATO. In other words, American and Western commanders will sooner or later have to face an even worse choice: defeat or nuclear war, with Europe (EU) spellbound towards Armageddon.



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