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Foreign Affairs › Re: Germany Sends In The Tanks: Olaf Scholz FINALLY Agrees by Vl3ly: 8:36pm On Jan 26, 2023
Hotice085:
Mumus wey de get news from POOtins kitchen
your mumu na raise to power 2
Make you bring your proof for that
Foreign Affairs › Re: Today, President Volodymyr Zelensky Turns 45. by Vl3ly: 5:47pm On Jan 26, 2023
Zel

Foreign Affairs › Re: Germany Sends In The Tanks: Olaf Scholz FINALLY Agrees by Vl3ly: 10:25pm On Jan 25, 2023
Hotice085:
Ode, Mumu, chicken brain ordinary locally made Ukrainian drones was used to bomb your mothershiip, bomb the Crimean bridge, the same drones was use to chase you out of Kharkiv making you to run like the Chicken 🐔 coward you are to the oloshos of Kazakhstan where you are stilll hiding and running that lose mouth of yours
Drones could reclaim cities from Russians, just wait let the TANKS land whether POOtin will not surrender like the 🐔 you lots are
abeg dey read news from good source mention Ukrainia made drone that attack Russia ship? Maybe I can school you
Crimean bridge was mine by saboteurs
Foreign Affairs › Re: Germany Sends In The Tanks: Olaf Scholz FINALLY Agrees by Vl3ly: 10:18pm On Jan 25, 2023
APC2:
HIMARS destroyed over 1,000 Russian tanks. You should be ashamed that Russian tanks were easily destroyed despite the noise from Puting and his Nigerian urch1ns
olodo no know the difference between HIMARS and javelin (anti tank)
Foreign Affairs › Re: Germany Sends In The Tanks: Olaf Scholz FINALLY Agrees by Vl3ly: 8:05pm On Jan 24, 2023
Germany tank is not strange to Russia
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Warship With ‘Unstoppable’7,000mph Hypersonic Missiles‘Sails Towards USA by Vl3ly: 7:38pm On Jan 24, 2023
Teazer4:
The 'unstoppable' missiles fly at nine times the speed of sound.
welcome back brother
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Army Graveyard In Krasnodar (Thousands Of Views) by Vl3ly: 7:33pm On Jan 24, 2023
Antimarraige:
The heaps are too big, waste of sand.
laughing Wetin ona won take the sand do
Foreign Affairs › The Doomsday Clock by Vl3ly(op): 7:31pm On Jan 24, 2023
The Doomsday Clock, explained

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change.

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it against people.What are the origins of the Doomsday Clock?
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It warns how many metaphorical “minutes to midnight” humanity has left. Set every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, it is intended to warn the public and inspire action.

When it was created in 1947, the placement of the Doomsday Clock was based on the threat posed by nuclear weapons, which Bulletin scientists considered to be the greatest danger to humanity. In 2007, the Bulletin began including catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations.

The furthest the clock has been set was 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Until recently, the closest it had ever been set was at two minutes to midnight—first in 1953, when the U.S. and Soviet Union both tested thermonuclear weapons, and then in 2018, citing “a breakdown in the international order” of nuclear actors, as well as the continuing lack of action on climate change.

Then, in 2020, the clock moved the closest it has ever been: 100 seconds to midnight.

How was the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists founded?
Most of the people who were part of the Manhattan Project, the secret government mission which created the first atomic bomb, did not know what they were building. But the scientists did, and some of them had misgivings from the start.

Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein were the two physicists who wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, warning him of the potential of an atomic bomb—and their suspicions that Germany might be able to build one. Six years later, in June 1945, Szilard, along with Nobel laureate James Franck and other fellow Manhattan Project scientists, signed a cautionary document known as the Franck Report, which they sent to the U.S. secretary of war. They argued that the United States should announce a public demonstration of the weapon in an uninhabited area, and then use the threat to press Japan to surrender. When that document failed to progress, they circulated a second petition against the use of the weapon, signed by nearly 70 fellow Manhattan Project employees.

Neither attempt succeeded. In August 1945, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


Scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago
Photo courtesy of Special Collections Research Center
When Szilard learned the bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, he called it “one of the greatest blunders of history”—in a note (on stationery from the University of Chicago Quadrangle Club) to Gertrud Weiss, the professor of medicine whom he later married.

Szilard and many other Manhattan Project scientists immediately met to discuss how to inform the public about science and its implications for humanity. By September, they had formed the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago—later shortened to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as its membership grew. They shared a mission: “to equip the public, policymakers and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence.”

“For the first time in modern history, scientists were saying that it was necessary to make judgments about what to do with their inventions,” according to John A. Simpson, a young UChicago scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project and served as the first chairman of the Bulletin.

For 75 years, the Bulletin has continued as an independent, nonprofit organization, publishing a free-access website and a bimonthly magazine. According to its website, its mission is to “gather a diverse array of the most informed and influential voices tracking man-made threats” in order to inform the public and the world at large


How was the Doomsday Clock created?
The first few Bulletins were mimeographed collections of articles. But as the publication expanded, its editors decided to try to appeal to a wider audience with a designed cover. Bulletin member Martyl Langsdorf, an artist who mostly painted abstract landscapes, agreed to produce an illustration.

In response to the urgency she felt from the meetings, she designed a minimalist, but memorable clock—its hands set at seven minutes to midnight, in part because it “looked good to [her] eye.” Ever since, the Bulletin has used the clock to depict the existential threats facing humanity. A full timeline of the clock’s hand placements is available at the Bulletin’s website.

Where is the Doomsday Clock located?
The Doomsday Clock is located at the Bulletin offices at 1307 E. 60th St., in in the lobby of the Keller Center, home to the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

How is the Doomsday Clock set?
Until his death in 1973, Bulletin editor Eugene Rabinowitch decided whether the clock hand should be moved. As a leader in the international disarmament movement, he actively talked with policy experts and scientists around the world; he used these discussions to set the clock and explained his thinking in the Bulletin’s pages.

Today, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board sets the clock. This group of 18 experts, with diverse backgrounds ranging from policy and diplomacy to military history and nuclear science, meets twice a year to discuss events, policies and trends. They consult widely with their colleagues across a range of disciplines and also seek the views of the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors, which includes multiple Nobel laureates. Each year, the clock’s position is announced in late January.

The Bulletin currently recognizes three major threats to civilization: climate change, nuclear proliferation and “disruptive technologies,”including bio- and cybersecurity. “Each of these threats has the potential to destroy civilization and render the Earth largely uninhabitable by human beings,” it says. Its public dashboard tracks these threats constantly.

What happens when the Doomsday Clock hits midnight?
According to Bulletin director Rachel Bronson, when it was originally launched, the clock’s countdown referred to an exchange of nuclear weapons, which would have large-scale consequences for humanity and the planet.

Today the threat from nuclear weapons remains, but another equally large threat is climate change. “It’s much harder to have a kind of before and after midnight clear sense of what that means [for climate],” she told the University of Chicago’s Big Brains podcast. “That being said, this metaphor is important because for the climate, there are tipping points that you can’t come back from. And you won’t feel those effects until years out, but it’ll be very difficult if even possible to recover from.”

However, Bulletin members have constantly emphasized that the clock is not intended to make people fearful, but rather to spur them to action. Board member Prof. Robert Rosner calls the clock “the canary in the coal mine,” which prompts miners to take quick action to save their lives.



“The number of ways in which we walk blithely into Armageddon is very high. But that’s something all of us can help address,” said Daniel Holz, UChicago professor of astronomy and astrophysics and a member of the Science and Security Board. “If we act now, we might avoid some of the worst, civilization-threatening outcomes. Agitate for change! It’s not too late.”

“Past experience has taught us, even during the most dismal periods of the Cold War, we can as a people come together to address our challenges,” said Rosner, chair of the Bulletin’s science and security board and the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics at the University of Chicago. “It is now high time to do so again.”

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Army Graveyard In Krasnodar (Thousands Of Views) by Vl3ly: 5:33pm On Jan 24, 2023
Enugurangers:
Na waoh. See massive burial grounds.
Just 120 grave na em be massive?
Do you want to see 5000 grave of UAF?
Foreign Affairs › Re: Morocco Becomes The First African Country To Give Tanks To Ukraine by Vl3ly: 4:53pm On Jan 24, 2023
leofab:
africans needs to play neutral but when Africans are boiling you expect others not to be neutral.
I don't understand stand you!
Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 12:47pm On Jan 23, 2023
Lord Of War, [1/23/23, 10:58 AM]
[Video]
Video of Russian paratroopers taking three Ukrainian strongholds in the forests of Kreminna.

In all cases the battle followed the same scenario: overwhelming fire from BTR-82A and AGS-17, followed by the work of 120mm 2S9 Nona-S guns and finally an assault on Ukrainian trenches, during which the remaining resisting troops either surrender or flee their positions, leaving their wounded and dead behind.

A funny moment occurred during the storming of the first stronghold, when the captured Vsushniks wandered in circles through the woods and gathered more prisoners to join their friendly company.

The total losses of the enemy amounted to about 30 men killed and captured.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 12:36pm On Jan 23, 2023
🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡17,200 Ukrainian troops are now deployed on the border with the Republic of Belarus.

State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 12:36pm On Jan 23, 2023
Just 1 firing position


Ruuuusiiiia

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 12:33pm On Jan 23, 2023
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Ukrainian troops were driven out of the village of Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye region.

This was announced by Vladimir Rogov.



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 12:32pm On Jan 23, 2023
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR announced the liberation of the settlements of Dvurechye and Krasnopolyevka near Artemovsk



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 11:35am On Jan 23, 2023
The next 2-3 weeks will be decisive in the situation in Ukraine - the head of the European Council Charles Michel

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 11:30am On Jan 23, 2023
🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The next 2-3 weeks will be decisive in the situation in Ukraine - the head of the European Council Charles Michel

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 11:05am On Jan 23, 2023
Russian DRGs began to operate in the operational rear of the AFU group southwest of Bakhmut



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 11:04am On Jan 23, 2023
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Wagner have continued to widen their breaktrough area south west of Bakhmut.

At nearest, Russian forces are around 3-4km away from the very important M-32 supply route.

If this road is cut, AFU has to really consider of leaving Bakhmut before its too late.



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 11:01am On Jan 23, 2023
Looks like moon picture
Russia dey pend amunition

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 10:55am On Jan 23, 2023
Estonia gives Ukraine all its 155-mm howitzers.

“In this way, we want to create a precedent so that other countries have no excuse why they cannot provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons to win the war,” said Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Kaima Kuusk.

The cost of the new aid package from Estonia is about 113 million euros.

In fact, beautiful words hide serious concern about the high losses of artillery in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which drastically reduces the ability of defense



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Estonia gives Ukraine all its 155-mm howitzers.

“In this way, we want to create a precedent so that other countries have no excuse why they cannot provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons to win the war,” said Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Kaima Kuusk.

The cost of the new aid package from Estonia is about 113 million euros.

In fact, beautiful words hide serious concern about the high losses of artillery in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which drastically reduces the ability of defense
Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 10:52am On Jan 23, 2023
From zele adviser

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 10:50am On Jan 23, 2023
🇷🇺🇺🇦❗Russia has reliable data that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are storing Western weapons at nuclear power plants - SVR

The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reported that there is reliable information about the deployment of three Ukrainian nuclear power plants in the territories. In addition, they said that these “warehouses” house missiles for HIMARS and foreign air defense systems.



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Tanzanian Killed In Ukraine: We Told Him Not To Go by Vl3ly: 10:32am On Jan 23, 2023
The guy gamble with his life which he Lost but his death gain popularity throughout the world
Foreign Affairs › Re: Morocco Becomes The First African Country To Give Tanks To Ukraine by Vl3ly: 9:10am On Jan 23, 2023
Africa needs to play neutral game on this issue
Must expecially country like Morocco that have dispute with his neighbor (Algeria)
As Russia hinted south Korea that if he send amunition to Ukraine he should be expecting him also to send weapons to north Korea
After this war make north Africa no turn to another west and Russia battle ground
Foreign Affairs › The Struggle For The African Continent And Its Geopolitical Perspective by Vl3ly(op): 8:52am On Jan 23, 2023
🐪🌍 The struggle for the African continent and its geopolitical perspective

⏺🇷🇺 On January 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will begin an African tour that will include several countries.

Lavrov will visit 🇿🇦South Africa, Eswatini, 🇧🇼Botswana and 🇦🇴Angola. He will then go to North Africa in February to visit 🇹🇳Tunisia, 🇲🇷Mauritania, 🇩🇿Algeria and 🇲🇦Morocco. However, the exact number of countries to be visited is still unknown.

As part of his tour, the Russian Foreign Minister will also visit the headquarters of the African Union.

South Africa's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor will receive his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on January 23 for bilateral talks and discussions on common issues.

⏺🇺🇸 On the other hand, the American ambassador is going to Africa as part of the Biden delegation.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield is the second cabinet member to go to Africa as part of President Joe Biden's major effort to engage in Africa.

The US mission to the UN said it will travel to 🇬🇭Ghana, 🇲🇿Mozambique and 🇰🇪Kenya beginning January 25 "to reaffirm and strengthen partnerships with key current and former members of the UN Security Council".

Thomas-Greenfield's visit followed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's 10-day visit to Africa last week.



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 8:22am On Jan 23, 2023
‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️War through the eyes of the Armed Forces: the Russian army burned an armored car with militants and continues to fire
It is not for nothing that on the chevron of the Nazis, the VSUshnik welcomes the skeleton

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 8:20am On Jan 23, 2023
Lady Graham doesn’t like it

Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 8:09am On Jan 23, 2023
Two Ukrainian servicemen have defected to our side in the Zaporizhzhya direction. These soldiers are from an elite unit and have already started to share important information with our side.



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 7:53am On Jan 23, 2023
🇺🇦🇩🇪Supplies of Western tanks to Ukraine are not able to radically change the situation at the front, since Russia still has a lot more of them, - Zelensky

“No country decides that they give 10, 20, 50 tanks solve the problem. They do a very, very important thing - they motivate our warriors to fight for their own values. Because they show that the whole world is with you”,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview with ARD.

Give everything, more, we fight "for your values"



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Foreign Affairs › Re: Today's Report Of Ukrainia Conflict by Vl3ly(op): 7:53am On Jan 23, 2023
‼️💥Ukrainian OSINT showed the points in Soledar, where the head of the DPR and the State Duma deputy visited



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