Foreign Affairs / Exclusive - Onboard A NATO Surveillance Plane Monitoring Russian Activity by GodHatesBigots(m): 7:37pm On Mar 04, 2022 |
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Politics / Re: Crisis In Kanu's Legal Team As Bruce Fein Asks Ejiofor To Withdraw From Case by GodHatesBigots(m): 1:25pm On Mar 04, 2022 |
12Monkeys:
You Igbos are really useless in choosing the right side.
Well your bad luck will rob on those cainanites.
Slave I am Igbo and loving it. I support Israel and I support Ukraine. AMEN. |
Foreign Affairs / Breaking - US admits Sharing Intelligence With Ukraine On Russian Military Plans by GodHatesBigots(m): 1:23pm On Mar 04, 2022 |
The US has multiple channels open and is sharing intelligence with Ukraine at a "frenetic" pace, US officials said Thursday, disputing criticism that the Biden administration is not sharing battlefield intelligence fast enough.
Still, the US' secure communications with Ukrainian officials are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain as the war rages on, the sources told CNN. Officials also acknowledged that the US is now more limited in its ability to collect real-time intelligence with no one on the ground, and the apparent lack of military drones flying overhead. The CIA has not acknowledged whether it is flying its own drones to surveil the conflict.
Republican Sens. Ben Sasse and Marco Rubio, the top GOP member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have both said publicly in recent days that they are concerned intelligence isn't getting to the Ukrainian military quickly enough. House Republicans began amplifying those concerns this week, ramping up criticism of the Biden administration for allegedly "withholding" intelligence from the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians, though, have not complained publicly about any lack of intelligence sharing by the US.
One Senate source familiar with GOP concerns said that lawmakers were concerned that the intelligence was being downgraded, or made less specific, and that it wasn't being conveyed to the Ukrainians fast enough.
Sources familiar with the intelligence said it is indeed being downgraded, but primarily to scrub sensitive sources and methods -- a particular concern given the logistical challenges with establishing fully secure lines with Ukrainian officials amid the Russian onslaught.
In most cases, two sources familiar with the sharing system said, the intelligence being shared involves information about Russian force movements and locations, as well as intercepted communications about their military plans. And it is typically being provided to Ukrainian officials sometimes as quickly as within 30 minutes to an hour of the US receiving it, one of the sources said.
The sharing has been facilitated via secure communications equipment, although communication with forces on the ground in Kyiv is becoming increasingly difficult given ongoing power and communications disruptions in the besieged capital, another source said.
One of several channels that the US has used has been a portal that was set up in recent weeks where US officials can upload intelligence that the Ukrainians can then access in near real time, the first source said.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that the US has shared "a significant amount of detailed timely intelligence on Russia's plans and activities with the Ukrainian government to help Ukrainians defend themselves."
"We've been doing that for months," Psaki said. "This includes information that should help them inform and develop their military response to Russia's invasion, that's what's happening -- or has been happening."
Another source of concern among critics of the US' system appears to be that the administration is not providing the kind of detailed "targeting intelligence" that has long been used in lethal "find, fix and finish" operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
"We are not providing the type of real-time targeting that you see our military having gotten in conflicts like in Iraq where instant to instant, we have UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles or drones), the unblinking eye as they say, watching the situation and giving that targeting data," Rep. Adam Smith, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday. "We're not doing that because that steps over the line to making us participate in the war."
US says it is sharing information for 'situational awareness' The Biden administration in recent weeks made a deliberate policy decision to describe any information being shared with Ukraine as an effort to help them gain "situational awareness" in the war, rather than explicitly to target and kill Russian soldiers, one of the sources said. The distinction is meant to avoid Russia being able to claim the US is becoming directly involved as a co-combatant in the war, which could risk direct conflict breaking out between Moscow and Washington.
Sasse has also alleged that "lawyers" and unspecific "technicalities" are holding up the flow of information, a charge a senior defense official told reporters on Thursday was inaccurate. There are some indications that Biden administration guidelines for sharing intelligence with Ukraine have been amended as recently as this week.
"Generally speaking, I share concerns that some of that may not be getting there fast enough. And even today there has been work done to sort of assess that and make sure that any sort of unnecessary impediments are removed," Rubio told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday. There are also practical reasons why the US can't provide some of the more granular "targeting intelligence" that Republican lawmakers are demanding, sources say. For one thing, the US is not flying drones in Ukraine because "Russians would just shoot them down," said one of the sources familiar with the intelligence.
Current and former officials added that the United States simply does not maintain the kind of 24/7 drone coverage in Ukraine that became typical of American conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
Much of the intelligence community's "imint" -- an intelligence community term that means "imagery intelligence" -- comes from satellites. Two sources familiar with the intelligence said some of the "game-changing" intelligence on Russian military positions is coming from commercial imagery.
But those satellites are often limited by weather in what they can see, and in any event, can't provide the kind of live-time video that lower-flying drones are capable of.
Although the Pentagon has not commented on surveillance efforts in eastern Europe, flight tracking websites have repeatedly shown Global Hawk reconnaissance drones flying near Ukrainian airspace.
The senior defense official told reporters Thursday that the US continues to "provide information and intelligence to Ukraine as we assess would be most helpful."
Asked whether any decisions have been made that the US won't share certain targeting intelligence with Ukraine because it risks making the US a party to the conflict, the official declined to discuss the specifics of what is being shared.
"What I can tell you is we continue to provide intelligence and information to the Ukrainians, and that's ongoing," the official said. "We share with them what we believe can be helpful to them. I'm not going to talk about the vehicles. I'm not going to talk about the parameters of that."
The official noted that the US no longer has boots on the ground in Ukraine or aircraft flying over the country's air space, saying the US ability to glean intelligence "is not as robust as it once was."
"The Ukrainians are on the ground, the Ukrainians are in the fight," the official said. "And in many cases, in many ways they simply have more contextual information than what we can give them."
CNN's Barbara Starr, Jeremy Herb and Oren Liebermann contributed to this report.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/04/politics/us-ukraine-intelligence/index.html |
Politics / Re: Crisis In Kanu's Legal Team As Bruce Fein Asks Ejiofor To Withdraw From Case by GodHatesBigots(m): 1:18pm On Mar 04, 2022 |
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Foreign Affairs / Graphic - Russian VDV Convoy In Hostomel Ukraine Annihilated by GodHatesBigots(m): 12:33pm On Mar 04, 2022 |
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Politics / Re: Crisis In Kanu's Legal Team As Bruce Fein Asks Ejiofor To Withdraw From Case by GodHatesBigots(m): 11:29am On Mar 04, 2022 |
omenkaLives: Bruce Fein is a Fulani DSS agent. The fool thinks because he has a bleached skin like Ohamadike Nnamdi Kanu, the great Igbo race would be deceived as to think he's a white man.
Futa Jalon emisory. See who is talking, go and save Benue State. |
Politics / Re: Crisis In Kanu's Legal Team As Bruce Fein Asks Ejiofor To Withdraw From Case by GodHatesBigots(m): 11:28am On Mar 04, 2022 |
12Monkeys: Bruce Fein the Jew rat that has been paid by Turkish govt to lobby against the US Congress from recognizing the genocide of Armenian Christians in the hands of the Turks
Bruce Fein that defended a Turkish islamist terrorist who stockpilled arms and home made explosives that he intended to use in a terrorist attack on a US based Armenian group that has been fighting to get the US govt to acknowledge the Armenian genocide.
Do you know that other than Turkey, Israel is the only other country that has aggressively fought against the recognition of the genocide carried out by the Young Turks on Armenian Christians.
Why is the state of Israel and world Jewry aggressively opposed to the world accepting that there was indeed a genocide of Armenian Christians by the Young Turks? Because the Young Turks like the Russian bolsheviks were majority Jews and crypto Jews descended from the Sabbatean Zavi sect.
Open your eyes and know thine enemy. Gibberish. God bless Israel. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: USA Pentagon Begs Russia That It Would Postpone Missile Test To Reduce Tension by GodHatesBigots(m): 1:03am On Mar 04, 2022 |
NGpatriot:
Na only putin get nuclear weapon?
More nuclear weapons are breathing on putin's neck.
Using nuclear weapons is mutual destruction, they die and you die too.
Who go dash you Igbos little sense.. who dey fear that little man and his poor and wretched country..? The way some of these people reason is hilarious They want the USA to be destroyed, forgetting that in the process they will be destroyed as well. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: USA Pentagon Begs Russia That It Would Postpone Missile Test To Reduce Tension by GodHatesBigots(m): 1:02am On Mar 04, 2022 |
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The #Pentagon says it would postpone a scheduled intercontinental ballistic #missile test to de-escalate tensions after #Russian leader #VladimirPutin announced he was putting its strategic nuclear forces on high alert.
34 mins · Public Save · More Begs ?? Where did the US beg ? The US postponsed a nuclear missile test to reduce tension. They are acting as the matured ones here, while Putin is behaving like a deranged maniac. In a nuclear war, nobody wins and that includes AFRICA. Stop spreading fake news about the USA begging based on your sentiment. 2 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Top Russian Major General ‘killed' Fighting In Ukraine In Major Blow For Russia by GodHatesBigots(m): 4:47pm On Mar 03, 2022 |
franchasng: Fake news.
I stand with Mputim, US must fall US won’t fall. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Top Russian Major General ‘killed' Fighting In Ukraine In Major Blow For Russia by GodHatesBigots(m): 2:10pm On Mar 03, 2022 |
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Foreign Affairs / Top Russian Major General ‘killed' Fighting In Ukraine In Major Blow For Russia by GodHatesBigots(m): 1:26pm On Mar 03, 2022 |
[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]# A top Russian General has been killed in the war with Ukraine, according to a social media post by his colleague.
Andrei Sukhovetsky, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, died yesterday, Ukrainian news outlets report.
They referred to a post on Russian social media platform VKontakte written by Sergei Chipilev, a deputy of the Russian veterans group, Combat Brotherhood.
It said: ‘It is with great sorrow that we learned of the tragic news about the death of our friend, Major General Andrei Aleksandrovich Sukhovetsky, on the territory of Ukraine during a special operation.’
After graduating from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School in 1995, Sukhovetsky started his career path as a platoon commander. He went on to become chief of staff of the Guards airborne assault unit.
Ukrainian outlet Fakti said he had been in his latest role since October 2021 and was based in Novosibirsk.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/03/top-russian-general-killed-fighting-in-ukraine-in-major-blow-for-invaders-16209221/ 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Smouldering Russian Convoy Blitzed To Ashes By Ukrainian Resistance by GodHatesBigots(m): 2:58pm On Mar 02, 2022 |
Russia JUNK. Poor logistics, poor training, low morale and determined Ukrainians. Putin made a big mistake.
In the long term, Russia will lose this war and leave Ukraine in disgrace. 55 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Ukrainian Woman Married To A Nigerian Blast Those In Support Of Putin by GodHatesBigots(m): 10:52pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
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Politics / Re: Ukrainian Woman Married To A Nigerian Blast Those In Support Of Putin by GodHatesBigots(m): 10:43pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
Those supporting Pootin are either head slammers or IPOB. Very deluded people. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Welcome To Hell -Ukraine Army Repel Russian Forces In Street To Street Fighting by GodHatesBigots(m): 10:39pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
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Foreign Affairs / Pat Robertson: Putin Is "Being Compelled By God" To Invade Ukraine by GodHatesBigots(m): 10:32pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine has blown up into a conflict of horrific atrocities against civilians, nations around the world have lined up to condemn it — even historically neutral countries such as Switzerland.
But former televangelist Pat Robertson, who came out of his retirement to weigh in on the situation, sees something even grander in the whole affair — according to him, Vladimir Putin is being willed by God to conduct the invasion, as a way of triggering the End Times.
"I think you can say, well, Putin's out of his mind, and yes, maybe so," said Robertson. "But at the same time he's being compelled by God. He went into Ukraine, but that wasn't his goal. His goal was to move against Israel, ultimately."
"God is getting ready to do something amazing, and that will be fulfilled," said Robertson. "And what Putin is doing, by moving as he is, to set up Ukraine as a staging ground for one of the armies, and then across is Erdogan in Turkey, and you've got between them that little Dardanelles area. And it's going to happen. So I say, that is what's coming up. Is Putin crazy? Is he mad? Well, perhaps. But God says, I'm going to put hooks in your jaws and I'm going to draw you into this battle, whether you like it or not. And he's being compelled, after the move into the Ukraine, he's being compelled to move to get a land bridge, and then across the Dardanelles with Turkey, and watch what's going to happen next. You read your Bible, because it's coming to pass."
Contrary to Robertson's claim, Turkey — although often friendly with Russia — has not backed Russia's war and is firmly supporting Ukraine in the conflict. Additionally, as a NATO country, an attack on Turkey by Russia would compel a counterattack by the entire NATO alliance.
https://www.rawstory.com/pat-robertson/
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Foreign Affairs / Welcome To Hell -Ukraine Army Repel Russian Forces In Street To Street Fighting by GodHatesBigots(m): 9:41pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
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Foreign Affairs / Russian FM Lavrov Says Time For US To Remove Nuclear Weapons From Europe by GodHatesBigots(m): 5:33pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
The West must not build military facilities in any countries of the former Soviet Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Lavrov, quoted by Russian news agencies RIA and TASS, also said Moscow found it unacceptable that some European countries hosted US nuclear weapons and was taking measures to prevent Ukraine from acquiring similar weapons.
He also told a Geneva disarmament meeting on Tuesday that Kyiv has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, calling this a real danger that it needed to prevent.
“Ukraine still has Soviet technologies and the means of delivery of such weapons,” Sergei Lavov told the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament in a pre-recorded address. “We cannot fail to respond to this real danger,” he said.
At the same meeting, Ukraine’s foreign minister accused Russia of war crimes through its shelling of his country and called for a special meeting to address Russian aggression and weapons of mass destruction.
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/03/01/Russian-FM-Lavrov-says-time-for-US-to-remove-nuclear-weapons-from-Europe |
Foreign Affairs / Re: United Nations Admits Black & Brown Refugees Have Faced Racism At Ukraine Border by GodHatesBigots(m): 3:47pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
Also this ?? African nations on UN Security Council condemn racism at Ukrainian border
From CNN's Laura Ly
Representatives from the three African nations on the UN Security Council — Kenya, Ghana, and Gabon — all condemned discrimination against African citizens at the Ukrainian border during a UNSC meeting at the UN HQ in New York City Monday afternoon
“In the unfolding emergency, there have been disturbing reports about the racist treatment of Africans and people of African descent seeking to flee Ukraine to safety. The media is covering these appalling incidents and several states have confirmed that their citizens are suffering such treatment. We strongly condemn this racism and believe that it is damaging to the spirit of solidarity that is so urgently needed today. The mistreatment of African peoples on Europe’s borders needs to cease immediately, whether to the Africans fleeing Ukraine or to those crossing the Mediterranean,” Kenyan Ambassador to the UN Martin Kimani said Monday.
Kimani added that the Security Council needs “to be able to understand that there are actors who want to magnify this story for cynical reasons that have nothing to do with the wellbeing and safety of Africans.” He also thanked Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia for allowing Kenyan citizens fleeing Ukraine visa-free entry into their countries.
Ghanaian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Carolyn Oppong-Ntiri echoed the sentiment in her remarks, calling for the facilitation of persons fleeing Ukraine “without discrimination” and to provide them with humanitarian assistance, “including medical care in line with the principles of humanity, neutrality, and impartiality.”
The UN Ambassador from Gabon called reports of racism “unacceptable.”
“We ask for the respect of the dignity and for equitable treatment of all people in dire circumstances. It is an opportunity for my country to recall the African Union appeal for respect of international law that requires equal treatment for all people who cross international borders in conflict areas,” Ambassador Michel Xavier Biang said Monday.
CNN’s Pooja Salhotra contributed to this report.
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Foreign Affairs / United Nations Admits Black & Brown Refugees Have Faced Racism At Ukraine Border by GodHatesBigots(m): 3:46pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
The United Nations has admitted that some non-Europeans refugees have faced racism while trying to flee to safety at Ukraine borders.
Filippo Grandi, the organisation’s High Commissioner for Refugees, acknowledged this in a statement on Tuesday afternoon.
Christine Pirovolakis, Senior External Relations Officer at the UK branch of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told The Independent: “UNHCR is aware of reports of individuals facing challenges entering Poland from Ukraine and is following up on them.
“We advocate for access to safety for all, regardless their legal status, nationality and race as well as access to asylum for those who want to seek asylum.”
This comes after a number of Black, south Asian and Mediterranean refugees shared accounts of being blocked at borders while trying to make crossings while white Ukranians have been prioritised.
Black people living in the region told The Independent that they have been abandoned during the worsening crisis with some taking to social media in recent days to share their experiences.
Organisations, government officials and public figures around the world have condemned the discriminatory treatment including the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, American entertainer Beyoncé and the African Union.
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Foreign Affairs / Many Predicted Nato Expansion Would Lead To War. Those Warnings Were Ignored by GodHatesBigots(m): 2:00pm On Mar 01, 2022 |
It has long been clear that Nato expansion would lead to tragedy. We are now paying the price for the US’s arrogance
Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine is an act of aggression that will make already worrisome tensions between Nato and Moscow even more dangerous. The west’s new cold war with Russia has turned hot. Vladimir Putin bears primary responsibility for this latest development, but Nato’s arrogant, tone‐deaf policy toward Russia over the past quarter‐century deserves a large share as well. Analysts committed to a US foreign policy of realism and restraint have warned for more than a quarter‐century that continuing to expand the most powerful military alliance in history toward another major power would not end well. The war in Ukraine provides definitive confirmation that it did not.
Thinking through the Ukraine crisis – the causes
“It would be extraordinarily difficult to expand Nato eastward without that action’s being viewed by Russia as unfriendly. Even the most modest schemes would bring the alliance to the borders of the old Soviet Union. Some of the more ambitious versions would have the alliance virtually surround the Russian Federation itself.” I wrote those words in 1994, in my book Beyond Nato: Staying Out of Europe’s Wars, at a time when expansion proposals merely constituted occasional speculation in foreign policy seminars in New York and Washington. I added that expansion “would constitute a needless provocation of Russia”.
What was not publicly known at the time was that Bill Clinton’s administration had already made the fateful decision the previous year to push for including some former Warsaw Pact countries in Nato. The administration would soon propose inviting Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary to become members, and the US Senate approved adding those countries to the North Atlantic Treaty in 1998. It would be the first of several waves of membership expansion.
Even that first stage provoked Russian opposition and anger. In her memoir, Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s secretary of state, concedes that “[Russian president Boris] Yeltsin and his countrymen were strongly opposed to enlargement, seeing it as a strategy for exploiting their vulnerability and moving Europe’s dividing line to the east, leaving them isolated.”
Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of state, similarly described the Russian attitude. “Many Russians see Nato as a vestige of the cold war, inherently directed against their country. They point out that they have disbanded the Warsaw Pact, their military alliance, and ask why the west should not do the same.” It was an excellent question, and neither the Clinton administration nor its successors provided even a remotely convincing answer.
George Kennan, the intellectual father of America’s containment policy during the cold war, perceptively warned in a May 1998 New York Times interview about what the Senate’s ratification of Nato’s first round of expansion would set in motion. “I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” Kennan stated. ”I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else.”
He was right, but US and Nato leaders proceeded with new rounds of expansion, including the provocative step of adding the three Baltic republics. Those countries not only had been part of the Soviet Union, but they had also been part of Russia’s empire during the Czarist era. That wave of expansion now had Nato perched on the border of the Russian Federation.
Moscow’s patience with Nato’s ever more intrusive behavior was wearing thin. The last reasonably friendly warning from Russia that the alliance needed to back off came in March 2007, when Putin addressed the annual Munich security conference. “Nato has put its frontline forces on our borders,” Putin complained. Nato expansion “represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?”
In his memoir, Duty, Robert M Gates, who served as secretary of defense in the administrations of both George W Bush and Barack Obama, stated his belief that “the relationship with Russia had been badly mismanaged after [George HW] Bush left office in 1993”. Among other missteps, “US agreements with the Romanian and Bulgarian governments to rotate troops through bases in those countries was a needless provocation.” In an implicit rebuke to the younger Bush, Gates asserted that “trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into Nato was truly overreaching”. That move, he contended, was a case of “recklessly ignoring what the Russians considered their own vital national interests”.
The following year, the Kremlin demonstrated that its discontent with Nato’s continuing incursions into Russia’s security zone had moved beyond verbal objections. Moscow exploited a foolish provocation by Georgia’s pro‐western government to launch a military offensive that brought Russian troops to the outskirts of the capital. Thereafter, Russia permanently detached two secessionist‐minded Georgian regions and put them under effective Russian control.
Western (especially US) leaders continued to blow through red warning light after a red warning light, however. The Obama administration’s shockingly arrogant meddling in Ukraine’s internal political affairs in 2013 and 2014 to help demonstrators overthrow Ukraine’s elected, pro‐Russia president was the single most brazen provocation, and it caused tensions to spike. Moscow immediately responded by seizing and annexing Crimea, and a new cold war was underway with a vengeance.
Could the Ukraine crisis have been avoided?
Events during the past few months constituted the last chance to avoid a hot war in eastern Europe. Putin demanded that Nato provide guarantees on several security issues. Specifically, the Kremlin wanted binding assurances that the alliance would reduce the scope of its growing military presence in eastern Europe and would never offer membership to Ukraine. He backed up those demands with a massive military buildup on Ukraine’s borders.
The Biden administration’s response to Russia’s quest for meaningful western concessions and security guarantees was tepid and evasive. Putin then clearly decided to escalate matters. Washington’s attempt to make Ukraine a Nato political and military pawn (even absent the country’s formal membership in the alliance) may end up costing the Ukrainian people dearly.
The Ukraine tragedy
History will show that Washington’s treatment of Russia in the decades following the demise of the Soviet Union was a policy blunder of epic proportions. It was entirely predictable that Nato expansion would ultimately lead to a tragic, perhaps violent, breach of relations with Moscow. Perceptive analysts warned of the likely consequences, but those warnings went unheeded. We are now paying the price for the US foreign policy establishment’s myopia and arrogance.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-expansion-war-russia-ukraine |
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Politics / Re: The Stupidity Of Cheering The Moscow-based Adolf Hitler For Killing Innocents by GodHatesBigots(m): 12:55am On Feb 28, 2022 |
Goodmarlian: Nwanne je hie ora chi ejigo
America slaughtered over 3 million vietnamese just to give them democracy. Arabs slaughtered over 10 million Africans to give them ISLAM 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / The Stupidity Of Cheering The Moscow-based Adolf Hitler For Killing Innocents by GodHatesBigots(m): 12:40am On Feb 28, 2022 |
The events of the last few days have left me on the edge of my seat after Russian imperialist Vladimir Putin criminally invaded his southern neighbour and unleashed full-scale military attack on Ukrainians for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
This comes following weeks in which Russia amassed over 150,000 troops near its border with Ukraine, with Washington consistently saying at the time that an invasion was imminent. Although Moscow dismissed those revelations and called them “misinformation,” everything came to a head in the early hours of Thursday, February 24, when Putin gave an order for the criminal invasion, calling it a “special military operation.”
The illegal invasion has attracted severe condemnation across the world. Even China, a well-known ally of Russia, refused to veto a draft of the United Nations Security Council resolution which was to condemn Moscow’s cruelty in Ukraine. Only Russia vetoed the resolution! China simply refused to participate in the voting process along with the United Arab Emirates and India. The rest of the 11 Council members voted in favour, including African representatives: Gabon, Ghana and Kenya.
In the face of this unjustifiable assault, which has resulted to the deaths of several innocent people and children, it is the behaviours of some Nigerians on social media, including the so-called “educated” ones, that have left me scandalised.
They have engaged in the celebration of violence that involves the spilling of innocent blood, such as the cheering of Vladimir Putin, a blood-thirsty aggressor who believes in imperial conquest. It is difficult to decipher the sudden idolisation of a man who is desperate to establish himself as the 21st century Adolf Hitler. Here is an unrepentant bully, a warmonger whose incurable obsession with the re-creation of another Soviet Union continues to drive him into a frenzy and the commission of unjustifiable crimes against humanity.
And, as a “well done” message for senselessly killing innocent people and displacing thousands, some of his social media praise-singers and defenders now use his image as their profile picture. This is sickening and unacceptable!
It is disturbing to learn that the Nigerian psychology has been subjected to such pernicious damage so much so that we are no longer sensitive to such cruel injustice and egregious crimes against innocent people.
To worsen matters, it is the harebrained and embarrassingly awkward arguments they build in dictator Vladimir Putin’s defence that tempt you into questioning their sanity. Even Putin, that tormented bully, would be surprised to learn of the junk excuses being concocted for him in Nigeria as the cause of the war he instigated in Ukraine.
I must now highlight only two of the baseless excuses Nigerians on social media are using to justify Putin’s illegal invasion and killings.
1. Putin does not want Ukraine in NATO:
Here dictator Putin’s Nigerian defenders claim that Russia previously told the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] that Ukraine, an independent nation, is “not allowed” to join NATO. They claim that Ukraine joining NATO poses a threat to Russia and that such cannot be allowed. Others claim that dictator Putin has warned that no former member of the Soviet Union is allowed to join NATO.
This puerile defence for tyranny and contemporary imperialism is not only embarrassing to dictator Putin’s advocates, it insults the sovereign state of Ukraine to suggest that the country has no right to aspire for membership of any association it desires without the express approval of the president of another country.
What this means, for example, is that Benin Republic has the right to warn Nigeria against joining this or that association simply because Benin’s President Patrice Talon is not on good terms with said association[s] or would feel threatened. As a result, Nigeria is obligated to obey Benin Republic against its own interest. This is laughable.
2. United States invaded and killed in Libya, Iraq, etc; UK killed here and there, etc:
Here, Putin’s supporters in Nigeria are saying that their “hero’s” murderous actions in Ukraine are justified on the basis that the United States, the UK and other powerful nations did same in the past.
Whilst analysing this absurd defence concocted by some Nigerians for Putin, one question came to mind:
Are these Nigerians saying that dictator Buhari’s killing of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate on the evening of Tuesday, October 20, 2020 should be justified simply because former president Olusegun Obasanjo did same when he massacred the defenceless people of Odi on November 20, 1999?
The hypocrisy of these people is chilling.
The grand irony of this blind support is that Putin’s citizens are against him for choosing to embark on this war and they’ve been protesting on the streets of 57 cities including: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar, Ekaterinburg, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod and Voronezh. They are chanting: “NO TO WAR!” According to OVD-Info, 1,858 Russians have been arbitrarily arrested by the Moscow-based dictator. Yet, street protests continue to grow even after the dictator banned demonstrations under the pretext that COVID-19 rules are being violated.
So, this blind, hypocritical love from Nigerians for a bloodthirsty tyrant who has been disowned by his own people remains incomprehensible. That Nigerians are trying to demonstrate that they “love” Russia more than Russians is ludicrous.
Even before dictator Putin went about bullying his neighbour, he had been an unpopular leader in his own country, jailing critics, opposition members and tagging them “terrorists” and “extremists.” Russia of the Future, which is the main opposition party in Russia, has been banned by the Putin tyranny and declared a terrorist organisation, just like dictator Buhari would do in Nigeria.
Anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, who is the founder of the banned political party, has been arrested and jailed along with members of the party. They’ve also been declared as “terrorists” and their bank accounts frozen.
Since assuming office in 1999, Putin has crowned himself the Lord of Russia, and has created a country in which his will is supreme and is subject to no questions.
But with the slew of economic sanctions slammed on an already struggling economy, there’s a likelihood that the ongoing demonstrations may metamorphose into an uprising or a revolution, which may eventually drown Putin, bringing to an end the reign of the new Adolf Hitler. Yet, the hypocrisy of these Nigerians will be nowhere to salvage him from the anger of his own people.
Elias Ozikpu
Playwright, novelist, essayist, polemicist, citizen journalist, permanent enemy of oppressors
http://saharareporters.com/2022/02/27/russia-vs-ukraine-stupidity-cheering-moscow-based-adolf-hitler-killing-innocent-people |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Putin Puts Russia’s Nuclear Forces On Alert, Cites Sanctions by GodHatesBigots(m): 9:12pm On Feb 27, 2022 |
dreamxhaser:
Go Bleep yourself. Do you know the story behind the war?
Well let me guess, NO Shataap |
Foreign Affairs / USA Asks Citizens In Russia To Leave Immediately While There Are Still Flights by GodHatesBigots(m): 9:09pm On Feb 27, 2022 |
More updates to come |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Putin Puts Russia’s Nuclear Forces On Alert, Cites Sanctions by GodHatesBigots(m): 9:06pm On Feb 27, 2022 |
maasoap:
Did you guys even read the news above at all before posting all these trash?
Putin is the aggressor not NATO. He attacked a sovereign nation unprovoked. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Putin Puts Russia’s Nuclear Forces On Alert, Cites Sanctions by GodHatesBigots(m): 6:03pm On Feb 27, 2022 |
BluntTheApostle:
Who told you he was referring to the war in Ukraine?
He was referring to comments made by some notable NATO powers.
Remember that the French president said recently that NATO had nuclear weapons too.
Putin never made any mention of nuking Ukraine when the French president began to misyarn. Wrong. Putin issued the first threat ! |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Nuclear Weapon By Country And How It Works by GodHatesBigots(m): 5:26pm On Feb 27, 2022 |
chatinent:
Oga go and check records. Stop assuming.
Russia is the only country that makes the US think twice before doing anything. 1. Russian forces have failed to capture a major Ukrainian city in 4 days after having lost a substantial number of soldiers. Imagine what will happen if they face a more technologically advanced superior force like NATO ? They will be obliterated. 2. The USA also has ICMBs - LGM-30 Minuteman. Range of 13,000 km. Speed 15,000 mph 3. The USA has one of the best air defence systems called - Terminal High Altitude Area DefenseThere is a reason why a Nuclear war is called MAD or Mutual Assured Destruction. Update your knowledge. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Nuclear Weapon By Country And How It Works by GodHatesBigots(m): 5:23pm On Feb 27, 2022 |
chatinent: Russia dominates the US with nuclear weapons capacity...and Russia is difficult to invade due to its size.
The US will likely crawl into their hole. They've shed more blood than any country. Learner |