“Calamity” or deliberate blockade of food/fertilizer/fuel?

Trump has some fans in Nigeria (hard core Chrisitians I assume). Maybe the US is aiming for a divide and conquer strategy between the Muslim North and Christianized Coastline.

Seems similar to the Somalia strategy of the US: Split Somalia into two new nations. Somaliland could be recognized by the US in return for political loyalty. Somaliland will host military bases and refugees from US-Detention.

Nigeria is the biggest country in Africa by population, by a wide margin. Trying to get in there by force … seems weird. Maybe he wishes for some military bases in Africa with cooperation from Nigeria?

Its only about (closely) avoiding big wars with Russia or China for him. Small fish like Venezuela and Nigeria still seem digestible to the empire.

But Nigeria is the biggest country in Africa by population. This is really big.

I predict: Death penalty awaits him.

Can one IL-76 carry one?

I expect networking standards to diverge, to block other nations from selling equipment in others. I think we see this already happening with phone modems. The internet will split again.

Military “Advisors” and equipment? Maybe just observers.

Some of these headlines look pretty racist to me, making fun of Chinese culture and history in general … Am I the only one?

• Can Pandas fly? Like they can not fly and reach a higher realm of existence because they are too chubby and weak? What?

Looks like someone has been playing with the sliders in the character designer.

in the … Oblivion character designer lol

Pretty useful against Cavalry in dense pike formations.

While Israel builds bases right next to their capital Damascus in Syria, these frustrated guys attack the Alawites instead.

I suppose they want to send a message to Turkey. This is not about Syria directly, but about Turkeys ambitions in Syria. The protector of the Syrian state changed, previously Russia guarded the border region with a military base, now they are gone and Turkey wants to step in. Turkish Military advisors are already present in Damascus afaik. I consider Turkey to be the strongest military force in the region, stronger than Egypt; Irans route is basically cut off through Iraq and Northern Syria now; Israel and the US do not want to have them closer.

Also this is about the Situation in Lebanon right next to the Golan heights, where Israel operates drones and wants to act undisturbed by outside interference.

So immediately after Assad fell they moved in to stay permanently with fortified bases, right next to the capital Damascus. The army which previously held the positions had to fall back due to instability, and the Russian bases are still in limbo there.

Protection of the new Syrian state seems mainly a concern for the Turkish forces now, but their establishment as a security guarantor takes time, if it happens at all.

Can such Hercules planes fly to Venezuela without mid-air refueling?

Watch them do a 180° turn and say it will collapse again next year.

These are the front-lines around Prokrovsk according to Youtuber “Weeb Union”. If this is true, withdrawal from Myrnohrad should be difficult over a path under fire/drone-control. The only hope for Ukraine is a counter attack at the flanks by their elite Azov Battalion they need to move there from the rear as an emergency force.

I do not trust the worthiness of some random YouTube-channel source, other official Ukrainian mappers like “Deepstate map” have the front-line inside a huge moving gray-area, so you can not really conclude what is happening at all.

This is part of the nature of war I guess, sometimes outside observers will never know what really happened at the front.

Blackwater PMC. It seems like they give their mercenary cooperation cool evil names lmao.

Magnetic landings? I think you invented very cool new technology here lol. I think it should be possible, if you attached some magnet to the landing gear and somehow magnetized the landing platform. Trains also use magnetic breaks using the magnetic field effects in their metal wheels smh - proving the elegance of electric propulsion once again.