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David Rennie
August 9, 2023

Newland had some nerve, she installed a coup in the Ukraine and brought death and destruction to that nation and Gives orders to Niger to step down and restore the government.

Anna Cornelia
Anna Cornelia
August 9, 2023

Alex, the forest by the Cultural Centre looks like it is silver birch trees, with their white trunks. So many beautiful places in Moscow to rest, relax and , maybe, study. The Cultural Centre is great. Space, light and free! Russians are very lucky that their city planners care about their wellbeing rather than cramming as many high rise buildings into one place and charging massive rents for them.

k-rasch
k-rasch
August 9, 2023

Those are birches at the cultural center, I would suggest. With an app you could find out what “Betula” species they are.

HELGA
HELGA
August 9, 2023

RITTER SAYS THAT LIRA IS SPYING FOR THE SBU NOW.

john plum
Reply to  HELGA
August 9, 2023

If so, as a triple spy, to double cross them, I’d reckon.

john plum
August 9, 2023

Yeah, thats’s right, refuse to see the woman himself; The General in charge of Niger’s coup let the diplomat meet her, the Banderite woman of Washington; As if a Niger General with popular support, his children in school there, and his parents and grandparents farmers and builders upon his own soil is going to run for his life to the airport for the USA all because a woman from oceans away whose face he despises threatens him in his duty to nation because he too might decide to abandon all honour for her sake and her kind.

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john plum
August 9, 2023

So how big is Niger’s army at this time?

From ‘Summarizer’
10,000 in 2019, with about 5,000 reservists.
 An ECOWAS military intervention in Niger would rely heavily on Nigeria, which has the largest army in the region and makes logistical sense to rely on Nigeria, which shares a 1,600 kilometer long border with Niger.

As of 2019, the Nigerian Armed Forces had a total of 223,000 active duty military personnel, 

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Diana
Diana
Reply to  john plum
August 9, 2023

I imagine that Niger would receive support from neighbouring nations.

Carol
Carol
Reply to  john plum
August 9, 2023

Vanessa Beeley said the NATO troops in Mauritania pulled out. Algeria, Mali and Burkino Faso will side with Niger. Libya is split between western supporters and no-western suppoirters. Interesting that the US made a drone attack in Libya recently. Niger is slightly less than twice the size of the state of Texas.

john plum
August 9, 2023

Ref. The latest Distraction – a Naval War;
I took my time to get the exact measure of theman, and see now not merely a fool but a special kind of fool. The man Zelensky (and his close-companions too) is a twisted person who has taken each opportunity to become about one of the most evil people in history – abandoning the male population in his care to be continuously sacrificed as long as it takes, all for a lie – Russain and Ukrainian speaking people alike.

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Diana
Diana
Reply to  john plum
August 9, 2023

He might not have started out like that, but matters have gone way beyond his control.

charles smith
charles smith
Reply to  Diana
August 9, 2023

As Alex clearly points out, “elensky is only the ‘front man’. He does what the banderites tell him to do. General zaluzhnyi, the head of the Ukrainian military, openly wears WWII nazi insignias and in many world-wide published pictures of ‘elensky there is a solider in the near background with banderite nazi insignias clearly visible. This is not a mistake. It has happened several times, even after widely published condemnation. This is to show the world who is really in charge in Ukraine, the ultra nationalists who identify with nazis. It would be interesting to get ‘elensky on a polygraph… Read more »

Irmtraut
Irmtraut
Reply to  charles smith
August 9, 2023

polygraph tests only work when the one taking the test is aware that he is lying. It might not work on elensky, as he probably believes his own lies, thus they wouldn’t register as lies.

Anita
Anita
August 9, 2023

Oh and Vicki Neuland reminds me of the Evil spiritual Bejoran leader in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series, as well as, Jabba the Hut.

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Tom
Tom
August 9, 2023

We are used to the pressitudes BS coming out of the Guardian and Independent crapholes sucking on their own fingers for yet another “story”.

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