GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Saturday, March 27, 2021

CHINA FACE OFF: IT IS TOO LATE NOW TO TAME THE PANDA.

ICHEOKU says the West talking to China and expecting them to be more reasonable in the relationship between them is akin to talking to the Taliban or ISIS and expecting them to accept Western values and stop their hatred for Christians and Western civilization. There is an unbridgeable ideological and philosophical divide between the two civilizations which cannot be fixed through mere talking and/or negotiation as one must capitulate in order for the other to triumph. It will require the nuclear option to completely obliterate their thinking and forcibly impose Western values on them, otherwise they will never move an inch. They have to be militarily defeated and in their surrender terms, the adoption of Western values will be spelt out as a precondition for sparing any surviving leadership member. But expecting the current approach to work or thinking that sanctions and boycotts will do the magic is but a wishful thinking. China will never allow itself to be dictated to by the West nor will they ever compromise their national security values. 

Only a successfully military confrontation will see the West's desired change in China, otherwise all the talks and condemnations will remain what they are, mere hot air which could last in perpetuity without moving the needle. China sees the pressure being put on them by the West as an existential threat to its way of life and they will not accept it willingly. They have made their minds up to irrevocably stand their ground and will engage in a costly war if need be to defend their position. It is the Western nations that have not taken a firm stand on whether they are prepared to do what it takes to force the issue by confronting China militarily. As far as China is concerned, their position is irrevocably made known and they have thrown their hat in the ring and waiting for the West to make their next move. 

If the West takes a pass as it is most likely to do because they have no appetite for a bloody battle with China, then they must be prepared to put up with China's human rights violations and their dictatorial way of managing their very large population. Democracy does not work in a vacuum and China does not have the necessary institutions that supports democracy. So, the only two options available to the West are to either put up by going to war with China or to shut up by accepting China the way China is, understanding that China will always do what China does and will simply ignore the West as it steadily powers onward. The pressure would have worked several decades earlier when China was just taking off, but it is too late now as they have powered through the frontiers and unstoppably racing towards the finish line in their quest to surpass every country on the face of the earth. Nobody can stop them now and they will not allow anybody to even try and will go to war to prove their new status as a nation with a formidable might.

Had the West not wasted so much time before making their current lame effort to contain China, may be they would have succeeded in caging China or confined it to within an acceptable power status. But China has grown so exponentially over the many past decades that their military and economic muscles can help them stand their ground with much greater audacity now. Therefore China will not bulge nor will they ever submit to the West's pressure to reform. They will use their 1.6 billion population to bargain their way out of any given tight spot which they are forced into, short of shooting war. They will readily deploy them in  boycotting products from nations which they consider hostile to their national strategic interest. Unfortunately for the West, so many western companies and corporations have tasted the juiciness that comes with 1.6 billion people patronizing and buying their products and those companies will not allow their governments to spoil their fun. 

Therefore, as it presently stands, all the hollering of the West for China to reform is akin to a dog barking at a grizzly bear but dares not breach the distance between them to levy an attack. China knows that they are coming from a position of strength and that the West have no real choice in the matter. Also, the West cannot sanction China out of relevance as it lacks the capacity to ruin the Chinese economy.  Even militarily, China is no longer a push over banana republic and cannot be easily intimidated by naval armadas, fighter planes, missiles and bombs. So, what exactly can the West do to an uncompromising China to make them change their ways since increased decibel of their condemnations has no effect. 

ICHEOKU says nothing really except a full blown war and hope of a quick victory. It is what Bill Clinton led the world into by letting China into the World Trade Organization. Now they have matured fully and can no longer be pushed around by the West. Thereof only tolerating them as they are is the only real option for the West, short of going to a full blown shooting war with China. Hopefully, they will defeat China and then divide them up into smaller countries like a conquered territory or China will implode on its own just like the old Soviets Union. But as long as China remains one undivided country, they will remain a force of nature to reckon with and they will not allow themselves to be easily overawed, intimidated or dictated to. They will continuously resist the West's pressure and they will engage in tit for tat measures, sanctions for sanctions and boycotts for boycotts, in their push back of the West to back off. 

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