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.

Monday, February 21, 2022

UKRAINE: A SHAME OF THE WEST.

ICHEOKU says it is rather unfortunate and indeed regrettable that the West cannot defend Ukraine in its time of greatest need, following its quest to fully democratize and become a Western European nation. Ukraine wants in and the least the West could have done is to encourage, support and help it get in and belong to the West. But the West chickened out, afraid that Russia might bite them; insisting that because Ukraine is not a member of NATO, the West cannot help to defend it. Why not make Ukraine a member of NATO immediately and solve the inhibiting issue of "members-only" defense pact

As Ukraine goes so shall so many small European nations, especially those of the former soviet bloc as the West continues to shy away from a direct confrontation with Russia. President Vladimir Putin is ready for war and has not kept anyone in doubt about his intention to reabsorb all the former Soviet countries and he will certainly do that, no matter the threat of economic sanctions. Once Ukraine is in his kitty, he will make a grab for the rest of the countries as he has since figured out that the West is afraid of fighting a real mother of all wars battle with Russia. The West is very timid in matters involving Russia and will continue to retreat whenever President Vladimir Putin bares his fangs as we are witnessing in Ukraine.

Unlike the West, President Vladimir Putin does not abandon Russia's friend at the hour of their greatest need and has helped many of his allied countries' presidents remain in office. Belarus President Lukanhesko following the attempted democracy revolution and the boycott of his country due to the air piracy it conducted in abducting a wanted anti-government journalist, sent a plea to Moscow. Putin sent in military advisers and they killed enough Belarusians to scare them off the streets, sending their political leaders to forced exile. The same scenario more recently played itself out in Kazakhstan with the attempted fuel-price triggered revolution against the president. Putin did what he does best, sent in the Russian military to kill enough Kazakhs to scare them off the streets. 

If President Vladimir Putin is willing to always go to the mat and do the needful for his cronies in trouble, why is the West not doing the same for its friend in Kiev? Why do they lack the backbone to help its friend now in Putin's trouble. Were the reverse the case, Putin would have since sent battalions of troops into Ukraine to help shore up and bolster the government and safely keep it in power. How else does the West expect Ukraine to be completely freed of Russia's tentacles if they are not willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that Ukraine remains free to make its foreign policy direction, including sending in soldiers into Ukraine to help them fight Russia when it invades and also reclaim their Crimea and Donbas region. 

Chechnya once wanted to break away from Russia but Putin turned them into a wasteland with bombs and with America's intelligence help, killed the Chechnya leader, effectively bringing their struggle for independence from Moscow to a cruel end. Why was it okay for Russia not to allow Chechnya to break away, but it is not alright for Ukraine to want to retain parts of its territory that the same Russia is helping separatists fight to assert control over? Must everything be a force based theory where might is always right and the powerful can have their way while the weak must suck it up, willy-nilly?

President Vladimir Putin was in Beijing during the opening of the just concluded Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. He embraced and shook hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping; they also took close up photographs together. President Emmanuel Macron then went to Moscow and Putin brought out the long table and refused to be photographed with the French leader together either shaking hands or embracing. He also rejected placing French flags behind him on the podium. The German Chancellor went to Moscow and it was the same rude treatment. Then Belarus President Alexander Lukanhesko went and it was a smiling Putin that was seen embracing, kissing, hugging and shaking hands with him. The signature long table either magically disappeared or was shrunk down, as the two leaders cozied up together with their both nations' flags adorning Putin's background. 

The message Putin sent with those images are clear and only a weak and woke West, that is playing possum and like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand, is pretending that threat of sanctions alone would deter Putin. Nobody is however addressing the big elephant in the room, China, which may have concluded its own plan over Taiwan, to simultaneously invade it as Putin orders Russian troops into Ukraine. Putin could have also privately secured a necessary economic lifeline for Russia from Beijing for whatever sanctions the West might impose? Just one man alone is holding the entire West hostage to either meet his demand on Ukraine or they will see blood, rivers of blood, that is. 

ICHEOKU says do Russian soldiers not bleed and die too? Is Russian military equipment indestructible, the reason it appears the West is afraid of fighting Russia? Why is the cloud of war that has built over Ukraine suddenly dissipating? How else are we going to see the Russian military, weapons and equipment engage in a battle of supremacy with Western military, weapons and equipment, if this war is avoided. When will all the billion dollars of military equipment be finally put into good use and in fact, actually really tested for their lethality. 

Imagine the transformation in life which an average Russian could have seen had all the money spent building these military tanks, fighter planes and other equipment been spent on improving their lives. Ditto the United States of America and Europe, in relation to millions of their hungry and desolate citizens. 

If it was two black countries that were involved in a border dispute, the West's interest in preventing a war between them would not have been this fever pitched? They would have since cheer-led both sides into a conflagration and supplied them with whatever number of bullets and guns they needed to kill each other. But two Caucasian countries are involved and white people do not want to see another carnage in Europe after the sad losses of the two world wars which greatly reduced their population. What they did is both smart and clever, especially as  Europe is now too woke to fight wars and such a confrontation with Russia will be too risky.

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