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.