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.

Thursday, March 3, 2022

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS LOST LEGITIMACY TO LEAD RUSSIA: TIME FOR HIM TO GO.

ICHEOKU says the West must not wait until President Vladimir Putin first wipes off the map, a major Western city, before taking his threats of nuclear annihilation more seriously. The Russian strongman has lost his marbles and by attacking Ukraine, despite all the assurances he gave the world that he will not attack the country, shows a man who is completely unhinged and possibly trying to go down with millions of innocent souls. 

The West should therefore treat his latest threat of a nuclear attack very seriously, and ready itself for it and also prepare for a swift and devastating punitive retaliatory response in kind. The fact that he is now readying his anti aircrafts and anti missiles S-400 Triumf Air Defense Missile Systems based in Siberia shows that Ukraine is no longer his main focus, already feeling mission-accomplished on that; and has moved his eyes on his other major prize, other former Soviet countries who are now members of NATO.  The question remains: would NATO fight in defense of these countries or will they shirk away at the opportune time simply because of fear of Putin's threatened use of nuclear weapons?

The other day President Vladimir Putin said he had a couple of words for those in the West who might be tempted to interfere in what he is doing in Ukraine or intervene to protect Ukraine or in any other way try to harm Russia. According to him, Russia's response to such provocative action will be immediate and will lead to consequences which the West have not seen nor imagined ever before, and throughout their history. Many analysts, including ICHEOKU, interpreted his remarks as a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons against the West should they provoke him any further. What other thing could President Vladimir Putin possibly do to the West that would have such adverse consequences which nobody has ever seen nor imagined  before, and throughout history?

A day after making the threat and to ensure that nobody was left in doubt about what he said, he  took additional steps towards this intention by ordering Russian defense officials and top military commanders to put Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on a heightened red alert. He ordered them to be on a "special regime of combat duty" readiness, thus ratcheting up the tension between his country and the West and increasing the threat of nuclear war between Russia and the West. It is a war which both sides will suffer dearly from, but it is a war which the West must not shy away from just because President Vladimir Putin is a mad man and does not care if millions of people perish as a result. 

He could be bluffing or just making empty threats to scare the West away from defending those former Soviet countries when he finally attacks them. But whatever may be the underlying factor, his threat should not be dismissed, but treated with every seriousness commensurate to such a threat. What he said previously coupled to his new direct order on his defense officials and military commanders should be clear enough evidence that President Vladimir Putin is poised to use nuclear weapons against the West. 

It requires no further effort at understanding or interpretation or any other nuanced reading for context. It should be taken at face value that he actually intends to use nuclear weapons in any confrontation with the West and wants the weapons readied now and handy for use when he orders it. He has also conducted nuclear drills and test-fired some nuclear warheads carrying missiles in recent days in furtherance of his preparation and readiness to use them.

The West should immediately counter his threat by also announcing their own preparations for use of nuclear weapons. They should start undermining his government towards delegitimizing him and find a way to remove him from office and put him out of power. The West should reach out to senior Russian military officers and persuade them to move against President Vladimir Putin. Taking him out of power is the only magic silver bullet that will end the recurring Putin problem; just kill the Kremlin monster and solve his problem once and for all. 

Overthrowing President Vladimir Putin is the right thing to do in order to achieve an enduring peace between the West and Russia. What we have in Russia is a dictatorship and not a democracy, so there will be no argument about the need to protect Russia's democracy. Moving against President Vladimir Putin will be finding a permanent and long term solution to Putin's problem. This should be an added focus of the West as they continue to help Ukraine in their war against the invading Russians. President Vladimir Putin should be removed from office now and permanently separated from power and Russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons before he causes a mushroom cloud to hang over a Western city. 

Were President Vladimir Putin a rational person, maybe the West can continue with its appeasing containment accommodation of him, but he is not. He has completely lost his mind and has repeatedly shown that he is not rational and his capacity to lie is now beyond belief. He cannot be trusted and his words do not mean much, if anything. So, continuing to have such a psychopath in charge of Russia and its nuclear stockpile should no longer be an option. He should be removed from office however possible and regardless of the short term cost of such effort. The long term benefit of his removal to overall world peace, particularly Russia's neighboring countries, will be tremendous. 

The West should seriously consider confronting Putin now in Ukraine and in victory, force him to cough up Crimea. If he is allowed to secure victory in Ukraine just because the West is afraid of his threat of nuclear weapons use, he will eventually come for the rest of former Soviet countries now members of NATO. Will the West then also pony up these countries to Putin since his nuclear weapons use threat is still subsisting and not lifted nor defused? This should be the reason the West should jump into the fray now and defeat him in Ukraine rather than wait for him to score victory and then make a play for other former Soviet countries. He should be discouraged in defeat now in Ukraine than allow his victory there to propel him to other victories elsewhere. 

The fear of nuclear weapons should not scare the West away or intimidate them into abandoning  a confrontation with President Vladimir Putin's Russia. Many people survived the Nagasaki and Hiroshima explosions and so will many people also survive any nuclear attack on the West by President Vladimir Putin. He is not immune from atomic annihilation himself and likewise his Russian people who have tolerated and enabled his ruinousness for all these many years. Russians too are as susceptible to nuclear radiation and destruction, so the West should not succumb to the hostage of its fear. A nuke for a nuke is an existing deterrent and his irrationality does not seem to have reached the level of being oblivious of this fact of a mutually assured destruction.

The threat should be seen for what it is, an attempt to bully Ukraine into surrender and scare off the West from rendering help to Ukraine. He wants to keep the West away from sending troops to Ukraine and keep them on the sideline watching while he runs Ukraine over like a roadkill. The West must not allow themselves to be intimidated into inaction by his threat and should actively engage Putin now by rendering direct assistance to Ukraine. 

The West should join forces with Ukraine now and fight the Russian roguery while it is still confined within the borders of Ukraine. They must not wait for Russia to first declare victory in Ukraine and make an example out of Ukraine like they did in Chechnya before belatedly trying to head Russia off. Adolf Hitler started the same way, will the West allow President Vladimir Putin to be next? 

The true test of having a belief is what such believers are prepared to do in defense of their belief. If the West indeed believes in democracy and freedom, and also fights for values dear to them, they should be engaged right now in Ukraine, fighting alongside Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin is destroying Ukraine to prevent it from becoming a fully functioning democratic society where people's rights are protected and where people are free and not under the thumb  of one individual, a tin-coat dictator named Vladimir Putin. 

Therefore, under no circumstances must the West allow President Vladimir Putin to declare victory in Ukraine because such will send a wrong message that democracy was defeated in Ukraine because the West did not defend democracy in Ukraine and the West considered democracy in Ukraine as not worth being defended. It must not be a repeat of the Afghanistan experience where Afghans were abandoned and forced to go back to their Taliban vomit after 20 years of relatively blossoming freedom and  democracy. 

Ukraine has come a long way, 30 years of democracy and freedom, and should be assisted in their fight not to be forcibly dragged back to the asphyxiating Russian command and control of Putinistic autocracy. They are fighting to stay the course and the West should help them as an ally and ensure they are not forced back to acute dictatorship. Posterity will not forgive the West if cowardice or unnecessary hedging render them impotent and prevent them from rising up to the occasion of the challenge which President Vladimir Putin has now imposed on their moral compass. 

Will the West continue to watch as Putin destroys the beauty in Ukraine? Will the West continue to hide under NATO membership rule while Putin renders Ukraine a wasteland like he did to Chechnya? How many women and children must first die before the West is awoken from its slumber? Britain, France, Italy and other countries of Europe that were under Germany's boot were not members of NATO as NATO did not exist then, when America rose to the occasion with allied forces and liberated them. Kuwait was not a member of NATO when it was rescued from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army occupation. So, why is Ukraine being shortchanged? #SendTroopsIntoUkraineNow

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