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.

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

TALK OF A POST ZELENSKY'S UKRAINE NOW IS DEFEATIST: SHOULD BE DISCONTINUED.

ICHEOKU says it is utterly disappointing and disheartening to hear the West already contemplating the death or capture of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and making plans for his succession. Which other Ukrainian person would still willingly listen to the West or volunteer him or herself for another Western experiment at holding power in Kiev if the West couldn't protect President Zelenskiy? The capture or kill of the president by Russia, despite all he bravely sacrificed to identify with the West, will take away the oxygen in the Ukrainian resistance and should be guarded against very seriously. 

No harm therefore must be allowed to come to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy because it will leave many Ukrainians wondering, if Russia could get Zelenskiy, what then is the point fighting and what chances does any other Western installed leader in Kiev have in avoiding a similar fate. He is the symbol of the Ukrainian defiance to President Vladimir Putin and the arrowhead of the current resistance against Russia. He must be protected in order to keep the hope of saving Ukraine alive. Having successfully galvanized and mobilized the Ukrainian people, he has become the reason the face of the courageous fight against the Russian invaders. 

There will never be another Ukrainian war leader like him, so the West must bear this in mind and stop the morbid talk about his demise or toppling. The West must do whatever it takes to ensure his safety because without him, Russia will quickly seal up the fate of Ukraine as despondent Ukrainians would lose their appetite to carry on fighting. If it means sending some Secret Service officials or any other presidential protection detail from other countries to Kiev to help protect the president, so be it. That guy is the reason Russia has not overrun Ukraine and he needs to stay alive for Ukraine to have any chance at forcing Russians out.

The Ukrainian president and his people are already under a heavy amount of pressure, worrying themselves sick about protecting their country from the Russians. The great destruction which Russian bombs and artillery shells are causing in Ukraine is already keeping the leadership sleepless in Kiev, so why turn their bad situation into a nightmare by making plans for an Ukraine without President Zelenskyy. What Ukraine needs now is all the help they can get and not an additional issue to worry about, admitted they are mindful of the imperative and are already taking care of the business, ensuring the safety and security of their president. 

Such a loose talk about who will succeed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and whether the West will recognize any government installed in Kiev by Moscow is irresponsible and should be discouraged and discontinued. Imagine how the Ukrainian president, who has become the face of the resistance against Russia, would feel reading his own obituary by the West while still cheerleading his country men and women to sacrifice for their country. The West should join the Ukrainian president in the cheerleading resistance and not entertain such a ghoulish ill thought about the president. It is demoralizing.

Ukrainians need their rallying figure, the center of gravity of their resistance, to stay alive if they are to have any chance of forcing Russians to abandon the cause and leave their country. The West should help Ukrainians sustain their willingness to fight on and keep their morale high, and stop such destructive and undermining demoralizing talks about an inevitable death or capture of their president. Ukraine is fighting for their survival as an independent sovereign nation and their presidential security services are working overtime to ensure that their president remains safe and secure; they should be encouraged and not discouraged or in any other way damage their high morale to persevere. 

It is very foolish too for the West to say that they will not recognize any Russian installed government in Ukraine post President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Russia does not care whether or not the West recognizes such a future government, provided they have their installed government in place in Kiev. There are so many governments throughout the world which the West does not recognize and/or which are under the "strictest" Western sanctions, yet they are still flourishing. Zimbabwe, North Korea, Myanmar, Mali, Iran and Venezuela for example are all still functioning. 

Unless the West has already given up on Ukraine and is now preparing to lick its wounds of defeat by Russia, the present "we do not want to escalate the war" approach to the war in Ukraine should change. The West, instead of looking forward to the fall of Ukraine or the killing or capture of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, should actively be helping Ukraine to starve off both outcomes. Ukrainians want to win the war and they are fighting to win the war and save their homeland from Putin's assured dissolution. 

Many countries are also closely watching the events in Ukraine to see whether it will become another West's lured out and West's abandoned country which the West refused to defend when the consequences of their listening to the West came calling. China for example must be calibrating its next move in its quest to reunify Taiwan with the mainland, based on its assessment of the West 's response to the Ukraine invasion. Will North Korea be tempted to send a missile right into Japan? A lot is dependent on the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict and whether it is resolved in favor of the West, otherwise it will erode so much of the West's clout in the world. #NoHarmMustComeToZelenskiy.

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