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, May 12, 2022

PUTIN PUNCTURED THE BUBBLE OF RUSSIA'S INVINCIBILITY: RECOVERY WILL BE ARDOUS.

ICHEOKU says it reminds one of the biblical lamentations of David in 2 Samuel 1:20 following the slaying of Saul and Jonathan on the mountains of Gilboa. Is "tell it not in Garth, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph", the fate which now awaits Russia? Has Russia been slain, lost its former glory as a worthy military adversary? Are foes of Russia and those in competition for world domination with Russia now about to rejoice in their triumph over Russia? 

Where is Russia's David that will mourn since China's President Xi Jinping is not ready to play the role? A cunning, very shrewd man who is more worried about his 1.6 billion domestic troubles and possible confrontation with America's led West over Taiwan than to spend his capital on being in lockstep with Russia. President Vladimir Putin thought that he had a friend in Beijing but has since sorely found out that self preservation is the first rule of nature, and that in international relations, every country places their own wellness above any other thing including having friendly relations with other countries. 

As a result, Putin has found himself all alone on the lonely highway of world's isolation as a pariah and he must be privately regretting his obtuseness in proceeding with the invasion of Ukraine, admitted, he maintains a straight face when the camera is recording. It is now he against the world and as an African proverb or saying goes, when a single person cooks for the public they can easily finish the meal; but when the public cooks for a single person, it is extremely difficult and an impossibility to finish the meal. This is the fate of Putin and he is no longer smiling. His end is near, very near indeed. His presidency, freedom and/or even his life are all at stake because going back to the default status-quo ante is not an option. 

More than 78 days into the war, the story does not look good for Russia as it is unable to conquer and vanquish its smaller neighboring country Ukraine, leaving many pundits wondering how Russia would otherwise fare in a war with a much stronger formidable adversary such as the United States of America or the coalition of the willing nations aka NATO? If its performance index in the current war with Ukraine is so glaringly below par, imagine what the ratio would be in a war with America or the broader NATO, including such countries as Turkey, Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, as well as other smaller countries that constitute NATO joining forces to fight Russia. 

If there is anything known as a clear case of an "ass whooping", such a war would eminently so qualify as the balance of hostilities would be greatly tilted against Russia. Even their nuclear arsenal will not be able to save them as they can only destroy so much before they are completely wiped off the face of the earth in a collective retaliatory strikes by all the nuclear power countries that make up NATO. So, conventional weapons it will be and the unfolding evidence in Ukraine shows that they are not heavily adept and fares badly in that department. 

In fact, it does not even really matter what they called it, whether a "Special Military Operation" or by its correct name, WAR; their weapons are being destroyed and their soldiers are being killed in unfathomably very large numbers, both indications of a war which is not going so well for them. They have not shown any special skills in the fields of battle nor displayed stellar ability as a fighting military force to reckon with. Ukraine is still standing tall fighting, regardless of their obvious  disproportional deficits in military personnel and weapons, and faced with a hitherto much touted "world military superpower".  But not anymore as Russia has been unmasked by the current war in Ukraine as a great pretender and at best, a hollowed out, spent-force of its former reputation as a military superpower. 

Was this loss of fortune avoidable, you bet they were. But an egotistical maniac who thought that he has intimidated the West into a cowering corner and that an abandoned Ukraine would tremblingly surrender to his columns of armored tanks, rudely found out that things are not always what they seem; and that war fortunes could easily turn on a dial and mire a once "superpower" in a quicksand, staring at a defeat. As development shows, the war in Ukraine might eventually swallow the once reputed mighty army of the world and consign Russia into history as a "once upon a time" military might. 

Regardless of how the hostilities in Ukraine eventually conclude, Russia has been demystified as not as strong militarily, as it was once feared. It is a great disservice to mother Russia's military veil and only President Vladimir Putin is to blame for piercing it; and by doing so, he brought a great odium to mother Russia's reputation and respectability as a military force to fear. A smarter Putin would have yielded to the world's plea not to invade Ukraine or beaten a fast one thereafter, so soon following the first wave of attacks, hanging such a decision on the peace talk it held with Ukraine. He did not listen and now he is going down with the sinking Russia into the abyss of a despicable human.

President Vladimir Putin miscalculated and it has backfired. He took off the mask of the masquerade and revealed that Russia is but a clay-foot military giant. This will haunt Russia for many years to come and like Germany's forced surrender, the terms of forgiving Russia will be very steep. It might also include getting rid of Vladimir Putin as Russian leader, prosecuting and locking him away for good as a bloodthirsty vampiric war criminal. It is sad how Russia has been demystified and sadder that it was a self-inflicted hurt and only one man named Vladimir Putin was responsible for it. What a shame. 

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