WILL FACEBOOK LIFT THEIR SUSPENSION ON PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP?

ICHEOKU says the recent failure by the globalist viewpoints minders and speech police of Facebook to reach a decision on whether to lift the platform's suspension of President Donald John Trump or forever ban him therefrom is indeed rattling. It is the craziness of the time we live in presently that the Facebook's politburo were deadlocked on such a matter, given the speed with which they suspended the president from the platform. 

The problem is that they rushed their decision to suspend the president based on a frivolous reason that the president instigated the January 6th Capitol riot. But the fallacy has since been irrefutably debunked as evidence abound that the riot was preplanned by some knuckleheads several weeks and days earlier, ahead of the president's January 6th Save America Speech and that the speech had nothing whatsoever to do with the riot. 

So with their theory laid to waste, one had expected Facebook to immediately reinstate the president back on its platform. But a Woke Facebook decided to pass the buck to its speech police, who are now stranded, between doing what is right by lifting the suspension and continuously holding unto their non existent argument to continuously keep the president in the cold doldrum, dog house of social media. It is possible they want to ban him permanently from the platform but they have to first find a reason to do so, as the one they previously propounded went burst as it was a lie from the pit bottom of hell. 

Facebook has now found itself straddled between saving their face by holding unto the president's suspension and doing the right thing by lifting the suspension since it was meritless in the first place since the president did not do what they accused him of doing which led to the initial suspension. ICHEOKU calls on Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook committee of speech police to quickly restore the president on their platform as the president did nothing wrong to warrant his continuing blackout on the platform. 

It is regrettable that Mark Zuckerberg turned out to be such a mean fella after all the accommodations which the president extended to him while in the White House including many hosted dinners. Anyway, the world is waiting and watching, especially the MAGA nation; and hopefully it will sink into Facebook's cranium that wielding power wrongly is very dangerous as it often times backfires. #LiftTheSuspensionNow! 

INDIA IS FACING THEIR WORST CORONAVIRUS UPHEAVAL

ICHEOKU says our prayers go out to the Indian people as they face their own scourge of the dreadful Chinese contagion which they heartlessly exported to the world. They shall overcome. Luckily for them, their own upheaval came when the pressure are beginning to lift off in Western nations including the United States of America, so they will be able to get some needed palliatives much quickly. With a lovable Prime Minister like Narendra Modi, mobilizing help from friendly countries will not be too difficult. All the best Indians. Namaste.

INDIA'S CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: A DELAYED PERFECT STORM FINALLY COME.

ICHEOKU says it was long overdue as every logical person knows that the right conditions exist in India to make it a serious coronavirus hotbed. So, it was not necessarily a question of whether it would happen, but when it would happen and it has now happened. It was a known, easily anticipatable inevitability which finally arrived and like a Santa Anna wildfire is causing wanton havoc among the Indian population. 

So, the two real issues which need to be forensically examined are what took the coronavirus so long in reaching crisis level in India and why the authorities in India were not prepared enough in anticipation of the crisis. India is a perfect Petri dish for COViD-19 disaster but has had a lucky escape so far until now. ICHEOKU says is even surprised that the dreadful Chinese contagion export to the world has not claimed many more lives in India so far, at least one million lives all things considered; which is another indicator that they have been lucky thus far. Also their reputed medical expertise might have helped them too. But from all indications, every condition necessary was just about right in India for coronavirus to wreck great havoc there. 

Even the United States of America with its superior standards in nearly everything was devastated by the coronavirus and you wonder why India is dirtier, overcrowded, unhygienic and with heavily polluted air got spared until now. Coronavirus is a respiratory disease and the environment is a factor affecting respiratory conditions, yet India was got much luckier break than America in the toll exacted by the dreadful Chinese Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. So, many people were thankfully surprised that the coronavirus did not provide the lighting fuse of an already combustible situation which is present in India as it was bound to thrive in such an environment.

After watching "Slum Dog Millionaire" thirteen years ago, only to find out later that the movie was not staged on a set, but a point and shoot real life situation of the slums of Mumbai, ICHEOKU too additional steps to confirm the acuity of the depicted scenes. The findings confirmed that the poverty rate and inhospitable and inhabitable environment in which some millions of Indians live was not overly exaggerated in the movie. ICHEOKU reached out to some Indian friends, one Sikh, one Hindu and one Dalit to get their different perspectives on the real living conditions in India cross-referenced to the movie. The Dalit confirmed it while the Sikh and Hindu protested it as a racist hit piece on India. 

ICHEOKU very recently revisited the issue, in an attempt to understand the real life living situation in India really looks like by watching documentaries on India, including traveling blogs on Youtube of actual people who showcased the streets and neighborhoods of India while traveling in India. The last Youtube video which ICHEOKU watched on this subject was a blog by one fella from Kyrgyzstan who did a travel blog on Varanasi, the religious capital of India. It left a  riveting impression concerning the debilitating poverty and living conditions in which some people actually lives in some places in India. Then add the monkeys and cows freely mixing with human beings environment and the potpourri is complete. 

However, the poverty rate and abject living conditions of over 300 million Indians is not the subject of this article. The stray is to highlight it and give some necessary background on why coronavirus eventually found a proven grounds in India and presently causing the devastation being witnessed. If America with much higher standards of living, better medical services, sanitation as well as better quality of breathable air could suffer the heavy toll of over 500,000 lost lives, it is still a miracle and a feat that India's losses so far is still nothing close to what America has recorded. It is either they are lucky or their population is very resilient; except of course their Ganga River protected them from the scourge all these while. 

But whatever it was that protected them until now, the government must now take the mantle and do their part. The government must also find an acceptable way to try and encourage their population to take it easy on child bearing as a way of controlling their population or at least bring it down to much manageable numbers below one billion people. Indian population is astronomically too high, the reason all the effort being made by their government and rich and wealthy people to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions in India have not panned out as anticipated or reflected significantly. 

Also, Indians must try and modernize their manner of cadaver disposition by encouraging incinerators and crematoriums as recent videos out of their wood burning of dead bodies is not reflective of modernity. Moreso, the increased numbers of dead bodies as a result of the coronavirus has heightened the task of finding enough woods and spaces to dispose the dead bodies and all the smoke are going into the environment and being breath in by Indians. So, yes, it is their religion tinged, but even religion should be able to make necessary accommodations for some evolving fine-tuning, especially in matters concerning air quality and environmental pollution.

ICHEOKU says the land that gave the world Mahatma Gandhi, the ebullient and much beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as doyens of Silicon Valley deserves better and should do better. India was a perfect storm of coronavirus which was merely late in arrival but not that nobody had expected it. So, those in authority in Delhi should have anticipated this day to come and made necessary preparations to meet the challenge. But unfortunately, it seems that they slept on their oars, thinking that they had dodged the bullet, only for their country men and women to be facing their worst coronavirus nightmare presently. They must now do the needful and face it squarely like any other challenge which they have faced as one united determined and indefatigable nation and kick the Chinese gift to the world back into the sewers where it belong. 

ICHEOKU says is optimistic that Prime Minister Narendra Modi shall rise to the occasion and help help his people get through this crushing phase of the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging his country. He is capable and competent; and being much loved by his people, it will be very easy for him to mobilize them into action to do the necessary things required to tame the pandemic. ICHEOKU is a fan and alongside millions of his other admirers all over the world, are praying for India to quickly get over their present coronavirus hurricane. All the best to the wonderful people of India and may the coronavirus be wrestled down as quickly as possible. America had it worse, but luckily for them, the virus has now been largely contained and life is beginning to return to normal and so will India. ICHEOKU says Namaskar to all the Indians out there!

UFC 261: USMAN KNOCKS OUT MASVIDAL.

ICHEOKU says a Round 2 knock out it was as Kamaru Usman confirmed his superiority over Jorge Masvidal, having defeated him previously in their first meet. Usman knocked him out cold and the referee had to physically intervene to save Masvidal from further punishment in the hands of Usman. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the Nigerian Nightmare. 

UFC 261 was also a testament that America has finally turned the corner and has emerged from the cold doldrums where the lockdown held it. It showed that the coronavirus scourge now in their rearview mirror, as a 15,000 person packed VyStar arena in Jackson Florida with a real live crowd, physically cheered on throughout the night. What a big relief from the over one year debilitating lockdown. 

UFC President, Dana White, has shown how to successfully manage sports activities through the coronavirus crisis and he has helped bring America back, from the zero person Abu Dhabi Yas Fight Island to few spectators in Las Vegas and to now a completely sold out full VyStar arena in Jacksonville Florida. What a successful come back kid America is and hopefully every other sector of the economy and life as we know it, can now begin to return back to its pre-coronavirus activity level. Dana White has shown the way and others has no choice but to follow. What a night to was. Once again congratulations to Kamaru Usman and the rest of participants in UFC 261, both winners and losers. It is sports and fans were entertained. 

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOTED: HOW ABOUT BIAFRAN GENOCIDE AND OTHERS?

ICHEOKU says the United States of America has finally acknowledged that former Othman Empire, the present day Turkey, carried out a genocide against the Armenian people. It was a long overdue admission of a historical fact of that  heinous man's inhumanity to man; an evil, which was supposed to be called by its rightful name a very long time ago. However, it is still better late than never and for this, ICHEOKU commends Joe Biden for rising up to the occasion, 106 years later. 

So with the Armenian genocide now finally given its deserving place in the annals of historical genocides, alongside the Jewish Holocaust and Rwanda Tutsis ethnic group cleansing, two other widely acknowledged genocides, when will the other similarly deliberate attempts at exterminating other various ethnic groups around the world be given their rightful names. When will their own similar circumstances be given their proper names too, as in to call a spade a spade and damn the consequences just like Joe Biden did with Armenia. It was a bold move and one day has passed following the pronouncement and the sky is still holding up firmly in the sky and the earth is neither rumbling or boiling as a result. 

The aboriginals of Australia were nearly wiped out in order for the British and other Europeans to settle on their land. The Maoris of New Zealand were similarly nearly killed off before the British and other Europeans displaced and replaced them in their motherland. The Portuguese did the same thing in Brazil and of course there was the 1967 to 1970 Biafran genocide in Nigeria wherein over 3 million Biafrans were slaughtered by the Nigerian government, aided by Britain, Russia, Egypt and America to some extent. When will all these genocides be also similarly acknowledged for what they were so that the real healing can indeed begin. Then add the Indians of America who were hunted to near extinction by the same European settlers as well. 

So, there is enough blame to go round and Turkey reserves the right to also call the Indian American experience a genocide as well if Recep Tayyip Erdogan so choses. Although nobody is seeking retribution, but it is the right thing to do to properly acknowledge these tragedies as doing so will provide some succor to the victims' surviving descendants and help them in their healing. A skewed history is better righted and it is good that Armenia eventually got their awful experience finally rightfully acknowledged by the United States of America. It gives hope to these other victims of similar experiences that some day their own horrible experiences might see the light of the day and also be properly identified for what they are, pure evil. 

ICHEOKU says it was another right step in the right direction and it will favorably count in the column of Joe Biden's legacy, provided it is properly gazetted as law and not subject to a next president's executive order override, whenever that may be. Armenia have something significant to celebrate on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the infamy which claimed 1.3 million of their people. It is an anniversary gift of inestimable value. Now, let the Armenia slaughtered finally rest. If such pronouncement will help thaw the relationship between Turkey and Armenia, that will be an additional gift, admitted it is a tall order which will be difficult, if not impossible, to realize. 

But hey, Joe Biden braved it and the deed is done and that was the only thing that counts here; every other thing now is but the shouting. It was a good gesture, regardless of how Ankara feels about it. Germany is not fretting that Adolf Hitler's nearly wiped out the Jews, so Turkey should not sweat that part of their ignominious history that rightly belongs in their rearview mirror. It is time to move on and everybody and every party involved should look on to better days ahead and leave the past alone. Enough of the bitter clinging to what happened more than one century ago. It was a good right move by Joe Biden. Well done Joe.

GEORGE FLOYD'S WRONGFUL DEATH SETTLEMENT: WAS HE WORTH $27 MILLION?

ICHEOKU says what is a life really worth afterall, especially the life of a drug addict who was ordinarily nearing his death before finally dying in the hands of the police or rather under the knee of a police officer. But a political correctness City of Minneapolis, in furtherance of being Woke, decided to enrich his family to the tune of $27 million. The City  wanted to make his family whole because of the trauma they suffered from the manner of his death. They also wanted to appease Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA collaborators in order to get into their good book, so they made it rain for George Floyd's family and it poured $27 million into their coffers.

In short, the City literary emptied it's treasury as Minneapolis is not all that a very big city and could not have such a deep pocket where the removal of a whopping $27 million will not be felt. Now you understand why so many American cities are perpetually broke and always hand in cap seeking funds from Washington DC; it is because they mismanage their resources. If the City of Minneapolis could dole out such a staggering amount of money to settle just one man's wrongful death, imagine how much they have doled out in the past, will dole out in one year and will dole out in many more years to come. A wrongful death lawsuit was threatened by George Floyd's family and it was immediately settled and for such a very huge amount of money, begging the question, what is the legal department and City attorney of Minneapolis doing; or is it to just collect salary and allowances and speedily settle cases. 

ICHEOKU says if a case merits to be settled instead of being litigated, are there no longer acceptable capped ceilings for what a reasonable amount of compensation should be? Was it the manner of his death that was settled or his actual death that commanded such a huge amount of money? What indices were used to calculate his life's worth? Was it his net worth or life expectancy? How much was his last IRS filed tax, if indeed he even filed one? Was there any financial statement on record attesting to his worth that made the $27 million payment appropriate? How much support did he provide to his children and baby mama; or was he a debit dad? What type of luxurious life were his family used to as a result of what he provided for hem which they will miss and be deprived of by reason of his death and for continuity necessitated the huge amount paid? 

He was a drug addict and from the autopsy report was literary a dead man walking until the intervention of now convicted murderer Derek Chauvin promptly ended it for him. Like a catalyst, the former police officer merely quickened George Floyd's death as he would have died ordinarily within a short future time due to his complicated health condition exacerbated by his excessive drug use. Even in the video of him which the world saw preceding his death, he was not looking too good health-wise and he did not look like a financially stable person, talkless of being a rich or wealthy individual. So, on what basis was his life determined to be worth so much that $27 million was assessed as its fair value, admitted some punitive damages may have come in addition. What was his ability and capacity, which wrongful death cut short, that weighed so much in reaching the amount handed to his family. 

But the City of Minneapolis is not telling us; rather they told the world that they have settled the wrongful lawsuit with George Floyd's family in the amount of $27 million dollars. ICHEOKU says really? If George Floyd could fetch $27 million for his family, what then will the family of Duante Wright ask for, $54 million? Afterall he is much younger, much healthier and had much more potential for future earning capacity than George Floyd, who had nearly spent all his credit on earth and was already on his way out when Derek Chauvin fast forwarded it and brought his life  to immediate end. According to his necropsy, his heart was bloated, he was hypertensive, his kidney had problems and his lungs too, all in part due to his excessive drug use which had damaged them. Yet his life was determined to be worth $27 million?

All it will do going forward is to put an idea into some knuckleheads and encourage them to get creative and invest for their families through police confrontation. People who typically have nothing to provide their family and loved ones while they are alive or things to bequeath them upon death, might decide to take a shortcut at making the impossible, possible; by providing for them bountifully, posthumously. What stops a crackhead with nothing to lose deciding to intentionally confront the police, forcing them to shoot, aware that some lawyers will hustle some large amounts of money for their families through a threat of a wrongful death lawsuit. If George Floyd could fetch such an amount of money in his state of affairs at the time he died, it will automatically open a whole lot of possibilities for others out there to try and cash in.

ICHEOKU is not saying that when a person is wrongfully killed by the police officers of a City that the City should not pony up. No, only that they should seriously determine what a fair amount of compensation is or the reasonable value of the life taken before cutting that check. But they are often too quick to reach a settlement because it is the public's money and Uncle Sam is always there in Washington DC to bail them out if need be. Some might argue that a jury can never be predicted and that they might decide to empty a City's coffers through a giant pay day award if the matter goes to trial. But this is exactly the reason that should force Cities to always take such cases to trial, especially when the family is being too unreasonable with their demand amount since the jury is unpredictable. They could go either way, too.

Most times wrongful death lawsuit lawyers bluff with their threat to sue, aware that Cities frequently settles such cases rather than going to trial. These lawyers are not usually ready or prepared to invest the amount of time and resources which such trial normally demands. They only want to hustle out as many settlements as possible to keep their practices going and will rather not be bogged down in a lengthy expensive trial. So, it is in their interest to settle as many such lawsuits as they could possible gather, instead of being mired down with trying them in the court at cost, both financially and time; since most family retain them on a percentage, recover and get paid, basis. So, yes, even where an unreasonable jury awards an excessive damages, such decision could still be appealed right up to the Supreme Court if need be, for a reduced judgment amount. 

If the City of Minneapolis had called the bluff of George Floyd's family and at best offered them plus minus $5  million, they would have accepted it; and if otherwise, the City could have spent $2 million with a defense lawyer and defended the lawsuit. At most, the jury could have awarded the family about $11 million and thus saved the City about $16 million; and in any other event, the City could have spent additional $3 million in appealing the jury's award. So, no matter how it was diced, including the matter reaching the Supreme Court, a lesser amount than the $27 million would have in the end been paid to George Floyd's family. But they choked in cowardice and handed $27 million public money to the family and have now opened the door for more lawyers to begin to set a new benchmark of what their clients will settle for in any future wrongful death lawsuit. It may also lead to more crackheads playing chicken with the police in the hope that their family and loved ones may become rich following their death at the hands of the police. 

And yes, what Derek Chauvin did was horrible but it was not the entire City of Minneapolis that did it, admitted he was their agent. The people of Minneapolis collectively own the money which was doled out to George Floyd's family and they are the ones who would have sat in the jury, had the wrongful death lawsuit proceeded to trial. They would have been more frugal in disbursing their commonwealth than what the managers did. Even the fact that the City did not wait to first see how the criminal prosecution went before settling the lawsuit is by itself very perplexing. If this pattern of rushed settlement of wrongful death lawsuits continues and Cities continues to recklessly dole out their funds in this manner, they will eventually all go bankrupt as Uncle Sam cannot continuously be expected to come to the rescue each time they recklessly spend themselves into pennilessness. There will be more lawyers threatening such lawsuits and there will be more people dying in the hands of the police and their families, as clients.

Such a huge settlement amount is capable of influencing behavior, especially with people who have nothing more to look forward to and have somewhat become suicidal and have chosen the police as their executioner. Cities should start defending all these cases and where they must  settle, start their offer from the lowest figure possible. If the City's insurance forces their hands to quickly settle only to later turn around and increase their premiums, they should threaten a change of insurance company and see what happens. There should be a value attached to every life, but a drug addict and a medical doctor or a Rocket scientist's life should not command the same settlement amount. 

ICHEOKU therefore is emphatic that George Floyd's life is not worth $27 million, admitted that the agony which he was put through before he died could have weighed towards a high settlement amount, but it should never have been this high, regardless. Anyway, his death has brought his family a fortune, a financial windfall sort of and for it, there was something somewhat positive that came from his death. It is also worth noting that all those his family members who suddenly showed up following his death, apparently were not very much in his life while he lived. Judging his haggardly appearance and the fact that his drug addiction reached such a life threatening peak, a crisis level, it is rather surprised that he had that many well to do looking family members. 

ICHEOKU wonders the type of relationship which they had with him before his death. If he was down on his luck like many people often times are, how much help did he get from them. Did they assist him before and eventually gave up because he was not forthcoming? Was it that he was an adult and should take care of himself, when they were aware that drug addiction is a disease and that a sick person is not left on their own to take care of themselves because they can't. Why did they not pull together to help set him free of his drugs demons through treatments and rehabilitations; and finding him a real job with which to support himself and family. But immediately he was killed and sensing a moment in the sun, everyone of them crawled out from whatever burrow they were inside to declare me too, I am a member of his family member. Although they did good by fighting for their brother, but it should have been before the fact and not after the fact. Life is cruel. May George Floyd's soul continue to rest. 

KRI NANGGALA-402: INDONESIA DOES NOT NEED SUBMARINES?

ICHEOKU says what does Indonesia need submarines for. Who are their rivals in their archipelago neck of the wood that they want to spar with underwater? Are they planning on taking on China by firing missiles from under water into Beijing?  Why do they need submarines in addition to other water going surface vessels which are not as risky to operate as submarines. 

But like people, some countries too sometimes have their priorities screwed up big time. Now they have sent 53 of their Naval personnels to their early watery graves and it was an otherwise avoidable human toll. Before asking Germany to build them the 44 year old submarine KRI Nanggala-402, didn't they also ask them how to ensure that it performs its maneuvers safely, diving and rising from deep waters without any glitches. Why is the old submarine still ocean worthy and it was recently refitted in South Korea and you wonder why they did not send it back to Germany, the builders, to do the refitting. Anyway, may the souls of the now presumed dead seamen now rest. It is sad.

VLADIMIR PUTIN BEATS A RETREAT: SHOW OF GOODWILL?

ICHEOKU says is it a case of the calm before the storm or the ocean suddenly receding before the tsunami strikes. What made Russia Vladimir Putin to suddenly order his troops to withdraw from the Ukrainian border where they had amassed and so soon after he had threatened the world with a redline which must not be crossed. Is he up to another surprise or did he just cave in to international pressure or acted as a show of good will. 

As the world awaits his next move, ICHEOKU says kudos is in order to Vladimir Putin for at least bringing down the temperature which he raised by sending his troops to the Ukrainian border through the latest retreat. But the Kremlin strongman usually has a bag of tricks, so we can only wait, watch and pray. 

THROW THE GUY SOME BONE OF RECIPROCITY.

ICHEOKU says German Chancellor Angel Merkel reportedly helped broker the Russia withdrawal of its amassed troops from the border with Ukraine. She should be commended for doing this; and of course, for agreeing to it the Kremlin strongman also deserves commendation as well. By doing it, at least the rising tension in that part of the world which would have bode nobody any good has been deflated. 

Like a puppy which is intermittently rewarded with a treat each time it behaves well or complies to an instruction, Vladimir Putin deserves to be acknowledged for taking the first step towards deescalation. The West, especially the United States of America, should consider reviewing some of the sanctions which it recently imposed on Russia as a reciprocal gesture of their goodwill too. That way the message will be strongly reinforced that only good behavior from Kremlin will be rewarded and it will also encourage the continuing thawing of the now almost refrozen relationship between both parties. Please America, throw the dog some bone as Vladimir Putin deserves some credit.

LATEST WITHDRAWAL DATE FOR TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN: SIMPLY WISHFUL.

ICHEOKU says it would have been a very good thing if only it could, be at last, finally achieved.  But it will not happen because the same Deep State which installed Joe Biden in the White House are deeply invested in the weapons and war economy and Afghanistan is one heck of a profitable venture. They are used to their mouth watering omelette and they will not just stand idly by and watch Joe Biden kill the golden goose that lays the necessary eggs. The over twenty years running military adventure in Afghanistan is very good for business and the return on investment is profitably quite high too. So, suddenly drying up such a juicy source will not be tolerated by those fat cats who binge on American taxpayers money, spent on weapons and wars. Their appetite is greedily huge and they need to continuously feed it 

Joe Biden will not be the first White House resident to set such a benchmark date of complete and total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Recall that one other president even added the closure of Guantanamo Bay in his to do list, but he was not allowed to do any of them throughout his eight years in the White House. Even President Donald John Trump wanted to do it but even the generals he put in positions in the Pentagon bucked him on that. So, Joe Biden will not be an exception as he too will fail because the forces amassed against closing the Afghanistan money maker are far greater than just one man in the White House. It cuts across a very large swathe of American Deep Staters, including members of both Democratic Party and Republican Party, as well as the retired and serving military and security community. Moving against them will be a very uphill task for Joe Biden to successfully accomplish and they will use every means necessarily possible to force him to back down or they will actively frustrate it. 

Therefore the September 11th 2021, 9/11 anniversary, newly set date for the final return of American troops from Afghanistan will not be mission accomplished. As other previously similarly set dates came and passed, so will it also come and pass and American troops will still be stationed in Afghanistan. The Deep State will muscle Joe Biden into submission and force him into not fulfilling that promised withdrawal and in the alternative, to just dilly-dally and tarry along until he leaves office. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden will, some time very close to his September 11th 2021 set date, appear on television to tell Americans and the rest of the world that certain developments in Afghanistan has made it imperative that American troops extend their stay in the country. That his well intended decision to have all American troops withdrawn from Afghanistan has been frustrated by some unforeseen circumstances beyond his control and that in the interest of America's security, he has decided to defer the withdrawal date until further notice. 

The total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would have happened a very long time ago if indeed the Deep State and the Pentagon wanted it to happen, immediately following the killing of Osama Bin Laden when America would have declared a real "mission accomplished" and beat it out of the desolate parch of earth. In fact, Afghanistan has no viable utility to America as to warrant the expenditure of the humongous amount of American blood and treasure that went into it. So, the withdrawal decision is a good and commendable thing which time came a very long time ago, even though it has remained unfulfilled and hopefully this time will be different. If Joe Biden can pull it off, it will count favorably in his column as the fella who finally accomplished what many before him only dreamt they had achieved. It will bode well for his legacy and will definitely win him some converts, especially among military families who will be relieved from their wards' over extended stay in that part of the world has finally come to end.

ICHEOKU says no amount of time spent in Afghanistan will ever be enough to accomplish whatever "mission goals" that demanded it, because it is the Afghani society that is troubled and not necessarily the Talibans or any other terrorist groups operating there. If the society was functional enough, those terrorists groups will not find it such a conducive place for their operational base. But it is a permanently failed State and no amount of American presence there, no matter how elongated, will ever right their ship of State. It has everything to do with the brand of ultra conservative Islamism being practiced there, which is entirely anti Western civilization. This makes it difficult if not impossible to have a safe workable tradeoffs that will be acceptable to America and the mullahs in charge of the Islamic orthodoxy to warrant a safe  withdrawal. America wants a Western value based Afghanistan, but the mullahs of Kabul prefer the country's full return to their annihilistic Islamism and nothing else.

So, as long as the breeding madrassas which churn out millions of Islamist fanatics, who are completely brained and steeped in their brand of ancient Islamism, continue to thrive in Afghanistan, that long will Afghanistan be burrowing deeper into absolute Islamic orthodoxy. A matter made worse because nearly the entire population want it that way and majority always carries the vote. Whether America leaves on September 11th, 2021 or one hundred years later on September 11th, 2121, Afghanistan will still revert to their brand of extreme Islamism and also instal a Taliban government in Kabul. There is no other way around it. So, unless America is ready to completely annex Afghanistan as a territory or have an irrevocable permanent military base there built there to guard them in perpetuity, it will be better to cut the losses now and beat it. Afghanistan will never change or abandon its ideological extremism and will forever remain  an extremists infested parch of desolate earth. 

If Afghanistan's neighbors and other countries around that hemisphere are comfortable with it becoming a failed state in the event of American troops final withdrawal, so be it. If Afghanistan implodes, it is a crisis which America can watch from a afar and can always timely mount a response should America become threatened as a result. American troops were not in Afghanistan before September 11th, 2001 and they can always go back to kill off any terrorists should they ever threaten or dare strike at America again. America has been defending itself from so many foes including Russia, North Korea and Iran without American troops being stationed in those countries. So, the argument that terrorists from Afghanistan will strike at America again if the troops are withdrawn is simply a hogwash and not a reason to station them there indefinitely. But if not now, when? If not in September 11th 2021, when? Will September 11th, 2121 be any better? Just bring the troops home and September 11th, 2021 will be just fine.

CAN WE PLEASE NOT MAKE VLADIMIR PUTIN MADDER: ENOUGH ALREADY.

ICHEOKU says the West should and must introduce a new approach in their dealing with Russia's Vladimir Putin as what is, seems not to be working so well or well enough. This is in order to avoid an un-bargained for sudden cataclysmic event which might prove very fatal to mankind. So yes, Vladimir Putin is a dictator but so also are China's Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. But the West is not threatening them as they seem to repeatedly often do with Vladimir Putin. Why is Vladimir Putin being singled out particularly in this manner as there should have been a one cap fits all approach to all dictators, but not one special cap for Vladimir and different caps for Jinping and Jong Un. 

At least, Vladimir Putin's Russia is somewhat free, with limited opposition and limited press freedom, unlike Xi Jinping China and Kim Jong Un's North Korea with absolutely zero freedom for the opposition and the press. In North Korea, such attempt is ruthless put down by feeding suspected non compliant people alive to purposely starved rabid wild dogs. China also ruthlessly puts them down and have now crushed democracy in Hong Kong and menacingly threatening to do the same in Taiwan. So why single Vladimir Putin out for a separate treatment. He is still European, a white man; and has more to gain with a peaceful Europe than an Europe devastated by fissile materials. He is apparently fully invested in the preservation of the white race and their continuous survival as a people. Therefore, he will be more amenable to reaching a detente with the West and such opening should be exploited for good. 

America and other Western European nations as well as Australia and New Zealand should explore some ways to meet Vladimir Putin half way and see how to provide him with some necessary accommodations in order to sooth his ego, towards achieving a more peaceful, non confrontational, co-existence with Russia's Vladimir Putin. The approach of the last two decades of constantly pillorying Vladimir Putin does not seem to have worked or at least worked as anticipated. He has been in power since 2000 and nothing seems to have changed in his operational behavioral pattern and mode of conduct. So, why continue on the same pathway that has led to no where with a change in his behavior; or must the West be so stubborn,  continuously powering along a pathway to no where, except of course their primary intention is not to reform Vladimir Putin but to continuously portray him in the light which he seems to now relish and glow.  

ICHEOKU is emphatic that it is about time a different solution is put to the problem in order to bring Vladimir Putin closer than to continuously scare him off and eventually back him into a corner, where feeling trapped and left with no option he might spring like a cobra and ask out angrily and devastatingly. Although the West might think that they can win a full scale shooting war against Russia, which is debatable; but it will come at a very grave cost which the West might not be prepared to pay. This begs the question, why not explore the less expensive option, a way to achieve a more acceptable result which will forever free the world of the never ending phobia of Russia and what possibly Vladimir Putin is up to and might do if push ever comes to shove. 

But it seems that the continuous hot rhetorics and sanctions against Russia and Vladimir Putin is the agreed upon accepted template and the West latches unto it for a reason, to maximize an agenda. They want to continuously make out Vladimir Putin as the bogey man who the rest of the world must be wary of and in order to protect themselves from him, they need to continuously stockpile up weapons of war to defend themselves from Vladimir Putin's possible invasion of their territories. A signature of the military industrial complex, their tried and tested modus operandi, since fear always works. They love stoking it, so that they can continue plying their weapons sales and war trade. 

It might not end well for everyone should Vladimir Putin feel seriously threatened and forced to snap. His latest State of the Russian Nation address to his people seems to suggest that he is trending this way. He seems to be steadily getting very anxious and agitated, feeling about to be ensnared and being gradually boxed in. He has warned against the West crossing certain redlines but failed to describe which things constitute the deadlines which the West must not cross, thus making them his sole exclusive determination as what they are. Such open ended threat is ominous as nobody knows what in particular will trigger his reaction. It is a fluidly developing situation and it does not bode well for world peace. Mankind's survival is at stake as a reactionary Vladimir Putin will readily first explode those stockpiled nuclear weapons in his arsenal than succumb or marched out from Kremlin in handcuffs. 

But all these angst can easily end today if the West will allow Russia to be fully integrated into Europe as a bona fide member of the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization as well as other world and regional bodies as an accepted, equal and full partner. Thereafter, he could be made to conform with existing norms within those bodies which sustains peaceful neighborliness. With that, he can also be made to disarm since he will no longer feel threatened and the need to defend himself and protect his position. It is worth exploring and in fact, the West owe the world the duty of peace to explore this solution. ICHEOKU strongly believes that it is exactly what Vladimir Putin is waiting for and there is no harm in trying everything and anything that would ensure that nuclear bombs are not ever dropped again on the humanity which inhabit this world. Enough of the avoidable tensive world of confrontation against Russia and they Vladimir Putin. 

PANTAMI: A NIGERIA MINISTER IS A TERRORISTS SYMPATHIZER.

"We are happy whenever unbelievers are killed. September 11th was a good thing. I mourn Osama Bin Laden and Abubakar al Baghdadi. They are martyrs and my heroes. All those fighting are not terrorists, they are fighting for the cause. I will volunteer to fight jihad against the West." - Ali Isa Pantami, Nigeria's Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. 

ICHEOKU says these are some of the things said by this man who is currently serving in Nigeria's government as a Minister or as America would call it a Secretary. So, what is Washington DC waiting before sanctioning Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for providing safe territory for terrorists and terrorists sympathizers in his government? When will Joe Biden read the riots act to Muhamadu Buhari for parleying with terrorists sympathizers by allowing them to serve in his government. Better still, let the CIA just drone him and get it over with. Three thousand Americans lost their lives on 9/11. Never Again! #ResignNowPantami.

DEREK CHAUVIN'S CONVICTION: AMERICA WAS SAVED BY THE BELL OF A CORRECT VERDICT.

ICHEOKU says no other outcome would have been accepted or sufficient to save America from disastrous riots which would have engulfed the country and possibly rocked its foundations. But the jury rose up to the occasion, did the right thing by returning the correct and right verdict of guilty. Now, America lives to fight another day in the never ending battle of racial discord afflicting America. ICHEOKU says the verdict is evident that never again would an OJ Simpson style of "not guilty" verdict or a Rodney King's type of police brutality and the "not guilty" verdict of the police officers involved be tolerated or accepted in America. 

It is also a testament that violence induced fear always works in some situations to achieve a desired outcome, as those who make peaceful change impossible often times make violent change inevitable. Yes, black folks have been taking it by the chin and stoically for so long, but they have risen in unison to say not any more. They took to the streets last summer following the murder of George Floyd and America took notice. America became really afraid of the level of violence which black people were capable and able to unleash; and they do not want a repeat of that experience, not any more. The jurors are representatives of the American society and they took that specific knowledge with them into the jury room and came out, ten hours later, to say "Yes, we got it" by handing Derek Chauvin a guilty verdict on all the three counts charge. 

Their verdict is a strong message to all the police officers in America that their brutality will no longer be tolerated nor go unpunished. Hopefully, it will help moderate their interactions and encounters with the general public going forward, particularly black and colored people of America. Last summers George Floyd's death triggered riots cost 12 Americans their lives and caused $2 billion in property damages. This figures would have tripled had a wrong verdict been rendered in this case, triggering yet another riot. So, the juror somehow saved America much pain and agony, both in human toll as well as an otherwise cost overruns. Their guilty verdict was balmy and it helped soothe and calm down frayed nerves. ICHEOKU says America would have burned, but thankfully, it was spared the nightmare, saved by the bell of a right verdict. 

The case was an open and shut one anyway, as there was no better, more credible and stronger witness in the case than the video recording which captured Derek Chauvin in the act. The murder was captured on video and it took a long nine minutes to fully execute. The video could have easily successfully pass for a "res ipsa loquitur" and sufficient by itself to persuade the verdict. The rest of the presentations, witnesses and testimonies, were mere prosecutorial formalities, just extras and add-ons. Nobody is to blame for the verdict but Derek Chauvin himself, who arrogantly and intentionally murdered George Floyd in front of a recording video camera. The whole world watched the traumatizing gory spectacle as it unfolded and agreed in unison that the then Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. Thankfully, the jurors have concurred and the matter should now rest. 

ICHEOKU says kudos to the no nonsense Judge Peter Cahill for studiously managing the case to its very successful conclusion. He was exceptional in making sure that the case does not run off course or morph into a theater of absurdity. He avoided unnecessary delays by denying the defendant's motion to dismiss and refusing their motion for a change of venue, as according to him, even the residents of Mars, if any, were aware of the case and there is no safer place to move the trial to than in Minneapolis Minnesota. Boy that judge was right, he is simply magisterial and he is a very stand up umpire in the temple of justice. Neither the prosecutors nor the defense made any special impact on ICHEOKU, so no opinion about them. 

Now, as the nation awaits Derek Chauvin's sentencing, lets hope that the judge will be mindful by giving him a commensurate lengthy prison term, otherwise the bullet which was dodged now might ricochet to strike America following a slap on the wrist sentence. ICHEOKU says kudos to the jurors for saving America further pains from the George Floyd's saga, which hopefully now ends. May his soul continue to rest. 

DEREK CHAUVIN: IT IS NOW UP TO THE JUDGE.

ICHEOKU says after the verdict, now awaits the sentence. Judge Peter Cahill must also come through with justice for George Floyd, otherwise there may still be riots. The judge should at least meet the public's expectation half way by imposing at least half of the maximum allowed sentence for the highest convicted charge of second degree murder. 

40 years is the prescribed maximum sentence, so he should divided by 2 and give Derek Chuavin a 20 years sentence for everything since the three can run consecutively. At worst, the judge could settle for the ten years maximum sentence allowed for manslaughter; but in no other event must he make it lower than 10 years, otherwise the public anger might switch over against him. The George Floyd murder video is so horrible that only an animal is capable of so viciously, publicly, executing a fellow human being and very arrogantly too. Such a animal in human skin does not deserve pity. Therefore, the message sent by the public through the jurors needs to be strongly delivered by the judge to Derek Chauvin. #10YearsMinimumSentenceFor DerekChauvin

DEREK CHAUVIN: IT IS NOW HIS TURN TO BE HANDCUFFED.

ICHEOKU says he handcuffed George Floyd and now it is his turn to be handcuffed by the society. Karma is ugly and it never forgets nor ever forgives. Justice served when cold is the best, so said the good old wise men of Sicily. George Floyd's spirit can now finally move on. Hopefully, Derek Chauvin will be placed in a protective custody during his time in the big house otherwise he might be served yet another form of justice from inside the high walled off nation. The type that will automatically transport him to where George Floyd will be waiting to welcome him with a clenched fist with which he will knock him out cold. What a despicable humanoid, an animal in human skin Derek Chauvin really is. He is a sad memory.

MURDERER!

DEREK CHAUVIN, GUILTY!

ICHEOKU says it was the right and correct verdict as not even the legendary Johnnie Cochran could have sprang him out of the jaws of a guilty verdict. He did it and he also had the necessary intent to do it, two riyal elements required for a finding of guilty. America was saved by the verdict as untold disastrous riots would have destroyed a lot. What a relief as former police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted for killing George Floyd.