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.

HILLARY CLINTON'S SPY-GATE SCANDAL: 'LOCK HER UP' COMING TO FRUITION?

ICHEOKU says anyone who can lock her husband's manhood in a testicular lockbox and throw away the key, is capable of just anything, including spying on her political opponent. But whether Special Counsel John Durham will be the MAGA-nation's answered-prayer that will eventually hold Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton accountable for her many sins, the debate is still hot. It will be nice however, in the spirit of everybody being under the law, for the American reject to be finally subsumed under and submitted to the law for accountability. 

As every discerning observer knows, she was desperate to break the proverbial marble ceiling of the White House and she went all systems out, legal and illegal, to get it done. So, if confirmed that she spied on her political opponent, then candidate Donald John Trump, to obtain adverse information which she could use against him, then she broke the law and should be reeled in to answer for her transgressions. What she accused others, she did; what she denied doing, she did; what she screamed in her shrill witchy voice that her opponent did with Russia, she conceived and put into motion. Now she has been caught and she should face the music. 

She lied, cried, fainted and cheated during the 2016 presidential campaign. She even received stolen property from Donna Brazile, who stole CNN's property, debate questions, and gave them to Hillary Clinton. She also disappeared for two long weeks during the campaign. She shunned the media and refused to hold any press conference or media session with journalists, believing that the spy traps she set for her opponent will snag up things so damaging that American voters will just cast protest votes against Donald John Trump. Yet she wonders why she was denied entry into the White House.

She underestimated American people's capacity to be rational with their votes and her strategy failed her woefully and abysmally. She is still in shock and probably receiving some therapies from professionals to help her manage and deal with the devastating and debilitating pain of the loss. It is obvious that she is still suffering and has refused to heal from that 2016 wound of a defeat, five years on. She cries like a baby each time she speaks about the loss, bemoaning a forever lost opportunity to make an incredible feminist history. 

Her pain is understandable, especially for losing to a political newbie who just forayed into politics for the first time and won the presidency of the United States of America. A feat which has eluded her for as long as she has contested for the presidency and will most likely be as long as she shall live and contesting for the office. She is an American reject who no sensible American wants to see behind the oval desk. Unlike Mary, there is something about Hillary Clinton that spells lack of trust and she does not have the likability if-factor.

Anyway, she has been rejected and she will remain rejected forever as far as the White House  occupancy in chief is concerned. Whether she will finally be locked up is what we are keeping our fingers crossed, waiting on the mercy of Special Counsel John Durham to put the process in motion. It is steadily looking very promising though that the special counsel might grant MAGA-nation their wish to lock her up. She is an evil woman, so mean and heartless, that she needs to be put away and at a very long distance from the White House seat of power. Just like it took a heart transplant to change Dick Cheney's cold heart, maybe prison will mend Hillary's heart. #LockHerUp.  

JUSTIN TRUDEAU FINDS A CREATIVE WAY TO WEAR A BLACK FACE.

ICHEOKU says give it up to the tone deaf, baby face, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to double down on his insensitivity. He is so in love with wearing black face that he found a very convenient way to get around wearing it without the attendant outcry of racism. He found a cover in masking up against the coronavirus to go back to his old self, the black face wearing racist, spoilt scion of the Trudeau political family of Ottawa Canada. 

Now, the Canadian Prime Minister can freely wear his beloved black face, disguised as a coronavirus mask, without causing much ruckus. Of all the colors available in the face masks world, one would have expected the boyish-looking  prime minister to be very mindful of his past racial indiscretions and stay miles away from anything having to do with having the color black on his white Canadian face. But not the tousled hair brat, who is as insensitive as he is clueless, about how offensive it is to black people seeing white people with black faces. He has once again shown that he really does not care about black people nor gives a damn about hurting their feelings.

He called protesting truck drivers racists, notwithstanding that none of them wore a black face. A well known sissy who suddenly wants to rebrand himself a toughie, displaying a newly found mojo with an emergency act, just because truckers are on the streets carrying flags and placards. Those truckers did not kill, maim or injure anyone; they did not loot shops and stores; they did not set any building on fire; they did not throw Molotov cocktails at the police nor burnt any police vehicle; yet they are "racists and terrorists" for who Emergency Act will be used to deal with ruthlessly. Prime Justin Trudeau is no longer deserving of the honor of being the leader of Canada because he is now a divider in chief and punishing Canadians for no just cause. 

In Justin Trudeau's world, what constitutes an offense in Canada is subjective and as his personal interpretation, idiosyncrasy and jaundiced mind may determine. Where was his Emergency Act when Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA were destroying things; rather, he took part in the BLM riots and even took a pathetic, acute pandering. knee to ask for forgiveness of his blackface-wearing sin. It goes to show that without double standards, Justin Trudeau, as the leftist liberal he is, will not have any standard at all. He is definitely a kettle calling the pot black as none of those truckers he called racists, including bearded and turban wearing Punjabi Indian Canadians truckers, are nearly one half a racist as Justin Trudeau himself; admitted his Jesus moment came when his black face pictures surfaced.

Anyway, ICHEOKU blames those people who do not usually turn out during elections to elect credible and worthy leaders who could lead from the front without polarizing the polity and pitching citizens against each other just to divide and conquer them. How else would a long-haired, Indian clothes-wearing hippie become the prime minister of Canada if not that Canadians did not come out on Election Day. It is a shame that the woke, black face wearing, girlie prime minister of Canada is dreaming that he is a tinpot dictator, wielding the unfathomable power of life and death over Canadians and now practicing and conducting trial runs on how to be one. For how long will Canadians tolerate what Justin Trudeau is shoving down their collective throats before they vote him out of office? 

SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI DUMPS DEFUND THE POLICE AGENDA: FEAR OF MIDTERM IS REAL.

ICHEOKU says Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now officially the gold standard bearer in politicians doublespeak. She is a poster politician in political shiftiness, swinging her positions on issues as the temperature of electoral fortune dictates. She is an illustration of the mistrust in politicians, the reason many people regard politicians with great contempt and disdain because they only think about their electability and nothing more. 

Suddenly, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi woke up from her two years slumber and no longer finds "Defund The Police" a good policy objective for her Democratic Party. She now flatly denies that "Defund The Police" was ever a Democratic Party's agenda and that they have always been a party that "protects and defends" the community as that was the basis of their oath of office. Madam Speaker also conveniently forgot that many Democratic Party's elected officials in the House of Representatives are on record proclaiming the Defund The Police agenda and even campaigned on it. Vice President Kamala Harris donated money to a group championing the Democratic Party's Defund The Police agenda. 

ICHEOKU says where was Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the summer of 2020 when Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA held the country hostage, occupied streets, destroying, looting, burning properties and pulling down historical statues in America? Where was Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi then denouncing these anarchists and/or renouncing and disclaiming their "Defund The Police" war cry? These anarchists are Democratic Party members and supporters. but never a time during their mayhem did Madam Speaker call them to order or condemn and denounce them and their Defund The Police battle cry. 

All that Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi reluctantly quipped was that "people will do what they do"; but never forcefully condemned them nor demanded that those Democratic Party's foot soldiers stopped their destructive activities. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi also did not call for strict law enforcement against these rioters to help free America from their vice grip. Yet Madam Speaker is now claiming that her Democratic Party is a party that "protects and defends" our communities. Really? Was Seattle not part of "our communities" and why did Madam Speaker not speak up and demand that they be protected and defended? 

The story of their destruction was replicated across the land, but Madam Speaker maintained her political correctness silence, afraid that speaking up would offend her political power base, which make up the Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA anarchists. With their ballots, American voters condemned her and her Democratic Party for the riots and their Defund The Police agenda in the 2020 midterm. To Madam Speaker, it was a message sent and received; and now that another midterm is fast approaching, Madam Speaker wants to inform gullible American voters that her Democratic Party is not an anti-law enforcement Defund The Police party.

ICHEOKU says the better approach would have been for Madam Speaker to truthfully acknowledge that the message sent was received and that her Democratic Party has learnt a lesson and will do better going forward with their anti-law enforcement credentials. But for Madam Speaker  to presume that American voters are memory deficient is adding insult to injury because American voters know exactly that the Democratic Party is for Defund The Police. Madam Speaker is being clever by half and once again trying to pull a wool over the eyes of American voters, by denying the obvious. 

Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA wants police defunded or scrapped out, they are Democrats and the Democratic Party approves. The Squad also strongly supports Defund The Police as well as Vice President Kamala Harris. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi by her silence and failure to condemn the anti law enforcement and Defund the Police sentiments in her Democratic Party is technically also in support. So, when November 2022 comes, we shall know if she was able to successfully  deceive some gullible American voters by her latest about-turn, barefaced denial that Defund The Police is not a Democratic Party's agenda and that the party never used it as a  campaign slogan.

ALLISON GOLLUST FINALLY PUSHED OUT OF CNN: A DESERVEDLY CORRECT ACTION.

ICHEOKU says she should have jumped off on her own accord and resigned alongside Jeff Zucker and not wait to be eventually pushed off. How she thought that she could have survived the prohibited intra-office sexual relationship scandal when her former boss and secret lover, the former president of CNN Jeff Zucker did not is a huge joke in her needless egotistic, false confidence, bordering on sheer arrogance. 

It is a good thing that she was finally forced to resign or be fired as fairness demanded that. She broke the rule and has to pay the price, afterall she is not a Hillary Clinton for an exception to apply. It is a good riddance that she too is now finally gone with the wind of change sweeping through CNN, so that the network can begin to reinvent itself; and once again live up to the NEWS in its name and become what it once was, a Cable News Network. May be Jeff can now freely pop the question and hopefully it will be her own "easiest yes" following the example of Simone Biles. So long Allision Gollust.

SIMONE BILES SAID YES: THE EASIEST YES, THAT IS.

The easiest yes. I can't wait to spend forever and ever with you; you're everything I dreamed of and more. Lets get married, fiancé. - Simone Biles' yes response to Jonathan Owen's popped question, will you marry me? ICHEOKU says simply beautiful and wishes the couple a good life. They also look happy too. Congratulations fellas.

EMERGENCY ACT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS GRADUALLY MORPHING INTO A PINHEAD DICTATOR.

ICHEOKU says "occupying the streets, harassing people and breaking the law" are the offenses Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listed for invoking the Emergency Act to deal with innocent, hardworking truckers who are merely protesting against government overreach and  infringement on the rights of Canadians. 

What law did those truckers break and who was harassed by them; and are they the first protesters to ever occupy the streets? Meanwhile when Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA did all the three things, plus more, including maiming, looting, and burning properties, there was no invoking the Emergency Act against them. 

In Justin Trudeau's world, what constitutes an offense is now subject to his very subjective idiosyncrasy and jaundiced mind too, which enables him to whip out the Emergency Act just because he can and when he wants it. It goes to show that without double standards, the black face wearing Justin will not have any standard at all. He is definitely a kettle calling the pot black as none of those truckers he called racists is nearly one half a racist as Justin Trudeau; admitted his Jesus moment came when those his black face pictures surfaced.

Anyway, ICHEOKU blames those people who do not usually turn out during elections to elect credible and worthy leaders for their country, the reason a long-haired hippie prime minister is doing what he is doing in Ottawa, doing numbers on Canadian's freedom. It is a shame that the woke, black face wearing, baby face sissy prime minister of Canada is wishing that he is a tinpot dictator, wielding the unfathomable power of life and death over Canadians and now doing trial runs on how to be one. When the next COVID comes, who shall he call to help save Canadians, trucking food and supplies to the people?

ERIN JOHNSON: ANOTHER GREAT AMERICAN STORY.

ICHEOKU says her black life really matters and she proved that one can be both black and American and still happy. She is proud of her two identities as they are both correlative and not mutually exclusive of one another. She took a white people's sport and made it her own and she truly owned it all the way to assert herself on the Olympics gold medal. 

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Erin Johnson for making American winter sports great again. She is black and proud, and she is also American and proud. Unlike the Chinese American renegade Eileen Gu, she did not compete for an African or Caribbean country of her roots as she is fully vested in her American nationality and is now being celebrated by all Americans, of every hue and shade. We are all happy for her. 

We share in her milestone, a black person competing and winning an olympics gold medal in a global ice related sport, the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. It is a big deal. Congratulations to Erin Johnson, a celebrity is born, and Vice President Kamala Johnson will be salivating at the opportunity to invite her to the White House for some photo-ups. She has shot herself into the history book of immortality as another first black person to break a barrier. 

RAMS RAMMED THEIR WAY INTO SUPER BOWL LVI WIN: BEAT BENGALS 23:20

ICHEOKU says the luckier side eventually won, once again amplifying the saying that there is something in a name. They are not called Rams for no reason, they are rams and rams certainly do ram their way through obstacles. 

In this case, the Cincinnati Bengals were the obstacle to their Super Bowl LVI dream and they rallied back from their third quarter deficit to lift the Lombardi trophy. 

Congratulations to Los Angeles Rams the Super Bowl LVI champions and also to the Cincinnati Bengals, for putting up a stellar game. They too are honorary champions. Well done fellas.

SUPER BOWL LVI: IT'S GAME ON RAMS V BENGALS.

ICHEOKU says let the better side or rather, luckier side, lift the Lombardi trophy since both sides are superlative teams and champions as of their own rights, AFL and NFC champions respectively. It will be a Super Bowl in recent years without a Quarterback Tom Brady in it, marshaling his troops to victory. 

Which commercial will it be that we will be talking about come Monday? Who is it gonna be, any creativity or just AIGs that will look vanilla. The good old days used to produce commercials that people talked about several days post Super Bowl. 

Hey, Let's go Rams and Lets go Bengals, since it is not only 'Lets go Brandon' that should rent the airwaves later today. Super Bowl is here lets party like it is 1999, Hurray! #SuperBowlLVI.

A CHINESE AMERICAN WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY: UNLIKE EILEEN GU, THE RENEGADE.

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Nathan Chen for winning a gold medal in the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 games. He is a full Chinese-American citizen and he is fully invested in the country he loves and is using the Olympics to make American winter sports great again. It is  great news for America and Chinese Americans, following the outrage of Eileen Gu who won her own gold medal for China, that another Chinese American won another gold at the Olympics for America. Nathan Chen will  be celebrated, but definitely not Eileen Gu. Once again, congratulations to him as it shows that he does not applaud nor approve the genocide of Uiighers nor secretly admires the despotism of the CCP which is holding over 1.6 billion Chinese people hostage to their dictates.

PUTIN MEETS MACRON: SYMBOLISM OF THE LONG TABLE NOT LOST ON THE WORLD.

ICHEOKU says it is an indication that the relationship between the West and Russia has so deteriorated now that it has created a chasm between the two sides, so wide and so deep, that the Grand Canyon has nothing on it. The extremely long table, with the two leaders perched at opposite ends of it, was not an accident. It was by design, a deliberate telegraphing of a message that the current impasse between the West and Russia over Ukraine will require more than just mere talks and threats of economic sanctions to eventually resolve. There was also no French flag displayed behind Putin on the podium during their press briefings. As things stand now, it looks like only one solution is feasible, a shooting war between NATO and Russia to finally determine the long lingering question, which side is militarily superior. 

President Vladimir Putin by the shoddy treatment which he meted out to visiting President Emmanuel Macron showed that he has no respect for both the French President and whatever he represents, including NATO and the West. The Russian strongman displayed, in no unmistakable terms, that he has no love lost for the West, a show of a big disdain, and that he is prepared to now meet the West fire for fire over the Ukraine dispute. He was unapologetic, cocky and very obtuse in his demands; and he showed no sign that he will ever back down nor soften his stand on the impasse over Ukraine.

In fact, he actually threatened NATO and the West, saying no more games and asking if they really want to fight with Russia? He also inferred that all of Russians weapons could be used if war erupts, and that even a nuclear strike is not off his war table. His language also suggests that in the event of Russia suffering great casualties because of western supplied weapons to Ukraine that he might exercise a nuclear first strike, including inside any of the NATO countries. He was adamant and resolute, and sought to intimidate President Macron, NATO and the West and to force them to change course and allow him to forcefully take over Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin has apparently lost all sense of reason and he is not rational, at least not anymore and not in the matter of Ukraine's sovereignty or its right to chart an independent foreign policy direction. He kept hammering on NATO expanding East but chose to forget that NATO was winning the hearts and minds of those Eastern European countries and never forced any of them to join NATO or desire to join NATO. President Putin should have done some self examination, a sort of soul searching, to see what he is doing wrong that is driving all those former Socialists Soviet countries to seek refuge in NATO. 

The Russian Lord of the Kremlin Manor also failed to remember that Ukraine surrendered its nuclear weapons stockpile following an agreement between America and Russia that Russia will never intimidate or show hostilities to it. So, why is President Vladimir Putin not being reminded of this Russia's undertaking to Ukraine, especially by those Western leaders such as President Emmanuel Macron who visit Moscow and frequently hold telephone negotiations with him. What President Putin is doing to both Ukraine and NATO and the West would pass for what Latin calls the fallacy of "argumentum ad baculum", either accept his demand or there will be war and violence.

With just a cavalier "Nice to see you, dear Emmanuel", President Vladimir Putin plunged into his litany of demands on Ukraine and the West. He did not even and possibly refused to shake hands with the visiting French President and made sure that they sat on the opposite ends of the long table. President Putin also referred to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as "my beauty", a term used often to dismissively refer to a woman or a feminine girly man, while spelling out demands which he insisted the Ukraine President must comply with, whether he likes it or not. In his words, Putin said, "Like it or don't like it, it's your duty, my beauty." His treatment of both leaders was extremely disrespectful, but it shows that his mind is made up and he doesn't care any more. 

The only question now remaining is whether NATO and the West will firm up in their resolve and confront Putin and his Russian army head-on. As for Putin, he has been ready since yesterday and only biding his time to see if NATO will provide him the reason to strike immediately; otherwise he will strike when he finally gets a firm assurances from Beijing that China will provide Russia with a stop gap cushion to any imposed Western sanctions following his invasion of Ukraine. Backing down for Putin now is no longer an option and NATO must also be similarly resolved to meet the challenge and it will be a shame if the organization allows just one man to dribble it around and into submission. The mother of all wars beckons, will it be fought now? 

EILEEN GU: A CASE STUDY IN THE AMERICANNESS OF CHINESE AMERICANS.

ICHEOKU says if China does not accept dual citizenship as a matter of State's policy and they allowed her to compete under the Chinese national red flag as a Chinese athlete, it means that she renounced her American citizenship as the Chinese authorities must have insisted on her doing so first before they signed off on her competing for China. 

She was born in San Francisco, a California city with a very large Chinese population, to an American white father and a Chinese mother. Like many of her Chinese--American compatriots, who for the most part, often see their American citizenship as just a tool to help them get what they want, her allegiance is now openly made known as incontrovertibly, primarily to China. She has also forever foreclosed her chance at ever representing the United States of America in any future global sports competition whatsoever.

According to her, her mother made her do it, to switch her allegiance from her country of birth America to her mother's country of birth China, as her mother taught her to embrace her "heritage and honor her ancestry". But what has her "heritage and ancestry" ever done for her throughout her 18 years of existence, one may be forced to ask; yet she prefers to fly the red flag of China against the white, red and blue flag of America, the country which gave her everything she has and also provided the hospital in which she was born and the Stanford University she will be attending. Would she rather live under the control of the Chinese Communist Party than the freedom she is enjoying in America? 

She is Chinese-American, but for all intent and purpose, prefers her Chinese half to her American half. It is the same way former President Barack Obama prefers to identify as black rather than white, but never sought to nor campaigned to be president of Kenya. Whether he "embraced his heritage and honored his ancestry" is also debatable. If children normally inherit the pedigree of their father, why this Chinese representation at the Beijing Winter Olympics games by this San Francisco born Chinese mother and American father female freestyle skier? 

It is true that many hybrid Americans are often conflicted about their true identity and most times, they break for the side that will give them the most mileage in life. Former President Barack Obama did exactly the same thing when he moved to Chicago from his Hawaii pampered life, with politics in his view.  He started learning how to be black, to understand what it really means to be black in America and then he started behaving like black. He directly courted blacks, attended Jeremiah Wright's black church for twenty years and also married a black Michelle to complete his blackness credentials and political resume. But during his presidential campaign when he ran into racial trouble with white people, he hurriedly dusted up his white side pedigree. 

Is it possible that these racially hybrid Americans are just milking their Americanness depending on how it suits their convenience. It would even be more understandable if the parents of such  American born individuals, were both immigrants from another country and still have undiluted sentimental attachment to their country of birth. As with many immigrants in America and practically  elsewhere, their mother country is always very dear to their hearts and they celebrate their heritage as occasion permits. They also instruct their children accordingly about where they come from, their background and also visit with their children to their native country as often as they can afford to make the trip. 

They sometimes even tell their American born children that they should not behave like "those Americans" because they are not Americans. Imagine that, telling children born in America that they are not Americans. There was this story about a Nigerian- American couple who sent their American born children back to Nigeria to be "correctly and properly" tutored about life, despite the children's protestations that they do not want to live in Nigeria because they are not Nigerians but Americans. It took the intervention of the American embassy in Nigeria, who the children secretly called, to bring them back to America. 

It is not just Chinese, but so many immigrants in America who go through this conflict of divided nationality, including even Mexican immigrants whose country of birth shares a common border with America. Sometimes it takes the passing away of such immigrant parents and even the first generation before their children's children will become completely and fully Americanized. So, let no reader of this piece get this piece wrong, as it is not meant to chastise this particular Chinese-American champion freestyle skier or to throw any dart at hybrid Americans because of their mixed race pedigree. 

ICHEOKU is only merely exploring why Eileen Gu did what she did, preferring to compete for China instead of America, her country of birth; especially at this particular time when China's genocide against the Uiighers is front and center of world conversations, the reason there was a diplomatic boycott of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Why did she do it? Does she approve of what the CCP is doing to Chinese minorities or would she rather live under their repressive regime, with only government approved and rationed freedom. What founded her action and why is she so proud of it. Could it be that Brad Pitt was right when he said in the movie Killing Them Softly: "In America, you're on your own. America is not a country, it's just a business. Now pay me." 

She could have easily competed for America as a Chinese-American and still enjoyed the support and love of both countries, her mother's China and her and her father's America as a Chinese pedigreed American making American winter sports competitiveness great again at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. She would have become an instant heroine and celebrity in America as a powerful voice to reckon with the Chinese American community in America. But for her to diss America in this manner, and at a time of high wire global politics and ratcheting tension between the two countries over Taiwan and for what China did to Hong Kong, leaves so much to be desired. She sent a strong message to the world about America and it is not a good message. 

She is now an embodiment of the lack of trust by some American people of a large segment of the Chinese population in America, particularly those in San Francisco and Los Angeles, who these Americans believe owe greater loyalty to China than they do to America. These Americans also believe that it is mostly from this segment that the Chinese Communist Party is drawing the majority of their American spies to infiltrate American politicians and government agencies and departments to mine sensitive information and steal trade secrets. Recall that both Congressman Eric Swalwell's Chinese honey pot and Senator Diane Feinstein's Chinese personal chauffeur/driver of over twenty years came from this very Los Angeles and San Francisco California axis. 

Such a display of borderline loyalty may be one of the reasons some knuckleheads often attack Chinese and other Chinese-looking Americans on the streets, believing that they are moles working for the Chinese Communist Party who do not mean well for America. Many of these Chinese-Americans believe that they are Chinese and not Americans; and for the most part, only fly the American flag when there is a racial complaint to make and protest against. 

Now, Eileen Gu will be celebrating her Winter Olympics gold medal win in Beijing instead of Washington DC or San Francisco, parading through downtown Beijing alongside other Chinese medal winners in the olympics, her now fully affirmed and newly found fellow Chinese compatriots. Just an aside, if she were a member of the United States Marine Corp and war broke out between China and America over Taiwan, and her platoon were deployed to the South China sea to help defend Taiwan, what would she have done? Your guess is probably as good as this writer's. 

ICHEOKU says will be withholding any congratulations to her as that would amount to sleeping with the enemy since she is now part of the genocidal Chinese Communist Party. May be they will give her an honorary membership of the CCP as a reward for what she did, choosing China over America. A country which gave her everything and made it possible for her to attain the great olympian height which she did and also took care of her from birth to now and continuing. 

No wonder San Francisco is what it is, acute liberalism on steroids; always rioting and burning the American flag. This particular Chinese gold winning medalist and now America hating, Eileen Gu, has surpassed every expectations of a weirdness from whacko San Francisco. What does she want to prove, that she can be more outrageous than any other San Franciscan? And Madam Speaker crazy Nancy is their representative. Is she ok with this? Lets see if she will invite her to Washington DC, honor and celebrate her for the gold medal win. In short, this gold winning freestyle skier might be crazier than Nancy for crying out loud. 

PRESIDENT BIDEN HOSTS GERMANY CHANCELLOR OLAF: SANCTIONS ALONE WILL NOT CUT IT.

ICHEOKU says the fear of white people, once again, killing themselves in very large numbers as they did during the two world wars is weighing heavily on the minds of NATO leaders and President Vladimir Putin. This is why the forever threatening war between NATO and Russia has not been fought yet and is steadily looking very unlikely that it will ever be fought. The will is not just there, particularly in Europe, where people are now used to just loving and living life on the easy lane and will not want anything to disturb their groove. 

The new mantra in Europe is why fight wars when you can just relax, make love and smoke some weed and sometimes carry placards on the streets. Many of the good men are all gone, remaining only a very few, who are not in a position to influence policies or make decisions. Those European hippies easily forgot that, but for the brave and courageous few good men of the past, the entire European continent would have lost their culture and language; and replaced them with Aryan culture and German, which would have been the only language tolerated in Europe. Adolf Hitler started off just about the same way which President Vladimir Putin is now trending, with one small country.

That the visiting German Chancellor refused to categorically commit to the fate of Nord-stream II should Russia invade Ukraine shows the deep anti war sentiment in Europe. They don't want war and they don't want to and will not fight Russia; they don't want any hostilities in the neck of their woods to dampen their joyride. Imagine what these European leaders could possibly be telling President Vladimir Putin privately, in phone calls and visits. Is it not even better to just break up NATO or cancel it entirely; and let the "countries of the willing" organize themselves into another security protection umbrella. Enough of the wishy washy Germans giving Putin a mixed signal that NATO is not united under one common resolve.

The German Chancellor was repeatedly asked and given many opportunities to assert a firm position of his German government on the gas pipeline project, but he severally refused to, hiding under the nicety of diplomatic ambiguity. What would President Vladimir Putin, watching the meeting between President Biden and Chancellor Olaf from the comfort seating of his Kremlin residence or office, think? Probably that NATO will not do anything other than the current barking and shouting; and you ask yourself, will such be enough to deter and dissuade Putin from ordering his soldiers to cross the border and thrust into Ukraine, full metal jacket.

Sanctions alone, no matter how tough, will not be enough to deter Putin nor force him to change his mind. He is one heck of a tough cookie and he only understands the language of force. He is a bully of some sort and bullies only understand and respond to bullying. Bullies need to be bullied themselves, too. If NATO should commit right this very minute to send troops into Ukraine and fight alongside Ukraine to help Ukraine protect its territorial integrity, President Vladimir Putin will immediately pull his troops back from the Ukraine border. He is a "strongman" and he does not want to lose that appellation through a possible defeat by NATO and would rather cut his losses and beat it, with his pride and ego still intact.

The war with Russia should be fought as so many weapons have been manufactured and more are still being manufactured and they need to be used. There will not be any other war greater than a war between NATO and Russia, the real mother of all wars. Such a war will be the biggest payday for the military industrial complex and it will also help improve so many countries' economies. Even if President Vladimir Putin caves in now and withdraws his troops from Ukraine's border, he should still be forced to pay a penalty for disturbing the peace of the world and ratcheting the threat of war. He should be made to set a definite transition timetable, within which he must relinquish power in the Kremlin. 

How can the West be preaching democracy around the world and going to war to spread it, yet still doing business with a despot who has been in power for 23 long years. Why were Saddam Hussein and Moumar Gaddafi killed or is President Vladimir Putin not also killing and imprisoning his Russian people in a similar fashion as those former leaders of Iraq and Libya? The sham which passes for elections in Russia is not free and opposition figures are frequently hounded and hunted down, just like it obtained in Iraq and Libya during the regimes of Saddam and Gaddafi. So, why is President Vladimir Putin getting a different special treatment or does his different skin color hold the secret source code?

Anyway, Chancellor Sholz Olaf equated himself well as a bilingual speaker; he also has the composure and finesse of a leader and shares uncanny resemblance with Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the guy who took Biden's senate seat, although his hair is fuller and the hairline is still within an acceptable recession. If only he had the courage to make the much anticipated pronouncement about what will happen to the Nord Stream II pipeline project should Russia invade Ukraine, he would have transformed himself into an Americans loving world statesman. But he missed that golden opportunity to shine at his moment in the sun. It is sad. The wait now continues for Putin to make his next move, which probably would be with tanks rolling into Ukraine. Who even knows what Putin is thinking? Only Putin can vouchsafe that.

THE WEST IS UNDER A MORAL OBLIGATION TO DEFEND UKRAINE: KUWAIT WAS DEFENDED.

ICHEOKU says the West goaded Ukraine out of the Kremlin's control and should stand with the country, shoulder to shoulder, as it defends its territory from Russia. The country is under a darkening fog of invasion by an overwhelmingly stronger and militarily more superior Russia, and cannot be left to its own devices. Will Russia tolerate the use of Western weapons in killing Russians without forcing the West into the conflict by striking a target in the West like Japan did with Hawaii? 

Anyway, weapons alone will not do the magic and cannot do the job as was shown with Afghanistan National Army, which were also militarily well supplied, yet they crumbled before the rag tag Taliban forces. Western boots on the ground will be needed and should be provided in addition. The West must boldly affirm its stand that every sovereign and independent country has the right to make its own foreign policy decisions and decide which direction it wants to go. Therefore, when Russia finally invades Ukraine, the West must see Ukraine as a brother in trouble and come to its assistance in fighting the Russian invaders.

If Russia will be bold enough to ignore all the threats of sanctions and proceed to invade Ukraine, the West must determine such as an action of a bully and come to the assistance of Ukraine with a direct military action against the invaders. The West must show Ukraine that they really support it by actually supporting it, and helping the heroes of Ukraine in giving death to the invaders and prospective occupiers. If Germans had been confronted when they first invaded Poland, they would have been stopped right there; and would not have had the impetus to take over more European countries. Ukraine will not be the only country in the menu of Russia; it will only be a trial run as Russia will consume every other former Soviet Socialist country if they get away with Ukraine. 

The currently prevailing argument that because Ukraine is not a member of NATO and therefore it is not entitled to benefit from the "attack on one is an attack on all" defense policy of NATO is simply a hogwash. Other countries which were not members of NATO have benefitted from the organization in the past. Kosovo for one; and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the Iraqi army was chased out Kuwait and the last time ICHEOKU checked, Kuwait was and is still not a member of NATO. It is either the West is afraid of fighting Russia or they know something which the public does not know about Russian military superiority, which they do not want to become advertised by going to a war with them and suffering a humiliating defeat in their hands.

The West must override any presently existing policy in their charter which will prevent NATO from directly engaging the Russian army when it invades Ukraine. At minimum, they can treat it as a special case which needs an exception; and issue a waiver designed to prevent a bully from bullying a less powerful and less stronger neighbor. It will help boost the moral credentials of NATO and reassure countries flirting with membership of NATO, that they can do it if they want, without fear of Russia attacking them. If NATO stays aside while Russia overruns Ukraine, it will produce a chilling effect on its membership-aspiring countries and will also weaken NATO's strength in the eyes of the world. If the organization cannot fight just one country, Russia, what then is the use for its existence? 

The West's resting their help on only weapons supply is not enough as the courage to effectively stand their ground in the face of a massive Russian invading army, might not be sufficiently available in the Ukraine military. They will need all the extra support and help they can get from NATO or elected Western countries' military, to shore them up and assure them that they are not alone in the fight and that they got their back. Even if such foreign military help will not go into a direct fighting with Russians, or to the battle front, at least they can man the logistics and supplies, as well as training additional Ukrainian volunteers, while enough of Ukraine trained soldiers are freed up to enable them deploy more troops into the battle fields as they confront the invading Russians. 

Ukraine is a laboratory test case for the future of European military and defense security; and as Ukraine goes, so shall many other European countries, the reason NATO must stand their ground firmly and help fight the war against Russia now in Ukraine, once and for all. The war with communism, which was once cold and now heating up, should be fought now instead of kicking the can down the road for a future time. This is the only way to finally decide the military superiority contest between the West and Russia, which is the primary cause of the lingering tension between the West and Russia, as one side has to be first militarily defeated in order to have a permanent peace. 

Such a war will be very lucrative to the military industrial complex and will also help grow the economy of the various countries which will supply and support the war effort. It is not enough to wish and hope and pray that President Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine or that President Vladimir Putin has been deterred by the barrage of threats of economic sanctions. The Russian strongman does not care and he showed it previously when he invaded Georgia and Ukraine, seizing their cities of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as well as Crimea, despite the then President Barack Obama's threats of crushing economic sanctions. President Vladimir Putin simply ignored them and they eventually turned out to be just ordinary empty hot air. 

Recall that the American government's position then was that "realistically Crimea is now effectively in Russian hands and the challenge going forward is how to deter Russia from taking over the Russian-speaking areas of east Ukraine or even the whole Ukraine." It has now been  shown that Vladimir Putin is not content with what he has already taken by force, and now wants more. He figured out that the West lacks the resolve to militarily confront Russia because the appetite for a real war between the West and Russia does not exist in the West, especially among Europeans, who have since succumbed to woke sissy politics, and he is now craving for more territorial seizures. 

Now that we are once again experiencing "the most dangerous situation in Europe since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968", what is the West going to do about it? Is the West ready to put their military muscle where their economic sanctions threat mouth is, or will they shy away under the cover of Ukraine not being a member of NATO? Every right thinking person knows that bullies understand only one language, their language of force. They need to be bullied too or at least forced to stop bullying others by giving them a dose of their medicine; or as  William Shakespeare would put it, Measure for Measure. Stopping President Vladimir Putin's annihilation of Ukraine is a moral obligation which the West have, and they owe it to Ukraine now as a matter of cause. 

President Vladimir is marching on with his invasion and has literally encircled Ukraine with thousands of armored tanks and soldiers. He has also deployed the cold weather combat Siberia-based military unit and has ordered his nuclear bombers into full military readiness. Will the West wait and watch as he unleashes all these anacondas on a small Ukraine? Will the West be comfortable to entertain such high level deaths and destruction? If the West claims that Putin is miscalculating, why won't the West also "miscalculate" alongside Putin, afterall it takes fire to sometimes quench a fire. Is all the West's threats of "crushing economic sanctions" not what William Shakespeare described as a little gust of wind which enables an inferno to rage on? 

He did it before with South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Crimea and the sanctions then did not do jack to deter him and did not adversely impact Russia or President Putin. If Russia survived then,  why would President Vladimir Putin be deterred now by the same similar vacuous threat? What if he decides that Russia can ride out whatever sanction the West might impose and goes ahead to invade Ukraine? North Korea has been under such "crushing sanction" for a long time, yet their leader Kim Jong Un is still in power and the entire North Koreans have not been wiped out of hunger. What does President Vladimir Putin care if sanctions are imposed, as long as Russia occupies Ukraine? He does not care if he is perceived as "strategically weaker", whatever that means; as long as he is perceived as militarily so strong that NATO backed out from fighting Russia. 

ICHEOKU says it is time to put an end to his lawlessness and constant violations of international borders of his neighboring countries and getting away. NATO exists as a counterforce to Russia and it must stand up now to show, in fact, that it is really a counterforce against Russia. Ukraine is asking for all the help it can get to help defend itself from Russia and NATO should give it to them, including fighting men and women, to help them take on the Russian invaders when they finally arrive. It is no longer if, but when, Russia will invade Ukraine. The war is already afoot, with Russian soldiers eagerly waiting at the border for the order to breach Ukraine. So, when Ukraine finally asks NATO for some help with troops, will NATO answer Kiev and say, here they are, take as many as you need?

MOROCCO FAILED LITTLE BOY RAYAN: HE WAS RESCUABLE AND SHOULD HAVE LIVED.

ICHEOKU says Private Ryan was saved but a real life little boy Rayan could not be saved just because the team that mounted the rescue operation fumbled the ball. It was absolute ineptitude and gross incompetence of the rescue team that led to the death of five year old boy Rayan. Little Rayan had a great resolve to live and he gave the Moroccan authorities everything they could have needed to help them save him but they still failed him, regardless. 

First, he fell into a 100 feet deep hole which could easily pass for a shallow hole in the drilling world. Second, it was a leg first, straight down fall, a somewhat rappelling down drop if anyone wants to see it that way, and he survived the fall. Third, he was alert and talking; and was able to reasonably communicate with the rescuers. Fourth, he was did not panic and stayed alive for four long days, alone and unafraid, inside the ten stories deep dark hole, hopefully and patiently  waiting for the Kingdom of Morocco authorities to get to him and pull him out alive. 

What else could the authorities in Morocco have expected from such an entrapped citizen, which the 5 year old little boy did not provide for them to make his rescue possible? In fact, he lived long enough to have been successfully rescued ten times over; and his death will forever haunt those rescuers for their unprofessionalism and lack of technical knowhow on how to mount an effective rescue operation. The whole circumstances were just about perfect for them to have done a better job and rescued little Rayan; and the weather held up as it was not raining either. 

The hole was only one hundred feet deep; they knew the exact location of the boy; they lowered a camera into the hole and saw him clearly. They also lowered oxygen, water and food to him; so why wasn't more stuff lowered to him in order to get him out. He was alert and not badly injured, so why didn't they lower a hard helmet, life jacket and suspenders to him and then guide him on how to strap them on; and using a harness, gradually hoist him up and out of the hole. Even if the crane was pulling him up at a maximum speed of about ten feet every one hour, it would have successfully and safely pulled him out alive within about ten hours.  

Instead, they wasted much valuable time digging up piles of dirt and at a distance; and after five long days of avoidable waste of time, little Rayan lost the will to wait and gave up. He died regretting that he was born in Morocco where the authorities are grossly inept and could not manage such a simple rescue operation. If that hole could fit the shoulders of the little boy, it means that it was also big enough to fit steel pipes, to shore the side walls and also pull Ryan  safely through. 

Even without such pipes, with the necessary harness, hard helmet and right rugged outfits, the job could still have been safely done. All they needed to do was remain in constant communication with little Rya as they gradually pulled him up, having guided him into those safety gears. 

In other climes, people buried far deeper underneath such as coal miners, and whose location are sometimes not even known, are still being safely rescued. But in Africa, in the Kingdom of Morocco, a little boy who fell into a mere 100 feet shallow hole and whose exact location was known, could not be safely rescued after five long days of waiting. It is exactly what Bob Marley's song "Waiting in vain" looks like and little Rayan experienced it first hand before he finally succumbed to death. 

ICHEOKU says whoever was in charge of the rescue attempt and also the emergency service in Morocco ought to resign in shame or be fired for the botched rescue. They let little Rayan down,  despite all the effort he made to stay alive and be rescued. His will to live was eventually overpowered by the incompetence of the Moroccan rescue team and his body yielded his spirit. 

Instead of excavating a parallel hole requiring such a heavy amount of earth removal and the constant fear of surrounding grounds giving way, they should have drilled a lateral hole adjacent to the boy's location and crawl him out from it. It is used in oil fracking and it was also the reason Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, claiming that Kuwait was stealing Iraq's oil through lateral drilling. A hundred feet deep hole could easily have been drilled using this method within a few hours and a stationary drill machine would have also dispensed with heavy earth-moving machinery, moving back and forth and heightening the fear of possible cave in. 

It is a lame excuse that diggers encountered "a hard rock" which further delayed the rescue effort, because hard rocks are reasonably to be expected as part of the subterranean structure; or were they expecting beach-sand under the earth? The supposed "experts" on topographical engineering should have known or at least anticipated that there could be "hard rock" beneath the earth's surface. 

All the people involved with the rescue attempt of the little Moroccan boy Rayan should resign in shame as they not only failed little Ryan, but every Moroccan and in fact the entire African continent. They did a very poor job and they failed woefully. Maybe, we should have sent Tom Hanks to the rescue. It is sad that little Rayan was not safely rescued. May his soul now rest. 

BEIJING WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 OPENS: UNITED IN DESPOTISM, BIRDS OF THE SAME PLUMAGE.

ICHEOKU says they can do whatever the heck they like to their completely emasculated captive citizens, but that is where it ends as the free world will never allow them to dictate outside the borders of their respective enclaves. What Vladimit Putin is planning for Ukraine and what Xi Jingping is planning for Taiwan shall both fail as the world has resolved to not tolerate them. 

In this 21st century, just two men believe that only them knows what is best for millions of Russians and a billion plus Chinese people. It is incredible that President Vladimir Putin has been the only absolute authority in Russia for 23 years since 1999. Is Russia a third world country or what? Why are Russians allowing this madness to continue to fester. Why is China's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still existing when China is no longer a communist country, having since embraced capitalism? 

Anyway, it is their completely subdued citizens, who have been intimidated and tortured into total servile obedience, who still tolerate their subjugation. Hopefully, a day will come when they will wake up from their cruelty-induced stupor to demand their freedom and say enough of living in bondage of oppressive dictatorships. It is possible too that the two men are sponsoring the military coups sweeping out elected governments in West Africa to make it easy for them to do business without any check and balance. Anyway, good luck to the world class athletes who are gathered in Beijing and competing in the Winter Olympics 2022 games.