GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, February 28, 2022

PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY: TRANSMUTES INTO A NATIONAL HERO.

ICHEOKU says he is an embodiment of exactly what leading from the front really looks like. The comedian turned president has displayed exceptional courage managing the crisis now turned into a fully blown war with Ukraine's aggressive neighbor Russia. So far, he has conducted himself very well in leading Ukrainians, both military and civilians, as any well seasoned leader would do in times of great adversity such as war. 

By so doing, he has effectively transformed himself into a great Ukrainian statesman and a hero, for whom statues shall be erected in his honor as an attestation. History shall write him favorably well for not abandoning his people at their time of greatest need for his assured leadership. Instead of taking the easy way out, either compromise Ukraine's legitimacy as a sovereign and independent country or abandon the country for a comfortable life in exile, he chose to stay put, to continue to provide his Ukrainian people the moral authority to fight for their homeland. 

In President Volodymyr Zelensky, a hero has emerged not only for Ukraine but throughout the world, especially among nations struggling to be freed of external interferences and undue influence by forces and powers greater than them. He is now a symbol of resistance, courage and defiance. Kudos to the man for his abiding love for his country and for which he is prepared to sacrifice his life, defending. God will shield and protect the president of Ukraine and also grant Ukrainians victory over the invading Russian marauders. Shame on Putin, the world pariah. Viva Ukraine!

Sunday, February 27, 2022

 #FightTheBully

 #PutinIsABully

FIGHT RUSSIA NOW IN UKRAINE OR FIGHT THEM IN NATO COUNTRIES.

 

ICHEOKU says a small country Ukraine is fighting the combined forces of Russia, Belarus and Chechnya all alone. The West should step in now and help Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. President Vladimir Putin has gone cuckoo and he needs to be stopped now before he overreaches himself to contemplate firing rockets and missiles into an American or British or European city center. #StandWithUkraine, fight the Russians. 

PUTIN IS A BULLY: HELP UKRAINE FIGHT HIM NOW.

STAND WITH UKRAINE: PUTIN IS A BULLY.

ICHEOKU says it is about time the West fully commit and prevent President Vladimir Putin from uprooting democracy in Ukraine. Ukraine should be the declared battle ground to challenge Putin as he has openly made his intentions known that he is ready to fight to reclaim all former Soviet Union real estate. 

Putin is not just attacking Ukraine but every Western values, including democracy. If he drops nuclear bomb, the West should respond in kind; but enough of this needless deference to Putin. America says it stands against bullies, so what is America waiting for before going to help Ukraine. #FightTheRussianInvaders.

Saturday, February 26, 2022

PUTIN HAS TO GO: RUSSIANS WANT HIM GONE TOO.

ICHEOKU says it cannot remain business as usual for the dictator of Russia, regardless of how the current hostilities he brought on Ukraine finally concludes. The West condoned and tolerated him for far too long, to the extent of literally cuddling him, in their attempt to mollify and pacify him. His ego is simply too big for his petite stature such that the more the West tries to massage it, the more his head gets bigger. Now he is madder than he already is and has started breaking things up in Ukraine, a prelude to what is yet to come in Eastern Europe. 

President Vladimir Putin has held forte in Russia for 23 long years and this aberration was accepted by the West just because it is Putin and they are afraid of his choler. Now he has finally removed his mask of Zorro and is attacking an independent sovereign country without provocation, killing many and destroying a lot of stuff. His unprovoked attack must come with consequences and they must go to the root of what he is and what gives him the impetus to do what he does, his power must be taken away from him. 

The Ukraine war presents a golden opportunity for the West to finally cut Putin to size and consign him into the garbage heap of history where he rightly belongs. He must be removed from office and cannot be allowed to remain Russian president, going forward. If he refuses to go, the world should withdraw their recognition of him as the president of Russia because he is no longer a fit and proper person for that office. Power intoxicates and absolute power corrupts the unhinged absolutely, and President Vladimir Putin has shown that he is not totally in sync upstairs. 

Russia should be sent back to the cold where they belong and from where the West has been trying to drag them out of. Everything Russia should be boycotted and prohibited from the West, including barring their national airline Aeroflot any landing right in every Western country; boycotting their products, if any.There should be a total embargo placed on every Russian government official from traveling to any Western country and their children, wives, families and dependent relatives in the West should be immediately mass deported back to Russia. 

Put in another way, there should be a total and complete boycott of Russia: economic, social, sports and diplomatic to put unimaginable pressure on President Vladimir Putin and force him to end the war which he unleashed on Ukraine. Let Russia be isolated and left alone in the dark as the uncivilized people who still believe in acute dictatorship and wishfully trying to rewind back the hands of time. Like Dorothy said in Wizard of Oz, we are no longer in Kansas but President Vladimir Putin still thinks that the world is still stuck in 1990's Soviet era, when everyone in Eastern Europe had to be dictated to, clobbered in a union of the unwilling but cowered people, the defunct and never coming back Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.

President Vladimir Putin's Russia must also be made to pay for all the damage which its army is inflicting on Ukraine. They must repair every destroyed building and structure in Ukraine as well as pay compensation for killed Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. The seized Russian assets and money should be commandeered to pay for these costs. Russia should be expelled from the United Nations Organization and other world bodies, such as FIFA, as a means of punishing Russia for what it is doing in Ukraine and making it known to him that his arbitrariness can no longer be tolerated. 

If Russia does not want to conform its actions to modernity, then there is no business having it among the comity of civilized and modern nations. Enough of Putin's madness. President Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for his unprovoked aggression in Ukraine. He has to go; removed from office or in a worse case scenario, eliminated. His hostility to Russia's neighbors and constantly keeping the world scared and guessing what he might do, should no longer be accommodated and must cease forthwith. 

ICHEOKU says President Vladimir Putin's idiotic despotism has gone on for far too long. Like Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia, Russia shall be free, freed of Putin's acute dictatorship. He has gotten away with so much and with the apparent consent and approval of the West. Now is the time to coral the wild bronco and lasso him to order or as a war criminal which he has morphed into. His problem, the Putin Problem, should be finally and permanently solved for good, by engineering his exit from office. #RemovePutinFromPower. 

Friday, February 25, 2022

WHERE IS LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER SEMYONOVICH VINDMAN?

ICHEOKU says his motherland Ukraine needs him right now for his military expertise. Ukraine could use his extensive war-fighting skills, knowledge and experience as they desperately battle for survival as an independent sovereign nation, faced with a blistering hellish onslaught by Russia. 

Colonel Vindman should answer the clarion call from the president of his land of birth for help and organize Ukrainians in Diaspora who have special military training and other virtual attack skills, as well as other available willing mercenaries and combatants and head back to Kiev to help save his motherland from an impending destruction by Russia. 

Instead of being remembered as the infamous Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who ratted on his former boss and commander in chief President Donald John Trump, an opportunity now calls for him to redeem himself and re-write his story by standing up to be counted. Although he is now Ukrainian-American, Ukraine still remains his primary country and they once wanted to make him the country's defense minister. For such an honor, Ukraine deserves some direct show of support from the Lieutenant Colonel. #WhereIsColonelVindman

Thursday, February 24, 2022

THE WEST MUST FIGHT RUSSIA NOW IN UKRAINE OR FIGHT RUSSIA LATER DEFENDING NINE COUNTRIES.

ICHEOKU says after denying for several months that he has no plans to invade Ukraine, the Russia despot has finally struck, bombarding several Ukrainian cities in his own version of shock and awe. He also threatened America with the cruelest and harshest punishment ever should America dare to interfere with the Russian operation in Ukraine. In his own words, the tsar potentate of Russia said: "A couple of words for those who would be tempted to intervene. Russia's response will be immediate and they will have consequences which they never had before in their history."

Put in other words, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has threatened to nuke the United States of America in the event America intervenes on behalf of Ukraine to fight off Russia aggression. It is an existential threat to the United States of America and what is the White House doing about it? Will President Joe Biden sit and wait for President Vladimir Putin to bring the war to America or to first nuke an American city before he declares Russia an enemy and sends American troops into Ukraine to starve him off. It is exactly the same reason we were in Afghanistan for so many years, fighting the terrorists over there so that we will not fight them here at home. 

President Vladimir Putin is on a mission, a crusade to retake all former Soviet Socialist countries and once he overruns Ukraine, it will provide him the beachhead to take over other smaller former Soviet countries. Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia are some of the countries within Putin's scope and which will be coming under the steamrolling of his Russia military once Ukraine is rolled up. It will provide a greater challenge for the West defending all these countries from a determined Russian army; so the best course of action is to jump in now and checkmate Putin by making Ukraine the battle ground.

Anybody who is still trusting the Russian pariah is living in a fool's paradise, as he has repeatedly proven himself not worthy of trust and his words don't mean anything. Anyone who is thinking that he will stop once Ukraine falls is also not thinking clearly as he is obsessed with getting back what he believes mother Russia lost. By attacking Ukraine, the Russian fella has shown that he no longer cares about world opinions nor any threat of economic sanctions. He also has zero respect for the West and he is also no longer afraid of America and is prepared to use his nuclear weapons to assert himself. Probably, he has a terminal disease and is now on a suicide mission. 

ICHEOKU says the West must now send in forces into Ukraine, as friends and sympathetic observers who will not stand idly by and watch a weaker and smaller country being bullied around by its despotic neighbor. Russia wants to fight, let the West fight them in Ukraine and now that they have not dismantled the Ukrainian army just yet, an army that will also help in the fight against Russia. The West must not wait for Ukraine to first fall before mounting a firefighting campaign to pushback Russia. Now is the time to jump into the fray and take Russia by surprise before they believe that they are on an unstoppable roll to reclaim their so-called lost territories

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

DEFEND UKRAINE NOW!

KUWAIT WAS NOT A NATO COUNTRY, YET WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN INVADED IT, IT WAS DEFENDED. #DefendUkraineNow.

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WHY I HAD TO DO IT NOW - PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN.

"Good afternoon, colleagues.

We are meeting today to discuss the current developments in Donbass. 

I will briefly remind you how it all started and how the situation has developed even though you know this very well. But we need general background to help us make appropriate decisions. 

So, after the 2014 coup in Ukraine, part of the population did not accept the outcome. Let me remind you that this was an anti-constitutional, blood-shedding coup that killed many innocent people. It was truly an armed coup. Nobody can argue that. 

Some of the country’s citizens did not accept the coup. They were residents of Crimea and the people who currently live in Donbas. 

Those people declared that they were establishing two independent republics, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic. This was the point when the confrontation started between the Kiev officials and the people living on that territory. 

In this context, I would like to point out that Russia initially did everything it could to make sure these disagreements could be resolved by peaceful means. However, the Kiev officials have conducted two punitive operations on those territories and, apparently, we are witnessing a third escalation. 

All these years – I want to stress this – all these years, the people living on those territories have been literally tortured by constant shelling and blockades. As you know, the people living on those territories, close to the front line, so to speak, were in fact forced to seek shelter in their basements – where they now live with their children. 

A peace plan was drafted during the negotiating process called the Minsk Package of Measures because, as you recall, we met in the city of Minsk. But subsequent developments show that the Kiev authorities are not planning to implement it, and they have publicly said so many times at the top state level and at the level of Foreign Minister and Security Council Secretary. Overall, everyone understands that they are not planning to do anything with regard to this Minsk Package of Measures. 

Nevertheless, Russia has exerted efforts and still continues to make efforts to resolve all the complicated aspects and tragic developments by peaceful means, but we have what we have. 

Our goal, the goal of today’s meeting is to listen to our colleagues and to outline future steps in this direction, considering the appeals by the leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic on recognising their sovereignty, as well as a resolution by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the same subject. The latter document urges the President to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic. 

At the same time, I would like to note that these different matters are, nevertheless, closely linked with matters of maintaining international security, on the European continent in particular, because the use of Ukraine as a tool for confronting this country, Russia, of course, presents a major and serious threat to us. 

This is why we have intensified our work with our main partners in Washington and NATO over the past few months and in late 2021, so as to reach an eventual agreement on these security measures and to ensure the country’s calm and successful development under peaceful conditions. We see this as our number one objective and a top priority; instead of confrontation, we need to maintain security and ensure conditions for our development. 

But we must, of course, understand the reality we live in. And, as I have said many times before, if Russia faces the threat of Ukraine being accepted into the North Atlantic Alliance, NATO, the threat against our country will increase because of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty that clearly states that all countries in the alliance must fight on the side of their co-member in the event of an aggression against it. But since nobody recognises the will expressed by the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, and Ukraine continues to insist that it is Ukrainian territory, there is a real threat that they will try to take back the territory they believe is theirs using military force. And they do say this in their documents, obviously. Then the entire North Atlantic Alliance will have to get involved. 

As you know, we have been told that some NATO countries are against Ukraine becoming a member. However, despite their objections, in 2008, they signed a memorandum in Bucharest that opened the doors for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO. I have not received an answer to my question as to why they did that. But if they took one step under pressure from the United States, who can guarantee that they will not take another step under pressure? There is no guarantee. 

There are no guarantees whatsoever because the United States is known to easily discard any agreements and documents it signs. Still, at least something must be put on paper and formulated as an international legal act. At this point, we cannot even agree on this one thing.

Therefore, I would like to suggest that we proceed as follows: first, I will give the floor to Mr Lavrov who is directly involved in the attempts to reach an agreement with Washington and Brussels, and with NATO, on security guarantees. Then I would like Mr Kozak to report on his findings concerning the talks on the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Then each of you will be able to speak. But at the end of the day, we must decide what we will do next and how we should proceed in view of the current situation and our assessment of these developments." - President Vladimir Putin.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

PUTIN DEFIES THE WEST: INVADES UKRAINE AND SEIZES TWO MORE TERRITORIES.

ICHEOKU says an invasion is an invasion, whether minor or not, as Russia has actively violated the territorial land space of Ukraine by formally recognizing two Ukrainian breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk which Russia helped carry out insurrection against Kiev. Unless the West is waiting for Russian tanks to first roll into Kiev, the action for which they threatened a reaction, of imposing suffocating economic sanctions against Russia has now occurred. The West must therefore now act decisively unless they want to completely lose face in the eyes of the people of Ukraine. 

The West made a promise to the Ukrainian people that if Russia invades them, they will impose a punishing economic and diplomatic sanction against Russia. They must now fulfill that promise or forever be seen as a people who are big on promises but gun-shy on keeping them. Donetsk and Luhansk regions belong to Ukraine and a foreign Russian army moving into them without an express invitation and authorization of the authorities in Kiev amounts to an illegal incursion, an invasion, to wit. It does not matter under whatever pretext of "peace keeping" mission which Putin used in ordering his Russian troops into the two breakaway Ukrainian regions. 

The fact of the matter is that President Vladimir Putin is not the United Nations Organization which normally conducts such "peace keeping" missions and usually at the invitation of the recognized governing authority in a country or with its consent and approval, first sought and obtained; none of which President Vladimir Putin did. In his remarks announcing the decision to take over the two Ukrainian territories, President Putin said: "I consider it necessary to take a long overdue decision to immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic".

This is a president of Russia who refused to recognize the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, yet was quick to recognize the two separatists regions of Ukraine. This is a president of Russia who invaded and forcibly seized the Ukrainian City of Crimea; who invaded and seized Georgia's cities of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. And now he is using the proxy of his propped up separatist puppets in Donetsk and Luhansk to once again invade and seize two regions of Ukraine. Yet the world, especially the West, is standing hands akimbo watching Putin repeatedly violate international law and order as it concerns respect for each country's territorial borders. 

Hasn't President Vladimir Putin gotten away with enough brigandage already? What again did Adolf Hitler's Germany do differently in Europe? What again did Iraq's Saddam Hussein do differently with Kuwait? What again did Nigeria's Sani Abacha do differently with Bakassi Peninsula? If any of these named three former leaders had nuclear weapons in their arsenal, would the reaction of the West to them have been different? Why is Russia's President Vladimir Putin being allowed to get away with his constant violations of other countries' territorial integrity? 

What use is the United Nations Organization if its member Ukraine cannot be protected from the aggression of its more powerful neighbor Russia? Has the organization outlived its usefulness and is it about time to decommission it just like the case is being strongly made that disbanding NATO is also overdue. Where is the "UNITED" in the United Nations Organization when their members are disjointed and disunited, with the more powerful member seeking to consume the less powerful member. Not even the American Kosovo example justifies what President Putin has done with Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk, especially after crushing Chechnya's attempted separation from Russia. 

The current Secretary General of the United Nations is very weak and docile; and in fact, ineffective and should not have won a second term in office. With so much global insecurity, ravaging wars, diseases, famines, disasters and now President Vladimir Putin created additional crisis in Ukraine, and you ask yourself what exactly has the SG done to fix or help solve these problems? He is busy making lame speeches and not forceful enough to deter the Russian strong man by issuing a threat of expulsion of Russia from the United Nations Organization. If might is right in the United Nations, what then is the use of "uniting" countries, both weak and strong, under the one umbrella? 

President Vladimir Putin is holding the entire West hostage and is now insisting that it is not only Ukraine but every other former Soviet country that must not ever become Westernized. He also added that every Western deployed troops and weapons in Eastern Europe must be removed too. What could have emboldened Putin this so much to so brazenly dare the West if not that he now perceives West's woke induced timidity, fear and weakness. Would Putin have dared the West the same way when Europe had leaders like Margret Thatcher, Jack Chirac and Helmut Kohl and President Ronald Reagan in the White House. 

What President Vladimir Putin is doing to Ukraine is violative of every international norm and decency. It shows his total disregard for organizations such as the United Nations as well as the European Union and of course NATO. He looks down on them with a great condescending attitude, the reason he repeatedly calls their bluff and does whatever he wants to do despite their deafening objections. President Vladimir Putin is an embodiment of a living bully and only understands the language of the bully, force.  

Why not fight him now and for however long such war might take, cost inclusive, and get his case closed permanently for good. Why is he being tolerated in power for as many decades as he has been in office? Watching the spectacle that was his "national council" meeting yesterday, revealed a dictator who has totally and completely placed every breathing Russian under his thumb. His minions were kept at a great distance from their dear leader and they cowered as they lipped through their pre-approved remarks signing off on the wishes of their living tsar about Ukraine. They hardly made eye contact with him and their voices quavered; then imagine what ordinary Russians are going through if their supposed henchmen and oligarchs are trembling before President Vladimir Putin. 

By recognizing the two regions and ordering his troops to move into them, President Vladimir Putin has practically declared war on Ukraine. The people of Ukraine must now respond in kind to defend their country. Nobody is expecting Ukraine to defeat Russia, but at least they would have registered themselves as  having fought to defend their country. It is about time for every person in Ukraine, men and women, old and young, anti war or pro war, both the trained and untrained everyday normal people to take up arms and mount an insurgency against the invading Russian army. 

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy must realize that Russia's President Vladimir Putin is not scared by words of his "friends and partners" in the West and must now mobilize Ukrainians to fight in defense of their homeland. Ukrainians are ready to die in the effort but they need to be first fully mobilized and impassioned about the project, to defend their homeland from the invading Russian army. He should know that Ukrainians are on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown and that they have been fully encircled and have nowhere to run to. President Putin has finally brought the war to Ukraine and he must live up to his duties as the commander in chief of Ukrainian defense forces and president of Ukraine, rise up and meet the challenge head on. No more speeches. 

Monday, February 21, 2022

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.

Sunday, February 20, 2022

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.  

Friday, February 18, 2022

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? 

Thursday, February 17, 2022

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.