KILL ME NOW AND PUTIN RESPONDED: I ALREADY DID AND SHE DIES ALONGSIDE HER CHILD.

ICHEOKU says may her soul now rest. What a monster he is that would bomb a maternity hospital where expectant mothers were braving agonizing birth pangs, laboring through bringing another life into this world. But callous Putin, the vampire of Kremlin, was not born by a woman and his wicked sperm did not impregnate another woman who birthed children for him. Otherwise, why will he not understand that pregnancy, labor and childbirth are too much pain already and not to inflict additional pain on such vulnerable women. 

But while his own children were safely delivered, he is now preventing other people's children from being safely delivered, if at all; just like the heavily pregnant woman of Mariupol he bombed the maternity hospital managing her childbirth labor, who has now died alongside her unborn baby from injuries sustained when Putin's bombs rained down on the facility. According to doctors who tried to save her and her unborn baby, the bombs crushed her pelvis and detached her hips, causing her baby to die and partially ejected from her womb. May their souls now rest.

That President Joe Biden is still second-guessing himself on whether America should enter the already begun World War 3 in Ukraine now, is simply inexplicable. He said that America protects little guys from bullies, yet Putin is bullying Zelenskyy and bombing the daylight out of Ukraine. He said that America defends values dear to the country, yet he is watching as Putin is methodically grinding democracy to a pulp in Ukraine. How can the West stand by, hiding under one useless umbrella of NATO membership charter, to continue to tolerate the heavy-handedness in full display of Putin's invading army in Ukraine.

Journalists are being killed, pregnant women and children are being killed, young married women are being widowed, churches are being bombed, residential apartments complexes are being willfully shelled into ruination, hospital and maternity are being shelled, nuclear facilities are being intentionally fired at with the mischief of triggering a nuclear holocaust in Ukraine. Yet President Joe Biden feels that Russia has not escalated the conflict in Ukraine and that he should not escalate it either. 

Unless the definition of "escalation" has changed and no longer means ratcheting up or increasing something several folds, the war in Ukraine has increased in every aspect of the calculation imaginable, only that the will to confront Putin is not there. It is unfortunate that madman Putin is acting out because he believes that a sane Joe Biden will not brave it to challenge him. Putin wouldn't have dared dream up what he is presently doing in Ukraine when President Donald John Trump was in the white house because he knows better, that it takes a mad person to cure a mad person of his madness. 

Anyway, blame it on the woke culture of appeasement, the American media and the American voters who voted last November 3, 2020 to cut their nose in order to spite their face. Now everyone is suffering from their foolery, from an increasingly becoming unaffordable living expenses in America, to Ukrainians being murdered and their cities being destroyed. A car gas tank which used to cost forty dollars to fill now costs $120 dollars to fill up; ditto the cost of groceries and every aspect of staying alive. Why President Zelenskyy has not yet played the Hunter Biden's Burisma scandal card as an instrument of blackmail to force President Joe Biden's hand is not clear. Even a threat of it would have since done the magic. 

ICHEOKU says Putin cannot stop until he is stopped. He only responds to force. All the sanctions in the world cannot move him. The bombing of Yavoriv is a deliberate knocking at the door of NATO by Putin, to say to NATO, I am coming, be ready. He bombed American military facility in Iraq using Iran as his extended self in response of the killing of Suleiman. He again bombed American facility in Irbil using the same Iran as provocateur. The next of his bombs will land in a NATO territory, if not directly at an American military base in Germany. He figured out that woke politics has destroyed the West and rendered their apathy for wars a system-wide malaise; and he is utilizing the exposed underbelly to do what he has always wanted to do and dreamt of doing. #StopPutinNow. 

WORLD WAR 3 IS ALREADY UPON US: YOU CAN DENY IT ALL YOU WANT.

ICHEOKU says the Ukraine war has already turned into World War III but like the other two previous World War 1 & 2, which America entered late, America will also find itself entering the fight in Ukraine late. So regardless of how President Joe Biden wants to spin it, President Vladimir Putin has already globalized the war in Ukraine. His intentions are clear and his ambition is far wider than just capturing Ukraine, begging the question, is the West waiting for Ukraine to first fall before waking up to their responsibility to stop Putin and his Russian army from also gulping down other former Soviet countries. 

Syrians, Uzbekistans, Chechnyas, Eritreans, Belarusians and some other Middle East terrorists fighters have already answered Putin's call to join Russia in destabilizing Ukraine to make it easy for him to swallow. Ukraine cannot fight all these foreign nations' army alone and all by itself; it is therefore time the West recognizes the danger that the war in Ukraine has already morphed into World War III and enter in it now as if their life depends on it, because it does. A loss of Ukraine will be a shame of the West and the effect will be long lasting if not in perpetuity.

The West should contain Putin's army within Ukraine and not allow any other European country to witness the devastation which Ukraine is currently suffering. Ukrainian war refugees alone are becoming too many to handle already, then imagine what will happen when the entire Eastern European countries release a deluge of refugees into Western Europe as Putin's rolling thunders grind through their respective countries. Everything possible should be thrown into the war in Ukraine right now as tomorrow might be too late to stop Putin or cage his war machine. 

Those Polish donated MIG fighter planes should have arrived in Kiev since yesterday as every other talk or excuse about them is but a missed opportunity at stopping Putin right now. The fact of the matter is that the unleashed Russian army is not returning back to Russia any time soon as they will roll through Moldova once Ukraine is tucked in. From there, it will become one nation at a time licking as the weaker low hanging fruits among them will be vanquished first, as they go up the ranks and right through to Poland before making a quick dash West to grab Eastern Berlin. 

As many war historians agree, mobilizing an army is not an easy task or a thing done at such a whiff and once mobilized, there must be some proven mission-accomplished in order for the effort to be worthwhile. The president and commander in chief of such an army knows that everything is at stake including his own survival and must show cause why he sent the army into war. It was the reason Adolf Hitler kept going, one nation at a time; and it was the same reason America attacked Iraq because there was not much for its mobilized army to do in Afghanistan. 

President Vladimir Putin will do the same and will not accept the defeat of Ukraine for an answer and will make b-line for other former Soviet countries. Most likely, that will be the time when America will finally enter the already begun World War 3, in keeping to its promise to follow the letters of NATO's Article 5 to a logical conclusion. It is therefore either now or later, but no matter what the West says or does to try to avoid a war with Russia, Russia will force them into the war. Russia wants the war and Russia will scheme a way to drag the West into a war, whether the West wants it or not. 

It is one of the reasons Russia has increased its brutality in Ukraine, bombing maternity hospital with women in labor inside as well as residential buildings for seniors, hoping that the West might be moved by what they see as obvious atrocities into trying to stop Russia by imposing and trying to enforce a no fly zone over Ukraine. There will be aerial battles between both sides' jet fighter pilots, paratroopers will be parachuted behind enemy lines and before too long there will be boots on the ground in Ukraine, officially marking the beginning of the mother of all wars. Hello, welcome World War 3 and this time, it will be televised, live and direct. #StopPutinNow!

FIGHTER JETS ARE DEFENSIVE WEAPONS: UKRAINE NEED TO DEFEND ITS AIRSPACE.

 #SendTheFighterJets.

PUTIN HAS ALREADY DONE HIS WORST: ADMIT UKRAINE TO NATO AND THE EU NOW.

ICHEOKU says if Ukraine can hold Russia off for this long, nearly three weeks now, imagine what a combined 29 nations NATO force would do to Russia, possibly fight them right into the streets of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. If they use nukes on the West, the West will respond in kind, nuke them back and get over the hampering fear of a nuclear attack. Russians and their sole administrator Vladimir Putin are not suicidal and dare not use nuclear bombs on the West. They are only using the threat as a sword of Damocles to starve the West off helping Ukraine. 

It is the fear of what Russia might do to Ukraine that has been holding the West back from admitting Ukraine into NATO and the European Union. Now that the balloon of fear has been busted, what is the West still waiting for before admitting Ukraine into their fold. The West said that they did not want to provoke Putin's ire by admitting Ukraine into their fold, but Russia still invaded Ukraine anyway. 

What else has the West and/or Ukraine got to lose by not admitting Ukraine into both NATO and the EU now since their worst fear of what Russia's reaction might be has come through. A bold NATO should now go forth and formalize Ukraine as a bona fide member of the organization since Putin has done his worst and cannot destroy Ukraine more than he has already done and continues to do.

President Vladimir Putin is a bully and only recognizes force as a means to achieve an end. It is only a face-off and facedown with Putin that will put the fear of God in him and force him to change course. But as long as he continues to sense fear in the West, and that the West is afraid of engaging in a real war with Russia because their war-averse populace is not in the mood for any extended bloodshed, that long will he continue to seize the initiative and set the benchmarks in the current Ukrainian crisis between Russia and the West. 

If it was the Joe Biden of a few years ago that is the president in the White House now, Europe would have been wiped into a war ready and fighting shape to help America go full throttle metal jacket against Russia. What then is the use of the over $700 billion annual defense budget of the United States of America if those weapons cannot be put into effective use. If not against Russia, which other country? If not against Vladimir Putin for his many decades of provocations and wagging his index finger at America, who else? 

The only reason all these small talks are still going on is that ICHEOKU is not the president. It is also doubtful if even President Donald John Trump could have been able to do what is needed right now because he may not be as mad or mad enough to counter Putin's madness. William Shakespeare put it quite succinctly in The Taming of the Shrew that when two great fires meet they consume the thing feeding their furry, and although little fire grows with little wind but extreme gusts do blow them away. 

President Vladimir Mad-man Putin needs to be stopped now. A massive bombardment of his invading military Ukraine will send a clear message to him that his madness has reached the marketplace and needs to be forcefully contained. What type of monster would bomb a maternity hospital with women in labor and premature babies in incubators. Which man born of a woman would be so heartless not to have compassion for heavily pregnant women as well as some already in labor pangs to violate them in such a vicious way.

It is time President Joe Biden throws all his unnecessary cautions to the wind, firm his backbone and allow the West to meet Russia's challenge head-on. People will die, properties will be damaged and even nuclear bomb might be dropped, so what? How much of Putin's insult will the West continue to stomach before responding in kind to his idiocy. Enough of the Putin fear, meet him force for force and let the skies tumble down. Admit Ukraine to NATO and EU now an dot hell with Putin and his Russian murderous thugs. 

'NEVER AGAIN' IS NOT JEWISH PEOPLE'S EXCLUSIVE PRESERVE: UKRAINIAN LIVES MATTER.

ICHEOKU says Russia has already escalated the war in Ukraine far beyond anyone had anticipated and any continuing excuse by the West not to assist Ukraine because such would provoke Russia into escalating the war is nothing but pure bombast. Russia is callously and with deprave heart bombarding Ukraine with missiles, rockets and mother of all bombs (MOAB) which is digging sixty feet wide by twenty feet deep craters, such that even hospitals, maternity wards and shopping centers are now fair games for targeting by the Russian murderous invaders. 

Children, aged parents, women and even pregnant women, as well as other innocent civilians are being killed indiscriminately by Russians explosives. Schools and residential places are also being targeted for complete destruction. This begs the question what else needs to happen to Ukrainians and in their own country, before the world will go to the help of Ukrainians or haven't they suffered enough already for just desiring freedom and courageously sacrificing so much to achieve it.  Does the West not have certain redlines which cover the rule of engagement in a war, crossing of which they cannot tolerate from Russia. 

When again has it become an acceptable new normal for pregnant women in labor to be targeted in a war? Is it now okay in war to drop massive bombs at hospitals and maternity and also shell residential apartment buildings with mortars? Is the West waiting for Putin to first kill six million Ukrainians before they can firm their resolve and confront Russia to stop them from committing further atrocities on Ukrainians. When the West resolved NEVER AGAIN following holocaust, was it not as it appertains to every man's inhumanity to man as a whole; or is it only Jewish people that were insured by it? If Ukrainians are not Jews, at least their duly elected president is a Jew.

Ukrainian Lives Matter and such a declaration of NEVER AGAIN should be of uniform application throughout humanity and should cover any part of humanity that is facing a threat of extinction in the hand of another. The West knew that the odds were stacked against Ukraine when they goaded them into challenging Russia, and even when Ukraine still had a series of off ramp opportunities to climb down and avoid a direct war with Russia, the West continued talking as if they would help Ukraine in the fight against Russia. 

They promised Ukraine help but did not include the full range of help such as ballistic missiles and jet fighters and you ask yourself how did anyone expect Ukraine to defend themselves from an incoming missile when they have no anti missile batteries? How can Ukraine defend itself from prowling Russian fighter jets when they have no fighter jets of their own to engage the Russians in aerial fight? Where are the defensive weapons promised and why are they not defending Ukraine from Russian bombardments?

Now the West is pussyfooting about supplying Ukraine with Poland's donated MIG fighter jets, begging the question, is anyone even sure that NATO will hold in the event Putin decides to complete his military objective reclaiming former Soviet countries. It is time the West firmed their backbone and in an unmistakable language communicated to Russia that enough is enough. If it leads to a third world war, so be it and let those who survive the war repopulate and rebuild the world. Adolf Hitler started the same way and the West should not wait to later apologize to future Ukrainians for not coming to the present generation's aid when it mattered most.

This hesitance or rather outright refusal to assist Ukraine in the largely unbalanced war with Russia needs to end. Vladimir Putin should not be allowed to hold the West hostage to his nuclear threat. If the Kremlin goblin succeeds in having his way with Ukraine, it will be an unforgivable mistake which the West intentionally made and Ukraine will never forgive them for abandoning them in the hour of greatest need. If it was Israel that Putin invaded and bombarding as he is currently doing to Ukraine, will there be any discussion of a qualifying NATO membership? 

The West should send anything and everything to Ukraine now including boots on the ground, fighter jets, ballistic missiles and even tactical nuclear bombs. Anything that will stop the unfolding madness in Ukraine and help Putin undergo an epiphany should be done without any further delay, debate or rationalization. It is better to end the Ukraine war now with whatever military supplies possible, than to allow it to linger on, regardless of whatever military and intelligence gathering benefits the West might be mining from the war. Ukraine is being destroyed and Ukrainian people are dying, suffering and being displaced. End the war now, stop Putin now!

THE WEST STILL WON'T FIGHT RUSSIA: AFRAID OF A POSSIBLE DEFEAT?

ICHEOKU says was the West merely huffing and puffing prelude to the war, hoping they could intimidate President Vladimir Putin into changing his mind about invading Ukraine? He called the West's bluff and is now ravaging Ukraine but the West is still fidgeting with their response. Instead of meeting Putin in kind with an overwhelming force, the West is still struggling to come up with an "appropriate" response nearly two weeks into the war. The West is still trying to figure out how to best counter the brazen audacity of Putin, who repeatedly lied to the world about his true intentions with the amassed Russian army at Ukraine's border, only to give his middle finger to the West and still invaded Ukraine. 

Why is the West afraid to confront Russia or is their fable sloganeering "NEVER AGAIN" only reserved for the Jews? How many times does Ukraine need to be attacked by Russia before they too can qualify and acquire the same protected status as the Jews? The West prides itself as the nemesis of bullies who always come to the defense of the bullied little guy, so what is stopping them now from helping Ukraine. Is the West afraid that any direct conflict with Russia might expose their weakness as mere "Hollywood-manufactured" superheroes, who cannot excel in a real war with a formidable adversary such as the Russian military? Otherwise, why the perpetual avoidance by the West of a direct confrontation with Russia each time Russia pokes its finger in their eyes, daring them to a fight.

It did not start today as it was a constant occurrence during the Cold War, but each time an opportunity for a direct confrontation presents itself, it is always the West led by America that chickens out, humbled. What is the reason behind this West's coyness in matters of fighting Russia or is the West so afraid of Russia that they quickly backs off each time Russia provokes and prods them to a fight. 

Before President Vladimir Putin called off the West's sanctions bluff and sent his forces into Ukraine, many people thought that the opportunity for a West's direct confrontation with Russia had finally come, only for the West to again become a no show. What is the West fearful of or has they lost the will to defend their values and protect their interests. They have a willing partner in Ukraine, so what is the second guessing about?

Even the weapons which the West is providing to Ukraine is limited and does not include long range missiles, fighter jets and advanced radar weapons systems that could easily detect Russian military locations in Ukraine with pinpoint accuracy for precision targeted destruction. How can Ukraine defend themselves without such anti aircrafts and anti missiles defense systems when Russia is attacking them from the air and bombarding them with rockets and missiles as well as dumb bombs from great distances.

Ukrainian people have found themselves on the crossroads, left stranded, holding the plate and waiting for a much needed and anticipated assistance from the West, which unfortunately, is not coming forth. How anybody in the West thought or expected that Ukraine could stand a chance with Russia all by themselves alone, is simply ridiculous. It is possible too that Kiev would not have walked itself into a war with Russia and would have simply capitulated to Russia's demand if they knew that the West would not assist them in the fight with Russia. 

It would have been a much more palatable pill for Ukraine to swallow rather than to watch as Russia is now destroying their beautiful country, killing Ukrainian people in large numbers and also causing a massive displacement of their population and communities. Who will rebuild Ukraine and why not stop Russia now from their wicked intention of ruining Ukraine. 

If the story was different and it was Russia that demanded the West not to invade Ukraine, there would have been no invasion of Ukraine today.  It happened in Syria and Venezuela when the West wanted to change the leadership of both countries before Russia stepped in and said no way Jose. Several years later, President Bashar Assad of Syria and President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela are still in power because Russia put its feet down and was prepared to use its military power to achieve the objective. 

President Vladimir Putin also shored up the presidency of Alexander Lukanhesko of Belarus who was nearly removed from power by a Western sponsored democracy revolution, which the West did not protect when Russia roared. Why can't the West take a page from Putin's Russia and learn to resolutely put its money where its mouth is by defending its positions, regardless of any threat. Will the West continue to run away from meeting the Russian challenge and for how long?

Another opportunity for the West to confront Russia has opened up in Ukraine but the West is not dealing nor biting the bait. It seems that Russia has once again successfully intimidated the West into forswearing their expected assistance for Ukraine. If not now, when? And if not in Ukraine, where? When will the battle for superiority between the West and Russia be finally tested? 

Ukrainians are courageously fighting the Russians now and presents a golden opportunity for the West to fight Russia, if not formally, as military advisers. Ukraine needs help and deserves to get some help from the West. The fear of Russia's threatened use of nuclear weapons should not deter the West, the West also has nuclear weapons too.

No matter how much the West tries to avoid fighting Russia, they can never run away from fighting Russia, unless the West is willing to lie down and surrender to Russia. If the West fails to defend democracy now in Ukraine, they will eventually be forced to defend it someplace else. Russia will eventually bring the fight to them in Eastern Europe and let's see whether the West will summarily surrender Eastern Europe to Russia. 

Ukraine cannot do it all by themselves alone; they need all the help they can get and together, President Vladimir Putin can be stopped now while he is still in Ukraine. It took the collective strength of the West to stop Adolf Hitler and the West should take a page from that historical lesson and surge forces immediately into Ukraine before Russia becomes battle hardened. Stop fearing Putin, #FightPutinNow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

INVASIONS FREQUENTLY DO HAPPEN: WHY THE UKRAINE INVASION IS DIFFERENT.

ICHEOKU says Ukraine is not the first country and will not be the last country to be ever invaded by a more powerful foreign military force. It will also not be the first country to ever be heavily bombarded from the air, causing many deaths, massive destruction of infrastructures and also a heavy displacement of its local population. 

What is going on in Ukraine presently has gone on before in many other countries and will most likely still go on in more countries in the future, long after the current hostilities in Ukraine are concluded. Many people are asking why the current obsession with the Ukraine invasion when other previous invasions, both those carried out by the same Russia as well as those carried out by America, did not receive much attention. 

According to them, the world is so affixed to the present invasion of Ukraine as if it is the end of the world or the first time ever a far more powerful country is breathing down fire on a weaker small country. There is also a noticeable difference in the manner the invasion is being "wall to wall" reported, the rush to evacuate Ukrainians, providing them with every assistance imaginable including quick resettlements throughout Europe.

The disparity in treatments is now fueling the growing murmur of white bias and racist preferential treatment of Ukrainians simply because they are white people. Some critics even point at the different treatment meted to black African students studying in Ukraine who were discriminated against as they also fled the same war, including being denied boarding access on evacuation trains and also refused entry at the Polish border. 

If the different treatment was due to white people's acute racism and their regard of white skin as superior and more important than other skin colors, why then did other previous Russian invasions of Ukraine, including the annexation of Crimea, not attract the same level of global condemnation of Russia and support for Ukraine? Why did Georgia's invasion by Russia not attract the same amount of world sympathy, Georgians are white people too? So, there was a good reason for the galvanized global opposition to the military campaign of Russia in Ukraine, short of racism and white bias.

The most plausible explanation is the pathetic reason given by President Vladimir Putin for the havoc which he is currently wrecking on Ukraine. How can any sane leader of a country, on a whiff, declare another country illegitimate and then take such destructive steps of levying a vicious war on the country to achieve his objective. The Russian strongman unequivocally stated that he does not recognize Ukraine's existence as a sovereign and independent country, forcing the world to take notice.

It would have been a different story had President Vladimir Putin claimed that  President Volodymyr of Ukraine was a drug dealer or was facilitating terrorism on Russia by providing safe haven and corridor for enemies of Russia to carry out attacks on Russia from Ukraine soil. If he had given even a minuscule of rational reason, manufactured or genuine, and then sought to topple such a government, the world would have looked the other way or at least curbed their enthusiasm and not be as hysteric as the present. 

He simply asserted that he does not recognize Ukraine as an independent and sovereign country and then took steps to dismantle it and annul its existence with a premeditated invasion. According to him, Ukraine is part of Russia, adding that he will never accept an independent Ukraine living side by side with Russia as that violates his conscience and understanding of history. He also did not care that Ukraine has been in existence for a long time, for more than 30 years as an independent and sovereign country.

This is where Putin's cookie of aggression crumbled as the world woke up to say that it is unacceptable for one man to decide to unilaterally "nullify" a country by fiat of his indignation. It is the brazenness of this illegality that shocked the conscience of the world to rise up to challenge Putin's declaration of war on Ukraine to achieve his objective to annul the country. A galvanized world has said no to Putin and have now practically isolated Russia in condemnation of what their president did.

Which sensible and conscionable person would accept such an international brigandage or in any other way, find any rationality in it. To accept what Russia is doing in Ukraine is to give license to every big country in the world to wake any one morning and decide to swallow its smaller and weaker neighbor. It is the law or lack thereof, of the jungle, that President Vladimir Putin is trying to brutally impose on Ukraine by indiscriminate bombardment.

Such lawless action is not an acceptable behavior in a civilized world and should be fought with every tool available, including putting Western boots on the ground in Ukraine as sanctions alone are not yielding the desired and expected result. Bullies need to be stopped and they only respond to force. President Vladimir Putin is a bully and his Russian military is now terrorizing and bullying Ukraine around, trying to bombard it into submission, subjugation and annexation. 

Those complaining that there is a double standard in the condemnation of Russia's invasion and not America's many invasions, should understand that the Ukraine invasion is different. It is not an ordinary invasion as Russia is trying to dismantle the country and absorb it into Russia. Other invasions have always been targeted at the leadership of a country but never at the country itself. To question the right of a country to exist is an attack which resonates among every independent and sovereign country.

So yes, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2.0, there were America's invasions of Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, Panama, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. Russia also previously invaded Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova seizing territories therein. Germany also carried out its own invasion of Europe. But in none of these invasions was the primary objective to nullify the victim country and put them out of existence. 

This is the reason the current invasion of Ukraine is different and has attracted a generalized world condemnation than other invasions. Those complaining about a Western hypocrisy and bias against Russia because of the barrage of condemnations and sanctions, should see the distinction; and then adjust their indignation against the West accordingly, as not even Adolf Hitler's Germany did in Europe what Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish in Ukraine. Viva Ukraine. Long live President Volodymyr Zelensky.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER VINDMAN: TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR UKRAINE..

ICHEOKU says his birth nation Ukraine needs him now more than ever before as they face existential threat of extinction by Russia. His great military expertise and war fighting experience would be very handy in Ukraine as they are rallying to defend themselves. 

At least he can start pooling together a volunteer-army force to go help Ukraine. Many veterans and other brave people are ready to go help his fatherland Ukraine protect themselves and their chosen way of life from the Russians, but they need to see his leadership in the effort. His fatherland has called, what is his response? #WhereIsLieutenantColonelAlexanderVindmam

UKRAINIAN ARMY ABANDONING SUPPLIED WEAPONS, FLEEING AND NOT FIGHTING?

ICHEOKU says many analysts have been wondering about the ease at which the Russian army is moving through Ukraine capturing cities, one city at a time, and without much resistance by the Ukrainian defense force. The Ukrainian military had ample time to prepare for this war and they also were repeatedly warned by America that this war was coming. Why did they not heavily mine the roads and bridges and/or blew them all up to slow the Russian invaders and trap them in batches for quick destruction and elimination.

People are beginning to second-guess the level of preparations made by the Ukrainian military to defend and protect their country from the Russian invaders. Ukraine is not a third world country nor is it a third rate military power and should have anticipated certain Russian maneuvers and guarded against them. Even the belated road blocks they are mounting now should have since been in place throughout the country. How can any army worth its name allow the 40 mile long Russian army column to sit steadily in one position for over one week now without blowing them all up? Such a sitting duck sight, made possible by the ineptitude of the Ukrainian military, is a sore eye to behold, especially for a country defending itself from an existential threat from a much bigger military machine.

Ukraine is as old as Russia and has been independent for over 30 years now. So, what exactly have the country been doing all these decades to shore up their defensive capabilities, establish and maintain a capable and formidable defense force. Their military have army engineers and war planners as well as a lot of generals, so what were they thinking that deprived them good preparation and readiness for their current fate with destiny; or do they think that being a country is just having a government, a president and a parliament. They know that they have a hostile neighbor Russia which has attacked them before, seized their territory Crimea, so why this apparent docility in readying for this period? What were their defense spending for if the West has to supply them this amount of weapons.

Could this be the reason the West banned every Russia media outlet, including RT, from broadcasting in the West to prevent this shortcomings from being known? They don't want their populace to see the war in Ukraine from every angle but only through their agenda-driven Western camera lens and talking-heads perspective. Who will then tell us the apparent lapses and noticeable lack of adequate preparation by the West backed and supported Ukrainian military. Who will report the story that some Ukrainian soldiers refused to fight or are not fighting the Russian invaders as expected with every fiber in their being, and are abandoning Western supplied weapons and ammunition in their military bases and fleeing the war? 

Could the West be staring at another military disappointment in Ukraine as they faced in Afghanistan when the Afghanistan National Army abandoned their Western supplied weapons, including armored tanks and helicopters and fled, without firing a shot in defense of Kabul. As with the Taliban, are we going to see another inheritance of a huge cache of Western weapons and ammunition, including armored tanks and planes/helicopters killers, by the Russian army? Is it possible too that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows what is happening on the battle fronts and is now desperately trying to drag the West into the war and offload the responsibility of defending Ukraine to them since his military is not willing or capable of defending their country. 

As the West continues to surge weapons into Ukraine, they should be very cautious not to inadvertently arm Russia with weapons which Russia could use to attack the West later. The West should ensure that the Ukrainian military is actually standing up and fighting Russians with those supplied weapons, and not as RT reported, abandoning them and fleeing the battle. Imagine seeing the Russian army turning those anti tanks rockets and anti aircraft javelins against Western tanks and aircrafts some day in a confrontation with the West. It will be sad watching Western soldiers being killed with Western weapons just because the Ukrainian military turned out not to be what the West thought they were. 

Kherson fell without much of a resistance as the Ukrainian soldiers stationed there to defend the flank deserted their defensive positions and fled. It could be due to deliberate sabotage or out of  hopelessness, faced with the Russian mighty army and convinced that they are not good enough to defeat them. Whatever the reason, if Ukraine has made a conscious decision not to stand their ground and battle the Russian army to the finish, or that they could not do it without the presence of Western boots on the ground, they should save everybody the headache of worrying about Ukraine and just surrender now. It will also spare Ukraine further destruction by Russian bombs and artillery, as well as save many lives. Such will also sensibly bring the war to an end before more lives and limbs are lost, and further properties and infrastructures are destroyed. 

It is possible that such desertions are not widely spread throughout the military formations in Ukraine; but so many Ukrainian cities have fallen within such a short period of hostilities, more than what would be considered normal or acceptable for any formidable army defending their country, that the fear is mounting that such unpatriotic act is wider and bigger than what has been reported so far. Their morals could be low from feeling psychologically defeated already before they are actually defeat; and their loyalty could also be divided between the West and Russia. They should know that any lack of defense of Ukraine anywhere in the country is a catastrophic weak-link to the collective resolve of the West to ensure that Ukraine's independence and sovereignty remain sacrosanct and non negotiable. 

The Ukrainian army should therefore fight as if their lives, that of their families and friends, as well as the future of their country depend on it, because they actually do. They should envision themselves being tied at the stake and summarily shot in a firing squad formation by the Russians if they lose the war because that is the fate which awaits them in defeat. They should be honorable enough to decide to die fighting as heroes rather than being killed later as captured war criminals by Russia. Everything that makes Ukraine Ukraine is at stake and a victorious Russia will not show them mercy. They should leave their all in the battle fields and not turn tails or their backs against their country as a succeeded Ukraine will immortalize them. 

Only brave and courageous men and women take up the selfless responsibility to defend their country at such optimal level, requiring the supreme sacrifice if need be. History and posterity only reserve places for heroic soldiers and not the linguine-spine cowards among them who abandon their country and colleagues at their hour of greatest need for their expertise and bravery. It is understandable if they ran out of munitions and supplies, or they were surprised with a massive overwhelming enemy force; but to scurry away even before the first shot was fired is the lowest of the low of any soldier. They must not dampen the current support in the West for their cause by showing that they are not real soldiers as real soldiers do not desert their duty posts. God's speed to the Ukrainian military as they fight in defense of their homeland and a civilized way of life. #ShameOnPutin.

PLEASE LET PUTIN KNOW.

 #UkrainianLivesMatter

TAKE PUTIN OUT - LINDSEY GRAHAM.

“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country and the world a great service.” - Lindsey Graham, US Senator from South Carolina. 

ICHEOKU shares his sentiments and has repeatedly called for the overthrow of the Russian mad man or at worst, to separate his head from his shoulders. His removal from power is the only meaningful and most assured way to permanently put to an end the recurring Putin-problem. President Vladimir Putin is a terror to Ukraine, a nightmare to the West and a bad omen to the Russian people, whom he is holding hostage to his dictates behind his newly drawn shut iron curtain. #OverthrowPutin and do it now!

ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ATTACK: A DELIBERATE SHOW OF WILLINGNESS TO USE NUKE.

ICHEOKU says President Vladimir Putin is a man on jitters and dangerously teetering on the edge of a complete nervous breakdown. It is also increasingly apparent that he has placed his thumb very close to the red button and one provocation or one frustration away from committing a mass destruction. It is a risk he has weighed and is now willing and ready to take, aware that once he detonates the atom bomb that the response will be very catastrophic for Russia, such that it might also claim his life as well. 

The guy no longer seems to care that he has become somewhat suicidal and now fanatically committed to his cause just like Islamist terrorists; and like ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and other terrorist leaders, he has also strapped on a suicide belt, ready to detonate it after causing such a mass murder event. He is goading the West to make him do it and the West knows that he will do it if pushed, the reason the West has chickened out from defending Ukraine. At least, they should have put a NO FLY zone over Ukraine to help mitigate their exposure from Russian airborne killer weapons. The West did it in Serbia, Libya, Syria and Iraq, so why not in Ukraine?

Why else would President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stick his neck out to challenge Russia if not that he anticipated such help from NATO? Why is NATO leaving Ukraine to hang out to dry after seducing Ukraine into balking Russia and making a play for the West? Why is NATO so afraid of fighting Russia and trembling at President Vladimir Putin's threat of nuclear weapons use, when NATO equally have their own higher yielding nuclear bombs? Why is the West scared of even dying battling evil Putin since everyone is going to eventually die someday? Why is the West   allowing President Vladimir Putin such a field day that he has declared an open season in Ukraine, freely roaming about as he destroys beautiful cities and ancient landmarks in Ukraine? 

Where is the moral conscience of the West as they watch the over-handedness being displayed by Russia as they try to wipe Ukraine off the map. Was the West expecting Ukraine to single-handedly beat back Russia, otherwise where is their "be your brothers keeper" in them? Hasn't Ukraine suffered enough already? Hasn't enough Ukrainian people been killed so far? Hasn't enough structures been destroyed and damaged in Ukraine already? If not the West, who will stop Putin's army and help save Ukraine from a certain destruction by Russia or at least, help them checkmate the Russian invaders. 

President Vladimir Putin knew exactly what he was doing when he ordered his troops to forcefully take control of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, aware that explosives, shrapnels and bullets could rupture some cooling systems of the plant and cause a major disastrous meltdown of nuclear rods. He also knew that any resulting meltdown would cause a mass casualty event and that the ensuing radiation would travel far and wide throughout Europe, causing extensive mass destruction, but he did it anyway. He does not care and he does not give a damn and he is fanatically committed to his current cause. 

The underlying reason for the attack on the nuclear plant being to emphatically drum it into the West's ears that he will have no reservations or hesitations nor compunction in pushing the nuclear button in the event of a shooting hostilities with the West. He is playing the war-politics of intimidation, trying to hold back the West and prevent them from coming to the aid of Ukraine by issuing threats of what he will do to them if they dared. His strategy is succeeding or at least seemingly so, as the West has backed away from actually assisting Ukraine defend themselves from the Russian onslaught. 

It is a grave mistake which will later bite the West in their rear should Ukraine fall, because President Vladimir Putin will continue to threaten more nuclear strikes as he goes to reclaim other former Soviet countries post Ukraine. Woke politics is the bane of the West, the reason Europe has become so weak militarily that they now tremble in fear just because Putin made a threat. Had the earlier Europeans lived by the new woke code of the present Europeans, the entire continent of Europe would all be German speakers today. But thanks to their bravery and courage, and with some help from Americans, they rejected German's imposition and liberated themselves. 

Those European war heroes of the past will be turning in their graves today, seeing what their Europe has become, a continent of sissy wussies who cannot even stand the sight of blood or watch a building vaporized before saturating everyone's ears with rules of engagement in wars. It is either naivety or sheer paralyzing fear that is making the West about to repeat their mistake with Adolf Hitler. They failed to correctly read him to understand his intentions over Europe when he first unleashed the German Wehrmacht on the first European country. The West needs to act now to stop Putin and save Ukraine while they still can before they find themselves fighting a protracted war with Russia which might only end with a nuclear annihilation. It might even be more cost effective if they can get Russia military high command to do it by overthrowing Putin. #EndPutinNow. #PutPutinOut.

SACRIFICING UKRAINE WILL NOT PLACATE PUTIN: THE WEST SHOULD ENTER THE WAR NOW.

ICHEOKU says the West might be thinking that once President Vladimir Putin takes Ukraine that he will be pacified into contentment and abandon his current military expedition in Eastern Europe. But the West is mistaken because when the Russian strongman is done with Ukraine, he will direct his "fired up" army to head West and replicate what they did in Ukraine in all the other former Soviet countries. The unleashed Russian red army is not returning back to Russia until a new Berlin Wall is erected in Germany.

He had the effrontery to invade Ukraine because he is convinced that the West has lost the appetite for fighting wars due to their new woke-centric political-cultural disposition. It is an opportunity which he waited for a long time and having assessed the too level-headedness of the present crop of leaders in the West, decided to strike now while his iron is still hot. He will use the opportunity, enhanced by the apparent lack of interest in the West for war, to take everything back: all the former Soviet countries and he will expend the entire Russian military force, if need be, to accomplish the objective. 

Unless the West is counting on taking on a "tired and war-weary" Russian military by the time President Vladimir Putin shifts his focus on NATO countries, it is better for the West to enter the fray now that Ukraine has not yet fallen. Ukraine is the biggest and strongest of these former Soviet countries and if it falls, other smaller ones will be a mere walkover for the rumbling Russian war machine, with or without NATO resistance. The Russian Red Army is on the march, on a mission to recover Soviet territories and having been unleashed, will continue rumbling until they accomplish all their given military objectives or are violently stopped and humiliated in defeat.

It is regrettable that the West which prides itself as defender of the bullied and protector of values dear to the West, including democracy, is still pussyfooting around and second-guessing itself about sending troops into Ukraine. A little country is being pounded into the ground by Russia and the West is hedging whether to assist the little country defend itself from the unprovoked and premeditated, atrocious, ferocious and scorch-earth bombardment, being wrought on them by Russia. It is a common saying that when your brother is in trouble, you render assistance or is the West saying that Ukraine is not their brother or that Ukraine is not white enough to be deserving of such help. 

All the weapons and equipment belatedly being sent to Ukraine by the West will amount to nothing if Ukraine falls. All the resistance being shown by Ukraine will also amount to nothing should President Volodymyr Zelensky unfortunately lose his life. He is the indisputable arrowhead and global face of the resistance, and the reason Ukrainian people are giving it their all and trying everything possible to defend their country. They have held the Russian invaders off for over one week and have proved themselves a worthy adversary to the Russians. It is about time the West acknowledged their great peril and sent in troops to help them.

The West will have on their hand the blood of Ukrainians being slaughtered and slashed to pieces by Russian bombs and shrapnels. The West will also share in the blame for all the destruction which Russia is levying on Ukraine, in their attempt to wipe out all the beautiful structures dotting the landscape of Ukraine. What cogent excuse will the West give for not helping Ukraine, watching Ukraine pounded into smithereens despite putting up a stellar resistance and eventually falling? The "Ukraine is not a member of NATO" excuse is no longer germane nor acceptable; at worst, the West should make an exception for Ukraine based on humanitarian grounds in order to prevent further carnage and loss of human lives.

Will President Vladimir Putin go scot-free or be put in handcuffs as a war criminal? Will the world ever forgive him for the wanton destruction he is causing in Ukraine? Will the world still deal with him when these hostilities finally end? Why has the Russia military not overthrown Putin yet or just put a projectile into his cranium and get the Putin trouble over? Why are Russian generals still tolerating this madness, obeying his unlawful orders to attack, kill, maim and destroy their innocent Ukrainian brothers and neighbors? The West must seize every Russian asset and monetary reserve anywhere found around the world and hold them in trust for the eventual reconstruction and rebuild of a post war Ukraine. 

Ukraine could use more snipers and sabotages and change their war tactic from conventional to a guerrilla hit and run warfare; and incrementally wear the Russian invaders down. Lacing all the vodka in Ukraine with cyanid should also be on the table as such will help reduce the number of those murderous, cold blooded Russians and let their body bags mount. Lastly, no matter the cost, in losses in human and materials, President Vladimir Putin must never be allowed to declare victory in Ukraine and at best, a pyrrhic victory. The experience of the USSR army in Afghanistan should serve the Russian army in Ukraine and let Putin be forced to eat his humble pie as a sore loser. Hopefully, he will die a completely isolated, sad and most loathed man in the world. What a pitiful vermin, a little elf of the Kremlin with Bonaparte syndrome.

 #OverthrowPutinNow

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS LOST LEGITIMACY TO LEAD RUSSIA: TIME FOR HIM TO GO.

ICHEOKU says the West must not wait until President Vladimir Putin first wipes off the map, a major Western city, before taking his threats of nuclear annihilation more seriously. The Russian strongman has lost his marbles and by attacking Ukraine, despite all the assurances he gave the world that he will not attack the country, shows a man who is completely unhinged and possibly trying to go down with millions of innocent souls. 

The West should therefore treat his latest threat of a nuclear attack very seriously, and ready itself for it and also prepare for a swift and devastating punitive retaliatory response in kind. The fact that he is now readying his anti aircrafts and anti missiles S-400 Triumf Air Defense Missile Systems based in Siberia shows that Ukraine is no longer his main focus, already feeling mission-accomplished on that; and has moved his eyes on his other major prize, other former Soviet countries who are now members of NATO.  The question remains: would NATO fight in defense of these countries or will they shirk away at the opportune time simply because of fear of Putin's threatened use of nuclear weapons?

The other day President Vladimir Putin said he had a couple of words for those in the West who might be tempted to interfere in what he is doing in Ukraine or intervene to protect Ukraine or in any other way try to harm Russia. According to him, Russia's response to such provocative action will be immediate and will lead to consequences which the West have not seen nor imagined ever before, and throughout their history. Many analysts, including ICHEOKU, interpreted his remarks as a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons against the West should they provoke him any further. What other thing could President Vladimir Putin possibly do to the West that would have such adverse consequences which nobody has ever seen nor imagined  before, and throughout history?

A day after making the threat and to ensure that nobody was left in doubt about what he said, he  took additional steps towards this intention by ordering Russian defense officials and top military commanders to put Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on a heightened red alert. He ordered them to be on a "special regime of combat duty" readiness, thus ratcheting up the tension between his country and the West and increasing the threat of nuclear war between Russia and the West. It is a war which both sides will suffer dearly from, but it is a war which the West must not shy away from just because President Vladimir Putin is a mad man and does not care if millions of people perish as a result. 

He could be bluffing or just making empty threats to scare the West away from defending those former Soviet countries when he finally attacks them. But whatever may be the underlying factor, his threat should not be dismissed, but treated with every seriousness commensurate to such a threat. What he said previously coupled to his new direct order on his defense officials and military commanders should be clear enough evidence that President Vladimir Putin is poised to use nuclear weapons against the West. 

It requires no further effort at understanding or interpretation or any other nuanced reading for context. It should be taken at face value that he actually intends to use nuclear weapons in any confrontation with the West and wants the weapons readied now and handy for use when he orders it. He has also conducted nuclear drills and test-fired some nuclear warheads carrying missiles in recent days in furtherance of his preparation and readiness to use them.

The West should immediately counter his threat by also announcing their own preparations for use of nuclear weapons. They should start undermining his government towards delegitimizing him and find a way to remove him from office and put him out of power. The West should reach out to senior Russian military officers and persuade them to move against President Vladimir Putin. Taking him out of power is the only magic silver bullet that will end the recurring Putin problem; just kill the Kremlin monster and solve his problem once and for all. 

Overthrowing President Vladimir Putin is the right thing to do in order to achieve an enduring peace between the West and Russia. What we have in Russia is a dictatorship and not a democracy, so there will be no argument about the need to protect Russia's democracy. Moving against President Vladimir Putin will be finding a permanent and long term solution to Putin's problem. This should be an added focus of the West as they continue to help Ukraine in their war against the invading Russians. President Vladimir Putin should be removed from office now and permanently separated from power and Russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons before he causes a mushroom cloud to hang over a Western city. 

Were President Vladimir Putin a rational person, maybe the West can continue with its appeasing containment accommodation of him, but he is not. He has completely lost his mind and has repeatedly shown that he is not rational and his capacity to lie is now beyond belief. He cannot be trusted and his words do not mean much, if anything. So, continuing to have such a psychopath in charge of Russia and its nuclear stockpile should no longer be an option. He should be removed from office however possible and regardless of the short term cost of such effort. The long term benefit of his removal to overall world peace, particularly Russia's neighboring countries, will be tremendous. 

The West should seriously consider confronting Putin now in Ukraine and in victory, force him to cough up Crimea. If he is allowed to secure victory in Ukraine just because the West is afraid of his threat of nuclear weapons use, he will eventually come for the rest of former Soviet countries now members of NATO. Will the West then also pony up these countries to Putin since his nuclear weapons use threat is still subsisting and not lifted nor defused? This should be the reason the West should jump into the fray now and defeat him in Ukraine rather than wait for him to score victory and then make a play for other former Soviet countries. He should be discouraged in defeat now in Ukraine than allow his victory there to propel him to other victories elsewhere. 

The fear of nuclear weapons should not scare the West away or intimidate them into abandoning  a confrontation with President Vladimir Putin's Russia. Many people survived the Nagasaki and Hiroshima explosions and so will many people also survive any nuclear attack on the West by President Vladimir Putin. He is not immune from atomic annihilation himself and likewise his Russian people who have tolerated and enabled his ruinousness for all these many years. Russians too are as susceptible to nuclear radiation and destruction, so the West should not succumb to the hostage of its fear. A nuke for a nuke is an existing deterrent and his irrationality does not seem to have reached the level of being oblivious of this fact of a mutually assured destruction.

The threat should be seen for what it is, an attempt to bully Ukraine into surrender and scare off the West from rendering help to Ukraine. He wants to keep the West away from sending troops to Ukraine and keep them on the sideline watching while he runs Ukraine over like a roadkill. The West must not allow themselves to be intimidated into inaction by his threat and should actively engage Putin now by rendering direct assistance to Ukraine. 

The West should join forces with Ukraine now and fight the Russian roguery while it is still confined within the borders of Ukraine. They must not wait for Russia to first declare victory in Ukraine and make an example out of Ukraine like they did in Chechnya before belatedly trying to head Russia off. Adolf Hitler started the same way, will the West allow President Vladimir Putin to be next? 

The true test of having a belief is what such believers are prepared to do in defense of their belief. If the West indeed believes in democracy and freedom, and also fights for values dear to them, they should be engaged right now in Ukraine, fighting alongside Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin is destroying Ukraine to prevent it from becoming a fully functioning democratic society where people's rights are protected and where people are free and not under the thumb  of one individual, a tin-coat dictator named Vladimir Putin. 

Therefore, under no circumstances must the West allow President Vladimir Putin to declare victory in Ukraine because such will send a wrong message that democracy was defeated in Ukraine because the West did not defend democracy in Ukraine and the West considered democracy in Ukraine as not worth being defended. It must not be a repeat of the Afghanistan experience where Afghans were abandoned and forced to go back to their Taliban vomit after 20 years of relatively blossoming freedom and  democracy. 

Ukraine has come a long way, 30 years of democracy and freedom, and should be assisted in their fight not to be forcibly dragged back to the asphyxiating Russian command and control of Putinistic autocracy. They are fighting to stay the course and the West should help them as an ally and ensure they are not forced back to acute dictatorship. Posterity will not forgive the West if cowardice or unnecessary hedging render them impotent and prevent them from rising up to the occasion of the challenge which President Vladimir Putin has now imposed on their moral compass. 

Will the West continue to watch as Putin destroys the beauty in Ukraine? Will the West continue to hide under NATO membership rule while Putin renders Ukraine a wasteland like he did to Chechnya? How many women and children must first die before the West is awoken from its slumber? Britain, France, Italy and other countries of Europe that were under Germany's boot were not members of NATO as NATO did not exist then, when America rose to the occasion with allied forces and liberated them. Kuwait was not a member of NATO when it was rescued from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army occupation. So, why is Ukraine being shortchanged? #SendTroopsIntoUkraineNow

FIGHT THE WAR NOW.

 If Ukraine falls, the West failed.