First, Nigeria must address the case of many Nigerians who want to volunteer to fight in Ukraine. It is a great irony that a nation which has many “wars”, and is looking for fighters, magically has citizens who are available to go and fight in another country! Yet, I doubt if they are truly going to fight.
Possibly, they will look for an escape out of Nigeria. My major issue is making sure we do not feed a future radicalization system where these “volunteers” return, post Ukraine war, and cause problems in the nation.
Secondly, a new chapter is opening. More than 40 Republican senators have written an open letter, asking Biden to immediately facilitate the transfer of aircraft and air defence systems to Ukraine: “We implore you to direct your Department of Defense to facilitate the transfer of aircraft, air defence systems, and other capabilities by and through our Nato partners immediately.”
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Republican U.S. senators are imploring the Biden administration to reverse course and allow the transfer of Poland’s MiG fighter jets to the Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion, a sign the Defense Department’s rejection of the offer may be running into steep resistance on Capitol Hill.
Forty GOP senators signed onto a letter from Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Mitt Romney of Utah urging President Joe Biden to answer the plea from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who told lawmakers over the weekend that if the U.S. could not help with a no-fly zone over his skies, it could at least send more planes for his people to defend against the attack from Russia.
“Enough talk. People are dying,” Romney said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “Send them the planes they need.”
If Biden agrees, everything becomes unpredictable. And I will expect the use of chemical weapons by next month once NATO delivers these aircrafts. Russia knows it has limited options since NATO can supply as much weapons to Ukraine as possible, and the only exit will be to bring a new basis in this war.
People, this is getting out of control. If this madness does not end by March, a really bad thing can happen.
So far, Biden continues to maintain that he has no interest to follow the suggestions of Republicans.
“I want to be clear: We will defend every inch of Nato territory with the full might of a united and galvanized Nato,” the president wrote on Twitter. “But we will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine. A direct confrontation between Nato and Russia is World War III.”
Biden has repeatedly said that sending US troops for direct engagement with Russia was off the table.
In recent days, his administration has pursued an increasingly aggressive sanctions campaign against Vladimir Putin and his country.
On Friday, Biden announced a ban on imports of Russian alcohol, seafood and diamonds and widened the list of oligarchs facing sanctions.
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Reading through this “But we will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine. A direct confrontation between Nato and Russia is World War III”
On the “fight a war against Russia in Ukraine” – this is already what is ongoing, war of words and economic wars, all the verbal wars ongoing is precipitating on destruction of poor Ukraine that is entangled in one of the most complex conflict of twisted interests in history that its president thought was more simple. The allyship of the Ukraine-US/NATO is one that one might not find words to describe its evolution and the chess game playing is just starting.
On “A direct confrontation between Nato and Russia”, Biden forgot that this is not ward war 1 and 2 era. This is the age when war assumes all dimensions and X-dimensions. direct confrontation is not in physical troop-troop meet, which might not happen and yet cities will be raised and millions will be turned to vegatables by Chemical weapons. The failure of this men’s clique in the west to wisely engage for humanity safe is sickening. As we comment, thousands are fleeing because of the reckless batters of leaders who care least about anyone dying than they care about their ego and their global political visibility.
I will hold it here, If only this war will be taken to the US soil for one day, then the war-drumming 40 senators and their speech-Boss will surely “act” differently. Ukraine failed to know that peace can be won any other way, there is a way other than war!
“there is a way other than war!”, yes indeed. If US sends the aircrafts, Russian will bring bigger weapons to Ukraine. Who loses? The poor Ukraine.
You need wars to cement peace! You don’t ask armed parties to embrace peace, until they fight and get exhausted, then everyone will be interested in peace. Russia is deploying almost its entire combat troops to fight Ukraine, what do you think will happen if half of them get killed? It means that its military has been weakened, a necessary evil anyway.
This thing will not end by shouting or screaming let there be peace, rather by demonstrating that nobody has monopoly of violence, so when you realise that the people you are threatening are also ready for the kill, you have to think twice before making your next move.
If people are worried about loss of lives, well, since the end of WW2, we have added couple of billions of people here, so in another 80 years, you will still have more people than you have today.
Postponing the inevitable big fight is not really helping anyone, we need to confront the evil once and for all, so that those who survive the impending catastrophe can live peacefully, because they won’t forget in a hurry what happened.
Whether it’s chemical or nuclear weapons, one thing is certain: none is capable of wiping out humans from the face of the earth. They will kill some, but humans will still be here.