Tim Akano
The present crops of European leaders today are weak, they have no balls and no good cards to play with Putin.
Who among them has the charisma, gait, grit and guts of a Winston Churchill or Magaret Thatcher?
France is under the watch of a woman’s rapper, UK is led by mom’s boy, Poland, though strong because of geography, i.e. closeness to Russia, but lacks resources to face Russia. She’s like a dog where Russia’ lion is Germany? Rich but militarily castrated.
Italy? Is it still there? Beautiful Meloni, but she’s not a Margaret Tathcher, the iron-bender. Italy is on the wheel chair, economically speaking, under the watchful eyes of Dr China. I can go on.. and on .
Indeed, the fear of Putin is the beginning of wisdom in Europe today.
Therefore, Ukraine is *half-orphan* – a sick, famished mother (Europe) and an unreliable father who chose to abandon his responsibility and his earlier commitments on security cover.
Recall that in 1994, following the collapse of USSR in 1991, Ukraine gave up all the 1,900 nukes located in its territory plus the ICBMs and decisive strategic bombers.
Looking back, that was a stupid mistake which only stupid elites like Ukraine Elites would commit.
It’s like asking the Biblical Samson to use his hand to shave his head, which was the source of his power. Who does that? Ukraine elites could have insisted that they will join non- proliferation nuclear club like the other 9 nuclear countries
Israel under no situation will accept self- de-nucleralization, even if the world is going to end!
*In the days of USSR, Russia was the hardware while Ukraine was the software.*
Russia without Ukraine was like a gun without bullets
The West, led by America promised *security guarantees* to Ukraine in exchange for giving up her *power and security*
Something which ordinary North Korea , next door, refused flatly from America.
Curiously, Ukraine is asking for the same *Security guarantees* today to stop fighting with Russia!
They never asked where is the previous security guarantees when Russia invaded crimea in 2014.
But any country where the leadership is as corrupt as in Ukraine, there is no escaping the *Ukraine Destiny of cathedral-size disaster*. that has befallen her
In 2024, Transparency International gave Ukraine a score of 35, where 0 is very corrupt and 100 very clean
In Europe, Ukraine is one of the most rotten countries. Her leaders were (are? – not sure if the current ones are corrupt, but the past were fantastically corrupt) highly irresponsible and corrupt .
Trump and Putin see Ukraine as a *dying whale washed ashore*, each with a cleaver to cut as much *free meat* as possible for themselves.
While Trump is interested in the *rear earth materials*, Russia is interested in the strategic Donbas region, which is one of the economic heartbeats of Ukraine.
If Russia is allowed to steal Ukraine’s heart in Donbas, Ukraine becomes another Bulgaria in Europe, a jejune, inconsequential country, being kept alive courtesy of American Life support machine.
Ultimately, Ukraine will be like those *castrated Staff in Pharaoh’s Palace in the days of yore*- which means, the King (Putin) can go to sleep without having to worry about the queen (Russia) in the palace. 😢
I feel for Zelenskyy
I feel for his life.
True, as Trump said, Zelenskyy doesn’t have *good cards*
In diolomacy, a school of thought says *no deal is better than a bad deal*
But in this present scenario, *a bad deal is a good deal by any reckoning. We need to put a stop to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides quickly*
But again, in case of former Israeli’s Prime Minister, Menachem Rabin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1978 in a peace deal brokered by President Jimmy Carter. Both leaders got violently killed because someone somewhere felt betrayed by his leader on both sides!
However, if Zelenskyy refuses to give up land for peace, he is running out of solders, men are endgered species in Ukraine today.
Even both countries are running out of *Artificial Soldiers* (mercenaries) to fight.
Almost all the 12,000 soldiers from North Korea sent to Ukraine to fight for Russia consisting of 3 Generals, 500 officers and members of STORM CORPS went back home in body bags.
But since there is no accountability in North Korea, no one can ask questions.
*No Easy Options on Monday 18th August 2025*
1 The meeting tomorrow, Monday 18th of August in the White House between Emperor Donald J Trump and Zelensikyy and the European leaders will be a very difficult one
Trump will attempt to bully Zelenskyy and he will equally threaten Europe by saying he will walk away and hand them over to the Vulture, Putin.
2 Not much will be achieved tomorrow. Zelensikyy cannot go back to Ukraine if he agrees to Trump’s proposal of giving up Donbas and 20% of Ukraine land. Someone somewhere whose sons had been killed by Russia will be angry and take laws into his hands.
2 Putin will not stop the war, even though Russia is equally bleeding profusely from all openings: mouth, nose, ears, and even anus!
The Governor of Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabuillina) came out a few weeks ago to admit publicly that the Russian economy is hemorrhaging! Sometimes, women are bolder, stronger and more daring than men. Mostly, they pretend to be weak whereas they are the Top Dog in 8 out of 10 instances. What madam Elvira said, no man born of a woman can say such truth in Putin’s Russia and be alive today.
3 For some strange, inexplicable reasons, Trump lacks the guts to take tough measures on Putin. He seems to be behaving like someone whose dirtiest secrets are in the hands of the former KGB foreign intelligence officer (Putin). Putin served in *foreign service for 16 years*(who knows what he knows that only him and Trump know that is making Trump tip toeing?).
Unarguably, when it came to South Africa, Iran, India, Africa, even China matters, *Trump’s THING rose in the morning, but once you mention Putin, the THING shrinks like a Violet in the morning*!
*THE KING SOLOMON’S OPTIONS*
In a win-win negotiation, every party will gain something and loses something simultaneously
1 Europe? They must accept that the time has come to reset their relationship with Russia. Therefore, they must go back to G8 instead of G7 by readmitting Russia into their fold immediately
What has Russia done that Japan and Germany didn’t do 3x during WW2? If Germany and Japan could be forgiven, Russia should be readmitted into the Western family where she rightly belongs. I am in alliance with Trump on this score.
In International Relations, wise diplomats say *Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer*!
2 Two, Russia should be automatically admitted to NATO as N033.
*They must make Putin feel he has won a WAR WORLD CUP* (WWC)!
If you don’t respect a mad man, everyone is doomed. We are at that junction in the world today
Putin expressed his country’s desire to join NATO in 2000, but he didn’t want Russia to go through the Alliance long protocol of filling the Form and waiting for results in *NATO’S ante room*!
America?
*President Trump should collect the NATO form, fill it on behalf of Russia and submit it on behalf of Putin, the Great*
This way, Putin can tell his country: *Russia is back on the world stage, STRONGER, better. The Russian soldiers that died didn’t die in vain after all*
UKRAINE?
Ukraine should not get NATO membership now inorder to pacify Russia. Ukraine should become an EU member only. She should retain her territory, by asking Russia to withdraw from Ukraine. But what happened to Japan and Germany after WW2 should happen to Ukraine.
Today, there are still about 36,000 and 52,000 American soldiers stationed in Germany and Japan respectively to prevent them from *unwanted dangerous rearmament*
The punishment for Ukraine is *no rearmament* Both Europe and America should station *100,000 soldiers for peace* in Ukraine to ensure Ukraine focuses only on economic development like Japan and Germany did in 1945.
*This is a win-win -win-win solution for Russia, America, Ukraine and Europe.*
However, if Putin is allowed to profit from his aggression, North Korea will be encouraged to invade South Korea tomorrow, and next tomorrow China will invade Taiwan and the day after next tomorrow, Iran will invade Saudi Arabia.
Israel will invade Lebanon and Jordan. Russia will swallow Poland and the Scandinavian countries to form the *NEW USSR*, Turkey will invade Cyprus and Syria to form the new Ottoman empire. Etc
*The world must not reward bad behaviors wrongly*
That means we are back to the *State of Nature where life is short, brutish and dangerous*
The Free World must be careful not to set a dangerous precedent for the world!
*Meanwhile, I wish President Zelensikyy good luck tomorrow, he needs to be cool, calm and collected*
He should not wear his turtle neck black T-shirt to the White House tomorrow, inorder not to provoke the Emperor (hate -at- first- sight).
For whatever it takes, he should listen to the Emperor’s advise and get a $1000 Suits and tie and shoes from TEMU online Mall.
Zelensikyy needs a *COOL HEAD TOMORROW*!
I will keep him in my prayers. Honest. He is one unenviable leader
All told, the real winner in this 3-year old madness in Ukraine is not America. It is not Russia. It is not Europe. It not Ukraine either
*And the winner is…. CHINA*!
The advancement in technology, manufacturing and infrastructure that has happened in China in the last 3 years of needless West’s distraction in Ukraine is phenomenal.
The question today is not about China catching up with the West technologically , but rather, can the West
bridge the AI gap with China. China is now the *TOP DOG*, and the West, the *UNDER DOG*
There is an on- going exponential, extraordinary transformation on all fronts in China today.
While the West is busy investing their time and resources in war architecture, China and India are busy investing in economic infrastructure.
While Africa is watching, or snoring or sleeping or hating their kind on WhatsApp.
Everyone is doing something, at least.
