By SUNNY IKHIOYA
Nigeria has a distinct culture of its own that she does not share with any country in the world; the only country that has fought wars and not taken advantage of them to develop its own science and technology. I believe religion and ethnicity have really turned our thinking upside down; we have now traversed into Thomas Hobbes’s brutish society. A few years ago, 24 February 2022, almighty Russia invaded Ukraine, with all the confidence that it would be a short-term war.
The forces of Ukraine resisted and suffered heavy casualties. Everyone in the world thought that Ukraine would capitulate, including the United States President, Donald Trump, who publicly humiliated the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Four years on, the war is changing; the Ukrainian forces have managed to master the technology of modern warfare and developed both defensive and offensive war drones, including weapons that possess long-range capabilities. Whether President Vladimir Putin of Russia will listen to the voice of reason and find an escape route from this needless war that he has imposed on his country is another matter.
The same President Trump of the United States just made peace with Iran after trying for about five months to force them to capitulate. Aside from the Vietnam situation, the US has never been humiliated in any conventional war situation since it became a world superpower. With an array of supercarriers, warships, fighter jets and the latest technology of mass destruction and supported by Israel, they invaded Iran and eliminated all of their top hierarchy. Meanwhile, the Iranians knew that this day would come and prepared adequately for it.
