2023 and beyond...
The choices are to either to adapt or to be subjugated & erased.
For 2023, the election is largely irrelevant to Nigeria's future, regardless of who steps into the office. Away from potential and emotive desires, crises upon crisis are coming. Once it's past, the fear of 2031 will begin.
The world has moved away from unipolarity into multipolarity, and possibly WWIII may be inevitable. Consequently, you have to choose a side. It’s irrelevant your desire to be a centrist or nonaligned.
As we have observed through various postulations and publication, the powers demand an answer and your competitors will choose a side favoring their goal. If you will not choose, one will inevitably be chosen for you. Our fractures and contradiction which we ignored for so long and failed miserably to resolve, will be used against us.
For all its illusionary rigidity, regardless of your opinion, the world map changed once again in 2022 and international law is still missing in action. A few nations expressed their desire to join their family and express their right to self determination the best way they could under the circumstances they've found themselves.
It is a competing reality between the “Rules-Based Order” and others which we are still witness to its progression.
In what's to come, if you do not have an agenda, you will work, fight and die once again for others. What is most apparent is that history belongs to those willing to fight and die for what they believe in. Whatever you are not willing to fight and die to protect has no value in its existence. This has been proven once again in 2022.
As an African, looking into the future and understanding why today is a consequence of the past and certain realities instituted at gunpoint by the Berlin Conference is crucial. What is beyond these illegal Berlin Borders though?
Also, this year marked the 138th year since the illegal Berlin conference where our maps were drawn and have largely remained constant. Sadly, our reality still exists on the pretexts aliens set for us.
There are no free meal. Actions have consequences and so too does inactions. Realities are bent to the will of those not only willing but also ready to do what it takes above and beyond. The meek will continue to inherit 6 feet deep of the earth.
The middle belt of Nigeria has suffered this reality immensely for hundreds of years. Jihadists and Islamic fundamentalists are making gains across West Africa and the Sahel. This is a year of introspection for us to understand what is important to live - civilisation & preservation. Every single achievement you make must be able to ensure this else it's all for naught.
The days of civilisation and their contest for ideas and thoughts are back. As it was in the past, it'll be determined on the battlefield wherever diplomacy has proven inadequate to resolve.
2023 and beyond…
Are we planning to once again look on?
Will we finally understand & accept the underlying reality and principles the world functions on?
Will we apply them pragmatically and fight for our interests in this eternal game of civilisations, primacy, existence and preservation?
Will we continue to cry of being killed, subjugated, ignored, forgotten or more?
Will we continue to cry and protest while others are massacring our love once with anti-aircraft weapons?
Regardless of our choice and desires, the world has shifted. 2023 and beyond will, regardless of our readiness or desires, force upon us the reality of the world, our contradictions, and the underbelly of our primal human nature.
The choices are to either to adapt or to be subjugated & erased.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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