John Iduh Blog

 This is because Moscow is not willing to give up the war. And if Russia continues to unleash further threats, NATO may join the war at full scale. If NATO joins, the Russian aggression will be badly weaken and that will prompt Putin to use chemical weapons. And Russian allies like Iran, China and North Korea will likely join to fight as well.  The result will be planetary destruction - the third world war. Classical realists and neorealists alike view international politics as a jungle whereby each state is subject to the “omnipresent threat of war”. International relations between states are unlike domestic politics because a central authority with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force does not exist internationally to regulate the actions of aggressive or power-seeking states. This system is anarchic; war is a symptom of anarchy. The constant possibility of war in an anarchic system requires states to follow realpolitik: “to be self-interested, prepare for war and...

Russian invasion in Ukraine has briefly polarized the world. Global alliances are now strengthened and divisions are deepen.  NATO states are more united than ever, while China is working tirelessly to reshape and herald a new world order, unleashing economic war to weaken the western democracy alleged to have been globalized by the Washington Consensus . Unless there is another major global crisis that surpasses covid-19 pandemic, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, globalization dynamics will further intensify.    A once-in-a-century pandemic has created the opportunity for an economic and social reset as dramatic as that of the Progressive era.   Covid-19 has not just pummelled the global economy. It has changed the trajectory of the three big forces that are shaping the modern world.   Globalization has been truncated. The digital revolution has been radically accelerated. And the geopolitical rivalry between America and China has intensified.   However, ...

  The Nigerian political space remains an ideological battlefield where three kinds of competing political ideologies (if there are) vie for the hearts and minds of Nigerian audience.    Three ‘Neoliberalists’ with broad and general economic models or ‘paradigm’ have risen to prominence in the recent time: Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu & Peter Obi   Obi believes in neoliberalism as ideology of pro-market model or laisse faire. That is the classical liberal ideal of the self-regulating market.    Tinubu an egalitarian liberal, believes in neoliberalism as mode of governance, or governmentalities.    The third, Atiku Abukar embraces policy package version of neoliberalism.   Let's take a look at the strands of these variations and carefully unpack their fundamental dimensions:    (1) an ideology - obism (2) a mode of governance - Jabanism (3) a policy package - Akitulation   If you cast vote in favour of OBIDIENT - the c...

1.       Physics helps us to understand that a cooper vessel filled with diesel to the brim is placed in an open space where it receives direct sunlight. After several hours, the diesel overflows the vessel.  This is because the   diesel expands more than the copper vessel . Ask your government leaders, they won't tell you.  But this is the why inflation is on the rapid climb.               

Some religious fanatics denounce modernity and secularism. But modernity through innovation created most of the tools they use to unleash deadly wars against secularism. Maybe they have to think again!