Dr. Daniel Ehighalua

Fulbright U.S. Scholar. Lawyer.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

https://t.co/w2hW3I12Xa

[U.S. Mission to the UN @USUN]

.@AmbUNReform: The UN human rights system has been losing credibility for decades.

Volker Türk led it to its deathbed.

Today’s vote kicked the bucket.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

The Far side of the Moon. Beyond the Lunar horizon.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

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[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

Linguistic gymnastics!

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

A literate person would of course say "beneath" not "below"

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Cold War 2.0 is not about ideology.
It is about corridor control.

The US is not retreating from global power projection as the sole superpower. It is just the beginning of a very long global power rivalry. Stage 1 - secure the whole Western Hemisphere and deny China and Russia (the DragonBear) as much of a strategic access as possible - political, economic and security-related.

The world has entered a new systemic confrontation between two bloc-building systems.

On one side: the United States and its Anglosphere - military power, financial leverage, technological supremacy, security-driven trade, space revolution.
On the other: the DragonBear - China’s raw materials-processing-manufacturing-trade-technological reach fused with Russia’s coercive and disruptive diplomatic and military muscle.

The critical shift most leaders still underestimate:
👉 Power is no longer measured by territory or weapons systems.
👉 It is measured by who secures supply chains, choke points, trade routes, critical resources, data, satellites, space, and undersea infrastructure.

This logic is not new.
During WWII, the U.S. treated Greenland as continental defense, not as a distant outpost.

Today, that logic has returned regaring the global map.

- The Donroe Doctrine secures the Western Hemisphere and then will focus on the Indo-Pacific region.
- Iron Curtain 2.0 locks NATO’s Eastern Flank.
- The Northern Corridor Doctrine secures the Arctic - the backbone linking North America and Europe.

The Arctic is not peripheral.
It is the strategic corridor of the transatlantic system - and it is already being silently contested by Russia and China.

Cold War 2.0 will not be won through restraint.
It will be won by those who control corridors, set the rules, and move first - together.

Fragmentation is decline.
Passivity and Neutrality is the slow death.
Bloc coherence and alignment is power.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.

The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.

Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!

Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?

It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.

All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.

Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"

But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.

Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.

Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali have exited the ICC with immediate effect, after unveiling the framework for a Sahelian Criminal Court.

A historic decision that establishes once and for all that African sovereignty is the core of what the AES stands for.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

A rare close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of the only known primates that actively avoids humans

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

In 1910, the 6 most powerful men in America vanished.

They boarded a private train using fake names & disappeared to a remote island.

What they created in total secrecy now controls $30.5 trillion in U.S. money.

Here's what happened in that secret meeting held on Jekyll Island:

[ABA Criminal Justice @ABACJS]

"D.C. Circuit Throws Out 9/11 Plea Deals"

https://t.co/ahre4LzoY7

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@naijama Well deserved. You've done your bit for Nigeria.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@DavidHundeyin HBD, to a conscious young man!

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@ose_anenih These are not random thoughts. They are shrewd readings of the polity and political horse trading to come.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@GordonBrown You do not rescue what's no longer working, or working fitfully. You replace it. The 'west' is scared of what will come after, because the replacement process is spiralling out of their control.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@ZelenskyyUa You're a pawn in the chessboard of the west.

[Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenberg]

BREAKING: The judge in the 9/11 case has ruled that the plea deals that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tried to rescind are valid. Three of the accused plotters could could eventually be sentenced to life in prison instead of face death penalty trials. https://t.co/DvOyeZBNju

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@briebriejoy The Democrat machine deceived and then crushed him in 2016. He never recovered. And never will.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick Congratulations✌🏿

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@DemolaRewaju It's not just Tinubu's belief. It is the strategy of EVERY Nigerian government, save the first republic. It was IBB that raised the strategy to an art form.

[Dr. Daniel Ehighalua @dehilaw]

@DavidHundeyin It's sad, sickening, and unfortunate!