Why Trump is threatening to go 'guns-a-blazing' into Nigeria

Why Trump is threatening to go 'guns-a-blazing' into Nigeria


“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Bloomberg reports that “the reality is that ethnic violence in Nigeria is driven by access to resources, such as land and water, and terrorism by the likes of Boko Haram and the Islamic state — that largely kills Muslims.” Bloomberg observed that “while there is religious violence in Nigeria, most of it is based on resources and criminality.” Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that “We are not proud of the security situation that we are passing through, but to go with the narrative” that only Christians are targeted, “is not true.

Author: Zeeshan Aleem


Published at: 2025-11-03 21:37:18

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