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President Donald Trump said Saturday he has ordered the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria as he continues to accuse the nation of violence against Christians -- an accusation Nigeria has repeatedly denied.

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Trump threatens to go into Nigeria 'guns-a-blazing' over attacks on Christians

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-- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) Nov 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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More Epstein Distraction:

"Attacks in Nigeria have varying motives. There are religiously motivated attacks targeting both Christians and Muslims, clashes between farmers and herders over dwindling resources, communal rivalries, secessionist groups and ethnic clashes.

While Christians are among those targeted, analysts say the majority of victims of armed groups are Muslims in Nigeria's Muslim-majority north, where most attacks occur."

www.theguardian.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-01 07:14 PM | Reply

Remember when Republicans said they don't want America to be the world's policemen?

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-01 07:16 PM | Reply

Well, minorities make up almost half of the US Military, so this would be a good way to get rid of all those DEI hires!

Pretending to protect Christiana, obfuscating from Epstein, and getting rid of nonwhites?

Win-Win-Win!

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-01 07:26 PM | Reply

This is not going to end well.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-01 07:32 PM | Reply

Why wouldn't it?

We can just add it to the list of African nations we bomb regularly

news.antiwar.com

The US has dramatically increased its airstrikes in Somalia this year, and the latest three strikes bring the total number of US bombings in the country this year to 89. The Trump administration has shattered the previous annual record for US airstrikes in Somalia, which President Trump set at 63 back in 2019. For context, President Biden launched a total of 51 airstrikes in Somalia throughout his four years in office, and President Obama launched 48 over eight years.

Oh, and for context

AFRICOM offered no other details about the strike as it stopped sharing casualty estimates and assessments on potential civilian harm earlier this year. "Specific details about units and assets will not be released to ensure continued operations security," the command said.

Our nation doesn't deem to let us know the details of the war they are engaged in.

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-11-01 07:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump sent money to a Nigerian prince once and now he's out for revenge.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-01 07:51 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Lewzer: Prepare for possible action in Nigeria

I look forward to his mispronunciations of that nation's name. Should give his "Gina" (China) a run for the money!

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-01 08:45 PM | Reply

7,000 Christians Have Been Killed in Nigeria This Year, Group Say

Nigeria has long been an epicenter of Christian persecution, with more Christians killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined, according to human rights organization Open Doors, which monitors the persecution of Christians around the globe.

The violence has displaced at least 12 million Christians since 2009, according to Intersociety. That year marked the start of Boko Haram's insurgency to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel.

In the 16 years since, Intersociety estimates that 189,000 civilians have been killed - 125,000 of whom were Christians and 60,000 liberal Muslims.
www.newsweek.com

Just more of that peace and harmony our useful idiots want Palestinian ISIS to inflict on Israel, before they bring it home to us.

#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-01 08:51 PM | Reply

These are for the most part not religious killings, they are for territory and resources.

see #1

It's mostly Muslim deaths by Muslims.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-01 08:54 PM | Reply

It's mostly Muslim deaths by Muslims.
#9 | Posted by Corky

The violence has displaced at least 12 million Christians since 2009, according to Intersociety. That year marked the start of Boko Haram's insurgency to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel. In the 16 years since, Intersociety estimates that 189,000 civilians have been killed - 125,000 of whom were Christians and 60,000 liberal Muslims.
www.newsweek.com
Boko Haram is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria.
en.wikipedia.org
Those numbers seem to tell a different story. But, in any event, I'm not sure telling Christians that the liberal Muslims that would let them live in peace have it worse makes them feel any better.

#10 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-01 09:26 PM | Reply

It's not about religion, as the article is clear that Trump wants to make it about... it's about territory and resources... just like the genocide in Gaza, no matter who started it.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-01 09:29 PM | Reply

It's not about religion, as the article is clear that Trump wants to make it about... it's about territory and resources...
#11 | Posted by Corky

Yeah, I dunno about that. According to the Wikipedia article, Amnesty International estimates 20K of the Boko Haram religious wackos are roaming around looking to start an Islamic Caliphate. But the press has a hard time admitting that some religions are more prone to violence than others, so they whitewash it.

Anyhow, reminds me of this popular (in Nigeria) joke a Nigerian coworker told me many years ago:

God was distributing gifts to all the nations of the world.

To America, God gave advanced technology and innovation.
To Europe, God gave beautiful landscapes and strong institutions.
To Asia, God gave a large, industrious population.

Then God came to Africa, and God gave Nigeria abundant crude oil, fertile land, vast mineral wealth, a beautiful climate, and all manner of other natural resources.

An angel noticed how much God was giving to Nigeria and asked, "Lord, aren't you being too generous with Nigeria? You've given them everything!"

God looked at the angel with a smile and replied, "Wait until I tell you about the people I'm putting there."

#12 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-01 09:47 PM | Reply

"But the press has a hard time admitting that some religions are more prone to violence than others"

All the Abrahamic religions embrace and endorse violence.
Stern Gang for example.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-01 09:48 PM | Reply

@#12 ... But the press has a hard time admitting that some religions are more prone to violence than others ...

Top 10 Massacres by Christians in Modern History
medium.com

Holy Violence Then and Now
christianhistoryinstitute.org

... Christian History: In the first three centuries, Christians were pacifists. By 1096, they embarked on a holy war. What caused such a huge change?

Jonathan Riley-Smith: First, the early church was not entirely pacifist. In Romans 13, for example, Paul justifies the violence of the pagan emperor, for the emperor is yet a minister of God. And Christians served in the Roman army from the second century on.

Following the conversion of the emperors, in the fourth century, the church became more open to using violence. Church leaders, after an initial shock, began supporting the use of force against heretics. ...


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-01 10:08 PM | Reply

Sudan's devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
www.theatlantic.com

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-01 10:23 PM | Reply

Top 10 Massacres by Christians in Modern History
#14 | Posted by LampLighter

Some of those are a stretch, both in calling something that happened 400 years ago "modern," and identifying Nazis and every US President other than Jefferson as fighting Christian religious wars.

But, in any event, some religions grow with the times. Some others (peace be unto them) want to party like it's 999 (A.D.).

#16 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-01 10:39 PM | Reply

"and identifying Nazis ... as fighting Christian religious wars."

Positive Christianity (German: positives Christentum) was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity. Adolf Hitler used the term in point 24[a] of the 1920 Nazi Party Platform, stating: "the Party as such represents the viewpoint of Positive Christianity without binding itself to any particular denomination".
en.wikipedia.org

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-01 10:56 PM | Reply

So now we return to the simple fact that Donald Trump is insane. That is not a slur that people who hate him choose to call him. He is insane as an actual, living fact.

And like all truly insane men with ultimate political power, he is choosing to kill.

I watched the Fifties version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" over Halloween.

If you remember the famous line, it's "You're next!"

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-02 07:48 AM | Reply

More TACO?

There's a next-to-zero chance that Trump would do anything that might actually help Black people. Even if he got over his own racism, the GOP wouldn't stand for it.

#19 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-02 09:47 AM | Reply

MAGAts called Biden a "war monger."

Yet, they can't point to a single unnecessary military action Biden ordered.

Campaign-mode Trump decried unnecessary military actions, but now he's embroiling us in TWO of them.

He also said he'd end inflation on "Day One" and get gas down to $2 a gallon ... and so many other "promises" he willfully breaks.

#20 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-11-02 10:29 AM | Reply

Like Dummkopf Trumpf cares about Christians. He didn't give a darn about Palestinian Christians getting butchered in the Gaza Strip or these people: www.christianpost.com

#21 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-02 10:44 AM | Reply

Campaign-mode Trump decried unnecessary military actions, but now he's embroiling us in TWO of them.

#20 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

We'll soon hear about a third.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-02 10:49 AM | Reply

- All the Abrahamic religions embrace and endorse violence.

Some faction of most Abrahamic religions may embrace and endorse violence, but no entire Abrahamic religion does.

#23 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 01:52 PM | Reply


Some faction of most Abrahamic religions may embrace and endorse violence, but no entire Abrahamic religion does.
#23 | POSTED BY CORKY

Thats what they all say.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-02 01:58 PM | Reply

Yet, they can't point to a single unnecessary military action Biden ordered.

This is a silly argument AmericanDisunity, because if the "they" said X was unnecessary, you'd say it was.

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-02 02:00 PM | Reply

Top Atheist Massacres in History

"AI Overview
Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot were indeed atheists who were responsible for the deaths of millions of people through a combination of purges, forced labor, and famine. Their actions were driven by totalitarian communist ideologies that were explicitly anti-religious, viewing religion as a hindrance to state power and a threat to the total loyalty demanded by the state and the leader's personality cult."

more detail

www.google.com

Of course, both theist and atheist atrocities cited on the thread were usually also about politics, resources, land, and or power, as is the case in Nigeria and Gaza, that had little to do with the underlying religion or lack thereof.

#26 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 02:00 PM | Reply


Sudan's devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
#15 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

And yet you destroy it from within, what good is country when its founders, 200 years ago, were slave owners, right Snoofy?

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-02 02:02 PM | Reply


Of course, both theist and atheist atrocities cited on the thread were usually also about politics, resources, land, and or power, as is the case in Nigeria and Gaza, that had little to do with the underlying religion or lack thereof.

#26 | POSTED BY CORKY

The religion is how the teams are picked, has everything to do with Religion.

#28 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-02 02:03 PM | Reply

#28

I doubt that your incessant obtusity and lame trolling have anything to do with religion.

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 02:05 PM | Reply

I mean, being rejected by the Flying Spaghetti Monster might hurt, but you should be over it by now.

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 02:08 PM | Reply

The religion is how the teams are picked, has everything to do with Religion.

#28 | Posted by oneironaut

Because you have to be raised from a child to believe in imaginary nonsense, otherwise you don't grow up stupid enough to think trump cares about the working class.

#31 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-02 02:40 PM | Reply

Nigeria, Venezuela, Canada and Greenland all have large supplies of oil, natural gas and/or rare earth minerals. Coincidence?

#32 | Posted by cbob at 2025-11-02 03:23 PM | Reply


Because you have to be raised from a child to believe in imaginary nonsense, otherwise you don't grow up stupid enough to think trump cares about the working class.
#31 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

I am agnostic, religion isn't really something practiced in China its actually repressed, thats what communists do, the State is the religion; and you my friend are part of that cult.

Your idea that unmitigated immigration into the US is somehow beneficial for the "working class" is hilarious to anyone with a high school understanding of how the world works.

Seems Niki appreciates the Trump acknowledgement.

Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.
No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don't have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.
Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it's dangerous to pretend we don't notice.
Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously.
God bless every persecuted Christian.
Let's remember to lift them up in prayer.
x.com

#33 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-02 04:04 PM | Reply

- Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously.

Trump threatens to stop all aide to the Nigerian Gov who is fighting to stop this.

Which is not helpful at all.

www.aljazeera.com

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 04:13 PM | Reply

"Your idea that unmitigated immigration into the US is somehow beneficial for the "working class" is hilarious to anyone with a high school understanding of how the world works."

That's an interesting statement.
You're not a member of the working class, is that why America was a good place for you to emigrate to?

Speaking of how the world works. In a nation where 98% of us are descendants from immigrants, there wouldn't be a working class, or a nation at all, if we didn't import it.

I'd like to see your math how immigration doesn't help the working class, at a high school level where everyone can understand it (except most MAGA Republicans).

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:16 PM | Reply

"Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot were indeed atheists who were responsible for the deaths of millions of people through a combination of purges, forced labor, and famine. "

But it wasn't atheism that drove them to do those things.
You're not going to argue it their personal beliefs about the supernatural that drove them to do those things, are you?

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:17 PM | Reply

How the world werks here is that immigrants have for decades been a Net Economic Plus and they commit fewer crimes per capita than do US citizens.

AI Overview
Both statements in the query are supported by a strong body of research and a consensus among most economists and social scientists: more

www.google.com

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 04:20 PM | Reply

Oneironut doesn't make arguments, he makes gutless insinuations backed by his knowledge base (twitter) while pretending to be an "open borders liberal"

Dishonest intellectual light weight.

#38 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-02 04:21 PM | Reply

= their personal beliefs

"Their actions were driven by totalitarian communist ideologies that were explicitly anti-religious, viewing religion as a hindrance to state power and a threat to the total loyalty demanded by the state and the leader's personality cult."

from #26

#39 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 04:22 PM | Reply

"viewing religion as a hindrance to state power"

Not driven by personal belief, but rather driven by the desire to consolidate state power in the hands of an autocrat. Are you going to argue otherwise?

Trump claims he's a Christian, why? Because has the Evangelical Churches that are compliant with his desire to consolidate state power in the hands of an autocrat.

Mussolini had the same thing in the Catholic Church. Germany eventually found it too.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:26 PM | Reply

Was Stalin an atheist?

"Yes, Joseph Stalin was a militant atheist who actively suppressed religion throughout the Soviet Union.

He was raised in the Georgian Orthodox Church and even attended a seminary to train as a priest in his youth, but he became disillusioned with religion and embraced Marxist theory, which views religion as the "opiate of the masses".

"Conversion to Marxism: While at the Tiflis Seminary, he began reading revolutionary literature and the works of Karl Marx, leading him to abandon his religious beliefs and become an atheist and a revolutionary."

www.google.com

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 04:29 PM | Reply

"leading him to abandon his religious beliefs and become an atheist and a revolutionary."

Putin is Greek Orthodox. Is he a brutal murder because he's Christian... but somehow it's different for atheists?

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:32 PM | Reply

LOL... Russian orthodox. Wrong silly costumes. My bad.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:33 PM | Reply

"Stalin appeared to have had absolute conviction in his anti-religious war. "I have no doubt that he was a thoroughgoing atheist," says Miner. "

more

www.history.com

#44 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 04:34 PM | Reply

"Vladimir Putin identifies as Russian Orthodox Christian, though his sincerity is debated, and he has used the faith for political and nationalist purposes.

He publicly expresses his faith and attends services, but critics suggest his actions are more about political expediency than genuine religious belief, especially given his KGB background and use of the church to legitimize his rule."

more

www.google.com

His mentorship of Trump is outstanding werk!

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-02 04:38 PM | Reply

"Stalin appeared to have had absolute conviction in his anti-religious war."

Because they were a threat to his power, Corky.
Not because he didn't like their hats.
You're being obtuse.

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:44 PM | Reply

"Vladimir Putin identifies as Russian Orthodox Christian, though his sincerity is debated, and he has used the faith for political and nationalist purposes."

Stalin also used the Russian faith political and nationalist purposes.
He just used it in the other direction.
Putin, and Bush, and Columbus, used it in the direction you like better.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 04:47 PM | Reply

Killing Africans makes Pedo 47 euphoric.

www.impactcounter.com

#48 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-02 04:56 PM | Reply

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