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Trump tells military to prepare for 'action' against Islamist militants in Nigeria (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/usa@midwest.social

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US President Donald Trump has ordered the military to prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist militant groups, accusing the government of failing to protect Christians.

Trump did not say which killings he was referring to, but claims of a genocide against Nigeria's Christians have been circulating in recent weeks and months in some right-wing US circles.

Groups monitoring violence say there is no evidence to suggest that Christians are being killed more than Muslims in Nigeria, which is roughly evenly divided between followers of the two religions.

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[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

US needs to be sanctioned.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 weeks ago

For real.

[–] KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What happened to "no new wars"?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

He didn’t get his Nobel peace prize.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Venezuela and Nigeria. Hmmm. I wonder what those two countries might have in common.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

I think I know this one. It's oil right? Lots and lots of fucking oil he's trying to steal.

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Mr Peace Prize everyone

[–] Sludge@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Chucklefuck is going to start a religion based war? What the absolute fuck. Does Nigeria have rare earth metals? If so this would likely be a play to get the government to "owe him" 70 years of unregulated mining or something absurd... So much for "america-first." Nice to know children here will die without food while he wants to spend whatever it takes to bomb African Muslims.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oil, they have oil

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lot of oil coming out of Nigeria. If they fight and some die, it will be to protect somebody else's oil profits.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's really about him just not liking black people isn't it?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

There's oil there.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wut.