Wow. This sounds serious.
Some of us might remember back to 2015 when STTEP PMCs went in to help Nigeria, and almost destroyed the Jihadi terrorist group Boko Haram, until the STTEP were inexplicably told to stand down and leave. This was the kiss of life for Boko Haram.
–RdM
The move is an escalation in the president’s campaign against the West African country’s government over allegedly failing to protect Christians.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he ordered the Defense Department to prepare for potential strikes in Nigeria, an escalation in his efforts to pressure the West African country’s government over its alleged failure to stop the persecution of Christians.
Trump also said he instructed all U.S. aid and assistance to Nigeria to cease, effective immediately.
“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,” he wrote in a social media post Saturday evening on the Truth Social platform.
A day earlier, Trump said he would label Nigeria as a “country of particular concern,” a designation under a law that lists countries that systemically violate religious freedoms. Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied such allegations.
To read more, see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/01/trump-nigeria-christians/
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and the ‘Nigeria Analyses’ section of https://rdmsecurityanddefence.com