On Saturday, President Donald Trump threatened to deploy US military forces into Nigeria with the phrase “guns-a-blazing” if Africa’s most populous nation does not halt what he characterized as the killing of Christians by Islamists.
In a contentious post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader—who had previously sought the Nobel Peace Prize unsuccessfully—revealed that he had requested the Pentagon to draft a possible attack plan.
This followed his warning the previous day that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria.”
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President Trump declared a firm ultimatum to the West African country: “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.
He further stated: “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians,” he added.
He concluded his post with a blunt warning: “WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”
Nigeria is currently dealing with numerous conflicts, which experts maintain have resulted in the deaths of both Christians and Muslims without differentiating between the faiths.
President Trump, posting on Friday, had claimed, without providing evidence, that “thousands of Christians are being killed (and) Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”
It was mentioned that claims of Christian persecution have also been promoted by certain groups within Nigeria, where deep-seated ethnic, religious, and regional divisions have ignited deadly violence historically and continue to influence modern national politics.
Nigeria’s population is split almost equally between a Muslim-majority northern region and a largely Christian southern region.
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