U.S. strikes ISIS in Nigeria after Trump warnings on Christian killings - The
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For sometime now this item attributed Vladimir Putin has been floating around in cyberspace and making its rounds in social media :
“ 95 percent of the world's terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA."
I wonder what Andrew Bustamante thinks about this…
U.S. and France would ideally love to have Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as their partner / “ useful idiot” in establishing a military base which can serve as a springboard from which they can put down any coup d'état that would be inimical to US/ French/Western Interest in neighbouring Benin, and with such a strategic military base established, to hatch and execute future plans such as on the pretext of “fighting terrorism”, to destabilise and achieve regime change in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali ( Alliance of Sahel States) from which they would ideally like to steal, exploit, extract - in the holy name of Jesus - all the available gold and harvest all the other critical strategic raw materials
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Victor Okafor
“I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior, and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don’t do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won’t be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Re - “There is no example of the defeat of terrorism through militarism. All the armed conflicts in the world tend to be settled through dialogue around a conference table…recognize the militants as legitimate political parties. Let them run for office nonviolently…” ( Wishful thinking flying in the face of “Me Gun Must be Heard !” and “ Stand Firm -or you're gonna feed worm, but in tune with Capleton and Yami Bolo - Put Down Your Weapon but ostensibly in conflict with “There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully”
After checking out - in alphabetical order
I daresay what a brilliant idea : ”Let them run for office nonviolently” etc.
Has the author of such wishful thinking ever thought of selling this idea to Israel and the Pals? Iran and the Great Satan? The warring parties in Sudan? Those aspiring to be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize ?
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John Onyeukwu
Dialogue matters, but it is not a substitute for security. Every conflict cited combined force, containment, and negotiation, none ended through dialogue alone, and none began by legitimising armed groups while they were still killing civilians.
Politics requires a minimum monopoly of force. You cannot hold elections with groups whose primary language is coercion. Negotiation becomes meaningful after violence is constrained, not while it escalates.
The real debate is not militarism versus dialogue, but how force is governed, limited, and transitioned into politics. Pretending violence dissolves by recognition alone is not history, it is hope without strategy.
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Oluwatoyin,
As the King James Version puts it,
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
( Tehillim 1)
Re - US airstrikes on Nigerian targets 2025
What you are saying ,that “This cooperation with the Americans is one of the best things he has ever done, particularly if it works” would have sounded infinitely more agreeable if it could have been accurately reported as - at the invitation of Tinubu, after due consultation with Muslim and Christian leaders, “This cooperation of the Americans is one of the best things he has ever done particularly if it works.”
Let's be brutally honest. There was your Foreign Minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar fresh from talking sweet talk in Burkina Faso, to get the plane and the detained Nigerian soldiers released, and in this clip , very proud of himself about talking with the big boys, “ I spoke with Marco Rubio - extensively " ( “for about 30 minutes “) It should be interesting to listen to a recording of that telephone conversation, to put everybody at ease as to exactly what was said, what was agreed, etc.
“But decisive efforts to wipe out terrorism would do much for him in the South and would do so much towards getting him a second term” ( Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, political analyst, Ifa philosopher and soothsayer )
Do you believe that Trump & Tinubu will “wipe out” terrorism in Nigeria (at considerable civilian and infrastructural collateral damage of course) well before the next Nigerian Presidential Elections scheduled for February 2027, or will the wiping out, guns ablaze, American bombs falling over Nigeria like rain, Nigerian flesh and blood breaking down, super javelin missiles hitting and obliterating or sometimes missing their targets and causing further collateral damage -loss of Nigerian life, limb & property would significantly contribute to getting dear Tinubu re-elected? I don’t think so . If anything, that very first surprise attack, without any prior warning, that Christmas Day bombing of targets in Sokoto the heartland of Islam in Nigeria must have succeeded in alienating the majority of right-thinking Muslims in Sokoto and elsewhere in the country.
But what do I know? I have just read right through , maybe for the third time, St Peter of Damascus : A treasury of Divine Knowledge and Twenty-four Discourses with an emphasis on the section on section X: Humility wherein occurs this understanding:
“Again, he who knows that he is a mutable creature will never maintain a high opinion of himself; he will recognize that anything he may have belongs to his Creator. You do not praise a pot on the grounds that it has made itself useful; you praise its maker. And when it is broken, you blame whoever broke it, not its maker.”
You have conveniently partitioned Nigeria into North and South , and in the process where does the Middle Belt belong? Furthermore, don't we have to differentiate between the South West and the South East ? Didn’t Peter Obi garner 95 % of the votes in his beloved ethnic enclave, Anambra? Yes, indeed he also did as reported, whisper in the ear of his Big Pentecostal Daddy Oyedepo “ It is a religious war “ and you think that as part of that war should Nigeria’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu & wannabe Emperor Donald John Trump succeed in “wiping out terrorism” there will peace in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a result of which all the Igbos of the South East and everywhere else and the Muslims of the North and South will vote for Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
First of all, can you say that the terrorism in Nigeria is “Islamic” ? The cattle rustlers, murderers, ransom kidnappers , wanton looters , 419 criminals etc are all Muslims?
Please be careful about how you answer . It does appear that Trump is hell-bent in believing that he a pedophile Epstein-beleaguered champion of Christianity is waging a war of extermination of “Islamic terrorism” which he accuses of being guilty of “Christian genocide” in Nigeria…
BTW, I don’t think that a hale and hearty Trump will still be in office by 7th February 2027, secondly