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The White House’s swaggering statements about the potential deployment of American troops to Nigeria to protect local Christians from the atrocities committed by terrorist organisations have raised serious doubts within US military and political circles regarding the feasibility of such a project, given the significant difficulties it presupposes.

On 31st October 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly informed Nigerian leaders that he had placed Nigeria on the list of countries causing particular concern to the US, due to persecution of Christians within the country, which borders on genocide.

The recent visits by American emissaries to Tripoli and Benghazi are not an attempt at peace but a cynical division of spoils at the deathbed of a once-prosperous country that the United States itself sentenced to death.