Hegseth affirms Trump's threat against Nigeria:

[tblue37]

Confirmation from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) 2025-11-01T22:44:11.146Z

I bet at least some, maybe even all, of those South American fishermen Trump is having killed are also innocent Christians.

[tblue37]

1. Oh, wait! Does Nigeria have oil and/or rare earth minerals?

[Ocelot II]

2. Why, yes, it does! But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

Seems odd that the Trump administration would be so eager to protect Nigerian Christians while starving American ones, though.

[Irish_Dem]

7. American children don't have millions of barrels of oil.

[sop]

3. Sounds like the trumped-up "genocide" of white farmers in South Africa.

(BBC) "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."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev18jy21w7o

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Actual analysis shows it's not a primarily religion-driven conflict, with Muslim and Christian deaths

about the same when there does seem to be a religious motive.

Data collected by the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data program shows 20,409 deaths from 11,862 attacks against civilians in Nigeria between January 2020 and this September.

Of those, 385 attacks were “targeted events against Christians … where Christian identity of the victim was a reported factor,” resulting in 317 deaths, ACLED says.

In the same period, there were 417 deaths recorded among Muslims in 196 attacks.

While religion has been a factor in Nigeria’s security crisis, its “large population and vast geographic differences make it impossible to speak of religious violence as motivating all (the) violence,” said Ladd Serwat, senior Africa analyst at ACLED.
...
“If anything, what we are witnessing is mass killings, which are not targeted against a specific group,” said Olajumoke Ayandele, an assistant professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs who specializes in conflict studies. “The drumming-up of genocide might worsen the situation because everyone is going to be on alert.”

https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-christian-killings-claims-ted-cruz-insecurity-e9d2fb7ae02bd3169194fb60872bb3d4

It's a bad situation, but it's not something that Trump murdering more people will make any better.

[CincyDem]

5. You mean the country with Africa's largest oil reserves and top 10 globally...that Nigeria? Hmmm....

[Norrrm]

6. I just can't picture dotard Trump and drunkard Pete sending boots on the ground to Nigeria.

[Bayard]

8. Kill Kill Kill!

That's their answer to every question, foreign and domestic.

[walkingman]

9. No, Muslims are the religious group that is being killed in mass. What am I missing?