According to The New York Times, Trump has ordered the Pentagon to draw up a “plan military action” in Nigeria. What appears to have begun as a Fox News talking point about Christian persecution has now become a pretext for a potential international military intervention.
But Trump’s view of Nigeria’s violence is rooted less in geopolitical understanding and more in Christian mythmaking that has distinct echoes of a return to the Crusades.
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