Hoodrat: The AES states are not weak nations. Rather, their historical experience with Western engagement over the past century has been characterized by exploitation, systemic underdevelopment, food insecurity, and escalating instability. These outcomes are not incidental; they are the cumulative result of external political, economic, and security interventions that prioritized Western interests over local development and sovereignty.
In response, AES governments are now reorienting their strategies toward domestic economic consolidation and social resilience, with the objective of strengthening their populations and reducing external dependency. Western imperial influence has been decisively rejected, which largely explains the adverse reaction from the United States and its allies, including the imposition of travel bans and diplomatic pressure on West African nations aligned with AES.
These measures are less about governance or security concerns and more about the loss of strategic control over a critical African resource corridor. For over a century, Western states and corporations have extracted gold, lithium, uranium, and other high-value resources from the Sahel with limited reinvestment in local economies. The erosion of this extractive access represents a significant geopolitical and economic setback for Western interests.
UrVillageChief: Una no dey ever get sense. What century ago did the crusades happen? If you were lettered (educated), you wouldn’t even have related or compared Islamic terrorism with the crusade because they aren’t even remotely the same. I will school you a little on this topic. Now pick up your phone and look up what the crusade really was. It was a series of wars fought to RECLAIM the lands lost to MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. The crusade were wars of reclamation. Fun fact: there would be no crusade if Muslims didn’t kill the early Christians or took over their lands. Secondly, colonialism and slave-trading had no religion or race and in fact, the Muslim Arabs were one of the earliest slave traders and do you know who and who put a lasting end to it?😂😏
+ Alright. So according to you, European Christians were the indigenous owners of the Holy Land?
FxMasterz: Who said they were? Or, why are you answering questions you were never asked?
You deliberately lied because you had an agenda. Your agenda has been crushed. That's why you now see your bad in the open.
Who said the crusaders were related to the Spanish war? Who said that? You were the one who dubiously wanted to mix things up, and I got you exposed.
Your generalization is based on a false premise. People defending themselves against violence cannot be accused of being violent for defending themselves!
What violence exactly has Christianity done to you as a person, your community or your nation?
+ Let's attend to this in new year. In a few hours. I have to join family. A few things have been confused here.
GeneralOuki: the crusades was during the middle ages, Christianity have since moved away from that, Islam is still neck deep on its extremism up til this very hour. There's nothing like missionary colonization, the missionaries didn't colonise anywhere, colonisation was not done in the name of Jesus but in the name of the king of England, same with the Trans Atlantic slave trade.
+ The imperialist went around with a bible in one hand and a gun in another everywhere he went.
I agree, Islam may be stuck in the past but the point is both religions have exhibited these violent tendencies and its just a question of cycles and times and places.
You talked about the crusades, and I told you the rose in defense against Islam.
You talked about Islam not touching Europe, I told you they did and were defeated at Spain.
You came back asking unnecessary questions. Who said they crusaders were about Europe? The crusaders stood to recover Jerusalem from this same Islam. The Europeans defended themselves against this same Islam. Islam already killed and maimed in order to take over north Africa. They did the same in Nigeria's north as well.
+ I was trying to tell you that the crusades were a reaction to Muslim control of the Holy Land. They were not a reaction to the conquest of Spain, never.
My bad if I said Muslims didn't encroach on Europe, they obviously did at several points but not in the context of what provoked the crusades, not at all.
Generally my point is that religions have always been associated with violence, it's just a question of times and places and cycles, so no need to try to says it's just one religion.
However certainly Islam of today is a present day problem.
joseff14: I'm sure the people who existed then, and are affected by the actions of the crusaders would have said same thing. Is this era, there's no crusades, it's Islam that's terrorizing everyone, so we need to castigate it while we're alive
olabrad: Old testament is a book of laws for Jews. Have you asked yourself why the Jews are not kiling people the way Muslims are doing?! It's because because everyone knows that the laws in old testament are not applicable anymore.
Can you show me where old testament ever said CHRISTIANS should attack MUSLIMS?!
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Mention the foreign lands where the crusaders travel to.
No, Islam had been violent from its creation in the 7th century to date.
Once more, ask yourself why Jews are not following Old testament laws anymore in today's world?! Only Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and some other pagan religions still do such!
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Ask yourself why no Christian or Jew is following the violent laws in the old testament! Ask yourself that
+ The Crusaders travelled from Europe all the way to the Holy Land in what is today Israel and Palestine.
Also it's weird to say Jews are not violent, Israel relies on its scripture for racist violence, apartheid and genocide up till today.
Ovacoma: Always looking for excuses. Was there a time Islam was peaceful, even during the days of their prophet?
+ Islam is well known for it's love of violence no doubt. But my point is Christianity has had its time with same, to an event worse extent I dare say. Islam is simply living a little in the past. So what I am saying is that it's not Islam per se but religion as a whole at different times and places.
Corrections: Wasn't this same islam that wanted to erase Christians of that time? The Christians had no choice than to defend themselves forming "The crusader" after they had enough of genocide and land grabbing from islam.
It's seems you don't understand history on how crusader was formed.
+ The point is that religions have a long history of violence for the purpose of power, territory and domination.
Also Muslims did not attack Christian Europe before Christian European Kings launched Crusades at the direction of the Popes.
olabrad: Christians follow the gospel. Show me any part of the gospel that says people should kill witches. That will tell you that those Christians doing witch hunting were not following the gospel preached by Jesus Christ.
+ Are you sayng the Old Testament is not part of the Christian Bible? Because it says there, "suffer not a witch to live." - Exodus 22:18.
The crusaders came up to stop Islam from attacking Christianity. Go learn your history better.
+ And why would the crusaders travel all the way from Europe to a foreign land on a different continent to fight? The point is that religious people have been violent from time immemorial so stop trying to limit it to one religion.
Your Quran openly support violence against non-Muslims, but you can never find any part of the gospel asking Christians to attack Muslims.
+ 1. Islam is as full of violent injunctions as is your Old Testament. Both the Bible and Quoran are bloodthirsty. 2. I am not a Muslim
DrAda: And by some people, you mean me? Lol. I am rather in a good mood today, so I won't break my mood protocol. Do have a blessed new year. Hope your attitude changes next year to respect the opinion of others.
+ It's a general thing for some categories of people - facts dont matter to the formation of opinions. Logically -
1. If indeed it was a blown out tire, would you still insist its Nigeria's fault? 2. The video clearly shows the truck parked off the road, not on the road. And yet you say that is irrelevant to you view that the accident was caused by the parked truck. Who reasons like that?
This has to be carefully read. Section 228 of the Criminal Code reads -
"Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years."
DrAda: Hmmmm. Tell you what, let's agree to disagree. You go on thinking the driver led to the foreign national's demise while I stick to my convictions that this nation failed Anthony.
+ It emerges that the truck was not even on the road but parked off to the side.
hatchy: Thank God for scientistific discoveries because they would have tied the even down to their gods being angry because one or two person did some evil that it would require cleasing with 100 human heads.
Same thing was happening years back when Nigerians didn't know that Generator fumes, which contains Carbon dioxide emissions kills. There was a typical case in Aba where many people died in a Cyber Cafe in those days of Night browsing and the Generator used to power the place was placed inside the business center. The next morning the place was destroyed by angry citizens who believed that the owner of the business have used all of the dead for money rituals.
A big thank you to the Oyinbo people who opened our eyes if not we would still be living life some how.
+ The same oyibo people who were burning women enmasse as witches barely three hundred years ago.
The same oyibo people who dashed you worse myths and legends dressed as superior religion.
The same oyibo people who have taught people like you to hate your ancestors and your history and to feel inferior?
LordReed: And there it is, the god plug. It's a mystery therefore god. Why can't a mystery just be a mystery, a puzzle to be solved, why does it need to be tied to a god? None of the the mysteries we've solved have ever produced any god behind it, why would this one be different?
+ It's also amazing how when something good happens people attribute it to God but when bad things occur suddenly their God is nowhere to be found. It is the work of the devil or enemies in the village.