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SmartPolician:
If not for the regards world leaders have for past American presidents and the contributions of the country towards human advancement, world leaders would come together to deal with America once and for all.

wellmax:
Without nukes see what the Arab terrorists are doing. Now close your eyes and imagine they have nuclear weapons

The Nigerian air force will take over from the United States after Washington's Christmas Day strikes against jihadists, relying on American reconnaissance flights to support its own operations, a Nigerian official told AFP on Tuesday.

On Christmas night, the United States struck sites in Sokoto State, in northwestern Nigeria , against what they described as targets linked to the Islamic State group .

Although Nigeria remains open to further US strikes, the primary role of the United States will now be to provide intelligence, the source indicated, familiar with the new security agreement with Washington.

Africa's most populous country has been battling a jihadist insurgency since 2009, mainly concentrated in the northeast, while armed gangs known as "bandits" have gained a foothold in vast rural areas of the northwest and north-central parts of the country.

These strikes came after a diplomatic offensive that began in October, during which President Donald Trump claimed that the violence perpetrated by armed groups in Nigeria amounted to "persecution" and "genocide" of Christians — accusations rejected by Abuja and independent analysts.

Partnership
A few days before the strikes, the Nigerian Minister of Information had declared that the "dispute" had been resolved, "resulting in a strengthened partnership between America and Nigeria" .

For several weeks prior to the strikes, analysts had observed an intensification of US reconnaissance flights over Nigeria. These flights have continued since.

The New York Times , citing Pentagon officials speaking on condition of anonymity, recently reported that the US strikes were a "one-off event" .

Although they took place after Nigeria and the United States had at least partially buried the hatchet, these strikes caused headaches in Abuja when Trump unilaterally claimed credit for them.

In response, Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar launched a media offensive, claiming it was a joint operation .

To further complicate matters, US officials remained largely unreachable until days before the strikes, before finally calling their Nigerian counterparts to present their plans, according to the source.
Source: https://www.africanews.com/2026/01/07/nigeria-to-take-over-anti-jihadist-operations-after-us-christmas-strikes/

The next 72 hours are critical — not just for Venezuela, but for the world.
If the United States succeeds in imposing control over Venezuela — and by extension the world’s largest proven oil reserves — it would mark a major shift in global power.

This wouldn’t be about democracy or human rights.

It would be about reasserting strategic dominance over energy, trade routes, and regional alignments.
If that happens, Iran almost certainly moves to the top of Washington’s priority list.

Control over Venezuelan oil would dramatically reduce U.S. vulnerability to disruptions in the Persian Gulf. It would give Washington a buffer against supply shocks if a confrontation with Iran escalates.
In simple terms:

If Gulf infrastructure gets hit, the economic pain is lower.
Lower pain means higher tolerance for escalation.

That also means more leverage over global oil flows and pricing, reinforcing the dollar’s role in energy markets and helping preserve the petrodollar system that underpins U.S. financial power.

At that point, Venezuela stops being a regional issue.
It becomes a strategic precedent — proof that economic pressure, political engineering, and force can be used to restructure sovereign states and reshape the global balance of power.
But there’s another path — and it’s just as important.

If the U.S. gets bogged down in Venezuela, faces sustained resistance, or drifts into a prolonged crisis, the equation flips.
Political capital drains.
Military and economic resources stretch thin.
Power projection elsewhere weakens — especially in the Middle East.
That would also complicate strategic planning for Israel, whose security posture is closely tied to U.S. leverage in the region.

What happens in Venezuela will not stay in Latin America.
It will shape the future of energy control, the limits of American power, and the direction of global confrontation — far beyond Caracas.
Source : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bx6Z1iNgU/

Walezy2020:
really what kind of saying is this,& if they claimed we are Jews so be it,

FreeStuffsNG:
You left out the most important part; land mass.


UAE is 86,300 km² while Saudi Arabia is 2,150,000 km²

Land mass makes a lot of difference because nations with small land mass have the assets concentrated in small area whereas countries with large land mass have it spread over large areas which will make it more difficult and costly to attack while each successful attack on countries with small land mass wreaks more havoc. That played out in the US-Isreal war against Iran as each of Iran's successful missile strike on Israel caused more destruction and forced Trump to quickly beg for a ceasefire.

Saudi Arabia should never have been compared to UAE in the first place.

US DRONES OVER NORTHERN NIGERIA PANIC SPREADS🚨🚨🚨
Something big is happening in the skies of Northern Nigeria… and everyone is watching in silence.
Reports say the United States has launched heavy surveillance using MQ-9 drones over parts of Northern Nigeria. Since then, fear has entered terrorist camps. ISWAP fighters are now being warned to avoid public places and limit movement. Why? Because someone is watching.
Remember December 25.
That day changed everything.
A reported US Tomahawk missile strike shook the North-West. Many laughed and said, “It hit empty ground in Sokoto.”
But let me ask you clearly:
Where is BELLO TURJI KACHALLA today?
Where is his second-in-command?
Where are the men who were with him?
Silence.
Do you really think a country will fire a missile worth 1–2 million dollars just to hit sand?
Keep pretending if you want.
Source : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DdcxojURp/

Timeline of Origins
1441: Portuguese captains Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão captured 12 Africans in modern-day Mauritania and took them to Portugal, marking the start of direct European slave trading in Africa.
1444: Lançarote de Freitas landed 235 kidnapped and enslaved Africans in Lagos, Portugal, the first large group brought to Europe.
1452: The "sugar-slave complex" was initiated on the Portuguese island of Madeira, where enslaved Africans were first used on sugar plantations.
1482: The Portuguese established Elmina Castle (in present-day Ghana) as a trading post, which eventually became a major hub for the slave trade.
1502: The first enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic to the New World (Hispaniola) by Spanish merchants

Nigerian village bombed by Trump has 'no known history' of anti-Christian terrorism: locals

When President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas, he described it as an attack against “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”

But locals in a town that was hit during the strike say terrorism has never been a problem for them. On Friday, CNN published a report based on interviews with several residents of Jabo, which was hit by a US missile during Thursday’s attack, which landed just feet away from the town’s only hospital.

The rural town of Jabo is part of the Sokoto state in northwestern Nigeria, which the Trump administration and the Nigerian government said was hit during the strike.
[...]
*While parts of Sokoto face challenges with banditry, kidnappings and attacks by armed groups including Lakurawa–which Nigeria classifies as a terrorist organization due to suspected affiliations with [the] Islamic State–villagers say Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority.*

Elusive001:
They are the same with hamas.

Al Mayadeen English Source: ANP 25 Dec 2025 23:49
2 Min Read
Niger has indefinitely barred US citizens from entering the country, presenting the move as a sovereign and reciprocal response to Washington's decision to impose travel restrictions on Nigerien nationals.

Niger has announced an immediate and indefinite suspension of entry for US nationals, presenting the move as a sovereign and reciprocal response to Washington’s latest travel restrictions, according to a report by the country’s state news agency ANP on Thursday.

Citing a diplomatic source, ANP said Nigerien authorities have halted the issuance of visas to citizens of the United States, effectively barring Americans from entering the country.

The decision follows a recent move by Washington to place Niger on a list of states whose nationals are denied entry into the US. In December, the White House expanded its full entry-ban list to include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, Laos, and Sierra Leone, citing security and vetting concerns. The measures are expected to take effect at the start of 2026.

(https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/niger-bars-us-citizens-in-reciprocal-move-to-washington-s-tr)