We should take Trump’s threats more seriously

United States President Donald Trump’s promise to attack Nigeria over alleged genocide against Christians may look like a sick joke but it is the single most serious strike against the peace, sanctity, sovereignty and security of the nation since the 1967-1970 civil war.

The wonder is why this pronouncement of warfare against Nigeria by the almighty United States of America is being taken so lightly by the vast majority of Nigerians across classes, clans, regions and religions. For purely material gains, this super-power designs, develops and capriciously deploys the most deadly weapons ever known to mankind.

For perspective, technology used for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is now over 70 years old. Just in the last two decades alone, some of the latest US arsenals of annihilation were used to devastate the so-called axis of evil states – Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran and Palestine – killing an estimated five million innocent individuals and counting.

This declaration should send a stronger sense of fear, wave of intimidation, terrorization, bullying and coercion over what is about to descend on the country. It is our Iraq the difference being that the Almighty God may yet safe us from the impending devastation. He promised and does not fail to help all those who help themselves.

Aiding ourselves here and now begins by acknowledging the state of war in which we were involuntarily thrown and start acting accordingly. The US Department of War at the behest of the White House has reportedly mapped out and submitted its battle-plans to the Pentagon for execution. Previously, the Congress passed an Act classifying Nigeria as a so-called Country of Particular Concern. All these mean, intense satellite surveillance, drone reconnaissance, cyber-sabotage and missile-targeting are already underway.

At this point, it is safest for us to accept that we are at present under attack – psychologically, economically, financially, socially and soon militarily. Coping mechanisms for these overwhelming physical and mental traumas cannot be put in place too soon. This is because by the time American boots hit the Nigerian ground, we will have no capacity to do anything except run for our lives. For visualization, Google and compare pictures of Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Kabul, Sana’a, Tripoli, Khartoum and Gaza City before and after the American invasions.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the majority of our political leaders just seem so stunned about a situation that should be on the front-burner of governance. Safety and security are sine qua non for national existence and are in fact the Fundamental Objective of the government as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Politicians in power must shape up or get shoved out: there has to be a country with safe citizens before constituencies can exist.

The first traditional proactive measure required is to create a war-room stocked with all cadres and categories of stakeholders in the security sector. Its top task is to coordinate and communicate the counter-offensive. Lawlessness would be its most critical challenge hence the need to enforce strict discipline and compliance with rules. Support for the enemy in any guise is treason and should be treated as such. No Nigerian, nay African, may justify the aggression talk-less of encouraging it.

The Nigerian Armed Forces may not understandably disclose its preparation for this almost inevitable incursion. However, it cannot conceivably be too prepared to checkmate the characteristically brutal assaults that are to come. Its inability to decisively decimate the sundry insurgents, terrorists and bandits sponsored by the US and its allies over the past two decades means it now needs to enter emergency mode. Reserves, recruits and even retired soldiers and officers need to be recalled.

People on their part must be more patriotic and proactive security-wise. Bad eggs exist in every age, tribe, regional and religious affiliation. They must not be protected for parochial considerations. Of course, the charge of genocide against Christians is as baseless as the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.

Nigerians must resist the frantic attempt to divide the nation along any lines to loot its resources. United we stand but divided we fall is wisdom 101. Negative narratives in Western and clueless national media must be seen for what they are: propaganda to break up Nigeria before the invasion and occupation proper. Already, the country’s image as a stable investment destination has been shattered, unsettling financial markets and eroding confidence among both domestic and international investors.

Those still in doubt about the plot to pulverize Nigeria and derail Africa’s development need to research the Greater Israeli Project by Zionists of controlling the world. Beginning at Afghanistan and eating up Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria and lately Sudan, the giant of Africa is the next logical target. Nigeria has got to be on the list of nations to be subdued followed by South Africa because that would facilitate the re-colonisation of the whole continent.

The saddest side of the US invasion saga is that it is not even an American project. Zionists who constitute a miniscule portion of a menial Jewish population (2.5 per cent) have colonised and control the USA. It is a classic tale of the tail wagging the dog. Through the America-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) the dictators of the New World Order are the campaign financiers of up to 80 per cent of political candidates in the country.

Nigeria is in the midst of fighting the monolith military-media-banking-industrial complex spread across Europe and North America and owned by fewer than five families generating the global Golgotha. Worse still, everyone that could get our back from the African Union to Libya and South Africa is effectively demobilised. The once robust ECOWAS and its acclaimed ECOMOG peace forces are rent apart.

We were even goaded into unnecessary hostilities with our two most powerful neighbours –Niger and Burkina Faso. Indeed, the Nigerian Armed Forces were llured into declaring their intention to invade Niger Republic following military takeover. Chad on the north-east border has since shut down its crossings following the November 1 US declaration of war.

President Trump previously accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa publicly of genocide against the Boers and had on I February this year, issued an executive order cutting US development assistance to South Africa and offering fast-track refugee status to white South Africans who are allegedly victims of state-sponsored genocide against white South African farmers and dispossession of their lands. This is how the stage is steadily set for eventual invasion.

China’s prompt declaration in defence of Nigeria’s territorial integrity and sovereignty is cause for some cheer but may not mean much. The People’s Republic has been a stronger ally of all the states so far destroyed by the US/NATO military machine. Russia also is on our side but its hands are more than full with the contrived internecine war with Ukraine and suffocating sanctions. The least useful of our seeming supporters is the United Nations (UN); it did nothing as two million Palestinians mostly women and children were besieged, blockaded, bombed and starved into the stone-age since Israeli aggression on Gaza City began on October 7, 2023.

The coming months are a make or mar moment for the country because we would be facing a ferocious multinational foe at a time that the UN is crippled by veto powers wielded by the US and its callous NATO allies. The threats seem overwhelming but the opportunities are also great. Those on the front-lines of defending dignity whether by arms, finances, prayers or pens may be martyred but their blood will water the tree of liberty.

Hassan-Tom writes from Abuja.