Sustained pressure from President Donald Trump could prompt Nigeria to more directly confront extremist violence and better protect Christian communities, but the fight remains primarily Nigeria’s responsibility, retired U.S. Navy Capt. Brent Sadler said on Newsmax Sunday.
“It’s been a decades-long running insurrection and civil war of sorts in that part of Nigeria,” Sadler said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report,” describing a conflict he said also “spills over into neighboring countries.”
Sadler said Nigeria’s government should have confronted what he described as a long-standing tactic of targeting Christians and churches to inflame religious tensions for political ends.
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