Spot on and very well put.

So much for Trump the self-proclaimed Peace maker who is now also bombing Venezula with blatant colonialist greed and no actual excuse at all too.

That was so clearly and beautifully put. And it needed to be said.

I have a Dutch friend (white) who swears up and down that Donald Trump is the super-Christian that she herself believes herself to be. Every time she says this, it stuns me how willfully blind people can be. Trump has shown the world who he is, over and over again. How anyone can believe him to be other than what he has said and demonstrated himself to be--well, I simply can’t understand.

Thank you.

Philosophically, if Trump we’re not prejudiced, he might realize that he has a similar view himself to Boko Haram, because Trump personally feels that book-learning should be considered forbidden. He is their natural ally. Sad.

it’s bad enough talking to fellow americans who speak abject nonsense like “donald trump is a good man;” watching people from hong kong to lagos drinking that kool-aid is just miserable.

Thank you for this excellent summary of the situation.
My thought is that Trump looks for any excuse for him to order military action, mostly just to glorify himself.
We know that Trump has ordered our US National Parks to remove all information documenting the history and contributions of Americans of African descent, so it is obvious that he has no interest in non-Americans, especially Africans.
Trump doesn’t know or care about the differences between the countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe, or Rhodesia, and he doesn’t know the difference between the events of the 1980s and today. In his mind, the Black people of Nigeria/Rhodesia in the 1980s are currently being mean to the white people of Rhodesia/SouthAfrica, and so this justifies bombing possibly-Islamic Nigerians, whether or not there is any evidence connecting the targets to actual Boko Haram supporters.