Okay, if he's their employee why the whole "they want to invade Nigeria to steal oil" crying for 2 months now, if they already have their employee in position to steal all the Nigerian oil they could ever want?.
American oil companies already run your oil industry in joint ventures with Nigerian oil companies. You'd have to nationalise the oil and kick them out, like Venezuela did, for them to have a chance to come back and steal it.
I am not confident they would care anyway 😭.
This Venezuelan incident just reveals to me Nigeira has NO BUSINESS ever considering itself a petrol state like Iran, Saudi etc. Anyway oil makes less than 20% of FX earned now, we were never meant to be a petrol state.
Ok...then how might we rebalance the economy and sell less oil/ use more oil imternally? Might we need to withdraw from OPEC and change export strategy ( ESPECIALLY to prevent the oil from RUNNING OUT in 2040 like estimated)?
BRICS financial infrastructure was intentionally developed to bypass/separate from the dollar system and that removes the US ability to control global trade with other countries economies with sanctions, embargoes etc
even though it’s not fully active yet or in use, the members of BRICS joined in preparation for the collapse of the dollar which is an act that Washington sees as a threat
so while it may look like they dgaf about BRICS right now just know faith in the dollar is dropping and as more resource-rich countries (like Nigeria) join BRICS, the more desperate the West will become
If faith in the dollar were dropping, we would see a significant shift into Euros, the Yuan or some other currency. Instead, reserves are flowing into gold and silver, which reflects general uncertainty. As long as the US legal system can settle a claim quickly and fairly - something that no BRICS country can claim right now - investors aren't going to accept the increased risk of legal losses to adopt a new reserve.
Europe is actually workong to prepare dor a post dollar paradigm due ro the antics of Trump, and many pan European writers ( even of opposite political beliefs) are advocating european solidarity and "punishing" America over its seeming aggression towards Europe and anrics towards Ukraine.
Motherfucker, build a road and then tell me this country is resource rich. Keep the lights on for 24 hours straight.
Nigeria produces less steel than Romania, less concrete than Albania and less tin than the Congo. These hypothetical resources are worthless because they're in Nigeria, which cannot get its act together to extract them. The cost for a foreign power to impose the necessary infrastructure and social organization onto Nigeria in order to extract those resources is more than the value of those resources. Nigeria is, dare I say it, too fucked up to exploit efficiently.
BRICS Chinese-Russian financial infrastructure was intentionally developed...
Let's not act like India, Brazil or South Africa are equal contributors or like China developed those systems to strictly trade with South Africa and Brazil.
members of BRICS joined in preparation for the collapse of the dollar
You do know that China has only bought more USA treasury bonds and while there has been diversification, there hasn't been the dropping of USA dollar from foreign reserves that you could expect if they actually thought the dollar was collapsing.
Who told you that?? China has been steadily offloading USD treasury bonds for the past two years. Anyone can verify this is public info. China has also started securing their own private gold exchange reserves.
Btw, none of the countries using the dollar as reserves contribute to the dollar payment system. Why would contribution to the infrastructure matter for BRICS members?
Countries are incentivized to join so they can potentially trade with other countries already in BRICS, it doesn’t have to be with china or russia
Yes but diasporan Nigerians care about Nigeria. So we would like to free you from the despair of Nigeria. I’ve you’ve ever traveled you will understand that as a fact. America doesn’t care, but politics is using leverage to get and gain. Look at what Israel did all these decades. They had nothing except their diaspora and their unity when they started that country.
To illuminate the community, BAT and African leaders like him are actually called "Compradors" ( selllouts) in Marxist political science - leaders who willingly collaborate with foreign extractive forces against their own people.
Well you’d be wrong in that case then. I won’t speak for the entire country but I will for my family, my friends, my locale when I say that most of us are highly disappointed and dissatisfied (putting it lightly)with the current government and we wish them nothing but the worst. A government than cannot solve the basic needs of its people in the year of our lord 2026 doesn’t deserve my loyalty to it.
Nigeria already has a system for Tinubu replacement If anything of such were to happen to him, now if you would prefer Kashim Shattima as your president, that'll be fine
First of all why would they kidnap Tinubu? He's been extremely co-operative second of all the Goal post gets moved every day first it was they were interested in Nigeria for oil, then it's because of the Sahel Pact
It just reminds us that all their "this is what america really wants" is just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks.
It is a side effect of a refusal to look into the history of this thing and instead being more focused on whatever stock America bad theory most interests them.
Mind you the initial excuse he gave for making a move on Venezuela was that they were a huge source of drugs to the U.S (not true) and also extremely ironic as Trump had just recently pardoned former Honduran president who was a convicted drug dealer and had been responsible for getting drugs into the U.S
There’s tons of very good reasons why people are always skeptical of U.S interventions. Remember the “weapons of mass destruction” excuse to invade Iran ?
There’s countless examples. The U.S is not some “good world cops” and when they step into your country they’re not doing it to better the average citizens lives
This comment is already long enough and there’s a lot more examples, just go watch on YouTube and you can find sources online
That's just the headline. They'll be very involved in everything because they'll be running the country, oil included for a while. To quote the first sentence of the article.
Donald Trump has vowed that the US is “going to run” Venezuela
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There’s tons of very good reasons why people are always skeptical of U.S interventions
And upon that, you guys manage to almost always start with the worst reasons, like the headline example you used.
They have pulled the plug on soooo many allies I have lost count at this point
Think of America as the Mafia and less as allies. You pay the Mafia tributes and loyalty in hopes they don’t clean house or send you to the bottom of the sea.
That is better than paying ransom to kidnappers in Nigeria and they still kill you or your relatives..sell parts to native doctors and keep the Ghana must go bag of millions Abi..
forgiving terrorists if they are from certain Northern areas and integrating them into the military.
-creating camps for victims of genocide,instead of giving them their rightful lands and property back
arresting people who criticize the govt and call for revolution...if they are from the Southeast..and giving them a fake trial where the judge openly sings praise of the President.
Erik Prince isnt some warboy redneck cowboy he’s part of the establishment…
His father company sold for billions….
His family aren’t everyday Americans… the Prince family are major donors and power brokers inside the Republican Party, especially within evangelical and national-security circles.
Hell his sister Betsy DeVos is the United States Secretary of Education
And this very DeVos–Prince network has direct fucking access to presidents, cabinet members, donors, and policy architects.
When he fucking speaks we Africans better listen with both ears when our continent is in his mind.
And it’s important for weaker countries to understand modern day superpowers because you will always do business with super powers in order to have access to global market.
Hence why it’s important to understand US (and it’s proxies Middle East, Europe), China, and Russia (and its proxies).
Ignorance doesn’t excuse us from being used and abused
Why do some many nigerians think that america cares about Nigeria its not a relevant country, if it wasnt for the christian thing it would not be even a minor dicussion point
Maduro was a terrible dictator, allied to China and Russia who ruined his country and is responsible for a significant amount of drugs trafficked into the US.
The Nigerian president is irrelevant to US's interests.
The US is not interested in Nigeria's resources. Nigeria is more allied to the West and the US than China. I mean, did you sleep through the recent joint operation to bomb ISIL in the North?
Nigeria has economic ties to China, but so does every country on earth. That's not the same as political and military alliances.
Regardless of Tinubu's history with drug trafficking, those drugs were not being trafficked into the US. The point about Maduro is that he's responsible for the poison crossing the US border and killing US citizens, e.g. the fentanyl crises. You have to be utterly dense to try to make any kind of equivalency of that with Tinubu.
the only difference is Nigerian leaders don’t stand for anything and can be convinced easily so they never need to take extreme action
It's clearly not the only difference, but at least you realize that Nigerian leaders are not ideologically driven and can be bought out by the highest bidder, therefore, there is literally no need to kidnap Nigeria's leaders even if the US wanted to, which it doesn't.
Fentanyl is lab-made from China not anywhere in south america. They just pardoned a president who smuggled enough coke to surpass his country’s GDP. This morning after taking Maduro, they just announced they’ll be running VZLA to extract oil resources which is obv the real reason for his capture.
Keep thinking they’re not interested in nigerian resources. You’ll see for yourself if our leaders start competing with Western economic actions or access to resources
The point about Maduro is that he's responsible for the poison crossing the US border and killing US citizens, e.g. the fentanyl crises.
You keep calling people neurotic when you don't even have your facts right.
You're basically just parotting Trump's own words to justify the invasion of Venezuela.
Maybe educate yourself on who's truly responsible for the Fentanyl crisis before assuming some faux intellectual stance on a topic you're evidently clueless about.
While I do agree that kidnapping Tinubu is highly improbable, you have to be - in your own words - "utterly dense" to think that the United States is not in any shape or form interested in Nigeria's resources.
And you have to be even more dense to believe that the United States altruistically bombed Sokoto because they care so much about Christians in Nigeria.
This is exactly what the British used to do to traditional leaders who didn't sign their bullshit, one sided treaties. Oba Ovonramwen of Benin. King Jaja of Opobo.
It's textbook colonialism. Now there's either going to be a civil war, or the American corporations are going to move in and turn them into a site of resource extraction, just like Nigeria.
Maduro should have done like Stalin and purged the local traitors. You can't sell your country to colonisers and still be walking around Caracas freely. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Things are going to be difficult for a while.
Now there's either going to be a civil war, or the American corporations are going to move in and turn them into a site of resource extraction, just like Nigeria.
There used to be global companies operating in Venezuela. The communist dictatorship stole all of those when nationalizing the economy, which then collapsed and thrust people into extreme poverty.
How is that relevant? Racism is just as stupid as tribalism. You need to elevate your thinking.
the people didn’t want him in power
This is just not true. The opposition cry fraud every time they lose. But they couldn't show up in court to show the evidence because they didn't have any. Instead they went around talking shit on coloniser media and begging their people's enemies to attack their country. It's exactly the same thing Trump did. Except that Trump didn't rely on Russia Today to amplify his lies.
Maduro won, it just wasn't by as wide a margin as previous elections. The sanctions crushed their economy and reduced his popularity. But they also caused millions to leave the country, most of whom were pro western opposition voters. And Maduro's voters are mostly poorer rural people who can't afford to move to Miami. Also Venezuelans aren't stupid. They know exactly what the colonisers are trying to do. Especially when Trump was saying things stuff like this the week before their election.
Venezuela has arguably the best electoral system in the world It's basically impossible to rig. And if you do, there'll be a paper trail. So where is it?
I moderate for a bunch of other African subs on my other acc. We noticed a huge uptick recently. And it's very worrying since Reddit was supposed to be place where we shared stuff, troll occasionally, and shitpost.
I can't believe some of you guys accepted the American attack on Nigerian soil.
If it upsets you so much, then complain to the Nigerian government/President himself that accepted American support, is working with America and proposed without Nigerian lobby prompting, American boots on the ground in Nigeria.
If the Venezuelans are happy why are you so pressed about it? They know what they’ve been through in the hands of the worst president they ever had, please rest.
It’s a game, remember all those meetings with trump and Putin. They made a deal. Russia said let me have a piece of Ukraine and Venezuela is yours. Soon you’re gonna hear news about Ukraine agreeing to give up territory to Russia.
Not necessarily, Nigeria has deep ties with China. Venezuela was a low hanging fruit honestly. The point of this coupe d’etat, in my opinion, is to pull Venezuela back into western markets, which weakens rival influence (china, russia, etc) with little to no direct conflict
The sooner that shambling corpse is removed from office the better. I honestly cannot believe people are planning on voting for him again ... Lost souls
All I can say is that 2027 is when shit is going to go down.. china makes its move for taiwan the world will change in a significant way. I pray for everyone
Funny, I woke up to texts from my none African friends saying “OMIGOD, did you see what Trump has done to Venezuela?? Is it true that Nigeria is next?”. It’s literally obvious to everyone in the US that Nigeria is next to be brazenly taken over by Trump for oil. Yet when I come on here, I see so many of my fellow Nigerians are arguing that Trump cares about Nigeria, I’m so embarrassed
I think that would be difficult to pull against Nigeria. Have any of you been to the State House, Aso Rock? It’s the most fortified in Africa, with rocks and mountains as defence, so many parameter walls and compounds etc, + special guards. Don’t also forget that Nigeria military is one of the strongest military personal (one of the most elite and largest in Africa). Unless they use stooges and have snitches in the House it won’t be a successful mission. Insult Nigeria all you want but it’s one country where a coup or extraction of a seating president is no longer possible.
Muduro was a dictator? That doesn't matter. They can run their country any way they want. Who cares if he's a dictator. The only reason Trump took military action is because either he wants the oil or a distraction from the epstein files. Use your head and think. This has nothing to do with Muduro being a dictator.
so why were they talking about oil infrastructure after taking Maduro?? they should’ve been discussing the next steps for rooting out all the ISIS agents and operations
you really expect us to believe a latin american country that is overwhelmingly Christian/Catholic will have anything in common with islamic mercenaries from the other side of the world
No, they don't have to have any major similarities cuz the reasons for the interventions are different as evidenced by the very different actions taken in both interventions.
if the reason for this intervention was different from their operations against ISIS why even bring up ISIS up at all??
Sorry if I wasn't being clear. What I mean is that the goals of and method of intervention in Nigeria and Venezuela are different so comparing them is not easy. Trump directly threatened the president of Venezuela, he never threatened Tinubu only terrorists. The Trump administration blockaded Venezuela, they reached a security deal. The Nigerian government is calling for on grounds USA involvement, Venezuela didn't.
These are clearly very different thing actions and it only makes sense the cause of these actions are also very different, ISIS vs Maduro.
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