Bad News For Nigerian Terrorist Sympathizers: Trump Can Deploy The US Military On Foreign Soil Without Congressional Approval For Up To 90 Days! -By Joe Dauda

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to an earlier article which validated the fact stated in the title above about the powers of a United States President to engage in military operations outside the US even without congressional approval. The bad news for apparent terrorist sympathizers in Nigeria who do not realize how silly they sound in their opposition to Trump is that he can engage in this type of operation for up to 90 days, even with a hostile Congress. And last time I checked, the current Congress is controlled by the Republicans and Trump is a Republican. If you did not read the article in which I explained how things work in the United States with regard to the power of an incumbent president to utilize the US military, you can read it through the link below, noting that it was published weeks before the Sokoto airstrike and it was published partly to warn Nigerians that Trump did not need the support of the Congress to do his guns-a-blazing operation. The article is titled: On the 7th of February 2018 Vladimir Putin Tested Donald Trump and Ended Up With A Bloody Nose. Here is the link:

I was motivated to publish the above article on the 20th of November when I heard someone as highly placed as a member of the National Assembly asserting that there was nothing to worry about as per Trump’s threat because he would not be able to do anything without the approval of the US Congress. I said to myself this man does not know what he is talking about. And that was how the article was conceived.

The Nigerian government has come out to categorically state that it provided the United States the intelligence that led to the airstrike on Sokoto in the wee hours of Boxing Day, or late on Christmas Day, depending on which part of the globe you were in. In summary, the Nigerian government clarified that the airstrike was a joint operation between the Nigerian military and the United States military. That’s correct because joint operations cannot be more joint than one military providing the intelligence for the target and the other providing the fire power. Everybody knows about the yummy relationship between Israel and the United States and specifically between Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. During Trump’s first term, it was Israel that provided the intelligence that was used to eliminate the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quassam Suleimani. This type of coordination is as effective as coordinations go and the Nigerian government has publicly stated that this was what happened during the Sokoto strikes.

In spite of this, some Nigerians still have the temerity (or sheer ignorance or perhaps sentiments) to criticize Trump. Except you are calling the Minister of Foreign Affairs a liar, how many times do you need to be told that the Sokoto airstrike was essentially a Nigerian airstrike, but with American firepower? If you did not watch Tugger explaining what happened to Nigerians and the international community after the airstrike, just look for the video of his interview on YouTube and listen.

Some people criticizing Trump are just carrying over their dislike for the man into the current situation. It is ok to criticize Trump, to dislike him, and even to abuse your freedom of expression by publicly insulting him. But criticizing Trump for the Sokoto airstrike is tantamount to criticizing the Nigerian military which provided the intelligence and also criticizing the Nigerian government, which took responsibility for the strike and called it a joint operation.

Do you know how much a tomahawk missile costs? Maybe this is why you are talking the way you are talking—due to ignorance.

Do we have these missiles?

Even if someone gave us these missiles for free, do we have the platforms for launching tomahawks?

Do you know that tomahawk missiles are long-range, precision-strike weapons requiring advanced combat systems,

Vertical Launch Systems, or their own dedicated cruise missile launchers, and that they need to be integrated with

fire-control and targeting systems Nigeria does not have?

Are you aware that only large, high-end surface combatants like destroyers, cruisers, modern frigates, and some submarines have these capabilities?

Is it our NNS Aradu navy ship that will be able to shoot tomahawk cruise missiles?

I’m not talking down on the Nigerian Navy but none of our ships have the capacity to fire tomahawk missiles.

Do you know how much the cheapest tomahawk costs?

Do you know how many of these Donald Trump unleashed against terrorists who already have Nigerian blood on their hands?

What is the matter with you?

Perhaps you are a secret supporter of terrorism and feel so passionate about them you don’t even realize that this military strike has exposed you.

The Sokoto government has come out to say no civilian was killed.

So what is your problem?

Can you hate a man so much you will refuse his free insecticide even while your people are dying of diseases from mosquitoes?

The cheapest tomahawk missile is more than a million dollars. In fact it is not possible to get a tomahawk missile for $1 million. Some are over $2 million apiece. But let’s just say each tomahawk cruise missile costs $1 million. We heard that at least 16 were shot. That is $16 million, apart from the logistics cost, the cost of intelligence gathering, and the cost of operating the platform used in the missile strike, plus the technical manpower to fire, which can add up to 100% to the cost of firing a single missile. But let’s ignore all these other costs and consider the cost of the 16 missiles alone. That’s over N20 billion.

Donald Trump shot missiles worth well over N20 billion to kill terrorists who have already killed both Nigerian soldiers and Nigerian civilians (or destroy their camps) and some people are sad and frustrated and wishing Trump a stomach ache that will kill him.

Better start confessing if you are one of these terrorists.

And please take advantage of this article to cure your ignorance. You can wish Trump all the evil you want but please get educated about the powers of an incumbent US President so you won’t have hypertension next time an airstrike happens, based on coordination with the Nigerian military.

Some are talking of invasion. Again I ask, in view of the fact that the Nigerian government is part of this operation, are you accusing the Nigerian government of being complicit in the invasion of Nigeria?

When Trump initially made his threat, some of these critics said it was an empty threat; then when he struck, they either encouraged themselves by claiming missed targets or shouting congressional approval. This article and the referenced article is to end this talk about congressional approval even though I realize some people will not care about this fact and will continue to shout about congressional approval. As we say in Nigeria, na you get your mouth, meaning you can continue to spew out whatever you choose but the fact remains the fact.

For your information, when Barack Obama launched airstrikes against Libya, he did not get any Congressional approval and those strikes lasted for months.

Did you know that?

Do you know Obama bombed Libya for seven months before Gadaffi was toppled? Seven months contain at least 200 days!

Do you know that Bill Clinton also did not get Congressional approval for the strikes against Yugoslavia in 1999? And how long did the Clinton airstrikes last? A whopping 78 days!

I like giving people information they don’t seem to have so I will add a bonus. And this is for those talking about oil.

Do you know which country is the largest producer of crude oil in the world today?

I know it used to be Saudi Arabia. But do you know the country that now produces more crude everyday than Saudi Arabia?

Well well well. That country is the United States of America. The US produces an unbelievable 21 .9 million barrels of crude oil every day. And guess what the Saudis produce? 11 million barrels. So the US produces at least 10 million barrels of crude oil every day more than the Saudis and the Saudis are the second largest producers. The gap is gaping. The Saudis lost their position as largest producers in the world in 2018 during Trump’s first term. And Nigeria has never produced more than 2.7 million barrels of crude per day. I had to include this information because confident ignorance is all over the media these days and it is sometimes irritating to read what some people are putting out.

As for those trying to compare the Nigerian situation with Venezuela, please get informed. In March 2020, the first Trump administration indicted Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. federal court on drug-trafficking and narco-terrorism charges and offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Then that bounty was later increased to $25 million during the Biden administration after Maduro began a contested third term. It was later doubled by Trump in August this year.

Did you know that?

What is going on in Venezuela is US foreign policy based on what both Democrat and Republican Presidents assessed to be in the national security interests of the United States. It is not about Trump. If it was, you can bet a thousand dollars that Joe Biden would not have increased the bounty on Maduro just so as to expedite his arrest and trial in the United States. Let me teach you a US foreign affairs lesson for free: whenever you see both Democrats and Republicans doing basically the same thing, chances are high that it is an American thing and not about a particular president. And that is the case with Maduro. The thing has to do with checkmating both Russia and China but there is no space in this article to get into that.

But let’s consider what ordinary Venezuelans think. Did you read what the Venezuelan Nobel Peace prize winner said about Trump? You will be disheartened to hear what she said about Trump if you thought Trump’s action was unpopular within Venezuela.

So please be smarter next time. Even if you are a secret supporter, pretend that you do not like the terrorists troubling Nigeria and stop criticizing Trump. This is friendly advice so that one Nigerian security agency will not pick an interest in your rabid criticism of a government-backed attack against enemies of the State and decide to ask you some questions just to understand why the targeting of terrorists at minimal cost to the Nigerian government is causing you so much anguish and grief.

Goodluck to the Nigerian Armed Forces in their coordination with the strongest and most lethal military machine on earth.

Although it’s taking place next Thursday, happy 65th Armed Forces Remembrance Day in advance to our troops, including the new CDS and the new Minister of Defence, who was CDS until the 24th of October, 2025.