Is this real or just wishful thinking

 

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— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) December 25, 2025

this is how Grok explains what is going on:

Katie Pavlich shares an image of a purported Truth Social post by President Trump announcing a U.S. airstrike on ISIS targets in northwest Nigeria, tying it to Christmas by vowing protection for persecuted Christians amid their slaughter by terrorists. The message echoes real concerns over Boko Haram and ISWAP attacks in Nigeria, which have killed over 50,000 Christians since 2009 according to reports from groups like Open Doors, and references Trump's earlier threats of U.S. invasion if violence persists. No official confirmation of the strike exists as of December 25, 2025, contrasting with verified U.S. operations like Operation Hawkeye Strike against ISIS in Syria earlier this month, suggesting the post may be satirical or unverified. :\:||

Redstate article here

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President Donald Trump announced, in a post spreading Christmas Day greetings on Thursday, that the United States military has made good on his prior threats to wipe out the terrorists in the northwestern part of Nigeria who were eradicating Christians in the African nation....

 

On Nov. 1, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!

developing.....

organ harvesting in Nigeria?

 LINK

Police in the southeastern Nigerian state of Imo are investigating a possible organ-harvesting ring after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel. The Imo horror is an especially grim example of Nigeria’s kidnapping epidemic, in which every sort of malevolent group — from Islamic State jihadis to huge bandit gangs and small groups of petty criminals — kidnaps vulnerable people. Sometimes the kidnappers hold their victims for ransom and murder them if the ransom is not paid. In other cases, the abductors are looking for child brides. In Imo, it appears a kidnapping ring was carving up its victims to harvest their organs. State police said on Monday that during their “ongoing war against kidnapping,” they tracked an unnamed suspect to an illegal mortuary and nearby hotel that he owned. “At the mortuary, decomposed and mutilated dead bodies were discovered in unhygienic conditions, raising suspicions of illegal organ-harvesting activities,” said a police spokesman. According to the UK Daily Mail, over a hundred bodies were found at the “organ-harvesting slaughterhouse.” Both the hotel and mortuary were sealed by police while forensic teams examined the scene.

ebola

sudan genocide The world remains silent

Sudan faces a “massive” humanitarian aid crisis, with millions of starving people being denied access to vital food supplies as fighting rages in the war-torn country, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned https://t.co/Xh9pE8kLU9 pic.twitter.com/egb4SaZKym

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 7, 2025

give oeace a chance

from the BBC:  Leaders put pen to paper

published at 03:03

03:03

Trump, Kagame, and Tshisekedi have each just physically signed the deals for peace and mineral sharing that were discussed today.

The formality follows representatives of both nations agreeing to the peace terms in June.

Sudan tragedy

from AlJezeerah:

Sudan has vast oil, gold and agricultural resources. Who controls them? Sudan’s conflict continues to reshape the nation of 50 million amid widespread displacement and a fight for resources.

Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has pitted the army against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a devastating struggle for power. The conflict has unleashed the world’s largest displacement crisis, with more than 9.5 million people forced from their homes across Sudan’s 18 states and millions facing starvation.

follow the money. It is about gold (one reason the Wagner group mercenaries from Russia were there) and petroleum. 

Oil exports are Sudan’s primary source of revenue. Production expanded between 2001 and 2010, from 200,000 barrels per day to nearly 500,000bpd. In 2011, it collapsed when South Sudan seceded, taking 75 percent of Sudan’s oil reserves with it.

Sudan is one of Africa’s leading gold producers, with deposits across the northeast, centre and the south. Most of the deposits in eastern Sudan are controlled by the Sudanese army, while the central and southwestern goldfields are largely under RSF control.

StrateyPage has an essay from March about the war there, giving background on the war, but it is a bit out of date since the atrocities have gotten worse.

Military history of South African influence

 I just found this site, which discusses battles and military history.

And today it is about Angola and South African wars.

I haven't watched it yet, but post it here for information on the background/history of that area.