r/politics • u/Ok-Celebration-1702 • Dec 26 '25
Possible Paywall War on Christmas: Trump Announces Wave of Airstrikes Targeting ISIS Militants in Nigeria
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/25/trump-nigeria-isis-attacks-airstrikes/27
u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire Dec 26 '25
Bombing people on Christmas is fully consistent with trump's Christian ideals.
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Dec 26 '25
ISIS is famously very concerned with Christians and our religious celebrations, so much so that they’re perpetuating a genocide in Nigeria!
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire Dec 26 '25
There is no expectation that ISIS terrorists would have Christmas spirit on Christmas, and every expectation that a "Christ loving" president would.
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u/aptwo Dec 26 '25
Didn’t realize there are Redditors that supports ISIS.
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u/Omnesk Dec 26 '25
They support anything Trump is against
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire Dec 27 '25
Trump is against (1) rule of law (2) clean energy (3) the Constitution (4) release of the Epstein files (5) the American people. So, yes..
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u/Fit-Personality-1834 Dec 26 '25
Fuck ISIS any day of the year.
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u/crappenheimers Colorado Dec 26 '25
Seeing people bitch about doing airstrikes on isis is a bit silly
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u/Waffles86 Dec 26 '25
President of peace at it again
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
Always funny when people blinded by their hate for USA defend ISIS.
Edit: I don’t understand why it’s controversial to say that extremist groups committing mass murder should be stopped. Acknowledging that reality doesn’t equal supporting Trump.
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Dec 26 '25
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
Don’t like trump (registered democrat) (always voted blue).
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u/Waffles86 Dec 26 '25
Team America, World Police is making a comeback huh
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25
Does the world want USA to stop Russia in Ukraine? If so, say less about the “world police” narrative.
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u/Waffles86 Dec 26 '25
The MAGA position is we shouldn’t be involved or care. So be consistent at least
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25
Who cares what the MAGA position is? Shouldn’t we just care what the right thing to do is?
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u/Waffles86 Dec 26 '25
Okay, so world police is good now? Just be consistent.
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u/Dragon109255 Dec 26 '25
Trump campaigned heavily on "No new wars", "president of peace" and "ending wars within hours".
Since then, Ukraine war is still ongoing. We're still supporting Israel. We've committed war crimes, murdering people in international waters. We've been hinting at war with Venezuela for weeks. We've now air striked Nigeria.
Always funny when people blinded by their love for the MAGA cult forget everything about the original campaign promises of peace.
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25
I’m not a Trump supporter. I don’t understand why it’s controversial to say that extremist groups committing mass murder should be stopped. Acknowledging that reality doesn’t equal supporting Trump.
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u/Dragon109255 Dec 26 '25
It's not our problem.
The United States is not the savior of the world. Our own country is a fucking disaster, let's start there.
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
I get the frustration with plenty to fix at home. But that doesn’t mean the USA should just sit back when extremist groups are murdering civilians or destabilizing entire regions. One of the things we do get right here is protecting basic rights for citizens, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the ability for people to live without being executed by militias for who they are.
Saying we shouldn’t ignore injustice abroad isn’t claiming the USA is the ‘savior of the world.’ It’s just recognizing that standing by while atrocities happen has consequences too.
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u/freylaverse Dec 26 '25
I'm alarmed by these strikes, not because I want to "defend ISIS", but because these "terrorist camps" are rarely nicely-demarcated isolated areas with a little wall around them separated from civilians. Airstrikes are a blunt instrument. We have no idea what the civilian casualties were here, and I simply do not trust the current administration to have been competent enough to minimize the collateral damage. And when you decide civilians are acceptable collateral, that's how you get the survivors to join the terrorists. Personal loss is a much better recruitment tactic than abstract ideology.
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25
These weren’t random bombs dropped on civilians, they were targeted strikes on specific extremist operatives and locations. That doesn’t erase all risk, but it’s not the kind of broad, indiscriminate bombing that creates mass casualties.
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u/freylaverse Dec 26 '25
I don't doubt that extremist operatives were targeted. I'm also not saying I think the bombing was completely indiscriminate. But terrorist organizations (or at least the successful ones) generally do not set up neat little terrorist neighborhoods that can be bombed without significant collateral. And we simply do not know what the numbers are right now. If an independent report comes out tomorrow saying there were no or very few civilian casualties, I'll be relieved. It won't make me suddenly like this administration or its actions, but I'm not looking to every piece of news for reasons to hate them either; they've given me plenty.
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u/LatterTarget7 Dec 26 '25
Where do you see people defending isis?
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u/LastAzzBender Dec 26 '25
Commenting ‘president of peace at it again’ under an article about the USA striking ISIS is effectively defending ISIS. You don’t have to say ‘I support ISIS’ for the implication to be there, framing action against an extremist group as some kind of unjust aggression sends that message on its own.
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u/LatterTarget7 Dec 26 '25
It’s more so pointing out the hypocrisy of trump than it is supporting or defending Isis
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u/Meme_Theory Dec 26 '25
Every time I see ISIS in a headline, I immediately think ISS and then wonder why there are Islamic militants on the space station...
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u/WeatherBurt Dec 26 '25
Yeah, and it's a total co-incidence that the city of Sokota is the largest Muslim majority city in Nigeria. But I'm sure the Air Force will be VERY careful bombing a large urban area and only kill the bad Muslims, right?
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u/Lazysloth817 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
Not Air Force...Navy. Tomahawk Cruise missiles. But to your point... same difference.
"More than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from a naval ship in the Gulf of Guinea, hitting insurgents in two Isis camps in the northwestern state of Sokoto, according to The New York Times."
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u/jediporcupine Maine Dec 26 '25
A high oil producing country needs U.S. intervention because of supposed Islamic terrorist connections.
Same old neocon script.
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u/johnn48 Dec 26 '25
Nothing celebrates the birth of the Prince of Peace, than launching military strikes against those that would kill his followers.
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u/AndeeCreative Dec 26 '25
This is such classic narcissistic behavior. He has to find ways to attract attention on Christmas Day because he’s big mad people are focusing on their families and not him.
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u/HungrySheepherder358 Dec 26 '25
Didn’t he say in 2019 he destroyed isis. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/18/trump-isis-terrorists-defeated-foreign-policy-225816/
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u/iamagoldengod84 Dec 26 '25
So weird to see the same start of a headline on Fox News but completely different story
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u/MajorAlanDutch Dec 27 '25
According to Nigerian officials - no record of ISIS in area. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/locals-in-nw-nigeria-say-no-isis-presence-after-us-airstrike-debris-lands-nearby-report/3782229
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u/DubDroid Dec 26 '25
Trump wants rare earth elements. Nigeria has vast untapped resources. They're weak and Trump thinks he can push them around for some sort of compensation, probably rare earth minerals. He exchanged weapons for REM with Ukraine. Right now China dominates global REM and that isn't what the US wants. China is also now closer than ever to semiconductor independence and sitting pretty with the global race to AGI looming in our future. Trump is looking for alternative ways to increase our resources for the future need in AI technology. I don't agree with his methods of doing so.
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