Spoiler alert: Is President Trump’s threat to use the U.S. military to protect Christians in Nigeria a realistic option?

Absolutely not!

But is there a major problem with Nigeria’s Christians feeling threatened in many parts of Nigeria?

Absolutely!

And those dismissing the threat as exaggerated are falling prey to either “both sideism” or treating this as yet one more ingredient in Nigeria’s soup of critical problems.

First, a quick overview of the nation and its crises. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation with around 230 million people, 300 ethnic groups; it is about one-and-one -half times the size of Texas.

It’s a vestige of British colonialism, and like most African countries, it’s an artificial creation whose borders were set to meet the interests of the colonizers, not the

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