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On the night of December 25, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered U.S. forces to carry out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, saying the strikes were “powerful and deadly” and aimed at those responsible for barbaric attacks on Christians. Americans who have watched churches and communities suffer at the hands of Islamist violence welcomed a commander-in-chief who actually follows through rather than just issuing hollow condemnations.
The president made clear that these strikes were in direct response to what he described as escalating, targeted killings of Christians in the region — a moral outrage that demanded action rather than empty words. For too long, persecuted believers abroad have been an afterthought for administrations more interested in political theater than protection of the innocent.
U.S. Africa Command and the Pentagon confirmed that the operation was carried out with intelligence coordination and at the request of Nigerian authorities, and that multiple ISIS fighters were killed. This was not a reckless show of force; it was a surgical, cooperative effort to dismantle terrorist nodes that prey on civilians, and it shows the kind of decisive partnership Washington should cultivate with sovereign nations under siege.
This action follows weeks in which the White House had publicly pressured Nigeria — imposing visa restrictions and labeling the country a “country of particular concern” over religious violence — while warning that the U.S. would not stand idly by as Christians were slaughtered. That pressure mattered, and it’s a stark rebuke to the naysayers who insisted America should retreat from confronting radical jihad wherever it threatens innocent lives.
Conservative Americans should be unapologetic in their praise: protecting the persecuted, projecting strength, and using American military precision to punish terrorists is a timeless obligation of a strong republic. If anything, this strike proves that when patriots in power prioritize American values and allies, the world is safer and our moral standing is restored.
To the critics on the left and the isolationist skeptics, know this — weakness invites slaughter. The alternative to targeted, intelligence-driven action is chaos and the continued slaughter of Christians, families, and local communities; leadership requires hard choices, and the president made one in defense of the innocent.
Now Congress, our intelligence community, and the American people must demand accountability from the Nigerian government and continued cooperation to finish the job. Let this be a warning to terrorists everywhere: the United States will defend the persecuted and will not allow radical Islamist murderers to operate with impunity on any continent.
