Well, howdy there, Internet people it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about U.S. boots in Nigeria.

Okay, in a recent video when I was running down a list of recent events,

I mentioned that U.S. forces are now present in Nigeria.

That led to some surprise and messages like this.

Um, Bell, you can't just drop, hey, wear boots on the ground in Nigeria, in a list of

other Trump failures.

Can we get some more information on that?

That seems important. Fair enough. The day after Christmas,

I released a video going over what we knew about Trump's Christmas Day strikes in Nigeria.

That was when Trump launched a number of strikes of questionable effectiveness. In fact, given the activity

in the area since the strikes, they seem to have been a complete failure if the goal was deterring

attacks. In that video, I said, quote, air strikes alone do not work in these campaigns.

Neither does measuring the land occupied by non-state opposition forces.

If Trump continues to push the U.S. towards war,

he will either have to coordinate closely with host nations or put troops on the ground

and commit the U.S. to what would likely be a

year's long campaign. The American public is unlikely to support. So what's happening? That.

He's doing both. Putting boots on the ground to coordinate closely with the host nation.

General Anderson described it as quote, that has led to increase collaboration between our nations, to include a small U.S. team

that brings some unique capabilities from the United States in order to augment what Nigeria has been doing for several

years. To be or not to be. Right now we're offering a range of incentives across Audi models.

...