Nicholas Ktristof writes in the New York Times:
"Trump has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack. Trump’s concern for Nigerians is welcome, but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are."
"So if Trump wants to save the lives of Nigerian Christians, the good news is that he doesn’t need to spend billions of dollars on charging (as he put it) “into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing.’” Rather, all Trump has to do is restore the American aid that was estimated to be saving the lives of more than a quarter-million Nigerians each year."
Trump's own administration appears to be killing tens of thousands of Nigerian Christians.
The Center for Global Development in Washington calculated earlier this year that before Trump took office, American humanitarian aid was saving about 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria.
It’s too soon for hard predictions of just how many Nigerian Christian children will die because Trump cut off their access to vaccines, AIDS medications, food assistance and other essentials. "But the number killed by jihadists is very likely to pale beside the number dying from Trump aid cuts. So if Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live."
Nowhere is the innate Republican inhumanity to man more evident than in Trump’s abrupt termination of U.S. aid programs providing basic health care to millions of foreigners, including programs helping to control AIDS. Hundreds of thousands of human beings, at a minimum, are suffering serious illness or are dying because of those inhuman decisions by Trump. This article reflects those facts.