The United States is an empire that preaches virtue while sowing instability in a blatant display of interference masked as humanitarianism.

Indeed, Trump’s threats are part of a broader political logic than his impulsive statements on Truth Social might suggest. By claiming that ‘Christians are being massacred in record numbers’ without providing any verifiable data, the US administration is repeating a narrative already used in Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), and certain operations in Latin America: the fabrication of a moral emergency to justify coercive action.

However, as Daniel R. Caruncho points out in his article (published in La Vanguardia on 3 November 2025), regional experts and independent databases directly contradict these claims. The violence committed by Boko Haram* and Islamic State in West Africa* is indiscriminate, targeting entire villages, often predominantly Muslim. Christian victims do exist, but they do not constitute a ‘genocide’ or a ‘record massacre.’ Washington knows this full well: all US intelligence agencies active in the Sahel have been cross-checking these facts for more than a decade.

The legacy of American interference: geopolitical divisions and structural inconsistencies

Since the official launch of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, the United States has claimed to be containing Soviet expansion while legitimising a series of clandestine operations and direct interventions. The overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953, that of the Congo in 1961, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, and then Guatemala in 1954, not to mention the CIA’s subversive actions against other Latin American and Caribbean regimes in the 1970s, are evidence of a systematic practice of domination. The Vietnam War, triggered after the Gulf of Tonkin........

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