Overview
- Ted Snider, writing in The American Conservative, says the president is risking three new wars on false premises that would damage U.S. standing.
- On November 1, Trump said he instructed the Pentagon to prepare possible military measures in Nigeria to protect Christians.
- Snider cites U.S. intelligence assessments asserting Iran is not building a nuclear bomb and argues the issue can be handled through diplomacy.
- He references a United Nations drug report assessing that Venezuela is not trafficking narcotics to the United States, disputing claims that Nicolás Maduro is a drug kingpin.
- The columnist argues violence in Nigeria often stems from land disputes rather than religion, challenging the rationale for a U.S. intervention framed as protecting Christians.