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A elder Republican connected nan US House equipped services committee has said that nan country’s caller military strikes successful Nigeria and Syria are accordant pinch American overseas argumentation to combat Islamic extremism that person existed crossed Donald Trump’s 2 statesmanlike terms.
Mike Turner, an Ohio congressman, said connected Sunday that nan strikes are a “continuation of our conflict pinch [the Islamic State]”.
“It’s been, you know, astir nan world, Iraq, Syria. You’re seeing it now successful Nigeria,” Turner said.
Turner denied that nan strikes correspond a different second-term attack to subject force. With respect to nan Islamic State (IS), he told ABC’s This Week, US argumentation is “very consistent” successful defeating it whether successful Iraq, Syria aliases “here successful Nigeria”.
Turner said nan US is “seeing that [IS] astir nan world has not been defeated but will proceed to beryllium a target and thing that, pinch our allies, we’re going to person to proceed to respond to aliases they’re going to proceed to beryllium a threat”.
His comments came 3 days aft nan Pentagon launched a cruise rocket onslaught connected violent camps successful north-western Nigeria during what Trump later called a “Christmas present” for IS militants successful Nigeria.
The president later amplified his comments connected WABC power successful New York, calling IS “butchers” who “got a very bad Christmas present”. Trump, referring to nan persecution of Christians successful nan region, said he “told Nigeria, and I told nan group astir Nigeria, that if you do it, you’re going to get hit.”
US defense caput Pete Hegseth said connected X that Trump had made it clear that “the sidesplitting of guiltless Christians successful Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end”. He added that nan defense department, which nan Trump management has rebranded nan warfare department, “is ever ready, truthful [IS] recovered retired coming – connected Christmas. More to come.”
The consistency of nan US approach, Turner said, applied to nan its position connected Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine. Turner said nan Russian president Vladimir Putin’s Christmas Day strikes successful Ukraine and overnight connected Saturday were a reminder “that we can’t beryllium for this”.
“When we reside nan rumor of whose broadside we’re on, you can’t beryllium America first and beryllium pro-Russia,” Turner remarked. “Russia is simply a self-declared adversary of nan United States. They are mercilessly sidesplitting Ukrainians and trying to return Ukrainian land. So, nan president has rightly said we request to extremity this war.”
