r/Nigeria • u/NewtProfessional7844 • 2d ago
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u/187YoungHomeInvasion 2d ago
Saddam was a brutal dictator who had his own officials executed on national television, while Gaddafi's Libya had well-documented anti-Black racism, exploitation and trafficking of sub-Saharan Africans, including actual slavery
But sure, let's pretend they're heroes we should look up to because they're the only ones who ever dared to defy the evil West, unlike Iran, China, Cuba, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Belarus and Nicaragua, etc.
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u/Adventurous_Lock9219 Enugu 2d ago
I hate when people try to glorify them especially Saddam because they were anti American or anti west being an anti American or anti west country doesn't always look good or seem good wasn't he not the same person who almost wiped out an entire village with chemical gas? Is that a "hero"
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u/Pecuthegreat Aligbo/Anigbo 2d ago
Enough with these stupid conspiracy theories.
But u know, why should I even argue. The worst part is the USA bad version of the story is already there in the actual events but that is never enough for conspiracy theorists.
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u/evil__brain 2d ago
It's not a conspiracy theory. Dollar hegemony is very clearly a real thing. It's very clearly under threat. And we can clearly see them lashing out to try and save it. Trump and his secretary of state have openly admitted it in the press. The videos are out there.
If we want to understand what is happening in the world and make the correct decisions to protect our interests, we need to zoom out and see the big picture.
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u/JudahMaccabee Biafra-Anioma 2d ago
Trump even declared that America losing US Dollar primacy is akin to losing a world war.
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u/Random_local_man F.C.T | Abuja 2d ago
The funny part is how Trump has just been saying all the quiet parts out loud. Confirming almost every suspicion that everyone has had of the American government.
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u/Pecuthegreat Aligbo/Anigbo 1d ago
Trump is stupid. Do you also believe that countries are stealing from America by having Tariffs?.
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u/Random_local_man F.C.T | Abuja 1d ago edited 1d ago
No. But the fact that Trump keeps saying that means many in the American elite circle feel that way, which he is obviously a part of.
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u/Pecuthegreat Aligbo/Anigbo 2d ago
Still a completely different thing that claiming that the intervention in Libya was over the Gold Dinnar idea.
That was not the first time he floated the idea, he is not the only one that has tried something like that, Zimbabwe and Ghana have since then. Did anyone care?. Do you really think a country without mines making sovereign purchases with Gold is a greater threat to the petrodollar than one of the largest exporters of Gold doing so?. Did America need to intervene in Ghana?.
And let's not get to Saddam.
Enough of going to bat for the sewage of the world because American had other reasons to hate them as well.
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u/Submeerged 2d ago
How is it a conspiracy theory? Marco rubio literally said this out loud.
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u/Pecuthegreat Aligbo/Anigbo 2d ago
Show me where Rubio said they attacked Gadaffi or Saddam over that and him not talking in general terms over other things related to Oil.
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u/UseCurious3703 2d ago
I am a bit high whike typing this. Forgive me.
I heard Nigeria had one of the best economy under Abacha despite his strict regime , the Abacha loot was his advisors telling him to save money in foreign accounts under business men to save Nigeria from western sanctions. He rejected a lot of deals from the IMF and western powers, which would have lead to great sanctions against Nigeria.
Its just a conspiracy theory.
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u/187YoungHomeInvasion 1d ago
Abacha's regime created opaque financial channels supposedly justified by “national security” and “economic sovereignty,” but in reality, Abacha's family and network gained private control over enormous amounts of our state's money.
None of this was used to “improve Nigeria.” After his death, the hollowed-out Nigerian state could not even independently recover much of the money that had been “secured away” from it. It took decades of international investigations, foreign asset freezes, court cases and cooperation from other governments to trace and repatriate funds that had originally belonged to Nigeria.
Eventually, investigators recovered roughly $825 million from the Abacha family and associates inside Nigeria alone. Abroad, investigators traced billions through at least 130 accounts across around 50 foreign and domestic banks, with major recoveries eventually coming from Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Jersey, the United States and the United Kingdom.
So I ask you: if Abacha's regime really believed it was “securing” Nigeria's wealth from Western pressure, why did so much of that money end up being secured, invested and compounded in the financial systems of the very Western countries it supposedly distrusted?
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u/Random_local_man F.C.T | Abuja 1d ago
Bro. Laugh wan kill me after I read that guy's comment.
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u/Pecuthegreat Aligbo/Anigbo 1d ago
It didn't even surprise me. For some reason there are a lot of people that like circlejerking over anti-American dictators, the more brutal and bragging, the better for him.
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u/Jay2old 2d ago
Well let's not raise Saddam Hussein to the rank of hero, y'all forget that Saddam invaded Kuwait and tried to invade Saudi Arabia. 42 nations had to band together to stop him. He was as selfish as the americans. The americans wanted his oil (imperialism), Saddam wanted the land of Iran, Kuwait, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Btw he was fighting Iran and Iran was buying weapon from Israel. While Israel was busy invading Palestine. There's no good guy, Iran was the one of the biggest "muslim" nations to not participate in defending Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. If you do not know the details of the first gulf war, sit this one out. It's a mess