{"id":317155,"date":"2021-09-18T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=192343"},"modified":"2021-09-18T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:21:46","slug":"the-us-is-turning-oil-rich-nigeria-into-a-proxy-for-its-africa-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/18\/the-us-is-turning-oil-rich-nigeria-into-a-proxy-for-its-africa-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Is Turning Oil-Rich Nigeria Into A Proxy For Its Africa Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0wrote an op-ed\u00a0in the\u00a0Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country\u2019s military services to Western powers, telling readers that Nigeria would lead Africa\u2019s \u201cwar on terror\u201d in exchange for foreign infrastructure investment. \u201cThough some believe the war on terror [WOT] winds down with the US departure from Afghanistan,\u201d he says, \u201cthe threat it was supposed to address burns fiercely on my continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/the-us-is-turning-oil-rich-nigeria-into-a-proxy-for-its-africa-wars\/\">The US Is Turning Oil-Rich Nigeria Into A Proxy For Its Africa Wars<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/the-us-is-turning-oil-rich-nigeria-into-a-proxy-for-its-africa-wars\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0wrote an op-ed\u00a0in the\u00a0Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country\u2019s military services to Western powers, telling readers tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13014,5722,1277,7988,5724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317226,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317155\/revisions\/317226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}