South African Communists condemn US military intervention in Nigeria

Cruise missile launched at targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day -- screenshot shot image via video released by the US Department of War

SACP condemns US military intervention in Nigeria

Saturday, 27 December 2025: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the military intervention by the US military in northern Nigeria. The attacks have ignited widespread concern among countries in the African continent. This military intervention comes as no surprise given the recent series of public statements and rhetoric by the US government intimating their intentions to deploy troops in Nigeria under the guise of protecting Christians against ISIS affiliated groups.

The US government has, for a long time, made several unsolicited and unwanted imperialistic military interventions in many countries under the guise of one supposed “noble” cause or the other, leading to social instability, economic and political devastation for the countries involved while yielding remarkable profits for US companies. In all these interventions, there has only ever been one beneficiary: the US government and the corporations that back it.

The presence of the US military in the Middle East has over time caused historical setbacks for the totality of the region and facilitated the most constant conflicts including an active genocide in Palestine. If this intervention continues unabated, it is likely that this would be the fate of West Africa and therefore the African continent.

The activities of the US government and its armed forces in the South China Sea have led to the most potent military tensions in Asia, containing within it conditions for military confrontation. The historic and continued role of the US in Ukraine national politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall has facilitated, directly and indirectly, the conditions of war in Ukraine. The actions of the US government are a social engineering of conditions that benefit their corporations and their national interests while causing untold suffering and destruction for the people in countries subjected to their violent interference.

The US actions in Nigeria are thus not actions of a benevolent actor seeking to defend Christians but are a facade to establish a long-term US military presence in Nigeria for its own selfish economic interests and geo strategic advantage while destabilising West Africa in the US’s imperialistic quest to arrest, and indeed reverse, the revolutionary advances in the Sahel region while harming Africa’s sovereign efforts to build independent economic potential. These US actions in Nigeria reflect how imperialism has become desperate for new avenues of economic expansion and has begun to seek more direct and even blatant primitive means of economic accumulation. The capture of two oil vessels in Venezuela, the planned invasion of Venezuela and now the attack of Nigeria are a representation of belligerent tactics by imperialist forces returning to violent methods to achieve strategic political outcomes.

The challenge of ISIS inspired groups in Nigeria and the longstanding religious tensions leading to violence is a national security concern that Nigerians have been working to resolve for a long time and its solution lies in national and African continental political interventions and not imperialists’ impositions from the West.

The SACP once again condemns this mindless imperialist act of the US regime and pledges solidarity with the people of Nigeria. The SACP calls for immediate diplomatic action by the structures of the African Union to prevent any further damage of Nigeria and undermining of its sovereignty.