Thread by @cchukudebelu

The thing about American Evangelicals is that there are focused on a single foreign policy issue - Israel.

Once a US president gives them what they want on Israel, they aren't going to be that bothered about other issues like persecution of Christians etc.

It is nonsensical to imply that a president like Trump, who cut down refugee admission numbers 86% from 2016 to 2020 had any real interest in "promoting religious freedom".

It was all talk, with no substance to back it.

Naïve Nigerian Christians were elated when Trump commented on the plight of Nigerian Christians to Buhari.

But what was Buhari in Washington to do? Sign a $500 m arms contract - in contravention of Leahy laws. So the Trump Administration had no real interest in their plight.

We also need to review US foreign policy, so we don't waste time raising our hopes. When US invaded Iraq, they had zero interest in the safety of Iraqi Christians. Instead, they were focused on securing the records of the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

To cut a long story short; prior to the US invasion of Iraq, there were about 1,500,000 Christians in Iraq. Today, there are about 500,000 left.

If you think "Christians" have ever been a US foreign policy priority, you are criminally naïve. And that naiveté has to stop.

I won't bore you with Coptic Christians in Egypt - and how US policy almost completely ignores them, but you get the drift.

Please, wake up, smell the coffee, and understand this is an unsentimental and uncaring world.