Look at your holy book. Observe the caliber of men who married only one wife, and then look at the caliber of those who didn’t. After that, tell me with a clear conscience if you still believe that having only one partner is truly God’s plan for me.

@Emarged Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king. Any religion who must say, "I am a religion of peace", is no true religion of peace.

Look at your holy book. Observe the caliber of men who married only one wife, and then look at the caliber of those who didn’t. After that, tell me with a clear conscience if you still believe that having only one partner is truly God’s plan for me.

Even from here I can feel the air in Abuja thick, not just with humidity, but with a sudden, suffocating panic. The headline that has blast from across the ocean, a threat of a foreign power's boots on Nigerian soil had ripped through the capital like a gunshot. 🧵

@d4thHand Wow this is a well detailed explanation, you earned a follower

@d4thHand @NightFo45445588 They’ve been doing that… unfortunately the media is now decentralized. You might not get to people fast and in quantum, but it will surely reach the right people at the right time.

@OurFavOnlineDoc The same JD Vance that told the Ukrainian President to his face, in the presence of DJ and all the press, that he is ungrateful, played a massive role in chasing him back home and gave Donald a solid ground to withdraw complete support, is the person they want to play with. lol

Look for a massive effort to do everything except the right thing: Manufacturing "Victories": Expect an increase in fake or heavily exaggerated claims about attacks being "thwarted" and terrorists being "neutralized" to flood state media and social media.

clock it

You come to the table as the accused, desperate to prove your innocence to a judge who has already threatened the ultimate sanction.

But NO Instead, they ran into the room, heart pounding, validating the "crisis" and allowing the aggressor to set the agenda and the terms of engagement. That is the definition of a disadvantaged position.

It should have been: "The complex security challenges in our nation are a sovereign matter. We welcome constructive partnership that respects our territorial integrity, but inflammatory rhetoric intended for domestic political consumption is an unproductive distraction."

The Accused (Reaction): "Wait! We need to talk! We are friends! We can resolve these differences!" The Response should have been a carefully crafted, measured statement that de-escalated the emergency and asserted sovereignty.

The moment the Nigerian government, through its panic-driven request, confirmed the urgency of the US figure's claims, they surrendered leverage The narrative was: The Accuser: "You are failed your citizens. You are a 'disgraced country.' We will stop aid and possibly invade."

This is the brutal truth of the negotiating table: Going into a parlay at a disadvantage has, and will never, end in your benefit. It's a fundamental law of power dynamics.

The government's immediate rush to the negotiating table showed their hand: They were rattled. They let the sheer vividness and brutality of the rhetoric dictate their strategy.

It requires stillness, analysis, and a clear-eyed assessment of the true power dynamics and long-term implications. It takes the emotional heat out of the equation.

A meeting to be had in the aggressor's camp with not the boss aggressor but the second in command whose role is solely a poster boy who relays information. Now that is what I call a textbook reaction, not a response. A Response is a deliberate, strategic counter-move.

The government, rattled by the audacity of the threat and the potential loss of aid/sovereignty, recoiled. They immediately sought a meeting with the aggressor's camp.

It is simple: This meeting wasn't a Response; it was a Reaction. A Reaction is the body's involuntary spasm to a sudden stimulus. It's adrenaline, not analysis. It's the immediate, unthinking move born of shock, fear, or outrage.

A parlay, called in a flurry of fear, a scramble to manage a crisis engineered by a single, inflammatory social media post and a series of hyperbolic warnings. And most people have not yet seen the blunder already made. The core of the blunder? It is simple...