
Nigeria: The Cross as a Moral Vector of Power — Hybrid War, Persecution, and Atlantic Security
The persecution of Christians in Nigeria is not an isolated episode of religious intolerance but a strategic node of global instability. In a landscape where jihadism, ethno-pastoral conflict, and transnational trafficking converge, violence becomes a methodology of control, and faith a form of geopolitical resilience. The U.S.–Atlantic response defines a new paradigm: an integrated moral deterrence, blending religious freedom, intelligence, and power projection into a single doctrine of stability. The Cross thus ceases to be merely symbolic — it becomes a strategic compass, a measure of a system’s capacity to defend human dignity as an infrastructure of global security.