US President Donald Trump has used everything he could to undermine the sovereignty of this country with little to no success. It must remain like that.

What perhaps remains unresolved, is how long the American electorate will allow Trump to reduce their country into a paranoia state, an empire of appalling tantrums and ragtag diplomacy.

The truth is that the Americans are pathologically unreliable and unscrupulously treacherous.

The question we therefore need to ask is who is next?

Thanks to President Donald Trump’s threat, the Tinubu government seems to have woken up and become more accountable to the international community.

It's the same quality that once defined Barack Obama's presidential election campaigns: controlled tone, steady message, and moral clarity.

Trump’s threat is purely economic, employing the power of coercion and open blackmail, to keep a ‘servant’ perpetually under subjugation from attaining economic independence.

If the U.S wishes to do the right thing, it is humanity, not religion, that needs protection.

This was not the moment for defensiveness or rhetoric. We must remember that diplomacy is not submission — it is strategy.