People are making legal arguments, so I pointed out the flaw in it.
Morally and strategically, the US is a neocolonial power just like China and Russia. China and the US is probably at the same level of exploitation with their methods being economic in nature. Russian being worse given they like to foster internal conflcit in order to keep their resource exploitation in place.
Also, Nigeria has had a democratic government since 1999. The last coup was in 1993. So it would not be fair to infer they are a puppet government of the US. There are other examples of that.