Posted on 03/22/2025 9:19:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has reached out directly to President Donald J. Trump with a historic proposal: help defeat a brutal rebel force terrorizing his nation, and in return, America will gain direct access to one of the world’s richest untapped troves of critical minerals—worth an estimated $24 trillion.
According to a letter obtained by The Wall Street Journal, President Tshisekedi offered Trump exclusive mining opportunities through the newly launched U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, a Trump-led initiative aimed at reshaping global investment through pro-American partnerships.
“Your election has ushered in the golden age for America,” Tshisekedi wrote. “Our partnership would provide the U.S. with a strategic advantage by securing critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, copper and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
The proposal comes just days after President Trump launched a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, a key piece of his “America First 2.0” economic policy to reclaim supply chains from foreign adversaries like China. Tshisekedi’s plan offers the U.S. Fund exclusive mining opportunities, effectively locking China out of yet another crucial global resource hub.
And while the Biden administration spent four years groveling to China and funding international climate summits that led nowhere, Trump’s firm grip on foreign policy and energy independence is once again paying dividends.
The DRC sits on a goldmine, literally and figuratively, with the Panzi Foundation estimating its untapped reserves at over $20 trillion, according to Fox News.
According to the International Trade Administration:
The DRC has substantial untapped gold, cobalt, and high-grade copper reserves…
Cobalt, one of the key metals to produce electric vehicles, places the DRC in a strategic position for the energy transition. In 2022, the DRC was the world’s largest cobalt miner with a production of 130,000 tons, or nearly 68 percent of the world’s cobalt.
The DRC was the fourth largest producer of industrial diamonds in 2022 with a production of 4.3 million carats. The DRC has globally significant lithium deposits.
In exchange for this mineral windfall, Tshisekedi is asking for something no globalist or United Nations diplomat has managed to deliver: peace through strength. Specifically, the Congolese president is requesting a formal U.S. security pact to help repel the violent M23 rebel group—backed by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and accused of routing both Congolese troops and U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Congo.
M23 has gained control of cities rich in mineral wealth, and their campaign has turned into a brutal free-for-all in a region still reeling from the aftershocks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
According to Wall Street Jouranl, the United Nations recently confirmed that Rwanda has dispatched 4,000 troops to back M23 and smuggled over 150 tons of coltan—used in nearly every smartphone and weapons system—from rebel-controlled mines. Yet, the global community has been largely silent.
In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Tshisekedi made his case directly to the American people, stating, “We want to extract these [$24 trillion untapped minerals] but also process them, as this would create a lot of jobs,” Tshisekedi told Baier. “And we want a partnership that will provide lasting peace and stability for our countries, which we need.”
Meanwhile, China remains deeply embedded in Congo’s infrastructure and mineral operations, with little regard for labor conditions or Congolese sovereignty.
Yet Tshisekedi downplayed any concerns about Chinese interference, signaling his preference for a transparent, fair, and mutually beneficial relationship with the United States.
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I have bought a bunch on EBAY.
I put them in peoples birthday and Christmas cards for a joke.
People always get a kick out of them.
No, do not bring them here.
They will never want to go back.
Train them in Egypt or Moracco.
“Zimbabwe dollars are like toilet paper”...and to our illustrious CONgresscritters, so are American dollars.
money for mining and the chicks are free...right?
Because of its novelty value the 100 Trillion bill is now selling for 200$.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266416807014
Press the issue. You may b3 the only person in her life that would do so and she needs to hear it.
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Very skeptical of this offer. We send our troops—with no interest Zimbabwe’s problems and no share in their mineral wealth—over there to boot the rebels and then…what? Businesses get minerals to sell and families get coffins to bury? Zimbabwe tells the world we’re somehow big meanies who steal their resources and kill their citizens? Then we go home with more trillions in debt? I’ve seen that movie many times.
I agree. Zimbabwe needs to solve Zimbabwe’s problems.
A FOUR fold population increase since 1970 in spite of so many wars. That just can’t mean anything good. The same increase here would mean a population of about 800,000,000, close enough to a billion for me.
Why do they do this to themselves and their children?
“Democratic” Yeah, any outfit with that word in its title is usually commie.
If so, either walk away rapidly or treat like a rabid dog — like the CCP.
Mebbe we ought to be funding the rebel group. Bet their deal would be better.
Pres. Trump WILL motivate him, if it short-d*c%s every cannibal in the Congo!
Muslims beheaded 70 Christians in the Congo during the past few days.
I think this offer is a win-win.
Sounds too good to be true and may be bait to lure us into another never ending war and
QUAGMIRE!
,,, it could be a second Vietnam war with the Chinese already in place financing and directing it. Don't take an eye off Taiwan - or is that a done deal now their chips are going to be made in the US?
We hire the Belgians to manage it!
Vietnam Nam was an ideological, nation-building debacle. This may be different. I believe we have a competent State Department so we’ll see.
True.
We have to make sure they never gain power again.🤔
Most here won't remember we trained Castro. Ike was shocked to learn he was a Communist.
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