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Desperate for Peace, Congo’s President Offers Trump Control of $24 Trillion in Minerals to Bring Peace in the Region
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 22, 2025 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: africa; cobalt; coltan; congo; copper; diamond; drc; lithium; m23; minerals; mines; mining; paulkagame; rwanda; sovereignty; sovereignwealthfund; tantalum; trump; tshisekedi; usswf
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Sounds too good to be true and may be bait to lure us into another never ending war

We don't win because we don't make war anymore. Lincoln made the same mistake until he told Sherman to make war.

61 posted on 03/23/2025 4:59:15 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.ould fly)
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To: Sequoyah101

It’s partly cultural. Children are still valued in their culture (not so much in Western culture these days).

Another reason: infant and child mortality is still much higher there than in developed countries, but thanks to do-gooders vaccinating children and providing medical care, they no longer lose more than half their children to disease before they reach school age. It’s still a thing to have plenty of kids, though, as it hasn’t really sunk in that most really will make it to adulthood.

Another: they don’t have nursing homes. Children care for their parents in old age.

Yet another: Access to birth control in a war torn country, and ability to afford it when and where available.

Most of the rest of the world has the opposite problem: birth rates way below replacement level. Humans can’t seem to do the happy medium.


62 posted on 03/24/2025 3:52:45 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Red Badger
Under orders from the PLA to bait Trump, using a chapter from Art of the Deal in the most facile, heboon, blue gum way possible.

Hilarious.

Absolutely ------g hilarious.

Xi is going to end up with the CCP's Belt-and-Road initiative around his neck; and in the next Chinese pogrom that's exactly what's going to happen.

63 posted on 03/24/2025 4:01:41 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Qwapisking

I see what you did there :)

I want my Radio Télévision nationale congolaise :-P


64 posted on 03/27/2025 7:29:55 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Sequoyah101
A FOUR fold population increase since 1970 in spite of so many war

Uncertainty during wars actually pushes people to procreate more.

also note that these number of children were the norm before modern medicine, but due to modern medicine, infant mortality rates have plummeted and it took every country some time to catch up with that fact.

65 posted on 03/27/2025 7:31:39 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Qwapisking

LOL! 🎶


66 posted on 03/27/2025 7:31:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: CatHerd

I think we have this bump as temporary - just as the sharp increase in population was due to advances in medicine.

Similarly the drop will even out I think but probably when the population is between 0.5 to 1 billion in the middle of the next century.

Unless we start expanding to Mars


67 posted on 03/27/2025 7:33:34 AM PDT by Cronos
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