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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

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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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