This mineral deal is a red herring, a distraction. I wish Trump had never taken Zelensky’s bait on it. According to what I have read (and posted links to sources here on FR in the past), these rare earth mineral reserves are either unproven (may not even exist) in some cases, or are not commercially viable in other cases. Yeah, there’s that one scandium deposit that can and is being mined, but big whoop.
I think this is being done at the direction of State Street, Fidelity, and Blackrock. It’s a great chance for them to cash in. And it will create an entire new generation of Manafort, Romney‘s, Kerry, Pelosi, Hunter Biden etc. There will be an entire generation of American political connected corrupticrats created.
This deal is a bad bad idea.