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D.R. Congo's mining capital is at the heart of Biden's bid to counter China in Africa
npr ^ | 12/042024 | Emmet Livingstone

Posted on 12/04/2024 8:22:27 AM PST by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 12/04/2024 8:22:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“Biden’s bid to counter China”

LOL. ROTFLMAO! LLLLLLOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

(have to catch my breath)

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!


2 posted on 12/04/2024 8:25:28 AM PST by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: piytar

“whirlwind tour” got me chuckling


3 posted on 12/04/2024 8:27:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

God only knows what grift Biden is over there to solicit on behalf of his family associates benefactors…..great place to deal with corrupt actors controlling access to great wealth and resources, out of the eye of the mainstream


4 posted on 12/04/2024 8:28:43 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s just where the money is.


5 posted on 12/04/2024 8:28:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: BenLurkin

We won’t be competing with China with Biden in charge.

China comes into a resource rich environment and they pay the bribes; build the mines/factories; staffs it with their own people (except the slaves); and then they keep out of the dictator’s way.

When the US goes into the situation, we bring a lot of strings to our money. The US is concerned with things like human rights, safety, and the imposition of our moral codes.

I think our way is better for “the world.” But if I am looking to retain power in an African dump of a country....I would go with China every day of the week and twice on Sunday.


6 posted on 12/04/2024 8:29:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: silverleaf; All

And just a coinky dink Angola is his last Pres visit

Remember his last visit in 2017 just days before Trump’s inauguration.
Ukraine,


7 posted on 12/04/2024 8:31:01 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Vermont Lt

“When the US goes into the situation, we bring a lot of strings to our money. The US is concerned with things like human rights, safety, and the imposition of our moral codes.”

Please.

Like Ukraine? Gaza? Iraq? Afghanistan? Syria? Haiti?


8 posted on 12/04/2024 8:32:57 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: BenLurkin

Back in the mid-70s a (Belgian?) rescue operation was executed to get some folks out of Kolwezi.


9 posted on 12/04/2024 8:34:52 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( Fascist, deplorable and proud of it.)
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To: BenLurkin

i wonder how many (if any) of the virtue-signalling EV buyers have any clue regarding the ridiculous fragility of a critical material supplied by an unstable 3rd-world country that’s necessary to build and maintain their precious virtue-signalling EVs?


10 posted on 12/04/2024 8:36:29 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: BenLurkin

Biden will sabotage all he can to hurt America and Trump. China owns Biden anyway. His whole rotten family has made fortunes with Chinese pay offs.


11 posted on 12/04/2024 8:40:07 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: silverleaf

Don’t know much about how we’ve been working in Africa for the past 20 years, do you?


12 posted on 12/04/2024 8:50:21 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

joes newest venture

the

Fig Leaf Fortune Cookie Laundromat


13 posted on 12/04/2024 8:52:30 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: silverleaf

Diamonds from Angola

Gold from Congo


14 posted on 12/04/2024 9:00:54 AM PST by digger48
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To: piytar

More like he was setting up another scam to keep the money flowing when he is out of office.


15 posted on 12/04/2024 9:10:13 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: Vermont Lt

Been to Africa?
Including Angola?
I have.
Maybe before you could read.


16 posted on 12/04/2024 9:37:21 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf

Great. Good for you.

Have you maintained an understanding of how China and the US differ in their approach to securing mineral rights there?

Because this is ALL about mineral rights.


17 posted on 12/04/2024 9:54:11 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

bkmk


18 posted on 12/04/2024 10:06:49 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: silverleaf

“moral codes” in this instance = globohomo


19 posted on 12/04/2024 11:24:55 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Fedora

ping...


20 posted on 02/16/2025 8:31:29 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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