Congo and Rwanda Sign a US Mediated Peace Deal

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#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-30 07:54 AM
See. It can be done. Just pretend it was the UK that mediated this.

Or you can pretend that Trump mediated this... just like he claims to have "mediated" the end of Operation Sindoor (India-Pakistan skirmish) which PM Modi absolutely, positively rejects - there was no 'perfect call' and ceasefire was negotiated by MoD's of both countries.

He also complains that he'll never get Nobel even as he deserves it for "solving / mediating" Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia...
www.newsweek.com - 2025-06-21

Claiming credit for any seemingly positive event that he had nothing to do with is a sign of fragile and overinflated ego of never being respected as a "successful businessman" and "great dealmaker" (because he never was) and in constant need of stroking, flattery and parades, and his sick, demented mind - check his family history and past and recent statements by his psychologist niece Mary Trump and nephew Fred Trump III on issue of dementia.

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-30 02:18 PM
Of course we know what happened. It's been widely reported.

It has been, but you only chose the part you want to see.

Here's what happened well before the fake "peace agreement" which Trump wanted to call "Trump Accord" and claimed it deserves Nobel Peace Prize, which he is after, like a dog chasing car, no matter how much damage it might cause - see Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our Time" a year before WWII... not that this "agreement" is in any way as consequential.

This is NOT about "peace":

1. DRC produces 80 percent of the world's cobalt. 80 percent of DRC's total cobalt output is controlled/owned by Chinese state-owned companies.

2. DRC ranks 183 out of 190 on the World Bank's Doing Business indicators.

3. 2023-2024 : HR 8310 - Bipartisan "BRIDGE to DRC Act" - "To require a national strategy to secure US supply chains involving critical minerals sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo"

"As the US seeks to gain greater access to critical minerals and diversify its supply chains away from Chinese influence, Biden administration officials hope that... it would increase US or Western firms' willingness to invest in the country."

www.npr.org - DRC's mining is at the heart of Biden's bid to counter China in Africa - Dec 4, 2024

4. Doha, March - May 2025: DRC - Rwanda peace talks didn't lead to agreement because main belligerent - March23 (M23) - rejected the proposals. Sidestepping M23 as a participant in Trump's "peace deal" makes it 'provisional,' at best. And none of many conditions to make it "real" include M23, which is why no such charade was attempted before... but that didn't stop the publicity hound Trump.

5. KoBold, funded by Bezos and Bill Gates (I mentioned here in February that they abandoned search for REEs in Greenland and moved on to "sure thing" in Congo) signed a $1B conditional purchase agreement with a DRC miner AZV in May - www.mining.com

6. Only respective FMs showed up for signing. "Rwanda FM told Trump that past deals had not been implemented and urged Trump to stay engaged. Congo FM said deal must be followed by disengagement." M23 is not party to "peace deal" - so whose "boots on the ground" are going to enforce it? Or are US taxpayers dollars going to PMCs (like Constellis?) to police it... or the mine(s)?

"And now you know... the rest of the story."
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So Alexandrite,

What do you think of this peace agreement?

" 74 | POSTED BY CUTIEPIE AT 2025-07-01 12:04 PM | FLAG: "

Like everyone else you operate under the presumption that this is about Trump. It isn't. The headline does have "US mediated" but that's because it's the headline from the source I used.

This is simply a thread to celebrate a peace deal which will result in fewer people being killed which I tend to think is an objectively good thing. In a sane world it is. But this place? Not so much.

" I didn't vote Trump in the prior two elections."

First, that's a lie. Second, what does it matter when you vote for all of his enablers?

Same vote, different lever.

I'm a borderline Hall of Fame troll, Alexandrite. I easily elicit multiple responses with a single post. And it doesn't take any effort.
#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 05:42 PM

This is simply a thread to troll.
#76 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Clearly

You started with:

Zed, Twoothy, JPW and Donnerboy probably think this is terrible news.
#1 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

From that point forward this thread was a joke.

The agreement also contains an economic aspect, which has not yet been specified, but which is said to provide for the exploitation of Congolese natural resources by American companies. "Many people were even willing to lose the country's natural resources to regain peace, but this remains in question," the Fides source reports. "Because Rwanda, which occupies and exploits the provinces of North and South Kivu under the guise of the M23, does not seem to be affected by the agreement. So, at the moment, nothing is moving forward. Precisely where change is most needed." "There is one fundamental change that everyone, except those who have changed their colors, is waiting for: the withdrawal of all Rwandan soldiers, who are to return to their homeland. This is not explicitly stated in the agreement; it only speaks of a cessation of hostilities.

I guess we will see.
www.fides.org

www.bbc.com

We must stop distorting the facts to disguise a propaganda agenda," Kabila said, adding "Congolese people deserve the truth, not a diplomatic show".

The absence of M23 representatives was also noted in the rebel-held city of Goma in eastern DR Congo.

"How can they say they sign for peace, yet they have not involved M23?" a resident questioned, adding the rebels ought to have been included in the talks for "collective peace" to be found.

Another resident, a commercial motorbike rider told the BBC "people are tired, they are not interested in talks", insisting "all they want is peace".

He argued previous peace talks and agreements were not endorsed or implemented by the conflicting parties, leaving little hope for a return to normality.

Similarly, Sam Zarifi, executive director at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), an international NGO that has worked in the DRC for more than a decade, said the Washington-brokered agreement is replete with "major omissions".

"There can be no durable peace without meaningful justice. But the agreement...sidelines h

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#76 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-01 12:14 PM
Like everyone else you operate under the presumption that this is about Trump. It isn't.

Read what I posted. Read the links. This IS about Trump! Trump IS ALL ABOUT TRUMP!

This is simply a thread to celebrate a peace deal which will result in fewer people being killed

Now you sound like Putin's b**t-boy Tucker Carlson... Again, read what I posted and get familiar with the subject you post about... Nothing in this charade is about "fewer people being killed" just because this sham is called a "peace agreement" - just as Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our times" pact lead to WWII, not "fewer people being killed."

Don't keep embarrassing yourself with knee-jerk reactions. Try to read and think... before "celebrating."
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Not in the primary. Harris was going to continue every disastrous Biden policy and was so out of her depth that it was either Trump or third party. I went the third party route before. This time I held my nose and voted Trump.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-01 11:30 AM | Reply |

A self admitted traitor to the United States of America. Good to know. BTW You lack the balls to admit to voting for Trump before that. No credibility left. Just sayin

" Did you see any dementia?

#66 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-07-01 11:41 AM | FLAG: "

I saw someone (Biden) hooked up on speed (during the State of the Union)

#70 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Amphetamines have no power to make anyone less demented, provided they actually are.

With Trump I see an ----- but I don't see insanity. With that, what is there to discuss?

#72 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Given that's your opinion, we can discuss why it is that Donald Trump is a deliberate, reasoning criminal without reference to being insane.

Danforth,

You vote straighr Dem. By your logic that means you own 100% of everything that went wrong with Biden's first term.

Trump is a carnival barker grifter. Always has been.

This thread isn't about Trump. It's about the peace deal. A couple of posters just added good material to consider, on topic.

His (Biden's) constant confusion, angry outbursts and dead stares

#70 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You see----These are not things that I ever observed.

I have observed them from Trump. And a lot m ore besides.

And yet here you are dead set that Biden had mental issues but Trump does not.

Aside from that conscious criminality, of course.

" You vote straighr Dem."

No, I don't. I vote for the best candidate, regardless the letter after the name. Not my fault the least qualified are usually the Republicans (Herschel Walker, anyone?)

Meanwhile, you've been caught in an obvious lie.

It's about the peace deal.

#88 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's just about more Trump BS.

He's not serious man.

I think he's crazy; you claim not to.

But all the evidence is that Donald is seriously messed up, no matter the explanation.

That is to say by ALL the EVIDENCE.

I don't know where that leaves you except to be a simple prevaricator of the truth. Or liar, if you will.

Try to read and think... before "celebrating."
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#82 | POSTED BY CUTIEPIE

You are speaking to a maga maroon.

Reading and thinking is not their strongest asset. It's too hard! Besides, that is for the elites and the woke libs.

Gleefully cheering tyranny is what they are all about.. apparently.

Maga maroons like Dingaling prefers someone else (like Trumpy?) to do all the thinking for them.

Why'd Trump do that? Shoulda let them blow the ---- out of each other.

Why'd Trump do that?

Trumpy is 100% transactional. So. He did that because there is something in it personally for him. For Trumpy there is nothing else.

From a post on the Back Page ( drudge.com )...

Trump helped these African countries sign a peace deal. Here's what we know
apnews.com

OK, from that cited AP article ...

... President Donald Trump says the deal gives the United States "a lot of the mineral rights" from Congo. His administration has pushed to gain access to minerals key to much of the world's technology and is seeking to counter China, a key player in the region where the U.S. presence and influence have eroded. ...

... In what the U.N. has called "one of the most protracted, complex, serious humanitarian crises on Earth," the deal includes a commitment to protect and facilitate humanitarian access for displaced people in Congo, estimated to be more than 7 million.

The two countries also commit to creating an economic framework "to expand foreign trade and investment derived from regional critical mineral supply chains," including ones that "link both countries, in partnership, as appropriate, with the U.S. government and U.S. investors."

Uncertainty over whether the hostilities will end

Analysts say it is going to be difficult for the M23 rebels to withdraw from the cities they seized during their major advance this year and that such withdrawal may either take a long time or another round of fighting. ...