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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.
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#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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