Posted on 03/24/2021 9:49:07 AM PDT by RandFan
And guess who will control the minerals necessary for the batteries of those precious electric cars?
He is right.
Let the people of South Africa to be on their own.
[ Africa has some of the biggest deposits of rare earth elements .....
Japan just discovered a huge cache of scarce rare-earth minerals in the Pacific.
The US would be wise to partner with friendly Japan to secure our r/e needs
China is the world’s biggest producer of rare earths.....but is hoarding them. ]
America has decent supplies of Rare Earths... it is just the light years worth of red tape that is preventing us from getting at them and the fact that a major by-product of the rare earth production is Thorium, which the EPA considers a radioactive hazard.... DESPITE the fact that we do have reactor designs that can use it as nuclear fuel, but the “Nuclear Industrial Complex” like G.E. doesn’t like those reactors as they would basically destroy their lucrative fuel rod re-processing contracts.
Meanwhile china is investing in thorium power production and will have plenty of thorium already mined and ready to go once they have those reactors built.
All that EPA red tape and K-street lobbying from s strangling us to death....
America first.
Of course, people will say he’s an “isolationist”.
Sounds like Rand is reverting to his dad, bummer, he’s on my ‘middle’ list for 2024 (with Hawley & Desantis on top, and Cruz & Noem on the bottom [both self-inflicted for them]).
They want to send my SIL back there for a year. He will be interested to know that it’s for nothing.
You didn’t know we had special forces doing combat (trying) in Nigeria. We have a huge facility in Djibouti. We have troops in Somalia and Ethiopia as well.
Everywhere there are Chinese, we have troops literally across the street.
Bring them home!
Could be a popular message? I’m not sure if people care.
And you saw what happened when Trump tried to bring troops home from Germany (after 50 years!). Congress stopped him.
They tend to be very Marxist / Left wing governments in Africa so economically they get no where. It’s sad but there you go.
He is 100% correct on this issue.
The US has no national interests in any country of Africa, even obliquely.
None whatsoever.
Glad to see he’s not alone!
Stand with Rand :-)
He and Reagan actually split on the issue of taking democracy to the world.
Goldwater was correct.
We had an interest in stopping the Soviets, but the form of government did not matter. Reagan came over to his point of view...mostly. With Europe being the exception.
My son-in-law spent 9 months in the hell hole of Somalia in 2019. He is very anxious to retire in 18 months, he’s 42, he went in the NJ National Guard at 17 and then went full time Army. He also did a tour in Iraq in 2009. He would get out tomorrow if he could, despises Biden.
Absolutely correct. Get out of Africa.
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