Posted on 06/21/2018 1:45:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Haven’t we heard the same thing about US imperialistic designs on the untold and untapped mineral deposits of Afghanistan?
Now why would you think President Trump could articulate such a deal? ;O)
Its silly that REE’s were the motivation behind getting nuke ICBM’s out of the hands an unstable dictator. But the left is always looking for an evil conspiracy...
Pick a country or region and I can probably find you a conspiracy theory about Uncle Sam taking advantage of them or planning on it.
Of course it couldn’t be about eliminating the nuclear weapons and missile systems of a nation that was our enemy, now could it!
Sheesh!
They want to eliminate any positive press for Trump, ridding North Korea of nukes pointed at us.
It can’t be about that!
Maybe you can, but there’s no need to look, since no leftist ever checks. It’s a fill in the blanks charge.
“The US involvement in {country name here} is motivated by {pick from: greed, hatred, big business influence, racism}”
Put that in the headline, and make up elaborating details as needed.
I bet it would be an easy computer program to write a suitable article outline given several lists of charges, historical events, and fake reasons.
Rare earth metals are not that rare. And NK is not the only place they can be found. The US is happy to have a source of funds that NK can mine themselves and sell as long as they stand down their army. The US will buy whatever they don’t have naturally. Its like Saudi oil. The US has never needed it. North America has always produced enough oil for us. We just don’t want others to corner the market. If anything its Europe that is without many natural resources.
Norkea is more accessible than Afghanistan and if Trump has made a deal we don’t have to fight for the stuff. If there is a deal it would be primarily with China and would involve some tradeoffs with the tariffs. The best approach with China is the lower taxes and less regulation in America to keep more businesses from going there and from giving up all our tech advances. Getting some of those companies back that are already there doesn’t matter in re secrets because those secrets are already gone. A deal whereby China doesn’t get our secrets from companies that relocate there is fatuous because there is no such possibility.The Norkea deal will work out on many different levels and will involve the South China Sea, too, I believe. Vietnam is getting in a pickle down there. The Phillipines would be next, then Okinawa.
I would certainly hope that is the case, so long as it is Trump making the deals. He won’t steal stuff and won’t give away what we have to keep, unlike some previous presidents.
The Praseodymium awaits!
Those are happy thoughts, but do you really think China is going to let itself be surrounded by an alliance of prosperity rather than vassal or stressed and worried states without some pushback?
The left makes yet another case for leaving North Korea just as it is.
In “The Art of the Deal” Trump strongly implied how he did not like to pursue oil, things he could not ‘see’.
Could the REE be the silver lining behind the golden cloud of Korean nuclear disarmament?
There are a lot of silver linings, but none of them would have been a silver lining without a deal.
Will there be investment opportunities? While there be rare earth elements? Will there be condos on the beaches? Will there be a myriad of other things? sure.
In other words, this is a win win win win win win, for us. And North Korea will win too.
The lives of the North Koreans will improve. Gone will be hunger and starvation. Kim will moderate his actions to an extent.
If we get the nukes and the missiles off the table, we’ve already won. And there’s so much more to it.
Can anyone think of a better outcome?
Yes, sure, if Kim were out of office...
If Kim moderates, he may turn out like Khadaffy, a neutered old man, a far cry from what he has been towards his people.
The Left loses all the way around.
Love it.
But is there UNOBTAINIUM???
After that we will ship rivers of LNG and crude. NOKO will be dining at the table of plenty IOW we shall be paying for SOKO’s and Japan’s security.
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