In the most humiliating moment of the year, U.S. President Donald Trump just shut down Tshisekedi’s delusions with just ten words:
“I have nothing to do with Rwanda and the Congo.”
Boom. A bombshell dropped, right there in the the US President’s office (the Oval Office) in front of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, when Donald Trump obliterates months of noisy Congolese lobbying, backdoor begging, and pathetic offers of minerals.
Tshisekedi has mortgaged the Congo’s past, present, and future, pledging the country’s rich cobalt, coltan, and copper fields to the Americans. The intention was that the US send troops (even build military bases) in DR Congo and declare war on M23 – and of course Tshilombo in his infinite foolishness, thought it wouldn’t be long before he was weaponizing American troops against Rwanda.
It boggles the mind.
Trump however isn’t into such warmongering foolishness. He wants business, conducted with a win-win mentality, not profiting from some warmonger’s tribal cleansing ways.
While Tshisekedi dances around Washington, waving crumpled mining contracts, the US was quietly signing a strategic Letter of Intent with Trinity Metals (Rwanda) and Nathan Trotter (USA) to create a clean, direct supply chain for critical metal in electronics, solar panels, and batteries.
Americans under Trump are all about pragmatism and results, and don’t deal in empty promises or shady backroom deals.
Their business culture demands contracts, deliverables, and accountability; concepts that Tshisekedi – with his loutish Brussels “Matonge” background – clearly never learned.
The U.S. basically told him to shape up or ship out.
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