Washington Post (March 1)
2025/ 03/ 02 by jd in Global News
President Trump’s “gambit to take control of Ukraine’s deposits of lithium, graphite, cobalt, rare metals and so forth — after calling for buying Greenland and taking over Canada, in part to nab their vast troves of critical minerals — suggests that he is fashioning a 19th-century strategy to work in the 21st.” While he may like this strategy, “holding a gun” to other nations “seems unwise if the United States wants to avoid becoming an international pariah and pushing erstwhile allies into the arms of its adversaries.”
Tags: 19th-century strategy, Adversaries, Allies, Canada, Cobalt, Control, Deposits, Gambit, Graphite, Greenland, International pariah, Lithium, Minerals, Rare metals, Trump, U.S., Ukraine
