Washington Post (March 1)
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
New York Times (February 28)
“Just over a month since President Trump’s inauguration, U.S. regulators have almost entirely dismantled a yearslong government crackdown on the crypto industry, a volatile sector rife with fraud, scams and theft. Regulators are following through on campaign promises that Mr. Trump made last year…. But few in the crypto industry expected to notch so many victories so quickly.”
