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🇺🇸🧵 BREAKING: Trump Delivers Peace in Congo — and a Heavy Blow to China 🧵

While the media was focused on NATO, SCOTUS, NYC and Iran, Trump just ended a 30-year war in Africa — and may have flipped the entire global minerals race on its head.

Here’s what happened ⬇️

2/ For nearly three decades, Congo and Rwanda have been at war — a bloody conflict that’s killed over 6 million people in Central Africa.

Democrats didn't care. Trump brokered peace.

Now, thanks to Trump’s deal, $24 trillion in untapped mineral resources.

Disaster for China.

3/ Trump’s envoy, Massad Boulous, brokered a minerals-for-peace deal between Congo and Rwanda.

🟣 80% of the world’s cobalt
🔋 Tantalum
⚡ Lithium
🔩 Key components for electric vehicles, smartphones, missiles, and AI chips

And most of it? Controlled by China — until now.

4/ For years, China exploited Congo through sweetheart deals that gave Beijing control over the mines while the Congolese people got nothing.

The project was a disaster: few schools, no hospitals, and lots of corruption.

Enter Trump.

5/ Trump’s deal flips the table:

✅ Peace between Congo and Rwanda
✅ U.S. access to critical minerals
✅ A massive blow to China’s neocolonialism
✅ A big step toward Trump’s promise to Make America Energy Dominant

All without a single troop deployment.

6/ This is peacemaking AND a geo-strategic victory.

🔺 China controls 80% of Congo’s cobalt mines
🔺 68% of China’s refined cobalt comes from Congo
🔺 9 of the world’s 10 largest cobalt mines are there

If the U.S. displaces China, the global balance shifts — fast.

7/ What’s even more remarkable?

Congolese leaders are publicly praising Trump — even as they condemn China.

“The rise of Trump has presented us with another alternative… in which America wins and China loses.” — Congolese analyst Smith Kashinde

8/ Trump’s deal is seen in Africa not just as a business move — but as a chance to lift millions out of poverty, crush corruption, and evict the Chinese Communist Party.

9/ Here’s the bigger picture:

China saw Congo as locked down.
Democrats ignored it for 30 years.
Trump achieved peace and secured critical U.S. access to strategic minerals while helping millions.

No wars. No lectures. Just bold diplomacy that works. And that cares.

10/ Africa sees China as a colonizer, but the U.S. not as a partner. And Trump just proved them right.

BOTTOM LINE: America First makes America strong enough to make a difference for the rest of the world.

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