by Scott Creighton
There wont be Shock and Awe in Venezuela. It's not going to happen no matter how bad TrumpyBear and Little Nazi Marco want to do it oh behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You see...
... a funny thing happened on the way to regime change.
Donald Trump has been steadily trying to improve access to something called rare earth elements (REE) since he returned to office in Jan. of 2025. Why? Because China placed severe restrictions on such exports (samarium, graphite, tungsten, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, yttrium, antimony, gallium, germanium and others) back in Dec. of 2024 as a response to the U.S. placing harsh sanctions on Chinese semiconductors. China added several more elements to their sanction list in Jan. when Trump came to power and continued with the semiconductor restrictions.
These REEs are critical in the development of everything from cellphones to armor piercing ammunition and AI missile guidance systems. Without them the MIC's endless money glitch grinds to a halt. Now do you understand why he's been so focused on these silly little rocks? Greenland is supposedly full of some of these REEs which explains why TrumpyBear wanted to invade them early on. How's that working out?
In April China made it even worse by adding even more restrictions and elements to the list.