South Africa suspends American businesses and mineral exports
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I wish I could find another source to confirm this, but if true, that's basically the nuclear option to kick out all American companies and halt all mineral exports to the US.
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Sweeping tariffs combined with cutting off aid, curtailing imports from across the world will make America extremely weak.
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I'd be pretty skeptical of this. As you said, no one else is reporting what would be huge news. I can't find the quote attributed to "a spokesperson for the South African government" anywhere else either. There isn't a named person in the article. This source seems sketchy, though I can't find any bias monitor info on them. That 'from the desk of the president' graphic is also just kinda weird.
The closest to this story I can find is this Feb 3rd story from a mining conference:
South Africa’s Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, told delegates in his opening address that Africa should withhold minerals if funding is withdrawn.
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Lower supply of key goods should help with inflation, right? Ugh
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trump doesn't understand this. The USA gets away with a lot of shit because it does a lot of other good. If we remove the good, we lose the tolerance for our shit.
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And GNOME also landed HDR in time for 48. Exciting times, and perhaps time for me to change again from Bazzite to traditional fedora.
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No local news sources reporting this in SA ..
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I wonder where American military will start aggressively supporting American interests next?
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‘from the desk of the president’ graphic
That graphic is indeed very strange and a massive red flag.
This is almost certainly some sort of clickbait farm.
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Yeah I agree. I came across the article as I like to read up on what's going on with BRICS countries as that seems like something worth keeping an eye on. But the lack of confirmation is troublesome. Even something like a giant trade deal with China that would give them some standing to call Trump's bluff would lend some credibility. It could be that this was threatened during negotiations and someone jumped the gun to say it's now policy? If I see any more about it one way or another, I will update the post.
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Just like Felon...stop making electric cars or launching useful satellites and he's gonna get the reprisal of the public.... Much more than now. I assume.
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Did you hit the wrong group?
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Wow, yeah it’s true, found more sources that confirm too.
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Found 5 sources
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Links or it didn't happen
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Almost as if that's the whole point.
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I'm worried that his response will be military coercion...
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I haven't seen any reliable sources say this yet.
An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country's public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa's minerals should be withheld from US, but I've seen no reports that it actually will be.
I also couldn't find anything at the government's website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.
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Oh, it absolutely will be. Our drunken defense secretary said that soft power is weakness.
Might makes right. Get ready for WWIII.
