Nah, what he promised him is exactly what we see: $500B in rare earths, every year. Trump's always been a terrible dealer, and this is no exception: he doesn't do back-and-forth, he just tosses his entire hand on the table and says "here's what I want", then bullies you into accepting. If you don't, he'll either harass you, or back out saying YOU sabotaged the deal because you didn't give him what he wanted immediately.
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Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from MicrosoftThis is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.
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The Gaza 'war' was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told youDon't forget ICE going into schools and boarding schoolbuses so they can arrest Hispanic-looking kids. They didn't just accelerate the genocide, they imported it home.
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Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave GazaNot different. The Clinton admin invented the term whole cloth in order to not have to get involved in Rwanda.
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‘There will be many casualties’: Panama girds for war as Rubio opens talksPretty much this. Even with modern equipment, it would be a huge feat of engineering to fix the locks in a short enough timeframe to not have a huge effect on the world economy. Without the Panama Canal, cargo ships are gonna be burning WEEKS navigating around the Cape or coming around through the Arctic.