Post #308

Didn’t Take Long ✍️ After the sealing of the agreement effectively selling the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Trump granting the US preferential access to DRC resources, concrete mechanisms of the American expansion have begun to unfold. 🇺🇸 With private investors showing little initiative, the main role will fall to the US Development Finance Corporation (USDFC) — a government agency holding a mandate from Trump to advance American economic interests abroad. ⏩ The day after the Washington agreements were signed the corporation rushed to announce its interest in two projects. 🔸 The first is a joint venture between the Swiss resource trader Mercuria and Congo’s state-owned Gécamines, through which Gécamines will sell the minerals it receives from its minority stakes in active mining projects. 🔸The second is the infamous Lobito Corridor, where the USDFC wants to bring in the Portuguese construction firm Mota-Engil — one of the owners of the Angolan section of the corridor— to build another stretch inside the DRC. Here, the Americans even named the concrete amount they are ready to chip in: USD 1 billion. 📦Logistics is thus becoming the primary focal point of the US economic engagement in Central Africa — which is natural, as it entails less risks than serious mining ventures. What can this say? The entire situation shows that theaspiringNobel Prize winner has at last decided to go beyond loud statements and start some pushing real projects. Devils Below