Rare Earths

First, you have to love the U.S offering "protection" at the right price, which just happens to be valuable minerals. That's some straight-up mafia-style transactional-break the kneecap shit. When we use the term "naked" aggression it means it is not veiled, not supplied with an acceptable covering of diplomatic civility. Notice the liberal aversion to naked nationalism, the AmericaFirst agenda that dispenses with any pretense of leveling or aid or charity. How dare they abandon our precious narrative! We were helping the world "develop" so that the wealth gap wouldn't be so uneven. Sorry. Time to embrace the cruelty: Let Them Eat Mud Cookies! Now it is straight-up, out in the open smash and grab. All of it fueled by fossil fuels because that's where the profit is. No more "transition" bullshit. This "drill baby drill" mantra gets lost in the noise but I think it is exactly where you want to focus. It explains much of the rest because the new technologies which they are betting will save capitalism requires ungodly amounts of energy (and water). A changing climate will not be allowed to limit this expansion. Except that it will. This is not a Real that anyone wants to face. So we disavow. Otherwise we would have to face the far more traumatic reality of a greedy and self-enjoying a-subjective system of which no one is really or fully in control, namely Capital. Soy bean farmers in Iowa nervous about "export policy". "A thousand telephones that will not ring." The dessicated corpses of migrants who got lost in the Arizona desert. Laughing hyenas and clapping seals as the Naked King delivers punch lines and hands out treats to the audience. Israel’s foreign ministry saying on X on Tuesday night that Mr. Trump’s idea was “an opportunity for the Gazans to have free choice based on their free will. This should be encouraged!” What he didn't say was: And Enjoyed!