The US is invading Lebanon for its... salt and rocks

The real reason is because Americans hate wimps and is nagging on Israel to give Lebanon a nookie

The real reason is the Israeli's are meant to defeat the entirety of the middle east time and time again until they all convert to Christianity because of how based the west has become.

USA is all about war and pointless rocks

Australia has the world's largest resources of gold, iron ore, lead, nickel, rutile, uranium, zinc, and the second largest resources of brown coal, cobalt, copper, lithium, and silver

Which is why Brisbane is currently getting carpet bombed

I thought we had those too, and just didn't extract them really.

I know the US is spending a ton on developing rare earth mines.

Their understanding of geopolitics comes from playing Civ.

It has those too, what it doesn't have are active mining and refining operations.

Known for its natural beauty, the US state of Wyoming may soon be known for something buried beneath its stunning topography: An estimated 2.34 billion metric tons of rare earth minerals (REMs), which make the world's computing-dependent technologies possible, were recently discovered near Wheatland, a town in southeastern Wyoming.

According to American Rare Earths, the company's wholly-owned deposits have a potential volume far greater than China's estimated 44 million metric tons of the minerals, which could establish the US as the world's largest supplier.

https://www.theearthandi.org/post/estimated-2-34-billion-metric-tons-of-rare-earth-minerals-discovered-in-us

We actually have a lot, this is only one area in Wyoming.

California has a shitload but we don't dig them up in a lot of places because 1.) We're not an extraction economy 2.) We don't want to frick up where we live 3.) Cheaper to pay for Chinese mined shit until they run out

Turns out that owning most of a continent means you have access to almost anything you'd ever need.

America has the best rare earths

Oh my god, it all makes sense now...

They're going to build six million wailing walls

Isn't that the entirety of the levant and middle east anyways? Jordans got ethnically replaced by palesneedians after a gorillion moved into that country, making the local Jordan a minority

Scottish military invading them for s*x slaves

Party rock!

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That's it I'm investing in concrete and cement producers

I wonder if Mexico or Nicaragua are going to build an alternative to the Panama canal in our lifetimes. If they were sucessful at doing so, it would buckbreak the economy of Panama so hard, although it will probably still reign king considering the ammount of buckbreaking labor that took digging a hole in the Panama Isthmus. Now Imagine not relying on an isthmus, but having to create a hole from one coast to the other. Nowadays with modern feats of engineering it's probably more feasible, easier, and without tons of manual labor that was not required back then, also provided that yellow fever is not a mortal threat anymore, but could these governments ever achieve constructing a megaproject of this magnitude provided they won't just corrupt xemselves, take the money, and leave it incomplete?

Based btw

He seems to be confusing it with "geopolitics," which most Xitter r-slurs seem to think is just a fancy way to say "international relations."

NOOOOO GIB ME MY DRAMCOIN I GOT KIDS TO FEED

Are you haitian?

The US could btfo any government in existence if they wanted with all of its military capacity, they just decide not to, which is why it's always funny to see people say how big of a defeat are recent interventions, when in reality it's better to just leave than raze the entire country to dust just to claim victory

The idea the US invades other countries to steal their oil or other resources is laughable. We're the 2nd most natural resource rich nation in the world and we have oodles of money to buy whatever we don't have. We even tricked the soviets into selling us titanium during the cold war. Helps to have the largest jewish population in the world too I guess.

He's white, do you even have to ask?

big Thailand trip in mid 20s as a single guy so probably but not an active one in the US if I had to guess,