Posting this because I have NEVER heard of “coltan”. Turns out we need it to ……….. BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIES! Turns out Venezuela has lots of it and they don’t want to sell it to us, soooo, we eventually might have to bomb the shit outta them …. lol …. assuming we have enough coltan stockpiled. Also, China has a lot of shit we need to make bombs and missiles too. Hopefully, we have the wisdom to stockpile that stuff before we go to war with them. (Oh yeah, not in the article but, Russia makes all our rocket engines. lmfao) Funny shit, ain’t it …. needing shit from the very countries we wanna bomb the shit out of?
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Follow the Minerals: Why the US is Threatened by Venezuela’s ‘Blue Gold’
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US President Obama generated international outcry after imposing further sanctions on Venezuela in March and claiming that Venezuela poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security.
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President Maduro of Venezuela fired back at Obama, saying the sanctions and executive order are an attempt to use force to control the country. One forthright response to the US decree from Bolivian President Evo Morales demanded Obama to: “Stop turning the world into a battlefield.”
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Is any threat posed by Venezuela merely an illusion created to oil the wheels of intervention? What is real and tangible is the US’ increasing demand for the natural resources Venezuela has in superabundance. Resource wealth can be a blessing and a curse. Not only is Venezuela the fifth largest oil exporting country in the world, with the second-largest reserves of heavy crude oil, but also add to that the country’s rich mineral reserves, plus a turbulent economy, and you have a recipe for ‘resource curse’.
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Staving off the dreaded resource curse, Venezuela has paved a new road to success. Key to sustaining this progress is the country’s ability to maintain its own mineral wealth.
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