Geopolitical Risk

[HAWKDOG]

No doubt, Hon Shane thought already about it:
 https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/critical-minerals-driving-west-coast-mining-revival

And yes, rare earths are not really rare, and NZ has as well some of them - mainly offshore, though.

Whether we decide to mine them, depends on our greenness, and whether this is profitable has a lot to do with what the rest of the world does. No doubt there are currently other people as well trying to find a way around Chinas monopoly. Its not that China is the only country with rare earth minerals, they just delivered them cheap enough to cut every other supplier out.

... though people seem to think anyway that China is overplaying its card:
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5634021-china-rare-earth-leverage/#:~:text=In%20Minnesota%2C%20Niron%20Magnetics%20is,What%20Do%20You%20Think?

Correct rare earths are not rare - what is rare are the refining facilities. 

[Waltzing]

what kind of madness is embedded in the russian mind...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/11/nato-chief-prepare-for-war-with-russia/

[Waltzing]

now since NZ is no longer a country... its an island off the coast of AUSSI Kanda land... and lost floating towards ... well somewhere eastward...  Go East ward  young KIWI...

Does AUS know how to build ships... ships are going to be back... along with submerged autonomous drones...

USA does no longer control the Pacific....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36COUve03nc

[Waltzing]

Land Land Land... same as ever... did the world change between 1939 and 2020? almost one hundred years that change the world? maybe not...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/16/russia-us-promised-ukrainian-territory-war-sergei-lavrov/
 

[Waltzing]

There is going to be a bomb planted one day in a place in europe that will kill the public by russian criminal elements or those hired by them .... they are at war with the west...

Listen to the POD and realise travel in europe will be more risky than in the cold war when you were happly travelling about europe in fast trains in the 70's,80s..


How much Trump Bitcoin have the russians bought to have Trump and his family sell out the Europeans and the UKR...

This is where we are now... IS AUS and NZ now on our own?


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-war/

USA about to INVADE... CHINA has got to 2029 to INVADE....

USA is now the enemy of democracy ....

Understand people... USA is not democracy anymore... Crypto has probably changed hands already...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9nrLJIZno

[Waltzing]

Ok - Trump was going to INVADE ... NO TACO....

Instead CHUMP asked the networks to show a whole bunch of slides...

Petrol prices...  Have we found the one thing the USA wont take as FAKE NEWS!!!!!

The price of petrol ... and even FOX only showed a couple of slides...with the caption they were from the white house...

Are ALL the press in the US scared of ONE thing... lying about the price of petrol....

TACO again... the military the NAVY was sent to do what? INVADE ? NO !!!!!!!!!!!!   Steal OIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOY have we not understood this administration at all.... Lucky the white house cant control the OIL world wide...

This WHITE HOUSE is the GOLD HOUSE...

kleptomania !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Waltzing]

Trump is buying the military.. everyone gets 1700 US dollars....

Roman Generals buying troops to do there bidding....

The US military may now be TRUMPS Military...

[Waltzing]

Ok - US military runs perfectly right??? Well Ukraine got its drone working...

The US in the GULF...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu_Jgpu-jfk

[Waltzing]

A look at the Women fighting for democracy on the front lines and a 98 year old women who walked to safety as you her town came under attack...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN6XdJwsOt0

[Waltzing]

how are you positioned for a bleak global future... got metals .. got gold...

how will NZ fear after this...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/23/china-taiwan-conflict-pentagon-report/?recomm_id=1899d009-1e0e-470b-8590-9ea97e273a59

[mike2023]

how are you positioned for a bleak global future... got metals .. got gold...

how will NZ fear after this...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/23/china-taiwan-conflict-pentagon-report/?recomm_id=1899d009-1e0e-470b-8590-9ea97e273a59

Would you trust a US report?

[Waltzing]

WOuld you trust a world where out of control dictators are deciding what happens...

TWA is surrounded  today... lets hope this does not happen as it will destroy markets ... who has even modelled this...

[Waltzing]

Rialto Channel this evening in french , english sub titles, the current state of the new Axis of evil.. 2024.. before they took out Iran...

which it looks like they are going back to have another go at...

the escalation world wide is growing...

If China kick of TW .. with Japan and SK face China lone...

A great doco and worth the watch because its starting to look very much like late 1930's

Soon the western country's NZ and AUS will have to dig deep... 5 percent defense budget EVERYWHERE....

Including here...

If SK supports TW the North will have to join in china's attack...

It kicks off world war 3...

[Waltzing]

The idea that the KM in moscow is anything other than a War machine needs to be not debunked but understood.. and if you wonder how long this will go on.. well.. 3 years ago Jake chatted to Vald Vexler...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2697pPORYuw

skip any adds that are well.. just funded by who know who or how they even appear there...

[BlackPeter]

The idea that the KM in moscow is anything other than a War machine needs to be not debunked but understood.. and if you wonder how long this will go on.. well.. 3 years ago Jake chatted to Vald Vexler...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2697pPORYuw

skip any adds that are well.. just funded by who know who or how they even appear there...

Better spend to invest the hour its taking, but very worthwhile looking at ...