Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what’s left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren’t yours. Their filters aren’t yours. When you operate on summaries, you’re thinking with someone else’s brain. – Shane Parrish, Farnam Street
There’s a peace deal in place, but your Congolese mining assets aren’t safe until Rwandan troops actually withdraw. The relative sizes of the countries is misleading. Rwanda is densely populated and can overrun Congo anytime it wants.
The Russians have control of a key lithium field in Ukraine.
China is still choking exports of rare earths.
North Korea has a beach resort.
