Did Donald Trump Attack Iran Because of Minerals?

Months after China ceased exports on an incredibly valuable metal used to produce ammunition, the United States has attacked a country that just found a MASSIVE supply of it. Interesting timing or...?

In 2019, the Director of Policy Planning under Trump 1.0 was fired from the State Department. Kiron Kanina Skinner, famous among conservatives for her biographies of Ronald Reagan and what has been referred to as “unparalleled strategic thinking,” was considered a slam dunk hire for rebuilding a State Department in disarray. But almost immediately, the people started to side eye Skinner. First, she made the erroneous and offensive statement that China would be a tough opponent for the U.S. because “it’s the first time that we will have a great-power competitor that is not Caucasian.”

But then came her firing, about a year into her tenure, when she was accused of having an “abusive management style,” which led to a third of her twenty-person team quitting and five more threatening to quit if she wasn’t let go. Her behavior also included openly homophobic insults AND accusing subordinates of having an affair. Honestly, you’d think she’d be right at home in the Trump administration, but “abusive management” and open homophobia were a hair too far for the administration. C’est la vie.

So you might be asking right now: why am I talking about Kiron Skinner?

Because reading her words within the text of Project 2025 is what made me realize that the United States’ illegal attack on Iran was not so much about supporting Israel…

It was about extracting an incredibly valuable mineral called antimony that we use for everything from military ammo to night vision goggles.

Stibnite, one of the principle ores found within antimony