alt Hacker NewsUS SOCOM also just pulled out of Nigeria.
The rumor is that this is becoming politically sensitive, so the US DoW is turning things over to none other than Erik Prince (Blackwater, Xe, etc).
Nigeria is an important source of minerals, for example: lithium.
Africa is being hotly contested right now between ISIS, the US / West, China, and state-local political factions.
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Izikiel43 • today at 1:56 AM
For lithium, isn’t South America and other parts of the world a better deal due to having the largest reserves and being more politically stable?
In Nigeria: Lithium totally irrelevant compared to oil. I think people have this really weird idea that lithium is to electric cars as oil is to regular cars, but it’s literally like a factor of 50 less.