Trump is in talks with Russia to end the war

[chr0naut]

Let me explain something:  America is done letting the world rape us financially.  

Ukraine wants us to hand them 100 Billion $$ in aide to keep their country in tact.
Yet they refuse to enter into a deal for rare earth metals.
The fact is that they wouldn't have a country without us and they wouldn't have those metals either.
THEY OWE US.

Yes, Ukraine owes the US something. The US also owes the Ukraine something. That is how reciprocal agreements work.

The fact remains, the USA does not have the lithium or cobalt deposits necessary for its manufacture of high capacity batteries. End of story. The whole battery-based economy is heading for collapse.

Currently, Tesla Motors, Tesla Powerwall and Megapack products are suffering a downturn in sales relative to what was anticipated.

With the new Toyota hybrid motor to be released next year (note the immanence of the time frame), and the fact that the US cannot possibly manufacture the batteries required, and the projected continuation of the downturn in sales, the Tesla companies will soon become inviable as businesses, and Musk knows that. Even their new attempts at battery tech still requires Lithium.

The thing is, all the existing cars, infrastructure, contracts and so forth are additional liabilities for Musk to divest himself of, and quickly. And why did his latest Starship explode in space (the easiest and least explosion prone part of its trajectory)? Of course, it will all be underwritten by insurance, but clearly something odd is afoot there...

Perhaps this is why Musk is suddenly a Federal employee?

No doubt, since Trump is not very bright, and Musk clearly is, he is manipulating things so that he will not be found liable when the cards come tumbling down, and all the government contracts, and charging station contracts, and class actions against Tesla companies, all start happening. When everything Tesla branded turns to useless junk, too toxic to trash.