Geopolitics
The Kazakh Tungsten Grift: Imperial Corruption as U.S. Foreign Policy
The Trump administration's recent mineral deal with Kazakhstan explicitly enriches the families of Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, continuing a brazen pattern of self-enrichment that treats U.S. foreign and economic policy as a personal revenue stream. This naked corruption, operating in full view and on a scale unprecedented in American history, represents a grotesque perversion of governance that cynically loots the state while mocking the very concept of public trust and international law.
