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Not that he’ll get any credit— a point the President himself made. But, two days ago, Business Insider Africa ran a story headlined, “Trump declares end to Rwanda–DRC conflict with historic peace agreement.”

For the last twenty years, these neighbors have traded bullets across a demon-possessed border where ideology and ethnicity dissolve into economics and resource extraction. Rwanda has long been accused of backing rebel proxies to destabilize mineral-rich eastern Congo and carve out a shadow empire of influence and control. The Congo, for its part, is a state in name but a witches’ cauldron in practice— half-government, half-warlord, with villages constantly caught between machetes and megaphones. The war is not clean, not conventional, and not short.

The DRC-Rwanda conflict has been called “Africa’s World War” for a good reason: the ethnic tensions, rebel groups, and international proxy meddling have made peace efforts nearly impossible. This endless war was responsible for millions of deaths, legions of child soldiers, and half a dozen failed U.N. missions.




According to Business Insider, Trump brokered the historic peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The deal included troop withdrawals, disarmament of militias like M23, repatriation of refugees, and —here’s the real kicker— a minerals-for-security framework giving the U.S. access to strategic resources like cobalt and lithium.

In other words: peace plus rare earths.

Directed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s Africa adviser Massad Boulos spent the spring running shuttle diplomacy like Henry Kissinger with a passport packed with Kinshasa stamps. Late last week, Trump triumphantly declared, “We are ending violent bloodshed and death, more so even than most other wars.”

He was right. Still, corporate media largely ignored the massive story. It doesn’t fit the narrative, especially not this week, with the Pentagon dropping missiles into Iranian ventilation shafts like a rogue Jedi attacking the Death Star. But this historic African peace treaty was signed in Washington and facilitated by Trump’s State Department.

Buried in the story is the birth of something altogether new: a post-globalist foreign policy that trades endless conflict management for strategic resolution — and always with a keen eye on critical resources and a good deal for the U.S. ...

For twenty years, the Congo conflict was a bottomless money pit for Western guilt and USAID grants — a bureaucratic bonanza where NGOs multiplied like river amoebas, consultants got rich, and the UN racked up frequent flyer miles to swanky conferences while rebels racked up body counts. Peacekeeping became a business model. Stability was bad for funding.

But now, Trump walks in, cuts a deal, and wrecks the racket. No wonder nobody wants to talk about it. He ended the war — and worse, he ended the grift.