KoBold Makes Offer for Congo Lithium as Country Courts US, page-1959

From your latest post: "Other possible investors are NewYork City based Orion Resource Partners ,Ivanhoe Mines ,Australian Miner RioTinto , and Saudi Arabia's United Mining ."
I would love to see a bidding war on AVZ's Manono mine, but, would the signing of a deal with the Trump administration for security/money for minerals leave out non-American companies? Just talking out loud here, but, wouldn't it be dumb to sign such a deal & have those minerals go to some other countries companies? Not saying that all raw minerals coming out of the DRC would then go to US first, but you would at least think the largest hard rock lithium mine in the world at least. Maybe he wouldn't mind who extracts & processes it as long as the US has first rights to all offtakes & pricing. What is your thoughts on that titan64 & others?