You know what? Elon Musk called me, He is hugely interested in the lithium

Let's remember this gem from 7 months ago:

"Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35860473

My premonitory comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35861677

All working as planned: https://www.csis.org/analysis/south-americas-lithium-triangl...

So colonialism where a country is exploiting another country’s natural resources, if it isn’t with direct military intervention, it is with sanctions and/or subversion.

No one, including the country’s own citizens, are going to invest in a lithium mine (or anything else) without confidence that the investment won’t be seized. Stating that obvious and trivial fact isn’t “colonialism”.

instead of Valium, one presumes