Negative 20 degrees. A helicopter touching down in the frozen Canadian wilderness. Drill rigs turning around the clock in conditions most Americans couldn't survive for an hour. This is the front line of a war most citizens don't even know is being fought — and President Donald Trump is winning it.
Next News Network traveled from Chicago to Vancouver to the remote town of Smithers, then deep into the frozen backcountry by helicopter to witness something the legacy media refuses to cover: America's desperate fight to break free from Chinese mineral dominance before it's too late.
The War China Doesn't Want You to Know About
Here's the ugly truth previous administrations swept under the rug for decades: Every F-35 fighter jet protecting our skies, every spy satellite watching our enemies, every missile system defending our allies — they all depend on critical minerals that hostile foreign nations have controlled for far too long.
When President Trump announced tariffs, what did China do? They immediately threatened to cut off American access to these vital resources. That's not trade policy, folks. That's blackmail. And it exposed a vulnerability so dangerous that any serious leader would have addressed it years ago.
But we didn't have serious leaders. We had globalists more interested in appeasing Beijing than protecting American interests.
President Trump saw the danger clearly — and he acted.
Project Vault: Trump's Bold Answer
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have assembled an unprecedented coalition of 50 nations to create a critical minerals trading bloc designed to shatter Chinese and Russian hegemony once and for all. The Critical Minerals Dominance Act passed the House 224 to 195, with billions committed to securing domestic supply chains.
But policy is just paper without boots on the ground. That's where companies like Vizsla Copper come in.
At the Thera discovery site, two drill rigs are punching down 500 to 600 meters into a massive porphyry copper system that geologists believe could contain over a billion tons of critical minerals. This isn't speculation or wishful thinking — trained geologists on site have verified copper mineralization visible to the naked eye.
What We Witnessed on the Battlefield
Flying over the Huckleberry Mine, a massive open-pit operation by Imperial Metals, you can see exactly what's possible when these deposits are fully developed. At Copper Pond, the evidence is even more striking: copper literally sitting on the surface, outcropping porphyry-style rocks everywhere you look.
Vizsla acquired this entire project just two and a half years ago for a mere $2.7 million. The Poplar deposit already contains nearly 300 million tons at 0.4 percent copper equivalent, with an alteration zone extending another 8 kilometers packed with additional targets. The infrastructure is already there — road access, a major highway, and a train line running through the valley.
While competitors take the winter off, these patriots are working through brutal conditions to secure America's future.
Why This Matters to Every American
Think about this: Every single Chevrolet on American roads contains 35 pounds of copper. Your cell phone, your home's electrical system, the grid that keeps your lights on — all of it depends on these minerals.
Do you want that supply controlled by a communist regime that views America as its primary enemy? Or do you want it secured by American allies working in partnership with the Trump administration?
The choice should be obvious to any patriot paying attention.
President Trump understands that economic security IS national security. While the mainstream media chases manufactured scandals and palace intrigue, this administration is quietly ensuring that America will never again be held hostage by foreign powers who wish us harm.
This is Trump's secret war — and thanks to his leadership, America is winning.
The only question is: Will the American people wake up and recognize what's being done to protect them before it's too late to say thank you?