While mainstream media obsesses over Washington palace intrigue, President Trump has been quietly waging a secret war that will determine whether America remains a superpower or becomes hostage to Chinese mineral blackmail. This isn't fought with bullets and bombs—it's fought with drill rigs and helicopters in brutal conditions most Americans couldn't survive.
Next News Network's Gary Franchi flew by helicopter into the remote Canadian wilderness to witness this battlefield firsthand at the Thera discovery site, where two drill rigs are turning around the clock in -20 degree weather. The team is drilling 500-600 meters deep into a massive porphyry copper system that could contain over a billion tons of critical minerals.
This is Trump's bold answer to decades of dangerous American vulnerability that previous administrations completely ignored.
For years, our F-35 fighter jets, missile systems, spy satellites, and even everyday cell phones have depended on minerals controlled by hostile foreign nations who hate us. The moment Trump announced tariffs, China threatened to cut off American access to these critical materials—exposing a massive blind spot that the swamp refused to acknowledge.
Project Vault: Breaking China's Stranglehold
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio brought 50 nations together to create a powerful critical minerals trading bloc designed to break China and Russia's hegemony once and for all. The Critical Minerals Dominance Act passed the House 224-195, with billions committed to securing reliable domestic supply chains.
While competitors take the winter off, companies like Vizsla Copper are executing in brutal conditions. Franchi witnessed copper literally sitting on the surface at Copper Pond—outcropping porphyry rocks visible everywhere, with drill rigs testing promising targets.
The minerals coming out of this frozen ground will power the F-35s protecting our skies, run the spy satellites watching our enemies, and fill the 35 pounds of copper in every Chevrolet on American roads.
This is the front line of Trump's secret war, and America is winning. Everything that makes America the greatest nation on earth depends on patriots willing to fight in -20 degree weather while the establishment sleeps.