Patriots, while the legacy media keeps you distracted with their latest manufactured outrage, President Trump has been quietly executing a strategic masterstroke that could fundamentally reshape American national security for generations. Executive Order 14241, signed in October 2025, is nothing less than a declaration of war on our dangerous dependence on Communist China for the critical minerals that power every single piece of American military hardware.
And the corporate press? Crickets.
America's Dirty Secret: We're Sitting Ducks
Here's the terrifying reality the Deep State doesn't want you to know: China and Russia control most of the global supply of the minerals that make our F-35s fly, our missiles launch, our satellites orbit, and our hypersonic weapons function. Copper. Titanium. Lithium. Rare earth elements. Cobalt. Gallium. Germanium. Without them, our entire defense infrastructure grinds to a halt.
"America is caught with our pants down," warns Craig Perry, a strategic mining executive who has founded and led companies valued at over $20 billion. His assessment is blunt and alarming: "We have not done enough exploration or mine development over the last 15 to 20 years and now we are paying the price. China has a 35-year head start on rare earth mineral production."
Let that sink in, folks. Thirty-five years. While American bureaucrats were busy protecting sage grass and strangling domestic mining with endless red tape, the CCP was systematically cornering the market on the very materials our military needs to defend this nation.
The Numbers Don't Lie
The situation is nothing short of a national emergency. In the next 15 years, the world needs to produce as much copper as has been mined in the previous 10,000 years combined. Perry says flatly: we cannot do that under current conditions.
Silver? The market is in 20 percent fundamental undersupply right now. Demand sits at 1.1 billion ounces while global supply limps along under 900 million. Silver has already skyrocketed from $25 to $95 per ounce in just 12 months, and Perry predicts copper will hit $30 to $40 per pound within five years.
Every F-35 fighter jet is essentially a flying periodic table—requiring aluminum, titanium, high-strength steel with niobium, graphite, and semiconductors dependent on germanium and gallium. If China cuts us off during a conflict, our military production doesn't just slow down. It stops.
Trump's Bold Move
But here's where it gets good. The Trump administration isn't just acknowledging the crisis—they're attacking it head-on.
Executive Order 14241 directed federal agencies to accelerate domestic mineral production, including the critical Ambler Road project in Alaska. David Copley, a former Newmont executive, was appointed head of mining for the National Energy Dominance Council and has since been promoted to senior director at the National Security Council.
"This promotion signals that the White House is moving to a war footing on mineral security," Perry explains.
At the Future Mining Forum in Saudi Arabia, Copley announced that approval times need to drop from years to months. That's right—while the Biden regime spent four years weaponizing the regulatory state against American energy and industry, President Trump is tearing down the barriers that have kept us vulnerable.
The Alaska Solution
The Palmer Project in southeastern Alaska represents exactly the kind of domestic solution America First policies can deliver. Located just 30 kilometers from tidewater, it contains copper, zinc, silver, gold, barite, gallium, and germanium—a treasure trove of strategic materials sitting on American soil. It was listed as number one on the dossier Alaska's governor provided to the White House.
The southeastern Alaska corridor contains over 124 known mineral deposits but currently has only one operating mine. One. That's not environmental protection—that's national suicide by bureaucracy.
The Bottom Line
"We are massively behind China," Perry warns. "If you see them as our competition, they are so far in front that there is us and then distance."
The revenge of the miners is coming, Patriots—but only if we let them actually mine. President Trump understands that energy dominance and mineral security aren't just economic issues. They're existential. The question is: will the swamp creatures in Washington finally get out of the way, or will they continue putting spotted owls and sage grass ahead of American national security?
The clock is ticking. China isn't waiting. And thanks to Executive Order 14241, neither is President Trump.