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How Your Car’s Battery Funds Warlords

Fronts Staff • December 14, 2025

How Your Car’s Battery Funds Warlords

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About this briefing

Your phone, EV, and car battery run on “critical minerals” often mined in warzones—cobalt, coltan, gold—fueling warlords, exploitation, and blood-soaked supply chains. Follow the hidden resource curse behind modern tech’s clean future. Megaprojects: https://www.youtube.com/@megaprojects9649 SideProjects: https://www.youtube.com/@Sideprojects Into The Shadows: https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows Today I Found Out: https://www.youtube.com/@TodayIFoundOut Brain Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/@brainblaze6526 Casual Criminalist: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCasualCriminalist Decoding the Unknown: https://www.youtube.com/@decodingtheunknown2373 Places: https://www.youtube.com/@Places302 Celestium: https://www.youtube.com/@Celestium1234 PoliticalFronts: http://www.youtube.com/@homefronts 00:00 Introduction 01:29 At the Mercy of the Supply Chain 10:40 Incentives to Take; Incentives to Hide 20:40 Around the World

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