Worth the Paper It's Written On

"They literally announced it in the Oval Office."

O.K., then, that seals it: the war in Rwanda is over!

🚨 LMAO! CNN liberal panelist gets community noted in real-time by Scott Jennings as she fails to realize Trump ENDED the Congo-Rwanda war.

PANELIST: "It's not done, it's not done!"

JENNINGS: "You didn't watch the news yesterday. They literally announced it in the Oval Office."… pic.twitter.com/2TvggqJM6N

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 28, 2025

Jennings is right about one thing: the end of the war was declared on June 27 at the White House when the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades long deadly fighting in eastern Congo while helping the U.S. government and American companies gain access to critical minerals in the region.

“Today, the violence and destruction comes to an end, and the entire region begins a new chapter of hope and opportunity, harmony, prosperity and peace,” President Donald Trump told the foreign ministers of the two countries at a White House meeting.

So, it's all over.... except when it's not, because 

While the deal is seen as a turning point, analysts don’t believe it will quickly end the fighting because the most prominent armed group says it does not apply to it. Many Congolese see it mainly as an opportunity for the U.S. to acquire critical minerals needed for much of the world’s technology after their government reached out to Trump for support in fighting the rebels.

Trump has pushed to gain access to such minerals at a time when the United States and China are actively competing for influence in Africa.

President Trump specializes in signing deals, purportedly to end wars, which leave out a major party to the war. It's how he sold out the U.S.-backed Afghan government when he signed a "peace" agreement with the Taliban in 2020 and left Kabul out in the cold. In east-central Africa

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group is the most prominent armed group in the conflict, and its major advance early this year left bodies on the streets. With 7 million people displaced in Congo, the United Nations has called it “one of the most protracted, complex, serious humanitarian crises on Earth.”

Congo hopes the U.S. will provide it with the security support needed to fight the rebels and possibly get them to withdraw from the key cities of Goma and Bukavu, and from the entire region where Rwanda is estimated to have up to 4,000 troops. Rwanda has said that it’s defending its territorial interests and not supporting M23.

So Trump- uh, er, the USA- gets mineral rights, Congo gets military assistance, and Rwanda gets to say that it has made peace and of course, not supporting the rebel group because, well, it signed a peace treaty. Meanwhile

M23 rebels have suggested that the agreement won’t be binding for them. The rebel group hasn’t been directly involved in the planned peace deal, although it has been part of other ongoing peace talks.

Trump does it again! He makes a deal and appears to broker a peace he hasn't produced. And he has plenty of Republican stooges, Scott Jennings one of the most avid, to make way for the authoritarian.

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