Bangladesh, March 4 -- Elon Musks Starlink is increasingly facing competition from Chinas SpaceSail. Meanwhile, Trumps new “energy Tsar” has said that Washington is doomed to lose the “AI arms race” without fossil fuels. Energy production does seem to be a priority for the new administration: one may recall that in his famous interview with news-host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump said he wanted to “drill, drill, drill!”. What do these pieces of news have to do with Trumps hunger for minerals in Ukraine and even elsewhere, considering his plans for Greenland and so on?

Well, to make sense of so many measures and plans carried out by Trump, one needs to keep in mind 1) how much the business interests of Big...