Unfortunately, that's misleading.
Mr. Christensen, 65, noted that despite assurances by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that uranium could not leave the country without Uranium One or ARMZ obtaining an export license — which they do not have — yellowcake from his property was routinely packed into drums and trucked off to a processing plant in Canada.
Asked about that, the commission confirmed that Uranium One has, in fact, shipped yellowcake to Canada even though it does not have an export license. Instead, the transport company doing the shipping, RSB Logistic Services, has the license. A commission spokesman said that “to the best of our knowledge” most of the uranium sent to Canada for processing was returned for use in the United States. A Uranium One spokeswoman, Donna Wichers, said 25 percent had gone to Western Europe and Japan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...m-company.html
Now seriously folks, do you think Putin and his economic allies have donated millions to the Clintons, spent millions elsewhere, and gone to all these lengths just for bragging rights that they own US uranium but it can't ever leave the US? Seriously?
They'll get a bunch of it out. Even the NYT is reporting 25% or so, and that's just through one 3rd party company. With all the layers of companies these guys control and all their deep pockets and political ties, I will guarantee you personally that a big chunk of it will find its way abroad.
As for reversing the deal, isn't it interesting that Trump has been the one accused of being a "fascist" who is going to shred the Constitution, and yet the solution to this is to simply seize assets legally obtained like some 3rd world dictator. Now maybe he makes that move, and there hopefully are legal means under which he can take action to prevent the loss of such strategic resources, probably by proving they are illegally exporting uranium, but if there isn't such a law we'll have to go through Congress b/c hopefully we are still a nation of laws.
I hope there is surely some legal means to deal with this, but the idea that it's a) not a problem, or b) a problem we can solve by just being corrupt with regard to the rule of law a second time, is a false narrative IMO.
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