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John Kiriakou's account of why American policy toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo is quietly comfortable while the east of the country is in chaos: the United States buys as much Congolese rare earth metal as can be dug out of the ground, and the central government's weakness against Rwanda is a problem Donald Trump claimed to have solved for the purposes of a Nobel Peace Prize case, with a peace Kiriakou says lasted a couple of weeks.
United States–DRC relations were put to John Kiriakou on 3 March 2026 by a viewer who noted that eastern Congo has been among the worst humanitarian emergencies on earth for decades, that eighty per cent of women there report having been raped, and that American-backed agreements are criticised as instruments for extracting the country’s resources without consent.
Kiriakou’s answer began with what he called the odd thing about it: “US DRC relations are actually quite good.”[1]
What makes them good
The explanation he gives is entirely material. “We buy as much of their rare earth metals as they could possibly dig out of the ground. We make everything from, you know, from chrome bumpers to cell phones to guided missile systems with their rare earth metals.”[1][2]
Good bilateral relations in this account are not a judgement about the Congolese state — which Kiriakou describes as barely present where the fighting is — but a description of an uninterrupted supply relationship. The two facts coexist because the metals and the war are in the same country but not, from Washington’s side, in the same file.
Where the state is not
“The DRC government is very weak in the eastern part of the country. Very, very weak versus Rwanda of all countries.”[2] Kiriakou emphasises the mismatch of size against the mismatch of outcome: “Rwanda’s like this big, DRC’s huge, and the Rwanda the Rwandans just just batter them about the face and head at will. It’s it’s chaos over there in the east.”[2]
The peace that was claimed
The eastern Congo is also, he notes, one of the conflicts Donald Trump took credit for ending — “This was one of his arguments in support of the Nobel Peace Prize that he brought peace to the eastern Congo.”[2][3]
Kiriakou’s verdict on the claim is a single clause: “And the peace lasted a couple of weeks.”[3]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
