The article describes global health in a new era of US mining policies under President Donald Trump, where mining is a core principle of his America First strategy. He marks 2025 as the year of the destruction of global health and 2026 as a shift towards these policies. Trump sought control of oil wealth in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on January 3, 2026. His ambitions include colonizing Greenland for rare earth technologies for artificial intelligence, according to the green paper. In the US-Ukraine Investment Fund, the US committed to the defense and reconstruction of Ukraine in exchange for access to minerals, oil and gas. Trump's triumph of a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in December 2025 should raise concerns about his interests.