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Trump Says He Wants Ukraine To Guarantee Access To Rare Earth Minerals in Exchange for Military Aid (news.antiwar.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has frequently brought up Ukraine's rare earth minerals as a reason to continue fueling the proxy war.

"This war is about money. People don't talk much about it. But you know, the richest country in all of Europe for rare earth minerals is Ukraine. Two to seven trillion dollars' worth of minerals that are rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century," Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity in November. "Ukraine's ready to do a deal with us, not the Russians. So it's in our interest to make sure that Russia doesn't take over the place."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Well at least the US is finally honest about why it's helping the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Citations needed, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Azov brigade and the long history of Ukrainians enthusiastically helping the Nazis in WWII, both are on wikipedia, citing western sources.

We shouldn't help Russia either, given they're just as bad these days, but treating one better than the other is categorically insane... Unless one is willing to sign over pretty much all their mineral and agriculture rights to us companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Azov is bad, but they aren’t Ukraine as a whole. Their leader is Jewish! As for WWII, you got to be joking. That was 80 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

And as Russia is ingrained with Wagner, Rusich etc. does that also declare Putin fascist, with the invasion being fascist infighting?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Zelensky is a Zionist. So he checks the Nazi box too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

US like israel, ukraine want US continued support, why would zelensky talk bad about Israel when doing so would anger the US?

Seems pretty straightforward to me why he would be buddies with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 minutes ago

Some statements have aged... rather poorly...

Zelenskyy says wants Ukraine to become a ‘big Israel’

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

liyunxiao

Fellow xianxia enjoyer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well recognized! And yes. Compared to a lot of story types that try to avoid Mary sues, it's nice to just give in occasionally. 这一世我要当至尊 is pretty fun overall, even if it gets a bit too DBZ levels of ridiculous in terms of strict power scaling definitions that it immediately ignores anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah i like the genre because it's an unashamed epic power trips. I blame the western fantasy which degenerated to shitty gritty dark low fantasy and/or pointless strings of long action scenes and keeps at it for over 30 years.

Btw i recognized the nickname because i currently read the Eternal Supreme :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I was confused about the amount of upvotes, until I saw this was on .ml