I think the Ukrainian rare earth minerals are a fantasy much like they were in Afghanistan.
They would have been mined prior to 2022 if they were so valuable.
This is just an excuse to say a great deal has been made. Trump loves those. Better than saying the US just lost and threw all the military aid money down the toilet.
This is why I am surprised to hear that Trump publicly talk against military support to Zelensky in news headline. Even if an American politician planned to abandon Ukraine, they will not publicizes their lack of support to Zelensky. Whistleblowing that Zelensky is responsible for Russian’s military intervention is a death sentence to any political career in the British diaspora. The blind faith of British diaspora to the Pax Americana media allows Pax Americana tyrants to avoid question over the evidence that Zelensky and his predecessor were staging false flag terrorism during Russian military intervention and the ethnic cleaning for 8 years before the Russian military intervention.
Whistleblowing that Zelensky is responsible for Russian’s military intervention is a death sentence to any political career
Not necessarily the case in the US. Support for Ukraine is apparently quite unpopular outside of the liberal beltway elite. Trump’s power is not derived from the approval of the Washington political class and the liberal establishment.
He relies on the support of his right wing base which is nativist and isolationist to a large degree, and uninterested in Europe’s problems. They also identify more with Russia, which has been portrayed by the mainstream media as a very conservative country, than with Ukraine, which has been held up as this symbol of liberal values.
Of course neither of these two images are accurate, Russia is not as culturally aligned with the American right wing as is typically claimed, and Ukraine is very, very far from being a bastion of liberalism, but the US public by and large can only view geopolitics through the lens of their own domestic partisan divisions.
For this reason it is actually politically quite viable for Trump to take an anti-Ukraine stance, or at the very least one that insists that the US should distance itself from that conflict, and doing so may even gain him approval from a significant part of the US public.
Of course the danger, if he goes too far, is that he may trigger some kind of coup on his administration (in the form of impeachment or sabotage of his agenda) by a coalition of Democrats and disgruntled Republicans who were politically and financially invested in the Ukraine conflict.
gotta get those “RAW” earths.
