Some of those mineral rights will end up being on new Russian territory. Most of it is in the eastern provinces if I recall correctly. Trump is making a new initiative by partnering with MP a western mining company to extract rare earths. METC is another company that has the rights to western land filled with rare earth metals. Hard to believe that 90 percent of our rare earths come from China and they pretty much control the price.
Another day in Russia, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who regularly distributes press releases for domestic and foreign consumption.
The president of Russia has famously set an impressive example of historical knowledge, and set to keep generational knowledge of Russian history before the people and beyond and at the top of his government.
I was impressed to see several items issued yesterday, this one enclosed, and also another that paid respects to the bombing of Japan by the US.
Anyway, a ninth day in August, day in history... LENINGRAD.
Rita
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🗓 On August 9, 1944, the Battle of Leningrad ended in victory for the Red Army.
The battle lasted 1’127 days, making it the longest of the Great Patriotic War. For more than three years, Soviet soldiers and officers fought fierce battles in the northwestern theatre, while the people in Leningrad bravely endured the horrors of the siege.
Capturing Leningrad was a major military and political objective for the Nazi leadership. Hitler planned to use Leningrad as a springboard to strike at the rear of the Soviet soldiers and officers defending Moscow. Instead of taking the city in three weeks, as Hitler expected, the Nazi troops spent more than three years at its approaches.
While the Red Army fiercely engaged the enemy in battle, the city’s residents selflessly laboured and steadfastly endured the siege. Leningrad was completely encircled by enemy forces on September 8, 1941. More than 2.8 million people, including 400’000 children, found themselves in the enemy grip, facing harsh winters, famine and continuous bombing.
Favourable conditions finally developed in January 1943, when the main forces of the Wehrmacht were sent to Stalingrad. During Operation “Iskra” (Spark), the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts broke through the German defences, restoring the land connection of the city with the mainland.
The final stage of the Battle of Leningrad was the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, when the Red Army broke through strong defenses and defeated German and Finnish forces on the Karelian Isthmus and in Southern Karelia.
Casualties among both the defenders and the civilian population of Leningrad due to the fighting and the siege totaled between 1.5 and 2 million.
Over 350’000 soldiers and officers of the Leningrad Front were decorated with orders and medals. The medal For the Defence of Leningrad was conferred on 1.5 million people. In 1965, Leningrad was among the first to receive the title Hero City as a tribute to the heroism and courage shown by its residents during the siege.
🎖 In April 2025, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a federal law designating this date as a Day of Military Glory in our country.
A commie country/planned economy, subsidies and cartels can ALWAYS work long enough to destroy the target industries of other nations operating under market economies without protective measures.
Like oil, your industry gets shellacked for billions a few times by OPEC dropping oil a huge percent below going rate and you hold off strongly on shelling out for drilling and exploration, or stop...
Processing them can be environmentally unsound, why they do it in China.
As of 2022, work was ongoing to restore processing capabilities for domestic light rare-earth elements (LREEs) and work has been funded by the United States Department of Defense to restore processing capabilities for heavy rare-earth metals (HREEs) to alleviate supply chain risk.[4] The mine was reported as operating in 2025.[5]
Do we know for certain that those minerals - rare earths - are there? 🤔