Posted on 06/10/2024 6:36:18 AM PDT by McGruff
Allowing a Russian victory in the conflict would deprive America of access to vast mineral resources, Lindsey Graham says
In an interview with 'Face the Nation' on CBS on Sunday, Graham accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being a "megalomaniac" who is attempting to "re-create the Russian Empire by force of arms," starting with Ukraine. He further claimed that if Moscow wins the current conflict, it will then take over Ukraine's wealth and share it with China. Graham described that prospect as "ridiculous," suggesting it would be better if this "gold mine" were available to the US instead.
"They're sitting on 10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe... If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China," Graham stated.
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We have borrowed to date $200 billion and Europe about the same to send to Ukraine. Zelensky estimates it will take $800 billion to rebuild what was before the war one of the poorest and most corrupt countries on the continent.
Ukraine is a gold mine for special interests and Ukrainian oligarchs. For the US taxpayer, it is a bottomless pit.
“Oh, so weโre drifting towards war not altruistic reasons for but for economic reasons. Good to know.”
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Economics won’t matter much after the nukes start flying. Just saying.
Oh, the nukes will be flying if the Biden Worshipers and Neo Cons get their way. And they will, it may take a while, but they will get there. Day by day, inch by inch, second by second we are being guided by them to that point in time. Count on it.
His grift money will dry up. Keep the war going!
“we no longer have an industrial base that can even resupply the artillery shells Ukraine uses”
I think that’s changed since the phrase first appeared here. at FR.
Ukraine, holder of 5% of the world’s supply, exports most of its raw titanium, iron, gallium, manganese,zirconium, germanium, coal and lithium to China.
...and sits on the largest gas supply in Europe—still largely unexploited.
The US can artificially manufacture titanium, but it’s a drop-by-drop process: nowhere near enough to make our submarines as strong as Russia’s, and to operate at formerly unachievable depths.
The Russians see it the same way, only they don’t want to trade for what they can simply take by force of arms, like they are doing in Sudan...
So have the Russians.
And even Iran’s got a finger in there.
Don’t forget maple syrup!
Deport them to Russia and China
Well...he is right. Except the Russians aren’t stupid, they won’t share it, they might sell it, in exchange for all that technology we let the Chinese steal from us.
It certainly was a gold mine for the Biden Crime Family, the Globalists and the Military Industrial Complex.
Justa lettin' you know!
True and Nicely Put!
Is worse than this:
You got severe issues if you're more concerned about politicians than the destruction of cities.
Destroy certain Politicians, save the cities.
You certainly have severe issues if you can't figure that out.
If there’s an R senator (supposedly) that I trust the least, it’s probably Graham.
bingo!
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