Posted on 10/21/2025 12:59:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I am continuing to prepare for President Donald Trump’s trip to Budapest, where he will meet with President Putin. In order to negotiate an end to the war with Ukraine, it is necessary to know for what Putin sent his soldiers there. To clarify, I am not asking “why,” but “what for.” Since the beginning of Putin’s attack on Ukraine, political scientists, psychologists, and other experts have attempted to explain the attack based on Putin’s psyche: his desire to prove to world leaders that he is the most powerful, his dream of being remembered as the “gatherer of Russian lands,” his irritation at Ukraine’s application to join NATO, and the fabrications of Russian propagandists about American biological laboratories in Ukraine.
However, on September 5, 2022, Major General Vladimir Ovchinsky, former head of Russian Interpol and current advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, revealed the secret. In the September issue of the magazine Izbor Club, he published his article Литий и смерть (Lithium and Death). This small-circulation magazine certainly wasn’t read in the White House, and I doubt anyone there knew how to read Russian, then or now. However, I will not translate and quote the entire article. Instead, I will list the reasons for the Russian invasion mentioned in it, starting with this:
‘Ukraine ranks fourth in the world in terms of the total estimated value of its natural resources. It has an annual output of approximately $15 billion, with a potential estimated value of up to $7.5 trillion,’ the general wrote. ‘At the same time, Ukraine is one of the richest European countries in terms of rare earth metals and lithium reserves. The value of these deposits is estimated to be between $3 trillion and $11.5 trillion. Oil is traditionally called ‘black gold’ because of...
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Second rate blogs are a step behind the times.
Last I heard, that meeting with Putin was off.
Author is late. Trump is not going now, after Putin disagreed with a ceasefire in place.
It’s always about energy. Especially with Russia.
What would that entail, exactly?
Decent pastry?
Meeting has been cancelled for now.
So we should continue conducting the proxy war that in the same breath you will deny exists?
To retrieve the crown of St. Stephen which one of his predecessors for some reason gave to the Communist regime?
So "helping a friend in battling a monster" by supplying weapons and giving them $350,000,000,000++ to fight a war that would be "unsustainable" without that support isn't a proxy war?
Do you hear yourself, Margaret?
U.S.-Russia Proxy War in Ukraine: A Case of Deterrence Failure
No matter how much, wars are not cheap, and when battling one of the biggest military powers in the world, no cost is too much, A lot more would be lost if the cost was what mattered the most.
Still not a proxy war, no matter how many times you repeat the nonsense.
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