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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    Commentators here seem to be missing the main point - Trump is simply responding positively to Zelensky’s offer.

    Proof: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/04/ukraine-trump-rare-earth-minerals/ => https://archive.ph/LXP0J

    Ukraine previously offered U.S. access to its rare earth minerals in an effort to keep the Trump administration engaged in supporting the country militarily in its fight with Russia.

    World history knows many battles fought for independence, but the last 10 years of Ukraine’s history represent a unique example of a ruthless struggle to become a colony.

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      last 10 years of Ukraine’s history represent a unique example of a ruthless struggle to become a colony.

      More like a ruthless struggle to break up with one colonizer in favor of a new one.

      There’s a reason more than half the oligarchs fled to Russia at the onset of the war.

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    it is always about the grift

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    So. All Putin has to do is say. “Don’t send any weapons to Ukraine and when we win, Russia will give you their rare minerals”, and Trump will roll over like a dog begging for a treat. Not that Trump ever knew right from wrong…

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    America is the enemy. Smaller states need to work closely together to resist the wanker states like Russia, America, and China.

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        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.

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          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 :)

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        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.

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          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.

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      This is an example of a long standing America foreign policy. Trump is just saying it out loud .