B-Man Posted December 4 Posted December 4 RUSHING is the key word here. War Without End: U.S. Rushing $725 Million More in Lethal Weapons to Ukraine by Simon Kent The Biden administration might be in its final days but that doesn’t mean the flow of lethal U.S. weaponry to Ukraine shows any sign of slowing. Far from it. That was confirmed Monday when an additional $725 million in military assistance, including counter-drone systems and munitions for its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), was announced by the White House. AP reports it is unclear whether the munitions for the HIMARS are the coveted ATACMS — the Army Tactical Missile System — but Ukraine has been pressing for more of the longer-range missiles to strike additional targets inside Russia. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/03/war-without-end-u-s-rushing-725-million-more-in-lethal-weapons-to-ukraine/ https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-725-million-weapons-us-biden-38eaf70cad013d25cc7c505f7a3b6bcf
B-Man Posted December 8 Posted December 8 "600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever." "Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success. Likewise, Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse. I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!" Writes Trump on Truth Social. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113615912452824634 The NY Post writes about that statement in "Trump calls on 'weakened' Russia to enact ceasefire in Ukraine after Kremlin ally Assad is toppled in Syria." Excerpt: "Trump, who has at times expressed a fascination with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, remarked about how feeble Moscow appeared in Syria after the shocking and swift fall of Bashar al-Assad, whom Russia backed with troops, aircraft and navy ships." https://nypost.com/2024/12/08/us-news/trump-calls-on-russia-to-enact-ceasefire-in-ukraine-after-assad-is-toppled-in-syria/
Biden is Mentally Fit Posted December 10 Posted December 10 13 minutes ago, Tiberius said: It’s tragic that whoever is running the Biden Administration never attempted to negotiate peace. So many lives lost. 1
Tiberius Posted December 10 Author Posted December 10 8 minutes ago, Biden is Mentally Fit said: It’s tragic that whoever is running the Biden Administration never attempted to negotiate peace. So many lives lost. Oh they did, they told Putin to stop his murderous invasion, but Putin seems confident he will get all he wants from Trump, so the killing continues
Biden is Mentally Fit Posted December 10 Posted December 10 4 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Oh they did, they told Putin to stop his murderous invasion, but Putin seems confident he will get all he wants from Trump, so the killing continues It’s a shame that whoever was in charge of the Biden Administration was shown so much disregard and was completely ignored. Truly a failure. So many lives lost.
Tiberius Posted December 10 Author Posted December 10 4 minutes ago, Biden is Mentally Fit said: It’s a shame that whoever was in charge of the Biden Administration was shown so much disregard and was completely ignored. Truly a failure. So many lives lost. Well, Trump's buddy Putin sure killed a lot of people. We can agree that Putin is evil, right?
Biden is Mentally Fit Posted December 10 Posted December 10 11 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Well, Trump's buddy Putin sure killed a lot of people. We can agree that Putin is evil, right? Yes, we can agree. That’s what makes the complete failure of whoever is running the Biden Administration so frustrating.
Tiberius Posted December 10 Author Posted December 10 Just now, Biden is Mentally Fit said: Yes, we can agree. That’s what makes the complete failure of whoever is running the Biden Administration so frustrating. The survival of Ukraine is a good thing. Biden helped save a nation. Unlike the Republicans in Congress (not all) , who, at Trump's behest, held off supply these freedom fighters. Horrible. Biden helped save Ukraine while Trump called the invasion a "genius" move by Putin 1
Tiberius Posted Wednesday at 03:02 PM Author Posted Wednesday at 03:02 PM https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/18/trump-ukraine-gas-mineral-russia-peace-deal/ Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine is not only the breadbasket of Europe; it is also a mineral superpower with some of the largest reserves of 117 of the 120 the most widely used minerals in the world. Of the 50 strategic minerals identified by the United States as critical to its economy and national security, many of which are quite rare yet key to certain high-value applications, Ukraine supplies 22. Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter Ukraine possesses the largest reserves of uranium in Europe; the second-largest reserves of iron ore, titanium and manganese; and the third largest reserves of shale gas — as well as large deposits of lithium, graphite and rare earth metals, according to a 2022 report by the Canadian geopolitical risk-analysis firm SecDev. These minerals are essentia The question for the president-elect is: Does he want Russia and China to get that treasure trove of natural resources? Or does he want to develop them with Ukraine to the benefit of the American people? One of the main reasons Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine (aside from his delusional historical fantasies about how Ukrainians and Russians are “one people”) was to seize these natural resources, which are valued at an estimated $26 trillion, according to SecDev. Follow Marc A. Thiessen That effort nearly succeeded. In early 2022, Russian forces reached the outskirts of Kyiv and came close to taking the capital and installing a puppet regime. But with U.S. assistance — including the Javelin missiles that Trump supplied (reversing Barack Obama’s lethal weapons ban) — Ukraine forced Russia back. In so doing, it not only liberated its citizens from brutal Russian occupation; it also successfully defended roughly 80 percent of Ukraine’s known mineral deposits, according to the SecDev report — including 73 percent of its iron ore, 75 percent of its lithium and graphite, 90 percent of its titanium, and 92 percent of its uranium and other radioactive elements. Early on, Russia seized control of an estimated 80 percent of Ukraine’s massive offshore hydrocarbon deposits. But over the past three years, Ukraine has wiped out roughly half of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using explosive unmanned sea drones to drive the Russian navy from its territorial waters. With that successful offensive, Ukraine has reopened its shipping lanes and recaptured many of its Black Sea oil and gas deposits. Today, Ukraine maintains control of 96.5 percent of its proven oil reserves and 96 percent of its proven natural gas reserves — as well as all of its aluminum, cobalt, copper, nickel, tin and beryllium deposits. Natural gas About 96 percent of Ukraine’s natural gas reserves remain under Ukrainian control. Russia did succeed in seizing about 57 percent of the country’s known coal reserves (worth about $11.9 trillion) and about half of its deposits of certain rare earths (though many of those were captured in 2014 when Russia first invaded and seized Crimea). But those losses notwithstanding, Ukraine has prevented Russia from seizing $13.6 trillion in mineral and hydrocarbon wealth. That has been a massive defeat for Putin — and a huge opportunity for the United States. The American people have already invested about $183 billion to help Ukraine defend its mineral-rich land from Russian aggression. Though the vast majority of the military portion of that aid has been spent here in the United States — strengthening our defense production capacity and creating good manufacturing jobs for American workers — that amount remains a staggeringly large investment in helping Ukraine defend itself from unjust aggression. Shouldn’t U.S. taxpayers get a return on that investment? Do we want Ukrainian titanium going into American planes, or into Russian and Chinese fighter jets that will threaten the United States and its allies? Do we want Ukraine’s lithium and rare earths powering American-made electronics and electric vehicles, or Chinese ones? Trump has pledged to “bring Americans the lowest-cost energy and electricity on Earth” as well as expand artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency mining, which require data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity. The only proven way to lower electricity costs while simultaneously increasing electricity demand is to dramatically boost our supply of clean nuclear power. And Trump has pledged to approve the construction of nuclear plants powered by small innovative reactors.
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