The signalling about the minerals was done far before Trump took the reigns.
Ukraine confirmed this week that they refused the early peace deal (which is better than the deal they will get now) because NATO promised to support them to the end.
Neocons can blame this all on the convenient orange sheep, but the Biden administration made no effort to provide with Ukraine with decisive weapons to win the war. Only barely enough for the stalemate to keep going.
Thinking it is bad is fine. The author of the Tweets even agrees with you in the screenshot you posted.
But America is not helping Ukraine. It used Ukraine as a tool. Now that Ukraine is at its lowest point America starts extorting Ukraine.
If this outcome (which many leftists correctly predicted) was known to Ukrainians three years ago, do you think Ukrainians would have been as enthusiastic to fight? So America can put a straw in their ground, and slurp up their minerals to fund Raytheon.
I know a great podcast you would like. It is called CNN.
This might sound crazy but this is way worse to me than the CEO simping for orange man. At least for Trump he has a semi plausible excuse.
Reposting stuff on Mastodon or Bluesky barely requires any additional effort. And I cannot think of a good reason to close abandon the free publicity when they already have it set up.
Boycott 9-Eleven instead.
Soldered ram is more efficient because it does not require big connectors and is closer to the CPU and GPU. 3D Vcache Is the ultimate examples or this.
The lobbying to invade more countries to bomb kids is making it a bit worse.
Is FT seriously trying to spin this as if Ukraine achieved anything in negotiations? American extortion won.
The US has the special ability to blame all bad things on their current president and definitely not the country as a whole.
Contrary to every other country in the world.
Will Ukraine take the bait again?
Are you able to write a single comment without half of it painting the person you are disagreeing with as a supporter of Putin?
Read one of your own favorite newspapers articles. They were already praising Ukraine’s minerals. When the war began. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039
And the open acknowledgment of mineral extortion is not a new Trump plan. It was openly proposed by neocons last year. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28288