Britain wants Ukraineâs minerals too Itâs not just Trump. The UK views critical minerals as a government priority and wants to open up Ukraineâs vast resources to British corporations.
When UK officials signed a 100 year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraineâs âpreferred partnerâ in developing the countryâs âcritical minerals strategyâ.
Yet within a month, Donald Trump had presented a proposal to Ukraineâs President Volodymr Zelensky to access the countryâs vast mineral resources as âcompensationâ for US support to Ukraine in the war against Russia.
Whitehall was none too pleased about Washington muscling in.
When foreign secretary David Lammy met Zelensky in Kyiv last month he reportedly raised the issue of minerals, âa sign that Starmerâs government is still keen to get access to Ukraineâs richesâ, the iPaper reported.
Lammy earlier said, in a speech last year: âLook around the world. Countries are scrambling to secure critical minerals, just as great powers once raced to control oilâ.
The UK foreign secretary was correct, but Britain itself is one of those powers, and Ukraine is one of the major countries UK officials â as well as the Trump administration â have their eyes on. (...)
oh, that's rich. This is the second time when backed into a corner, you suddenly come out with criticism of Russia. Sorry mate, not buying it.
You know what I think? I think any country under attack has a right to defend itself. It therefore has a right to source its defenses from wherever the hell it can get them.
All the more so, when the aggressor is on a demonstrable path of ethnic cleansing and imperial expansion as in this case.
Yet 99% of your posts about Ukraine are pro-Kremlin and how resistance is futile and they should just surrender and accept their fate. When you get called out on the inconsistency, you come up with same lame moral equivalence that "neither are justified." Sorry man. Not credible.
Violence is never justified; always rationalized. Russia invaded Ukraine - a sovereign state. Defending themselves is the rational thing to do.
In terms of ending this war, Russia can end it anytime they like.
oh, that's rich. This is the second time when backed into a corner, you suddenly come out with criticism of Russia. Sorry mate, not buying it.
You know what I think? I think any country under attack has a right to defend itself. It therefore has a right to source its defenses from wherever the hell it can get them.
All the more so, when the aggressor is on a demonstrable path of ethnic cleansing and imperial expansion as in this case.
Yet 99% of your posts about Ukraine are pro-Kremlin and how resistance is futile and they should just surrender and accept their fate. When you get called out on the inconsistency, you come up with same lame moral equivalence that "neither are justified." Sorry man. Not credible.
It's unfortunate that victims of UDS have this habit of spinning and misrepresenting the opinions of people with whom they disagree. As posted before: only simple binaries exists. For/with us or for/with the enemy. If you don't take the maximalist position then you're appeasing. Black & white. Good vs. Evil
Red herring, because neither are justified despite your ad hom straw man claiming otherwise.
oh, that's rich. This is the second time when backed into a corner, you suddenly come out with criticism of Russia. Sorry mate, not buying it.
You know what I think? I think any country under attack has a right to defend itself. It therefore has a right to source its defenses from wherever the hell it can get them.
All the more so, when the aggressor is on a demonstrable path of ethnic cleansing and imperial expansion as in this case.
Yet 99% of your posts about Ukraine are pro-Kremlin and how resistance is futile and they should just surrender and accept their fate. When you get called out on the inconsistency, you come up with same lame moral equivalence that "neither are justified." Sorry man. Not credible.
I've got a 5-year old son. Don't need anymore kindergarten bells and whistles right now thanks.
This is precisely what you do repeatedly. You post everything you get your hands on about ethnic cleansing in Gaza,
then when the Russias do the very same thing as the Israelis you find it entirely justified.
Not sure if you are aware of it , but it makes you look entirely hollow.
You actually don't give a shit, do you? It's all just something to instrumentalize.
I've got a 5-year old son. Don't need anymore kindergarten bells and whistles right now thanks.
This is precisely what you do repeatedly. You post everything you get your hands on about ethnic cleansing in Gaza,
then when the Russias do the very same thing as the Israelis you find it entirely justified.
Not sure if you are aware of it , but it makes you look entirely hollow.
You actually don't give a shit, do you? It's all just something to instrumentalize.
