deltaindia wrote:

    

 deltaindia wrote: 

 deltaindia wrote:

The day before yesterday my friends sent me a photo, it's near my house in Kharkov. Everything is intact in our house. I don't know when this will end! I believe that love will save the world, not Trump or anyone else

Britain wants Ukraine’s minerals too
It’s not just Trump. The UK views critical minerals as a government priority and wants to open up Ukraine’s vast resources to British corporations.

When UK officials signed a 100 year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing the country’s “critical minerals strategy”.

Yet within a month, Donald Trump had presented a proposal to Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky to access the country’s vast mineral resources as “compensation” 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, “a sign that Starmer’s government is still keen to get access to Ukraine’s riches”, the iPaper reported.

Lammy earlier said, in a speech last year: “Look around the world. Countries are scrambling to secure critical minerals, just as great powers once raced to control oil”.

The UK foreign secretary was correct, but Britain itself is one of those powers, and Ukraine is one of the major countries UK officials – as well as the Trump administration – have their eyes on. (...)

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

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.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
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

There's always a third (or fourth) position...
Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors
Russia’s invasion is a war crime, Chomsky says, but the U.S. shouldn’t escalate this conflict between nuclear powers.

 R_P wrote:

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.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
Red herring, because neither are justified despite your ad hom straw man claiming otherwise.

 R_P wrote:

No, it's not. Just more smoke and mirrors on your part. 
Attacking unarmed civilians is a war crime. 
In Gaza as it is in Ukraine. 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
Straw man.

 R_P wrote:
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.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
🚨 Tone Police 🚨

 R_P wrote:
you are calling anti-missile defences and intelligence that stop a shit ton of innocent people getting killed "treats"?

Where were you born?

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
It's outrageous! And these are still Biden's treats that were in transit.

 R_P wrote:
ewww...   that is really grotesque given the circumstances.

almost on a par with turning Gaza into a hotel development 

no, hang on, I think it is almost worse than that.

Grovel and you get your treats again.

Philips O'Brien:

First impressions on the US-Ukraine deal are that Ukraine has shown that its always best not to grovel, apologize or become desperate with Trump. He cut their aid, helped kill their people, and they kept fighting with their head held high. They made him look cruel and he blinked


me: still not trusting it yet. 

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrii Yermak:

"The main achievements, the results of today's meeting are the immediate resumption of American assistance and intelligence sharing.We also discussed all the issues related to the process of ending the war,ending the war by a just peace"


hard to believe/trust at this stage.   but color me surprised. Wasn't expecting that.