Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
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So giving the US a real stake in the security of a non-NATO state is the worst thing in history now? How is this not a win-win for everyone except the military industrial complex who wants to see nothing but constant, bloody war?
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American imperialism mostly halted under Clinton and Obama. The cold war was over and they weren't jingoistic like Bush or Trump.
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"worst thing in history", no.
"Terrible and exploitative, and untrustworthy besides"? Yes.
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This is, for a sense of scale, more than five times the total value of everything the US has sent to Ukraine since February 2022
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Zelensky should. Trump makes trade deals and then renege's on them all the time.
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Nothing Biden gave them was free. They took on huge debt to get it.
In don't like Trump but this is prob better than owing more debt. Not sure if the 500B is fair, but that's for Ukraine to decide.
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That's every country in the world.
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What Biden gave them was peanuts. Enough to not lose everything. But not enough to take back the territory when the opportunity was there, and seemingly not even enough to hold the line as it is anymore.
Make no mistake, America NEVER had any intention of helping Ukraine win.
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Trump isn't coherent enough to have an understandable philosophy
Are you kidding? Trump is incredibly consistent: he simply does exactly what he thinks would most benefit him, personally, and fuck everybody else. No more, no less.
It's only not an "understandable philosophy" in the sense that it's so vile and shamelessly greedy that philosophers are too embarrassed to formalize it (and Ayn Rand doesn't count).
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Trump would walk into a coffee shop and threaten to buy out the place and fire everybody if they didn't sell him a cup at the cost they're charging.
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This is a Red alert.
What he actually said, outside of the headline.- They might give us the minerals, they may not
- Ukraine may be Russian in the future, it may not
- either way, we (USA) have all this money in the country, and we're getting it back
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And a bunch of idiots would believe it.
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Pretty much. But America doubly so
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The art of the deal
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What a cunt
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"I just do what I want" isn't a philosophy, because it doesn't give guidance as to what someone else should do . It's just childishness.
Even Randism / Objectivism stretches selfishness into "rich people should do what they want". Trump doesn't even get that far
I'll grant that the orange felon is consistently selfish, though.
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Well, there also is a big amount of rebuilding to be done and no matter who would be in the US government, there would be a strong push for the rebuilding to end in factories, apartments and farms to be owned by US investors.
