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‘Not worth the paper it’s written on’: Senator shreds new U.S. and Ukraine minerals deal

May 1, 2025

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  1. Some say this deal is a good one and others say it’s a terrible one. I suppose time will tell.
    One thing this video tells is undoubtedly true, and that is the deep corruption that Trump brought into the White House. I agree that he’s the most crooked, fraudulent, nefarious, rotten, shady, and unethical individual we’ve ever had for POTUS. Trump makes even Nixon look like a choir boy.

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    • Can you give an example of Trump’s corruption, or just more adjectives?

      What’s most important is how Ukrainians feel about it and from what I’ve gathered, they are generally enthused about it. Except Poroshenko and his party. They carry on that everything Zelensky does is bad, which leads me to believe it is political and during war time.

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  2. At last an informed view on the “minerals deal” from an actual adult.
    The Ukrainians made a titanic effort to get it even to what it is now.
    At the time of the Trump-Vance ambush of Zel in the Oval Office, it was a straightforward Tony Soprano-type extortion attempt.
    The fact remains that Krasnov hero-worships a child-murdering nazi, despises Zel in particular and Ukrainians in general. This perverted affection remains, regardless of how many children that putler murders.
    Only a few days ago Krasnov was still puking out the “we gave $350 billion” lie.
    Is Krasnov going to commit to any more military aid for Ukraine. Is he even going to complete the deliveries of what has already been promised?
    And is Europe going to make up the shortfall?

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  3. European Union member states have a decision to take (which will be taken individually, btw), and that is whether to direct the bulk of new arms investment into Ukraine or to retain it for building up the military at home forces. They won’t pay for both, largely because they are not able to. At heart the question facing them is this: Is the great redoubt on which the defense of the west will be made on the west bank of the Dnipr or in the Suwalki Gap and the northern borders of Estonia? The former only requires truly arming the Ukrainians. The latter requires the blood and bone of the western nations.

    We live in an age of cornucopia and decadence – the latter being very much a trait of the western post-WW2 political class. It would, I think, be entirely in character for that class to choose the home option and then not deliver it, preferring instead to cleave to the dank comforts of economism, the multiculti delusion and, indeed, all the hyper-precious causes of these equalitarian times. I hope I am wrong, but one grows ever more cynical with experience of western politics.

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    • As for being cynical of Western politics, I can only concur.
      Looking at the situation in Ukraine soberly and factually, the only right thing to do for Europe is to hand Ukraine what it needs and in sufficient numbers, sans restrictions.
      Quite frankly, the West doesn’t have the courage, nor does it have the right kind of people, to wage the kind of war that would be coming to them if Ukraine should fall. Anyone who thinks otherwise lives in a distant past.

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