June 10, 2024
🇺🇲 “Ukrainians are sitting on $10-12 trillion of critical minerals. #Ukraine could be the richest country in all of #Europe I don’t want to give it to Putin and China. If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we could ever dream of”, – #USA Senator Graham
💎 Ukraine has significant reserves of critical minerals, potentially valued between $10 and $12 trillion. These minerals include lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements, which are essential for various high-tech industries, including electronics and renewables
❗ Which is exactly why Moscow wants to seize it all.
If the moral argument doesn’t work for some people, maybe an economic one will.
Journalism #News
StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Comment from Scradje:
If genocide being committed by russia in Ukraine is insufficient for the civilised world to finally go all in against the fascist rodent, then maybe this is?
Here is the Lindsey Graham interview that discusses this matter, amongst other things :
I don’t believe this natural resources theory.
russia has plenty on its own.
putin wants Ukrainian because of his imperial ambitions and because he needs to distract the ruzzian population from domestic problems.
^burt
Ukraine becoming prosperous through her natural resources is Putin’s biggest nightmare.
I agree on this
^burt
Ukraine’s vast mineral resources are a known scientific fact. Of course putler wants them to finance his Nazi imperialism.
It’s probably also about reducing competition. Western democracies would rather buy from Ukraine than Russia and so Putin would love to take over the economic rival. ☹
The mere mention of agricultural resources should convince us that the interest of the Kremlin nazis is also strategic. The blackmail caused during the blocking of cereals is potentially a wave of massive destruction and a terrorist means of absolutely terrible retaliation for the planet.
Otherwise the subsoil resources are considerable in Ukraine. Not to mention the still unexploited gas fields off the coast of Crimea. It seems obvious that the Kremlin dwarf is interested.
That said, I still find it sad to have to use such justifications to help Ukraine at all costs while a genocide is underway and tens of thousands of children are being kidnapped by the Nazis in the Kremlin.
” Indeed, it is also a battle for metals that is being played out in Ukraine. The country’s subsoil contains considerable deposits estimated by Ukrainian geological services at a value of 7,500 billion dollars. Ukraine is ranked fifth in the world for its reserves of iron, graphite and manganese — two critical elements for the production of electric batteries.
It is also the sixth largest producer of titanium in the world, a strategic metal for aeronautical production, and contains significant deposits of lithium, copper, cobalt and rare earths, used in the energy sector as well as in electronics and defense. This is why the European Union concluded a partnership with Ukraine in July 2021 for strategic metals and batteries, a cooperation initiated and gradually strengthened since 2014 after the pro-Western government of Poroshenko.” (Reporterre.net)
Other good news:
“Ukraine will receive €1.5 billion from Russian frozen assets revenues in July — European Commission”
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/11/7460247/
That’s a good first step, will come in handy. 1.5 billions is nothing to sneer at, enough to fund 3700 Roshel Senator APCs, with machine guns and ammo, or 1500 APCs like M113 from stockpiles at 1 million each, or 750 used IFVs at 3 million per unit. Those are urgently needed for the increased manpower because of the mobilization. 🔱😎