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In reply to the discussion: Stop criticising Trump and sign $500bn mineral deal, US official advises Kyiv [View all]neohippie
(1,199 posts)In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer their nuclear weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and assurances from Russia, the United States and United Kingdom to respect the Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the ...
Later Russia invades Ukraine and claims Crimea as theirs
The US does little other than complain and sanction Russia Putin feels emboldened and threatens the Ukraine's sovereignty when they feel like joining NATO and are encouraged by George Bush and others to do that.
Putin invades Ukraine, the US once again falls short in their promises to defend their sovereignty instead they pile on more sanctions and provide some material support but fears Russian threats of use of nuclear weapons and a larger war with NATO
Now four years into that Russian invasion while Russia holds huge amounts of Ukrainian territory The US now demands that Ukraine give them half or more of their mineral wealth that is of far greater value to the war torn country than the total amount of aid provided or they will stop supporting their defense.
We are looking like the Imperial forces in a dystopian science fiction story as our leaders have fully embraced the dark side
Trump and his US State Department tell the Ukraine that its a smart play to accept his offer for their mineral wealth or threatens to withdraw US support from their efforts to stop the Russian aggression weakening their position in any efforts to make a peace deal with Russia and accept that they are going to have to surrender all the lands that the foreign invader has captured and loose half the of their country's mineral wealth in order to have peace and security
If you were Ukraine you realize that the promises of security from your last deal with Russia and the United States was less than the beads that the Indians were given for Manhattan Island in New York
Why should the Ukraine once again trust the two countries who already gave them false promises of security in the past with this new Devil's bargain. Would you surrender half you land, half your mineral wealth for another promise
The US is now looking like a mobster state like Russia under Putin with Trump in charge. In just three weeks Trump has undone decades of work that helped create US hegemony by threatening our neighbors, our allies, corrupting and dismantling our federal institutions, insulted Europe shown that he has no respect for our courts, the rule of law, trampled on the Constitution, the separation of powers, is using coercion, extortion, bribery and whitewashing, outright erasing and rewriting history
Meanwhile our courts, our Congress, our independent federal agencies that are supposed to be guardrails against these kinds of attacks are not working. Our neighbors are threatened with invasions (Mexico) and we are harassing Panama and Greenland (another country with huge amounts of mineral wealth)
And Trump and Lil Marco Rubio are cozying up to Putin offering them everything that they desire in a peace deal that sells out the Ukraine, and our NATO allies are agast, former top US Generals are saying this looks like the end of our more than 70 year old alliance that has strengthened Europe
This is not America
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