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Strong arm robbery?

Can someone explain why the US is demanding that Ukraine give us billions of dollars in mineral rights, as part of a peace plan between Russia and Ukraine? What does Ukraine get out of this? Sounds like strong arm robbery to me.
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BigGuy2 · 31-35, M
It should happen AUTOMATICALLY

"What does Ukraine get out of this ..."

🤔 ... you mean above and beyond the $350 BILLION already given to them 🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@BigGuy2 It's 119 billion, and Ukraine wasn't given that money. Ukraine was given surplus and obsolete weapons (and have used them to shred the russians), with the money being spent in America to manufacture new weapons. Weapons manufactured in American factories by American workers earning American dollars for doing so,

Please stop repeating trump's lies... you'll exhaust yourself!

Incidentally, the aid from Europe was a gift, All European aid to Ukraine has been a gift.

Apparently your shyster pretend-President can't understand that, because he keeps repeating the falsehood of 360 billion and the falsehood about European aid being a loan.

His contempt for the American people is without limits!
BigGuy2 · 31-35, M
@newjaninev2 so, in Zelenskyy's own words in the interview, he received $75BILLION ...

So surplus and obsolete weapons have no value do they 😎😎😎 ...

... 🤔 maybe that's what Sleepy was thinking when he left $83 BILLIONs worth of Military hardware in Afghanistan 🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@BigGuy2 The Amerian military routinely leaves its equipment behind because it's not economically viable to pack and transport it and then have to scrap it. It's better to replace it with American-made equipment manufactured in American factories by American workers earning American dollars for doing so.

In 1975, for a short time, North Vietnam had the third largest airforce in the world... because the Americans left everything behind.

surplus and obsolete weapons have no value

They're a liability... it costs a fortune to store them, maintain them, and then eventually scrap them.

Surely you must have some idea of how your system works.
@BigGuy2 trying to remember who set a hard date for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan…the same date that Biden used, on the advice of the very same military intelligence experts that Trump had.Had that orange blowhard won in 2020, the exact same thing would have happened in Afghanistan. And now, Trump is abandoning the Afghanis that risked their lives to help the American military, and we had sworn to get them and their families out.
Thrust · 56-60, M
@RockerDad

Had that orange blowhard won in 2020, the exact same thing would have happened in Afghanistan

No prodigy, they would't have closed the military base before they even tried to get anyone out. And they also wouldn't have left $80 billion of cutting edge weapons behind for terrorists

Quite the war scholar and strategist aren't you
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Thrust america leaves equipment behind as a matter of policy

Disable it and let the enemy dispose of the scrap

It's uneconomic to ship it back, and it's an opportunity to produce new equipment
@Thrust if it meant avoiding being overrun by the enemy, that’s what you do. If Trump had a brain in his skull, he wouldn’t have publicly announced the date of the withdrawal. Biden followed Trump’s withdrawal plan to the letter.
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BigGuy2 · 31-35, M
@Thrust well said, i was told it was $83
BigGuy2 · 31-35, M
@RockerDad it was under Sleepy's watch 🙄🙄🙄
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Thrust The date was agreed and committed to during negotiations, and President Biden honoured that commitment. Of course, that was back when america still had honour...
BigGuy2 · 31-35, M
@newjaninev2 oh really

🤔 USAID 🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@BigGuy2 Honour can't be bought... but apparently it can be sold.
BigGuy2 · 31-35, M
@newjaninev2 so, your stance is that under the auspices of USAID, America ... oops, correction, the Hypocrats who attempted to topple countries in various ways using American money is honourable

🤔 ... your comment is a nonsense, a classic example of 'double speak' bearing no relation to my comment

... but, it's good to see, at least, you're NOT brainwashed ENOUGH to use a possible phrase:

"DOGE findings are FAKE"

🤔 ... what else

Sleepy admitting in interview, WHILST laughing about it:

"If you don't get rid of the Special Prosecutor [who's trying to stamp out Corruption] we'll WITHHOLD $1BILLION in Aid"

Not very hounourable is it 😎😎😎
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@BigGuy2 Please try to be reasoned and coherent
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