Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told BBC News that the mineral seems like a "sideshow" and was mostly designed to "keep Mr Trump happy." "But it is not going to give a lot of money to the U.S., and I don't see it having any materially economic effect for very many years," Bildt told the BBC.
A really good paper that those who worship at the altar of conflict won't read, because it is inconvenient.
Here's another interesting one... Yes, Ukraine Started the War February 25, 2025 A clean-shaven Zelensky and Trump meeting for the first at the U.N. in 2019. They have come a long way since. (President of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons) By Joe Lauria / Consortium News The outcry spread quickly across the Western world: Donald Trump dared say Ukraine started the war. The New York Times accused Trump of “rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.” The paper’s White House correspondent wrote: “When Russian forces crashed over the borders into Ukraine in 2022 determined to wipe it off the map as an independent state, the United States rushed to aid the beleaguered nation and cast its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as a hero of resistance. Three years almost to the day later, President Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of its smaller neighbor. Ukraine, in this version, is not a victim but a villain. And Mr. Zelensky is not a latter-day Winston Churchill, but a ‘dictator without elections’ who somehow started the war himself and conned America into helping.” The BBC reported: “Ukraine didn’t start the war. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, having annexed Crimea in 2014. The annexation came after Ukraine’s pro-Russian president was ousted by popular demonstrations.” CNN howled: “President Donald Trump has now fully adopted Russia’s false propaganda on Ukraine, turning against a sovereign democracy that was invaded in favor of the invader. … Trump wrongly accused Ukraine of starting the conflict.” “In comments to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump falsely claimed Kyiv had started the conflict, the largest on European soil since the second world,” complained the Financial Times. It was pretty much the same thing across the Western media landscape, which spoke with one voice. The media takes speaking with one voice as confirmation that they are right. But it’s often just massive confirmation bias for the story Western intelligence services and political leaders tell them, rather than an independent examination of the facts. In this case the facts show that Trump is right. The central question in all this is: when did the Ukraine war actually start? More... Though I do believe western oligarchs started it. See Also: Ukraine/US rare minerals deal.
It’s like the story of the American sitting next to a Russian on a flight from Moscow to Washington. “What brings you to Washington?” the American asks. “I’m traveling to do research on American propaganda,” the Russian says. “What American propaganda?” “Exactly,” says the Russian.
Since when does another nation get to decide to join another country internal Civil War battle? Did Mexico or Canada invade the U.S. during our Civil War? Would Russia like it if Ukraine invaded them if they were having an internal Civil War? Nice try.
Finns send approx $0.7B worth of mil gear: https://kyivindependent.com/finland-to-provide-ukraine-with-691-in-military-equipment/