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US Senator Says Ukraine Is ‘Gold Mine’ with $12 Trillion of Minerals ‘We Can’t Afford to Lose’ (scheerpost.com)

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[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It originally was trying to plunder the resources of Russia again, like they did in the 90's. They miscalculated and now are settling for Ukraine.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

That was supposed to be the big prize, and Balkanizing Russia would allow US to surround China with puppet regimes in the west. RAND even helpfully outlined the strategy in a paper they published back in 2019 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html