"Trump tries to rewrite history on being ‘fooled’ by Putin [...]“I think Putin will” make peace, he said. The US president is singing a very different tune today. In fact, he said Monday that on three or four occasions, he felt they had a deal in place, only for Putin to pull the rug out from beneath them and continue to hit Ukraine hard."
The war in Ukraine may or may not be winding down with ongoing US/Russian negotiations, but this leads to a key question: what was the war really about in the first place? We were told by the US government (albeit without any documentary evidence) that Russian President Putin was on a power-hungry “unprovoked” campaign to take over much of Central Europe, like Hitler tried to do. Putin would thereby restore the former Soviet Union’s territory, putting the sovereignty of Ukraine and much of Europe at risk.
[Insert: dbergh, Is it you really don't see the danger expansionist Hitler represented to democratic countries? And, Putin:
The author of this six-hundred-page program for the eventual rule of ethnic Russians over the lands extending "from Dublin to Vladisvostok," Aleksandr Gel'evich Dugin, was born in 1962, https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175846867 Or the danger to the relatively free world that your Trump represents? Misinformed public - No, Trump would not have stopped Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ] [...] Trump DOJ demands list of thousands of FBI agents, others who worked on Jan. 6 and Trump investigations for possible firing https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175881575
On the other hand, numerous political historians and even former American officials cite a different cause: that Russia was indeed provoked by the clearly stated plans and actions to expand NATO up to the Russian border and emplace nuclear weapons there within a short striking distance of Moscow, putting Russia’s safety at stake.
But both viewpoints leave out an important feature of the war: the environmental resource feature. The war is a contention between the corporate oligarchs of both the US and Russia to control Ukraine’s vast natural resources. With Trump’s recent Oval Office made-for-TV show to bully Zelensky into an agreement that allows mineral extraction in order for private corporations to “cash in” on Ukrainian rare-earth deposits, we might ask: is the corporate zeal to seize rare earths just one aspect of a squabble over post-war spoils, or is it a root cause of the war from the beginning (and even before the beginning)? Activists would be advised to see environmental desecration as both a cause of war and an obvious outcome of war.
Ukraine holds huge deposits of critical elements and minerals. In an effort to attract investment and presumably military support from the West, the Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and Ukrainian Geological Survey have published a report1 after the Russian invasion which claims that Ukraine has deposits of 22 of the 50 materials the U.S. has identified as critical and declares that: “Ukraine holds very competitive positions in five key ones: graphite, lithium, titanium, beryllium and uranium”.
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