Ukraine was all about rare earth minerals

[Black Orchid]

Zelenskyy really needs to go. He shouldn't have been installed in the first place. That has backfired badly.

[Bobby]

Zelenskyy really needs to go. He shouldn't have been installed in the first place. That has backfired badly.

Zelensky doesn't care if he drags the whole world into WW3 and we all die.
Some things are more important than some disputed provinces in Ukraine.

Putin doesn't care about life -
he has already sacrificed half a million of his own soldiers in his lunatic invasion.
Zelensky will end up ruling over a pile of ashes.

This is a lot different to Hitler -

Hitler never had 6,000 nuclear weapons.

[tllwd]

As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.

Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.

The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.

There is a consensus in the Kyiv political elite - Zelensky must take responsibility for the outcome of the war, no one is going to sign up for a military defeat for him.
Putin is the only hope for Ukraine to restore democracy while western eurogays elite don't care about anybody's life including own people.

[tllwd]

The United States is holding “exploratory talks” with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over a deal that would give it access to the African nation’s critical minerals in exchange for military support, the Financial Times reported late on Friday.

The Congolese government first brought up the possible deal two weeks ago, after President Felix Tshisekedi gave an interview to the New York Times stating that the Trump administration has shown interest in its vast wealth of minerals.

https://www.mining.com/us-congo-in-expl ... l-deal-ft/

[Jasin]

I could see this happening from last week where I posted on Ozpol to promise to leave the forum forever if Zelensky was still in by the end of the year

[mellie]

Putin and Trump both want them - extremely valuable -

The rare earth elements are:

Lithium,
lanthanum (La),
cerium (Ce),
praseodymium (Pr),
neodymium (Nd),
promethium (Pm),
samarium (Sm),
europium (Eu),
gadolinium (Gd),
terbium (Tb),
dysprosium (Dy),
holmium (Ho),
erbium (Er),
thulium (Tm),
ytterbium (Yb),
lutetium (Lu),
scandium (Sc),
and yttrium (Y).


https://www.mheavytechnology.com/news/r ... th-metals/

Definition of “rare and rare-earth elements“

“Rare elements” is a conventional name for a group of chemical elements of the Periodic Table of D. Mendeleev. Rare elements are conventionally divided into categories:

Light: lithium Li, rubidium Rb, caesium Cs, berillium Be;
High melting: titanium Ti, zirconium Zr, hafnium Hf, vanadium V, niobium Nb, tantalum Ta, molybdenum Mo, wolframium W;
Trace elements: gallium Ga, indium In, thallium Tl, germanium Ge, cadmium Cd, selenium Se, tellurium Te, rhenium Re;
Rare-earth: scandium Sc, yttrium Y, lantanium La and lantanides;
Radioactive: Po, Tc, Fr, Ra, Ac, Th, Pa, U, Pu, Np, Cm, Cf, Am and others).

You forgot China. Not only for themselves, but to deprive their economic rivals of gaining access to even their own REEs.

[Jasin]

Russia is a gold mine!

[mellie]

Russia is a gold mine!

Russia have a long history of mining PGMs, but more importantly, what percentage of the world's REEs? ( Rare earth elements) does Russia have?

Australia has about 4%, and is in the top 5 of the world's producer's. Why are REEs so important? Because they're essential for green energy technologies and the market is pitched to double by 2050.

Here's a bit of trivia....
What country controls 97% of the rare earth elements?

[mellie]

As far as I'm concerned, we shouldn't be producing and selling any of the world's REES, we should be hoarding them for ourselves and our government should be setting limits on foreign ownership of our mining industry.

The answer is China

China is responsible for between 95 and 97% of the world's rare earth production and possesses 89% of the world's rare earth reserve base (Morrison, 2012;Tse, 2011).

This is why China is pushing their net zero carbon agenda on the UN council because they are the nation that stands to gain from this. Think of REEs as the new Oil, and Coal. They're set to replace fossil fuels.

Personally, I think each nation should use whatever resources they have and need. Rather than be dictated to by an international body that has made a one size fits all law.

What about poorer nations without many, if any REE's for instance, should they be held to ransom and endure poverty because they weren't blessed with REEs.?

[mellie]

We sold the farm, and the sheep, and our gold mines , our mines in general, and we did so because a small quantity of greedy politicians could cash in and secure their own families fortunes for generations to come.

Now we're gearing up to sell more land to China so they can exploit our REEs too.

When will Australians learn that we must make a stand and demand better, or else our own kids will pay the price for centuries to come.

I care about my kids, and future generations of my own family sure, but I also care about my fellow Australians, and I think this is what separates us from those who lack a sense of humanity and regard for others in general.

The old " Blow you Jack, I can swim" mentality.

Is this what should be making decisions for 99.999 percent of us who aren't involved in the decision making process?

Time to Man up. Grow a set.

The public's overall trust in their government and government/ public sectors is at an all time low.

Information is power, and we need to utilise this to our best advantage.

Trouble is, most Australians would rather watch the football than observe politics. Football serves as a fantastic diversion tactic and Australians in general just want to enjoy life, pay their bills, work and not have to bother with politics in general because to some of them it's all too hard.

I have a unique talent for making it easy and simple for even your most ardent jock to understand. I teaching in general, adults and kids, so I would love to create a fb page dedicated to discussing what our media won't.