Ukraine was all about rare earth minerals

[Bobby]

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).

[Bobby]

cont.


CONCLUSION

The 21st century can be called the “century of rare and rare-earth metals”. They became the basis for all electronics around us, which, in fact, our civilization is built on.

The unique physical and chemical properties of both individual rare and rare-earth metals and their compounds open up a fundamentally new level of their use in modern technologies.

The demand for copper and rare earth elements is expected to increase by more than 40% over the next two decades, nickel and cobalt – by 60-70%, and lithium – by almost 90%.

Taking into consideration the importance of rare and rare-earth metals for modern industry, their production has actually become a powerful tool of geopolitics.

[Bobby]

So the Ukraine war has turned into which man will rape and pillage all the resources of Ukraine -

Trump or Putin?

[Bobby]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0 ... s-working/


MAJOR UPDATE:

President Trump Says He Is Working on a Plan for Ukraine to

Pay Back the $350 Billion the US Sent to Ukraine


by Jim Hoft Feb. 16, 2025 9:00 pm



During the questions and answers, President Trump made when he announced that Ukraine was going to pay back the estimated $350 billion the US generously sent to the Zelensky regime.

This was a major announcement by President Trump.

Here is the transcript.

Reporter: Would you support Zelinsky’s seeding territory or exchanging territory in any agreement to end the war?

President Trump: Well, he’s going to have to do what he has to do, but his poll numbers aren’t particularly great, to put it mildly. He’s got a country where it’s been savaged and attacked, and he’s got an army that’s been very, very brave, actually, despite the fact that we’ve given him, in my opinion, $350 billion. That’s what the number is. You don’t hear that number. And Europe has given, in my opinion, $100 billion. And they’ve done it in the form of a loan.

And I have a Secretary of Treasury right now who’s actually quite brave. He’s over in Ukraine on a train, and there’s a lot of things happening around that train that aren’t so good. And he’s going there to get a document done where we’re going to be assured that we’re going to, in some form, get this money back because we’re putting up far more money than Europe.

And Europe is in far more danger than we are. We have an ocean in between. Europe has nothing in between. You know what they have in between? They have Ukraine in between. So as you know, Europe is putting up money, and they’re getting it in the form of a loan.

And the United States, under Biden, didn’t do loans. They just handed money. Every time somebody walked in from Ukraine, they just handed them money foolishly. This should have never happened. It should have never started. And once it did, other things should have happened. Other things should have taken place. So we’re getting security on our money. We’re going to have it secured by… They have raw earth, and they have oil and gas, and they have a lot of other things. And we’re asking for security on our money. So does it mean you are not sending any more aid to Ukraine? They’ve agreed to it. Ukraine has agreed to it.

[Bobby]

Make em pay!

Ukraine has $3 trillion of rare earths - they can easily pay $350 billion.

[tllwd]

Actually there aren't that much, by volume, rear earth in Ukraine in comparison to Greenland and especially to Australia and deposits are not concentrated, besides more then half of it is in territory that has become Russia.
So I think this story is just a smoke screen that hides something else more important. Americans and Russians are meeting today in Saudi Arabia so perhaps we'll know more soon enough.

https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/fi ... osits.html

[Bobby]

Actually there aren't that much, by volume, rear earth in Ukraine in comparison to Greenland and especially to Australia and deposits are not concentrated, besides more then half of it is in territory that has become Russia.
So I think this story is just a smoke screen that hides something else more important. Americans and Russians are meeting today in Saudi Arabia so perhaps we'll know more soon enough.

https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/fi ... osits.html

Of course - and Putin won't allow the Yanks to mine minerals in areas of land he has annexed - I assume?

Even mines in the middle of Ukraine could not operate with missiles and drones raining down on them.

[tllwd]

Americans and Russians are meeting today in Saudi Arabia so perhaps we'll know more soon enough.

The first meeting results.

The US secretary of state has been talking to reporters following the conclusion of talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Saudi Arabia.
https://news.sky.com/video/trump-is-the ... a-13311932


Press conference of S. Lavrov on the basis of negotiations with representatives of the US administration.

English subtitles are available.

[Bobby]

English subtitles are available.

No - it's only in Russian sub titles.

[Bobby]

Biden only ever gave Ukraine enough weapons to keep the war going forever as a stalemate
with huge loss of life on both sides along the way.

Tanks were delayed and sent in only tiny numbers,
same with F16 jets,
no Tomahawk cruise missiles were ever given to Ukraine.
They were used in 1991 in the Gulf war -
technology that is from 35 years ago -
but even that was still too good for Ukraine.