Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

You never know. Stranger things have happened

There has been three MAJOR UNINTENDENCE consequences of the war that Putin will not be happy with

(1) Sweden and Finland Joining NATO

(2) the EU coming together as a more cohesive grouping with more coordination , more networking, more joined up thinking , etc, etc, mostly as a result of The US /Trump behaviour

(3) even though there are many, factions / ‘schools of thought/ , political parties/ religions , etc, in UKr and there has been a lot of clashes, civil war type wars over the last 1000 years in the general Ukarnian landmass The ONE THINK THAT THEY ALL WANTED WAS THEIR OWN ‘SOVEREIGN STATE’ called Ukraine. The war has managed to reinforce that desire in the UKr people and that is what IS DRIVING THEM - what a powerful ingredient to have while defending one’s nation

600 of the 24 hours that Trump has said that he would end the war in have already been taken up - and counting!!!!!!!! . IMO , Trump is the only man that can explain that ‘apparent discrepancy’

Why did the US not just refrain from the U.N. vote - or does it want to DRIVE IT HOME TO ALL AND SUNDRY AND IN THE MOST PUBLIC OF WAYS THAT HE /US IS IN THE POCKET OF THE RUSSIANS

BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT wwere the VAST MAJORITY of tThe Americans 1000% anti Russian in EVERY WAY up to circa two short weeks ago? That on top of the way the US / Trump has been behaving very recently eg VZ being a dictator, Musk ‘ s behaviour re DOUGE, that UN vote , etc, do you not think that a very significant number of those who voted for Trump would not have voted for him if they were aware of the above ????

Strangely, I think the US becoming an ally of Russia actually reduces the risk of WW3 and nuclear wipeout (as weird as that sounds). But we could definitely enter into some form of dystopian Cold War with America effectively being an adversary of all western countries.

More charming developments, this from the guardian:

Vladimir Putin on Monday evening offered to sell Russia’s rare earth minerals to American companies, including those in Russian-occupied Ukraine, further underscoring his message to Donald Trump that there’s profit to be made in Russia.

“We are ready to work with our partners, including the Americans,” Putin said, adding Russia could resume selling aluminium to the US.

“We undoubtedly have, I want to emphasize, significantly more resources of this kind than Ukraine,” the Russian president said.

Putin said that potential rare earth metals exploration deals could also be extended to deposits in territory in eastern Ukraine that Russia occupies after three years of military action.

Earlier on Monday, Trump told reporters in Washington that “major economic development transactions with Russia” would take place. Within two hours of the US president’s statement, Putin chaired an unannounced meeting with his ministers and economic advisers on rare earth metals.

Russia has the world’s fifth-largest reserves of rare earth metals, according to the US Geological Survey data, after China, Brazil, India and Australia

yeah your right. It would involve billions of dollars with of US mining equipment and the russians might just kick the yanks out and take it all.

It’s not Trumps fans who invest tho, they probably wouldn’t even be able to point out Russia on a map to be fair

I’ve been keeping a very close eye on stocks for personal investment reasons

the investment atmosphere in US went from excitement to doom and gloom almost overnight in last month, with investment money running from from US to Europe, and likes of Warren Buffet ringing alarm bells and building up massive cash piles for the Trump crash they are now expecting

The bond markets too haven’t responded at all to Musks performative bullshit about cuts as they realise that he is only fiddling with scraps, if anything things on that front getting worse as all the Trump uncertainty is undoing anything cuts might save them

The whole investment rare minerals thing is an irrelevant sideshow as no one is insane enough to invest in Russia, if anything it shows just how badly Russian economy is hurting that they spend all their time talking about that and not the war elephant in the room (Putin himself said that Ukraine wasn’t even discussed)

The question is how much say does Zelensky have in any of this. With no US weapons it could lose a lot more territory than it already has. At this stage it's about accepting the least bad of many terrible options.

A total betrayal of Ukraine by its allies, and the American population should be judged collectively in voting in Trump a second time, it is a total indictment of their idiotic population, or let's say half of it.

They are, Telegraph just had a podcast on Ukrainians training in UK etc with the training going both ways now

The part with the Danish soldier saying he will teach his children about what he learned from Ukrainians about drones is chilling

Only we in Ireland are oblivious to the wider war brewing in Europe

Putin is playing Trump like a fiddle. He's promising something that he will likely not even need to follow through with.

First thing, is it even economically viable to develop these resources? Secondly, who's going to step in to spend the billions to develop the resources, Ukraine's infrastructure is wrecked. Finally, even if a western company was found to put up the capital to get it into production several years down the line. What happens then when Trump is no longer in power? Nothing stopping Putin or a successor from nationalising it.

When I saw that reported a few days ago, I expected it to get a lot more traction, but it seems to have had as much impact as a fart in the wind.

Hopefully there is a bit more going on behind the scenes though, as this other 'deal' that's in the works, with Russia selling Ukraine's resources to the US, is a disgusting betrayal of Ukraine, in that they feel the circumstances they are now presented with means they have little choice.

Maybe, after the summit in Kyiv earlier this week, the EU were able to convey to Ukraine that there are more options available that what we're privvy too 🤞

He's going to be even more ashamed when the US fascists turn the US military on the people.