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After three full years of the three day war
Special Military Operation is rebranded as Special Mining Operation
Pretty much
Currently it looks like the US will be allowing Hitler to keep most of what he's invaded, getting the invaded countries to pay the US back for it's support, then giving Hitler every concession he wants and doing business deals with him + forming a new relationship with him.
I'm 100% for Ukraine getting a break after 11 years of war - but yeah even the wildest predictions of how much Trump would bend and fawn to Putin hasn't come close to the reality of it.
It certainly seems as if the surface has only just been scratched, and even at that there seems to be a state of numbness and disbelief, or just an unwillingness to acknowledge what's going on… which is exactly what a new autocrat in the making will want.
We done fairly well out of the Trump circus the first time around
Todays Irish times been discussing it (not gonna link cause paywall)
“Trump and Musk’s war on science presents a startling opportunity for Ireland
aside; I was told to prepare for interviews as team size doubling in size with hiring not in US but Ireland and Europe in my US MNC employer
I suspect companies will make alot of noises about investment in US while stealthily doing opposite
The penny is starting to drop with likes of JPM saying US is now considered hostile to business, which is insane
Interesting development yesterday. Worth watching.
with all the upheavel caused in the US re people at the top/ very senior staff, etc, etc let go and others staying on in their positions but with an uncertain future- not knowing what Musk might do next - is there a possibility that that ‘ skill set would be interested in moving to England/Ireland /Europe ?
I'd be amazed if the so called peace deal was anything other than Russia keeping the lands they took and doing a joint deal with Trump to extract the minerals there.
He's going to be even more ashamed when the US fascists turn the US military on the people.
Quiet? At least 50 flights between Australia and NZ have had to be diverted because Chinese war ships decided to do live fire exercises right under the main flight paths - not deliberately, you understand. That right on the heels of trying to down an Australian PC3 Orion by dropping flares into it's engines - the second time they have tried this. They have also been doing mock invasion drills against Taiwan.
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 🤞
I am curious to see the details of this so-called peace deal. I'll bet they will be deliberately unacceptable to Ukraine and will be rejected.
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.
Well he does ultimately get to decide whether Ukraine fights on but if he faces a Hobson's choice between carrying on the struggle without American weapons or accepting the 'protection' of some flimsy peacekeeping opreation that Putin is just going to brush aside in a couple of years…he may decide the least bad option is to chuck in the towel now and throw Ukraine on Putin's tender mercies rather than have the country face a long slow bleed out…
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
If some form of peacekeeping by Euro forces is to take place - they sure as hell better get training from Ukrainian forces on how to actually fight whilst they are there.
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.
And what does Ukraine get in return? A few European peace keepers with no combat experience who are supposed to ensure this never happens again?
Zelensky wouldn't settle for that. Without a meaningful security guarantee the deal is worthless.
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)
I'm seeing a lot of his fans just outright ignoring it so I'm pretty sure they will continue to live in a bubble.. You can really see how WW2 could have gone the wrong way.
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.
A lot of western companies got badly badly burned in Russia with their assets seized, they be insane to invest again in Russia and I there’s no investors mad enough to pour good money after bad into that black hole, especially if the politics in US can do a complete 180 in 2-4 years which is shorter than typical investment horizon for large projects
Even the Chinese don’t want to invest there and they have centralised control of the purse strings
Actually speaking of Chinese they have been awfully quiet lately
Why not? How much do you think MAGA cares about a country it would struggle to find on a map?
Surely even trumps America couldn't stomach such a deal that is drenched in so much death and horror ? Would companies/brands want to be associated with this “deal” ?
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
I've been following retired general Mark Hertling since the start of this. He would have regular slots on CNN and other news outlets He's pretty ashamed about the whole turn of events.
https://bsky.app/profile/markhertling.bsky.social/post/3lixa6p32722o
Scary times. You'd hope the US eats itself from the inside out before they get a chance to push their dangerous shite much further internationally.
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.
I am curious what Americans on site have to say about this clown show
especially those who served in military alongside their NATO allies whom did come to americas aid when asked
That’s assuming they not to busy justifying their positions this week to Emperor Musk while reminiscing about the now quaint notions such as “checks and balances”
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 ????
Unfortunately I think you are right,
America will still need an enemy,now more than ever, and Trump has turned everything on its head, putin will not hang around he will see he has a small window of opportunity,he will push Trump to turn the american people against Europe,when Americans start loosing their jobs and homes they will be convinced it is outsiders faults and not the Trump administration,at that stage they probably will not have to even convince anyone of anything. Europe will be blamed for some false flag type incident in Ukraine by the peace keeping troops,and they will spin it that Europe is trying to undermine trumps peace plan and that Europe is the aggressor.
Europe will be surrounded by enemies,Russia, Africa,and the middle east will all be subservient to the USA, we will get no help there.
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
