American support for Ukraine has a price tag: $500B worth of mineral riches, said U.S. President Donald Trump.
In the second part of an interview with Fox News that aired late Monday, the Republican said the U.S. should get a slice of Ukraine’s vast natural resources as compensation for the hundreds of billions it has spent on helping Kyiv resist Russia's full-scale invasion.
“I told them [Ukraine] that I want the equivalent like $500B worth of rare earth. And they've essentially agreed to do that so at least we don’t feel stupid,” Trump said.
I love my country, though there are a few aspects of America's distant past that do not exactly fill me with pride. I expect that is broadly true everywhere. And of course, we all have the routine differences in political matters. But until quite recently, and conceding the exception of legalized abortion on demand, I have never felt outright shame for my country for anything it has done in my lifetime. This is a new, and altogether unwelcome sensation.
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The extra-judicial killings of American citizens during Obama's presidency didn't make you feel outright shame? Or how about lying about weapons of mass destruction to destabilize the Middle East and kill thousands of innocent Iraqis (don't forget how many of those killed/displaced were Christians) while making way for intense intrusions into American lives and violating the constitution via the Patriot Act? Or maybe the purposeful opening up the boarder so that fentanyl can enter and kill Americans, to say nothing of the violent criminals that do the same? On that same note, Democrats also approve of this invasion so that when census time comes around, blue states can have an outsized share of electoral votes/seats in Congress. They're allowing all of this chaos & death for a little more political power. How do these acts not bring about outright same, but all of a sudden Donald Trump does?
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