Video Infoblog: Ukraine sits on trillions worth of minerals. US politicians want them.
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0:00 US Senator Lindsey Graham wants Ukraine's minerals
4:19 Ukraine has tens of trillions of dollars worth of natural resources
5:34 China and critical minerals supply chain
7:10 USA wants Ukraine to replace China in minerals supply chain
8:03 Wall Street is buying up Ukraine
9:13 (Clip) Zelensky's love letter to Western corporations
10:58 NATO fights Russia to the last Ukrainian
11:46 Study: foreign intervention is 100 times more likely in country with oil
14:22 Geopolitics of NATO proxy war on Russia in Ukraine
17:58 Afghanistan's resources and $1 trillion of minerals
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US Senator Lindsey Graham wants Ukraine's minerals
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they're sitting on trillion dollars
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worth of minerals that could be good to
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our economy so I want to keep helping
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our friends in Ukraine they're sitting
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on 10 to 122 trillion of critical
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minerals in in Ukraine they could be the
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richest country in all of Europe I don't
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want to give that money and those assets
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to Putin to share with China if we help
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Ukraine now they can become the best
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business partner we ever dreamed of a
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prominent us politician has repeatedly
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said the it part loud arguing that the
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United States and the West must continue
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supporting Ukraine sending it more and
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more weapons in a proxy war against
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Russia because it has trillions of
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dollars of minerals that Western
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countries want to get access to
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including some strategic minerals that
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are needed for Advanced
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Technologies this has been argued by the
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US senator Lindsey Graham from the
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Republican Party he is a notorious war
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hawk and he has taken repeated trips to
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Ukraine during his latest trip in
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September the US senator published a
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video standing next to Ukraine's
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western-backed leader Vladmir selinski
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and in this video clip he said very
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clearly we must continue supporting
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Ukraine in no small part due to the fact
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that it has trillions of dollars of
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minerals I'm here with President
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sininsky I am such a admirer of what you
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and your country have done you're trying
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to stop the Russians so we don't have to
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fight them they don't want any American
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troops they just need the weapons to
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free their country of a terrible
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Invasion they're sitting on trillion
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dollars worth of minerals that could be
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good to our economy so I want to keep
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helping our friends in Ukraine we can
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win this they need our help yes we need
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and we have already uh the biggest help
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is the support of American people and
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supp of our friends thanks to lindsy and
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his Co colleagues uh to congressmen and
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senators from the United States thanks
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for the support bipartisan support thank
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you so much peace is coming yes
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soon note how Lindsey Graham also argued
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that the West had to support Ukraine in
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order to fight Russia so the West
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doesn't have to fight Russia on its own
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territory this is an example of what
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people have said is the strategy of
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fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian
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now this is not the first time that
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Lindsey Graham has publicly salivated
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over the trillions of dollars of
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minerals in Ukraine the US senator made
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very similar comments in June in an
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interview on CBS he referred to Ukraine
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as a gold mine he argued that the West
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cannot afford to allow those minerals to
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fall into the hands of the evil Russians
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and China and he said that Ukraine could
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be the best business partner that the
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West has ever dreamed of what did Trump
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do to get the weapons flowing he created
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a loan system they're sitting on 10 to
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12 trillion doll of critical minerals in
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in Ukraine they could be the richest
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country in all of Europe I don't want to
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give that money and those assets to
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Putin to share with China if we help
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Ukraine now they can become the best
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business partner we ever dreamed of that
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10 to 12 trillion do of critical mineral
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assets could be used by Ukraine and the
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West not given to Putin and China this
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is a very big deal how Ukraine ends
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Let's help them win a war we can't
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afford to lose let's find a solution to
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this war but they're sitting on a goal
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mine to give Putin 10 or 12 trillion
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dollar of critical minerals that he will
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share with uh China is ridiculous when
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you see people in the West argu that
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NATO has to keep sending billions and
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billions of dollars of weapons to
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Ukraine in order to defend democracy and
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human rights you should never forget
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those clips that we just saw there they
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are very revealing about the ulterior
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motives of Western countries in Ukraine
Ukraine has tens of trillions of dollars worth of natural resources
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now even some mainstream Us Media
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Outlets have reported on this The
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Washington Post in fact referred to the
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war in Ukraine as a battle for the
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nation's mineral and energy wealth in
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this report back in 2022 The Washington
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Post noted quote Ukraine Harbors some of
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the world's largest reserves of titanium
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and iron ore fields of untapped lithium
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and massive deposits of coal
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collectively they are worth tens of
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trillions of dollars end quote The
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Washington Post noted that in addition
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to having oil and coal and natural gas
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Ukraine also has Rare Earth minerals and
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this article noted that these include
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quote significant amounts of other
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valuable energy and mineral deposits
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used for everything from aircraft parts
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to smartphones end quote and it also
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added that these Rare Earth minerals
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that are located in Ukraine are quote
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essential for certain Hightech
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components that could hamper Western
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Europe search for alternatives to
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imports from Russia and China end quote
China and critical minerals supply chain
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this point is absolutely crucial the US
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and Europe have been trying to seek
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alternative producers of some of these
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critical minerals because the reality is
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that China is a huge part of the global
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supply chain and the US Energy Chief
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said that the US government is very
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concerned China is responsible for
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approximately 60% of the entire world's
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production of rare earth minerals and
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the US Energy Secretary Jennifer grome
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said quote it's one of the pieces of the
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supply chain that we're very concerned
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about in the United States we do not
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want to be over reliant on countries
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whose values we may not share end quote
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in fact in 2022 the Joe Biden White
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House announced a new initiative to try
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to diversify the US critical mineral
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supply chain for Rare Earth elements
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especially and lithium and Cobalt these
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are things that are these are minerals
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that are needed for clean energy
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Technologies like batteries electric
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vehicles wind turbines solar panels and
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more and the Biden Administration has
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not only put tariffs on Chinese products
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and Chinese minerals and it put export
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restrictions and sanctions on China but
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furthermore the body Administration is
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investing hundreds of billions of
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dollars in its own domestic capacities
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for production to try to weaken China
USA wants Ukraine to replace China in minerals supply chain
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and can you guess which country has been
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extremely important in Washington's
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attempt to weaken China and Russia and
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their influence in the global supply
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chain for critical minerals you guessed
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it
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Ukraine in 2021 the official code of law
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of the United States was updated and
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included a new section titled
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cooperation between the United States
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and Ukraine regarding the titanium
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industry and this is written into the
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letter of US law and it states quote it
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is the policy of the United States to
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engage with the government of Ukraine on
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cooperation in the titanium industry as
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a potential alternative to Chinese and
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Russian sources on which the United
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States and Europe currently depend of
Wall Street is buying up Ukraine
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course it's also corporations from the
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US and other Western countries that are
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profiting from this here at geopolitical
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economy report we've done extensive
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reporting on how Western governments
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have been imposing neoliberal economic
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policies on Ukraine including Mass
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privatization selling off State own
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assets and selling off Natural Resources
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to foreign companies and at the same
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time Ukraine has been viciously
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repressing its own workers cutting
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workers rights basically making it
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illegal to form a union in the
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description below I will link to some of
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our reports on that Ukraine's Western
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back leader zalinski has been really
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cozing up closely with Wall Street
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offering hundreds of billions of dollars
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of State sell-offs Investments for
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Western capitalists who are getting very
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wealthy profiting off of buying up
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Ukraine and zinsky symbolically rang the
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opening bell of the New York Stock
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Exchange announcing that his country is
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open for business he is quite literally
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selling his country to Western
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capitalists we are defending freedom and
(Clip) Zelensky's love letter to Western corporations
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property together will be able to start
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the difficult war of rebuilding Ukraine
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our cities our economy our
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infrastructure it is already clear that
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this will be the largest economic
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project of our time in Europe it is
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obvious that American Business can
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become the locomotive that will once
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again push forward global economic
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growth we have already managed to
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attract attention and have cooperation
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with such Giants of the International
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Financial and investment world as Black
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Rock GP Morgan and gold golden socks
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such American brands as Sterling or
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Western house have already become part
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of our Ukrainian way your brilliant
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defense systems such as high Mars or
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bradl are already uniting our history of
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Freedom with your Enterprises we are
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waiting for
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Patriots we are looking closely at
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Abrams thousands of such examples are
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possible and everyone can become a big
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business by walking with Ukraine in all
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sectors from weapons and defense to
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construction from communication to
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agriculture from transport to it from
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Banks to medicine and I believe that
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freedom must always win and I invite you
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to work with us right now so is very
NATO fights Russia to the last Ukrainian
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concerning to see the cynicism of these
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Western governments that claim to
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support democracy and human rights while
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they are using Ukraine as a a battering
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ram to try to wage a proxy war against
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Russia fighting to the last Ukrainian
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the average age of Ukrainian Soldier
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fighting on behalf of NATO on the front
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lines is now between 43 and 45 it is a
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horror show I mean it is so sad seeing
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this complete destruction of a nation
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and yet the Western governments that
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keep expanding this war and pushing
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ukrainians into the meat grinder on
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behalf of Western Imperial hegemony they
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are profiting I mean it is completely
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cynical in
Study: foreign intervention is 100 times more likely in country with oil
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2015 academic experts in the west
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published a very interesting scholarly
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Journal article that looked at the role
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of Natural Resources in armed conflicts
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around the world they published an
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article that summarized their findings
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titled fueling conflict the role of oil
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in foreign interventions they noted that
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they found quote statistical evidence
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that Central Intelligence Agency covert
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operations during the Cold War resulted
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in increased Imports of United States
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goods from Target countries without the
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same holding true for exports and quote
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US military assistance increased
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non-military bilateral trade flows with
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the recipient country end quote they
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also added we found that oil production
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and known oil reserves are Central
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factors motivating third-party military
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interventions more specifically we
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demonstrated that the higher the
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quantities of oil produced and are owned
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by a country at Civil War the higher the
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likely Ood of third-party
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intervention moreover we found that the
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tighter the oil Market is the higher the
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likelihood of third-party intervention
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end quote so if there are only a few
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countries that are major oil producers
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like the US Saudi Arabia Russia and the
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oil price is very high and a country
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like the US wants to reduce the oil
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price what it can try to do is force
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other countries to produce more oil and
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one of the ways it can do that is
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through direct military intervention and
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we've seen this repeatedly and this
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academic article the scholars noted I'm
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reading again quote well other factors
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also play a role intervention is
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approximately 100 times more likely when
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the country at War has a high value of
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reserves and the intervening country has
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high oil imports than when the country
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at War has no oil reserves and the
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potential intervenor has high oil
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exports end quote they found
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statistically that it is 100 times more
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likely that there is foreign
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intervention in a civil armed conflict
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if the country has oil and other major
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natural resources sounds familiar right
Geopolitics of NATO proxy war on Russia in Ukraine
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now all of that said I do want to be
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clear here I'm not saying that the war
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in Ukraine is only about the massive
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mineral and energy reserves that Ukraine
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has it's not only about natural
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resources no war is ever only about one
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thing every war always has multiple
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causes multiple reasons but it would be
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very naive to ignore the role of
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strategic natural resources of course
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there are many other important factors
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there's the geopolitics the location of
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Ukraine which shares a mass massive
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border with Russia and Ukraine was also
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used in order to invade the Soviet Union
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and Russia by the Third Reich during
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World War II and if us NATO forces want
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to carry out a conventional direct war
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on Russia they would very likely use
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Ukraine as their base of operations in
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order to invade Russia and they would
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cut off the southern part of Russia from
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the northern part of Russia
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this would cut off Russia's access to
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the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea it
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would cut off Russia's access to the
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caucuses and then further south into
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West Asia so-called Middle East and of
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course us NATO forces would like to cut
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off Russia's access to its only warm
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water base which is in the port of
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sevastopol in Crimea this is why the
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West is so obsessed with Crimea and
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trying to take it back for Ukraine
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because they want to prevent Russia from
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having access to the Black Sea they want
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to turn Black Sea into a NATO sea like
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the Mediterranean basically is so for
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Russia from a national security
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perspective if Ukraine joins NATO it
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would be an existential threat it would
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be a massive base of operations used by
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the US and Western powers to try to
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destabilize overthrow invade Russia I
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mean this is why for Russia this is such
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a sensitive issue and this isn't even to
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mention the extreme danger of nuclear
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weapons and what it would mean if
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Ukraine hosted us NATO nuclear weapons
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just right on Russia's borders that
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could easily Target Moscow and other
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major Russian cities so obviously the
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war in Ukraine is about much much more
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than just minerals just natural
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resources the geopolitics of the
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conflict are clearly very important the
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National Security implications the
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Western warhawks who have salivated for
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decades over the possibility of invading
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Russia colonizing Russia like they tried
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to do in the 1990s after the overthrow
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of the Soviet Union these are all
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factors again I'm not saying there's
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only one reason for the war in Ukraine
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but what I am saying is that it's not
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about democracy and human rights and
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anyone who believes that has the
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intellectual analysis of a child this is
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extremely naive this is not how the
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world works that is the propaganda that
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Western governments and the their
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obedient mouthpieces in the corporate
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media regurgitate but don't take them at
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their word some of these Western
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officials like the US senator Lindsey
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Graham sometimes say the quiet part loud
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and admit that they have ulterior
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motives driving this conflict now before
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