Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "US offers Ukraine ‘improved’ rare earth minerals deal" video.

  1. There is nothing to loot to begin with. The internet always gets itself in a tizzy every time somebody mentions the word "minerals". Minerals are some of the smallest parts of the economy of the planet. They are completely irrelevant compared to e.g. cell phones, IT infrastructure and digital services.
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  2. And the Russian troll is here.
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  3. How much of nothing are the Europeans going to demand? Probably nothing and that will be a fair share of the totality of what isn't there. ;-)
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  4. Nobody has ever given that kind of money to Ukraine, kid. But then, you are just a Russian troll anyway. ;-)
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  5. Israel tends to pay full price for its military equipment that it buys from the US. They recently established a new production contract for domestic gravity bombs because the American bombs are too expensive.
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  6. The problem is not that it's shameful. The problem is that it doesn't even exist. These are NOT deposits that are ready to mine. These are suspected deposits that may or may not lend themselves to economical mining. Even if they do, then the total revenue will, at most, be in the range of a couple billion dollars a year, which even at 25% profitability (unheard of for most mining operations) will result in, at most, a return of less than a billion dollars a year... on investments in mining infrastructure that could total tens of billions. This will barely return the interest on the upfront mine investment, let along anything resembling a return on the military aid that was provided by the US. Trump is, again, just pretending to be a business man. No real business man would even contemplate a deal like that after doing the numbers on the back of a pack of cigarettes.
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