Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Ukraine to Give Up Territory for NATO Membership?" video.

  1. There is also the issues of Ukrainian civilians and those forced into Russia and the 19,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped to Russia, once in Russia their names and birth dates were changed and adopted by Russians making it more difficult to locate those children.
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  2. Neville Chamberlain attempted to avert war by agreeing that Germany could occupy the Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia which was known as Munich Conference, which failed.
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  3.  @gawkthimm6030  Since the Russian government is like a mob or Mafia where corruption is everywhere, there are likely Russian officials pocketing the money along the way that is meant to pay the wages of the military to their families.
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  4.  @theresamcpherson7352  I assume Putin wants Crimea due to the Russian Naval base in Sevastopolis in Crimea, which had been leased from Ukraine as that port is ice free year long. There also is offshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Crimean Peninsula which Ukraine was developing in 2012 was taken over by Russia when it annexed Crimea. That in itself would greatly increase Russia's economic zone in the Black Sea with a good possibility of an increase of oil and natural gas reserves in the Black Sea. As for eastern Ukraine it is a land bridge to Crimea enabling Russia to defend Crimea as Russia would also have control of all the shoreline and ports of the Sea of Azov in Ukraine. Russia control over the dam which is the source of fresh water to Crimea but since they blew up the dam thus loosing this as a fresh water source. Ukraine’s wealth in resources are largely under developed with the exception of agriculture and coal. Plus most of Ukraine’s resources are in its eastern regions and underneath the Black Sea, which are now either controlled by or under attack from Russia. Reserves of Lithium have the potential to be the largest in Europe, three deposits are in “Shevchenkivske”, “Polokhivske” and the “Dobra “ sites are located in the Donbas region, in the east of the country, and in a territory known as the "Ukrainian Shield", in the centre. Ukraine's rare earth deposits which include substantial of beryllium, niobium and tantalum appear to be concentrated in Kurta Balka in Zaporizhzhia, Shevchenko in Donetsk, and the Polokhivske fields in Dobas all of which are in or near the Russian occupied zones. Almost one-third of Ukraine’s corn crop, for example, is grown in Russian-occupied areas. About 30 percent of Ukraine’s wheat production is concentrated in the Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Odesa Oblasts all of which have been affected by the fighting. Ukraine harbors some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of untapped lithium and massive deposits of coal. Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of dollars. Analysis indicates that at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals are now under Russian control. In addition to 63 percent of the country’s coal deposits, Moscow has seized 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium. According to Sec Dev and Ukrainian mining and steel industry executives, it has seized: 41 coal fields, 27 natural gas sites, 14 propane sites, nine oil fields, six iron ore deposits, two titanium ore sites, two zirconium ore sites, one strontium site, one lithium site, one uranium site, one gold deposit and a significant quarry of limestone previously used for Ukrainian steel production.
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  5. Corruption in Russia is so wide spread, some official is likely pocketing the money if it exists at all.
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