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Áine's avatar

I’m extracting two words from this which I think sum up succinctly what’s happening - “performative psyop”!!

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Jonathan McGinlay's avatar

Good to see some hard numbers on this. My understanding is that the US fights/funds wars to release tax payers money to corporate interests so any money Trump can recoup is a bonus but they don't really need to get it all back.

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Bassehound's avatar

It would be nice if taxpayers actually got a return for once, but will never expect it. Trump and grifter Musk included will never do anything for the plebs that doesn’t benefit them.

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Timbo's avatar

Struggle to understand the 'mineral/rare earth deal. How is it valued? Most in Russian control. Appears all sides including Russia participating in this 'pantomime'.

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Bassehound's avatar

I had not seen anything broken down like you did here. Thank you and also for the links. Seems like Ukraine has been low priority except to shell out money and goods from the military industrial complex, filling their pockets again with taxpayer money.

With all going on since March 2020 Ukraine has not been high on my list to pay attention too so this article brought some insight to Ukraine I would have not considered before.

Trump again showing not to trust him and guessing those in the Trump Trance will add to their Trump excuse list for their Pied Piper.

I would not be surprised if whatever Trump is doing will advantage the Trump clan and Trump’s pals like Howard Lutnick.

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Tanja's avatar

Wonder if the Kiel data included the exorbitant amount of money each state have to spend in maintaining frozen private Russian assets, one example being the Sailing yacht A in the gulf of Trieste costing the taxpayers 20.000/30.000 euro a day and is been there since April 2022!

My belief is that THEY are all in together in this farce that once again has costed thousands of life in Central Europe! The eastern front is always ready to sacrifice itself believing that one day they will be “equal” to the AngloAmerican!

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Adam Norman's avatar

The money laundering via Ukraine isn't easy to dissect although understanding the FTX debacle helps. Not it's discussed much, if at all.

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