• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    They do have mineral reserves and if the US threw their weight into supporting Ukraine, their businesses would be very willing to work with the US. Even from a self benefiting, pragmatic perspective, the US should be supporting them.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      That’s why I’m so confused about the lukewarm support. From a purely capitalist lens, Ukraine could have been exploited to hell and back once Russia was BTFOd. But now they’re looking at a decades long demining operation which is gonna hurt the exploitation effort bottom line billionaires pockets uhhhhh something.

      • P1k1e@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Well our capitalists are really really bad at capitalism, and are much more proficient at cronieism…cronism?..cronyism? Oh ok it’s the last one

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 days ago

        We were pretty much onboard with helping Ukraine, and were providing intelligence and selling them arms.

        But Trump is totally a Russian asset, or was at the time. (Russia spent a lot of resources and manpower on Trump’s 2016 campaign.) Nowadays, Trump might be catching on that Putin has absolutely no respect for him.