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So what does President Joe Biden want the sanctions imposed on Russia to do? Think back to the 1990s and what the US-NATO imposed no-fly zone and sanctions did to the people of Iraq?The results were almost 1 million Iraqi’s dead, according to the website GlobalIssues.org.
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“More Afghans are poised to die from US sanctions over the next few months alone than have died at the hands of the Taliban and US military forces over the last 20 years combined — by a significant margin. ]
The BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China have been in the news lately and for good reason.
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China is trying to placate the US because it still fears US economic and military power. Its party officials probably figure that they can keep building up the People’s Liberation Army, Navy, Air Force and Strategic nuclear capability and when there is enough firepower, will be able to challenge US dominance in the Pacific. But how?
Joe Scalice at the World Socialist Website notes the hypocrisy of the USA-NATO and the
compliant MSM Western media:
“The wars of aggression of Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump contained the accumulated evil of the torture in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the drone bombing of children at play, villages leveled by precision missiles and refugees drowned in the Mediterranean. Baghdad crumbled beneath the shock and awe of unstinting US bombing; Fallujah burned with white phosphorus.
Indeed, the media has capitulated to the war propaganda narrative of the Biden Administration.
The US MSM relies almost exclusively on Ukrainian sources for its error filled reporting.
You’ve got to look at all the news sources, even the ones you don’t want to view, in order to be
informed about this conflict.
Lithium deposits in Ukraine
“This may not be the main reason for the invasion, but undoubtedly Ukraine's mineral wealth is one of the reasons why this country is so important to Russia,” said Rod Schoonover, former director of the Environment and Natural Resources Section of the U.S. National Intelligence Council.
A wealth confirmed by the fact that Ukrainian lithium had begun to attract global attention as early as last year, before the Russian invasion halted exploration. Last November, in fact, the Australian company European Lithium said it was close to securing the rights to two promising deposits of lithium in the region of Donetsk (eastern Ukraine) and Kirovograd, in the center of the country. In the same month, the Chinese company Chengxin Lithium has also asked for the rights on some deposits, a move that would allow China to win the first deposit in Europe.
The other mineral resources in Ukraine
Ukraine has 10% of the world's iron reserves, 6% of titanium and 20% of graphite. “In geology, this extremely flat region is called peneplain,” Andrea Dini points out, “because it is so ancient that it has been flattened by erosion. Many of the rocks are billions of years old and you don't see them on the surface because they are covered by layers of sediment.”
There are more than just minerals in Ukraine, however. In the north east, near the Russian border, there is a 400-million-year-old sedimentary basin filled with organic material and black shale rocks. “These are black slates with large amounts of coal and methane. For example, part of US energy independence is due to the extraction of methane (Shale Gas) from these rocks on US soil.”
Ukrainian officials have vowed to fire new U.S. rocket systems with a range of roughly 50 miles only at Russian targets within Ukraine and not strike deeper into Russian territory, a senior official of President Joe Biden's administration said.
Speaking to reporters on a press call Tuesday, the official said that a new $700 million package of military assistance to Ukraine set to be announced Wednesday would include M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), which "allows the Ukrainians to range out to about 80 kilometers," or roughly 50 miles.
The official said that the latest tranche of U.S. support, which is now valued at more than $5 billion since Biden came into office in January 2021, was part of the president's plan "to provide security assistance to the Ukrainians that is above and beyond what we were already providing them to help defend their country."
originally posted by: nugget1
If we pick and choose what information we're going to believe, we'll be feeding the propaganda machine.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: nugget1
If we pick and choose what information we're going to believe, we'll be feeding the propaganda machine.
That's why people need to know that President Biden does not like anyone or anything. Russia, America, Israel...it does not matter.
originally posted by: nugget1
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: nugget1
If we pick and choose what information we're going to believe, we'll be feeding the propaganda machine.
That's why people need to know that President Biden does not like anyone or anything. Russia, America, Israel...it does not matter.
I think Biden has the worst case of megalomania I've ever seen.
I don't believe in a leopard spot-changing store; there's no way that life-long racist homophobe is calling the shots.
I think Biden has the worst case of megalomania I've ever seen.
I don't believe in a leopard spot-changing store; there's no way that life-long racist homophobe is calling the shots.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: nugget1
Then they probably shouldn't be starting wars with their neighbors because Putin has a hardon over reforming the USSR.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: nugget1
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: nugget1
If we pick and choose what information we're going to believe, we'll be feeding the propaganda machine.
That's why people need to know that President Biden does not like anyone or anything. Russia, America, Israel...it does not matter.
I think Biden has the worst case of megalomania I've ever seen.
I don't believe in a leopard spot-changing store; there's no way that life-long racist homophobe is calling the shots.
Very intuitive of you. Last week, Elon Musk said the people controlling Joe Biden's teleprompter are in control of the United States.
originally posted by: vonclod
I think Putin is trying to destroy Russia
originally posted by: nugget1
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: nugget1
Then they probably shouldn't be starting wars with their neighbors because Putin has a hardon over reforming the USSR.
What would you suggest? Start perpetual wars on other continents like the US does? Killing millions of innocents, then leaving them out to die after destroying their homeland?
How many wars has Russia started? How many years has the US NOT been at war on some continent, somewhere?
Pppppfffft.
originally posted by: vonclod
I think Putin is trying to destroy Russia
originally posted by: vonclod
I think Putin is trying to destroy Russia