June 27, 2024 by Michael
This week, I came across an extraordinary article that the Washington Post published on August 10th, 2022. In that article, the Post openly admitted that the natural resources that Ukraine is sitting on “are worth tens of trillions of dollars”…
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.
The lion’s share of those coal deposits, which for decades have powered Ukraine’s critical steel industry, are concentrated in the east, where Moscow has made the most inroads. That’s put them in Russian hands, along with significant amounts of other valuable energy and mineral deposits used for everything from aircraft parts to smartphones, according to an analysis for The Washington Post by the Canadian geopolitical risk firm SecDev.
During a recent appearance on “Face the Nation”, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham made a similar claim.
He said that this is a war that “we can’t afford to lose” because “$10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West”…
“If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of”, Graham continued. “That $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China”.
The US senator then argued that the West “can’t afford to lose” the war in Ukraine.
“This is a very big deal, how Ukraine ends. Let’s help them win a war we can’t afford to lose. Let’s find a solution to this war. But they’re sitting on a gold mine. To give Putin $10 or $12 trillion of critical minerals that he will share with China is ridiculous”, he repeated.