The South Carolina neocon warmongering lawmaker says U.S. wants access to Ukraine’s ‘$10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals’
LEO HOHMANN
Graham painted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “megalomaniac” who is attempting to “re-create the Russian Empire by force of arms,” starting with Ukraine — this is a favorite talking point of Washington neocons which has no basis in fact. Graham claimed that if Moscow wins the war, it will proceed to take over Ukraine’s wealth and “share it with China.”
Share with China? This is from the mouth of a globalist lawmaker who has no problem with China buying up valuable U.S. farmland and businesses, while he has voted for policies that incentivized the outsourcing of America’s entire industrial infrastructure to China.
Graham the suggested it would be better if this “gold mine” were claimed by the U.S. and its allies.
“They’re sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine,” Graham said. “They could be the richest country in all of Europe… If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China.”
You can watch the video clip of Graham making these claims in this post to X.
Actually, Graham gave part of the truth but not the whole truth. The U.S./NATO wants to control not only the vast natural resources in Ukraine but in Russia as well. Russia’s natural resources dwarf those of Ukraine. It has huge amounts of natural gas, oil, gold and rare-earth minerals. That’s why they’ve openly called for a regime change in Russia, to replace Putin with a Western puppet more favorable to the financial interests of Western-based transnational corporations.
Lest you think my analysis is of my own imagination, you should know that breaking up Russia into several countries and stealing its resources has long been a topic of discussion among Western elites, and they know this can only be done through war. The US government’s Helsinki Commission held a Congressional briefing on June 23, 2022, plotting ways to break Russia up into several smaller countries, in the name of supposed “decolonization” and “anti-imperialism.”