The American empire is on its last legs, but Trump doesn’t want to be the guy responsible for its ultimate dissolution. From David Haggith at thedailydoom.com:
It’s always all about the oil and now rare-earth minerals and grabbing land and spreading global control.
Trump plays God with the Earth.
It doesn’t seem to matter who you pick as president, even the guy who claims he’s going to be all about stopping wars, all you get is more wars. Today, President Trump presented the largest military budget request in the history of the nation—$1.32-trillion. It wasn’t long ago that such an amount was greater than the entire national budget.
At the same time, Trump revealed today that his interest in parleying between Russia and Ukraine was all about the energy and other mineral rights. He just signed a deal to split equal halves of Ukraine’s mineral rights between the US and Kyiv in exchange for US protection because, even if Ukraine never becomes part of NATO, so long as the US has a huge national interest in mineral rights that it is exploiting there, it will be very much present in Ukraine. For Russia, that means blowing up Ukraine risks blowing up US operations, putting Russia directly into a war confrontation with the US.
This combination of the Ukraine deal and the gargantuan military budget increase means the US taxpayer is on the hook to protect the licensed mineral rights of US companies that will be working the dirt in Ukraine. It could be a good deal for the US financially, except that the war costs could also be endless, and they won’t be paid just by the people benefiting off the mineral rights, but by the average citizen; and we may someday all find ourselves in a nuclear confrontation of the kind Trump loyalist kept saying Biden was risking.
