If Trump and Putin were to reach an accord, it might cut into Lindsey Graham’s cash flow. Can’t have that. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
It all started by tricking Trump into thinking that Ukraine has trillions of dollars’ worth of rare earths.
RT published two critical pieces about Lindsey Graham, “World War mastermind: Here’s America’s most dangerous person” and “Graham threatens Putin: US war hawk escalates rhetoric in alignment with military lobby”, shortly after Trump announced his new three-pronged approach to Ukraine. This analysis here earlier mentioned how Graham was one of those responsible for manipulating Trump against Putin, while the present one will elaborate on how that came to be given the prominent role that he played.
Graham is the defense industry’s darling whom they’ve generously donated to over the years as documented by Yahoo Finance, The Intercept, and Sputnik, et al. Forbes also reported on the donations that he’s received from over a dozen billionaires. The first group donates to him since they have facilities in his state of South Carolina while the second does so since they’ve invested in those companies. Graham is suspected of investing in them too in what’s since become a toxic symbiotic relationship.
He warmongers against states like Russia to justify more defense spending, the defense companies that donated to him get more state contracts, and he in turn profits from rising stock prices, and on and on. Although Trump is his political ally, his campaign pledge to end the Ukrainian Conflict threatened to hit Graham’s bottom line if he returned to office and made good on it, hence why he scrambled to stop him. This explains why he suddenly started talking about Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in summer 2024.
He first claimed that they’re worth $10-12 trillion, repeated their “more than a trillion dollars-worth” after visiting Kiev that August, and then declared in late November after the election that “Donald Trump is going to do a deal to get our money back, to enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals.” bne Intellinews and The Telegraph, among others, doubted the value of Ukraine’s rare earths. Nevertheless, an amended deal was agreed to in spring, which was predicted to lead to more US arms packages.
Burning down the world to keep the shekel bucket is a feature to NO skin in the game warpigs.
RF needs to take those rare earth zones not under their control.
Take all of the 404 if that achieves SMO objectives.
Reading that the Neocons claim NATO can take out RF in three days.
Remember Obama (THE ONE!) and his 1980s called and wants its foreign policy back comment at debate?