This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.
If you had the opportunity to grab natural resources that are worth tens of trillions of dollars and you believed that you could get away with it, would you do it? A lot of people in Western nations are not able to identify Ukraine on a blank map of the world, but the truth is that it isn’t just another country.
It turns out that Ukraine is sitting on natural resources that are worth tens of trillions of dollars. Most of those natural resources are located in eastern Ukraine, and of course, that is where all of the fighting is happening. Whoever is victorious in this conflict is going to get their hands on all of that wealth. I think that this helps to explain why the Russians and the Western elite are so obsessed with winning this war.
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.
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