Ukraine 'war is about money', says US Senator Lindsey Graham, vowing to 'enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals'
The Ukraine "war is about money", argued US Senator Lindsey Graham. He said Ukraine has trillions in minerals, insisting, "Trump is going to do a deal... to enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals".
The Ukraine "war is about money", argued US Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Donald Trump.
Two weeks after Trump won the November presidential election, Graham went on Fox News to salivate over Ukraine's critical minerals.
"The richest country in all of Europe, for rare earth minerals, is Ukraine", said the Republican US senator, in a video clip he posted on his official YouTube channel.
He estimated that the Eastern European country has "$2 to $7 trillion worth of minerals that are rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century".
"Donald Trump is going to do a deal to get our money back, to enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals", Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Graham has repeatedly visited Ukraine and met with its leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Ukraine is ready to do a deal with us, not the Russians", the US senator stressed. "So it's in our interest to make sure that Russia doesn't take over the place".
Ukraine is "the breadbasket of, really, the developing world", Graham continued. "50% of all the food going to Africa comes out of Ukraine".
"We can make money and have an economic relationship with Ukraine, to be very beneficial to us, with peace", he added.
Graham has made similar remarks before.
In September, Graham led a US Congressional delegation to Ukraine.
In Kiev, the US senator tweeted a video standing next to Zelensky, in which he stated, “They’re sitting on a trillion dollars worth of minerals that could be good to our economy”.
In a June interview on CBS, Graham called Ukraine a "gold mine” that the West “can’t afford to lose”.
“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", he emphasized. "I don’t want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China".
Wow. Graham is an idiot. This is what passes for a politician in the US. Same goes for the dolts who sit there and listen to his fantastic lies and say not a word.
Nice work, Ben. Graham is a colonial dinosaur, little brains and a big appetite for robbing other countries resources. Thank god, his ilk are headed for extinction.